User manual APPLE IPHOTO GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] iPhoto Getting Started Get to know iPhoto and learn how to import and organize your photos, and create a photo slideshow and book. 1 Contents Chapter 1 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 Welcome to iPhoto What You'll Learn Before You Begin What You Need The iPhoto Interface Learn iPhoto Step 1: Import Your Photos Step 2: Organize and View Your Photos Using Keywords Organizing Your Photos Step 3: Create a Slideshow Setting Slideshow Options Playing a Slideshow Step 4: Create a Book Making Changes to Your Book Editing Text in Your Book Continue to Explore iPhoto Getting More Help Chapter 2 2 1 Welcome to iPhoto 1 Create lasting treasures from your digital photos. This document familiarizes you with the basic features of iPhoto and introduces you to new features in iPhoto '08. iPhoto offers you many ways to enhance and share your digital photos, whether you have 100 images or 100, 000. With iPhoto, you can quickly import and organize photos, improve or enhance them, and order or make your own prints. You can use iPhoto to create slideshows, books, calendars, and cards. [. . . ] 2 Choose Photos > My Rating, and then choose the number of stars you want to assign from the submenu. Organizing Your Photos You can group your photos into albums to better organize your photo library, put together the photos you want to burn to CD or DVD, or choose the pictures you want to publish on a webpage, for example. In addition, you can use an album as a temporary holding place for a group of photos until you're ready to create something else from the photos, such as a slideshow, book, calendar, or greeting card, or to publish your album to your MobileMe Gallery. Photos in your photo library are not affected by moving them into or out of albums. To create a photo album: 1 Click the Add (+) button in the bottom-left corner of the iPhoto window. Add button 2 Click the Album button in the dialog. 3 Type a name for your album and click Create. Your new album appears in the Source list. 4 Click Events in the Source list, and double-click an Event to open it. 5 Drag photos from the Event to your new album in the Source list. You can drag photos from more than one Event into your album. You can also drag a photo to an album directly from another album, a CD or DVD, or from another location on your hard disk. When you add a photo to an album this way, iPhoto automatically imports it into your photo library. Chapter 2 Learn iPhoto 11 You can also create Smart Albums that can be automatically updated as your library changes. To choose transition effects: 1 Click to select your slideshow in the Source list. The iPhoto window changes to slideshow view. Chapter 2 Learn iPhoto 13 2 Click the Settings button in the bottom-right corner of the slideshow window. 3 Choose a transition from the Transition pop-up menu. The default transition for a new slideshow is the Dissolve transition. You can choose to have photos appear as if they're on different sides of a cube, have one fade through black to the next, and so on. 4 Specify the transition duration using the speed slider. In this dialog, you can also set other options for the entire slideshow, including the size of the photos, the Ken Burns Effect, and whether the slideshow repeats automatically. You can also add background music to your slideshow from the sample music folder or your iTunes library. To add background music to your slideshow: 1 Click to select your slideshow in the Source list. The iPhoto window changes to slideshow view. 2 Click the Music button in the bottom-right corner of the slideshow window. 3 Click to select a song or a playlist to play during your slideshow. [. . . ] Friends and family can view your photos or download them to print large, high-quality images--and even upload their own photos to share with you. You can also email photos from your mobile phone or other mobile device to your published albums. Â Full-screen view: Take advantage of every pixel your monitor can muster to view and show off your photos from one edge of your computer screen to the other. The large, high-resolution view makes editing easier and more precise. [. . . ]