User manual APPLE IPHOTO 6 GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] iPhoto Getting Started Learn how to import and organize your photos, and create a photo slideshow and book 1 Contents Chapter 1 4 4 5 6 7 7 7 8 8 10 11 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 20 Welcome to iPhoto Using This Document What's New in iPhoto Finding Out More iPhoto Tutorial What You'll Learn Before You Begin What You Need Importing Photos From a Digital Camera Organizing and Viewing Your Photos Sorting Your Photos Using Keywords Organizing Your Photos Creating a Slideshow Setting Slideshow Options Playing a Slideshow Creating a Book Making Changes to Your Book Next Steps Chapter 2 2 Chapter 3 21 22 23 25 26 27 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 iPhoto at a Glance The iPhoto Window The Source List Organize View Information Pane Calendar Pane Keywords Pane Import View Edit View Full-Screen View Slideshow View Book View Calendar View Card View Contents 3 1 Welcome to iPhoto 1 This document helps familiarize you with how to use the basic features of iPhoto, and tells you about the new features in iPhoto 6. You can use iPhoto to easily import photos from your digital camera, organize them for fast retrieval, and then share them with family and friends. Whether you have 100 or 100, 000 digital photos, iPhoto keeps track of them all, automatically organizing them so you can find them quickly. iPhoto puts you in charge of your photographs--helping you import them; organize them in albums, slideshows, and books; enhance their appearance; and share them as prints, via email, over the web, and in stunning, professionally printed books, calendars, and cards. Using This Document This document is organized into three chapters, making it easy access to the information you need:  Chapter 1, "Welcome to iPhoto": Gives a brief description of the major new features in this version of iPhoto.  Chapter 2, "iPhoto Tutorial": Shows you how to import, organize, and view your photos, as well as how to create a slideshow and a book. [. . . ] To find out how to make even more changes than those described here, see iPhoto Help. To change the theme of your book: 1 Select the book whose theme you want to change. 2 Click the Themes button. 3 Choose a hardcover or softcover book size from the Page Type pop-up menu. If you chose a hardcover book and want photos to be printed on only one side of your book pages, deselect the "Double-sided pages" checkbox. Important: It's a good idea to decide on a theme before adding text to a book layout. If you add custom text to a book layout and then choose a different theme, you may lose your text. Did You Know?--Viewing a Book as a Slideshow You can use an iPhoto book as the base for a more creative slideshow. Choose from a range of book themes, add your pictures and text, then view the sequence and edit it as a slideshow, including adjusting transitions and adding background music, to share with friends and family. To add photos to your book: 1 Select your library or an album in your Source list. 2 Drag photos from the library or album to your book (in the Source list). iPhoto switches to book view. 18 Chapter 2 iPhoto Tutorial 4 Click the Unplaced Photos button to view the photos you added. This is a holding area, like a waiting room, for the photos you want to place in your book. Unplaced Photos button 5 Do one or more of the following to place photos in your book:  To add a photo to an empty photo frame in your book, drag the photo from the unplaced photos area to the empty frame.  To replace a photo in your book with a new photo, drag the new photo from the unplaced photos area to the photo in the book. The new photo replaces the old photo, and the old photo is moved to the unplaced photos area.  To add a photo to a page, change the number of photos allowed on that page using the Page Type pop-up menu, then drag photos to the new empty frames.  To add all unplaced photos to the book, automatically adding pages as needed, click the Autoflow button. You can change the order of photos on an individual page or from one page to another. To rearrange photos in your book: 1 Click the Page View button to display book pages in the photo browser. Page View button 2 Do one of the following: Chapter 2 iPhoto Tutorial 19  To swap photos that appear on the same page, select the page in the photo browser, and then drag one of the photos you want to swap onto the other photo.  To swap photos that appear in the same page-spread, click the Two-Page View button, select the page spread in the photo browser, and then drag one of the photos you want to swap onto the other photo. Two-Page View button  To move a photo from one page to another, select the page on which the photo appears in the photo browser, and then drag the photo from the viewing area onto a new page in the photo browser. If you don't see any text on a page and you want to add some, you need to choose a design for your page that includes text. For more information, see "Changing the design of individual pages in a book" in iPhoto Help. To edit text in your book: 1 Click the Page View button to display book pages in the photo browser. 3 In the viewing area, click the text you want to edit, and then add or edit text. Important: When you need to edit text, it's a good idea to zoom in on the text area first. [. . . ] To replace a photo on a page, drag a new photo from the photo browser to the photo you want replaced. Zoom slider: Position a selected photo within its book frame by zooming in on only the area you want to show. View buttons: Click to show single pages or two-page spreads in the viewing area. Page Design button: Choose a new layout for the selected page type. E F G H I 32 Chapter 3 iPhoto at a Glance J K L M N O P Add Pages button: Click to add a new page to the end of your book. [. . . ]