February 16, 2013

Whittier Area Macintosh User Group

1Saturday, February 16, 13

Today’s Session

✤ Basics in iPhoto

✤ New features introduced in ’11

2Saturday, February 16, 13

Notes for todaySlideshare

http://slideshare.net/wamug

3Saturday, February 16, 13

Some Basics

✤ Getting pictures into iPhoto

✤ What is an Event?

✤ Making an Album

✤ Editing a photo

✤ Red eye, straighten, crop, tools

✤ Printing photos

✤ SlideShow

4Saturday, February 16, 13

New Features

5Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ Browse, edit, and share photos full screen

✤ Desktop, menu bar, "distractions" disappear

✤ Works with Faces corkboard and Places map edge to edge

✤ New filmstrip

✤ Multigestures: swipe to and from other apps without leaving full-screen view

Full Screen

6Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ iPhoto and Facebook are "mas simpatico"

✤ Can post photos and update profile picture

✤ Publish directly to your wall or existing album

✤ Comments on photos in Facebook appear in iPhoto

✤ iPhoto shows all Facebook photo albums (application independent)

✤ iPhoto keeps track of which your shared (or not)

Facebook

7Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ Create and send messages without leaving iPhoto

✤ Eight Apple-designed themes

✤ Select photos you want to send and iPhoto places them in the template

✤ Drag and drop to arrange, adjust mask, or change text

✤ Attach high-resolution versions of your photos for recipients to download

✤ iPhoto optimizes message so it's never to big to send

✤ Works with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, and AOL

Emailing Photos

8Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ Nothing is typical about the slideshows you can make with iPhoto

✤ Animated themes: Holiday Mobile, Places, Reflections

✤ Automatically centers photo based on face dection

✤ Animated themes have custom music

New Slideshows

9Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ New, dynamic Theme browser/carousel

✤ Smart Autoflow places images for you

✤ Key photo becomes the cover shot

✤ Higher-rated photos are featured more prominently

✤ Photos taken on the same day appear together

✤ Face detection ensures that photos

Features in Books

10Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ Traditional printing methods

✤ Your photos

✤ Multiple photo layouts

Letterpress Cards

11Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ Take a photo on one iOS device and it's pushed to all other devices including your Mac (or PC)

✤ Import new pictures to computer from digital camera and pics are sent via Wi-Fi to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

✤ Can view recent photos on TV via Apple TV.

✤ No syncing, no email attachments, no file transfers.

Photo Stream

12Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ Built into your apps

✤ iTunes

✤ Calendar

✤ Mail

✤ Photos

Works with iCloud

13Saturday, February 16, 13

✤ What is that new button?

✤ Arrange files by specific criteria within folder/drive

✤ Control-click doc/file to choose what to open it with pdf photo

Quick Tips

14Saturday, February 16, 13

Check this out

✤ Help getting started with your free iCloud account

✤ You need an Apple ID (free)

✤ iCloud Starter Guide by Macworld Editors

✤ https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/icloud-starter-guide/id596236120?mt=11

✤ Required: iBooks 1.3.1 or later and iOS 4.3.3 (Tiger)

✤ $3.99 for iBooks (iPad, iPhone, iPad mini), Kindle, PDF, Mobi (

15Saturday, February 16, 13