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| introduction : interface : importing photos : organizing photos : searching iPhoto : editing photos : sharing photos [A,B,C,D] | |||||||||||||||
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| Sharing Your Photos Desktop, Screen Saver and Export
Desktop : Prior to iPhoto v1.1.1, setting your desktop picture was multi-step process that left you searching through folders for that Screen Saver : The first selection you have to make is which Photo Album to use. All of your photo albums are listed in the drop down menu next to 'Use'. In the example to the left, I have selected Glacier Natl. Park as my photo album and, as you can see, it contains 78 photos.
Screen Saver Selection Panel After selecting the album to use, click on the Preferences button. This will take you to the Screen Effects Preference Pane in Note - if your screen saver does not come on you may have to adjust the activation settings found in the system preferences (under screen effects). Export :
export selection panel File Export : File export allows you to export your images so that you can put them on a CD, Mail them or open them in another application. To export a photo, or photos, you select the format, (original, JPEG, TIFF, PNG) name and size for the photos. Next, click the export button. You will be asked where you want to save the photos. For easy access, I usually save them on the desktop. Web Page : In lesson 6C, we discussed using the homepage button in iPhoto for making a web page out of your images. I mentioned that you should not use the homepage button if you have created a web site using tools other than those provided by Apple. If this is the case and you still want to use iPhoto to create a web page full of images then you will use the Web Page tab. The web page tab creates a web page out of your images and saves them in a folder on your hard drive rather than uploading them to your iDisk. It does a good job of making a basic page that you can edit later to match your site. In the image below (6A), you see the Web Page Export selection panel. As you can see, you select the name of the page, the number of columns and rows, the background color for the page (or a specific image), the size of the thumbnail and the size of each image. By selecting more columns or rows, you can fit more images per page.
When you click the export button, iPhoto will ask you where you want to save the file. I would suggest creating a folder for the web page because there will be a number of files exported (see image 6B below). It will then begin exporting the pages and then the images to go on the pages. Once complete, you should find the files in the place you saved them. To view the web page, click on the index.html file and it will open in your web browser.
As you can see in the image below (6C), the web page that is created using the Export Feature is not as nice as that created using the Homepage button discussed earlier. There are no borders around the images and for the most part it is just a basic white page. This page can be opened in your web page editor (GoLive, Dreamweaver, etc) and you can customize the page to match your site. Each of the Thumbnail images on the page below can be clicked on to access the full size image.
Quicktime : The Quicktime Export feature allows you to create and save a slideshow in Quicktime format that you can then share with others (via email, cd, web, etc.). The difference between this and the slideshow feature discussed in lesson 6B is that this slideshow will be saved and shared, while the other was not. Below, you will see the Quicktime Export Panel where you will make all of your selections. Images : Here you will select the size of the image and the length of time to display the image for. I would suggest that you keep the size of the images at that same ratio if you are going to make a change. Background : You can select and background color or image here. When iPhoto creates a slideshow for export there is usually a small border around the images. Any selections you make here will be seen in that border. Music : In lesson one, we talked about the Preferences window and how you could select music for use with a slideshow. The music that is selected in the Preferences is the music that will be played here. To change the music, go to the Preferences window (apple -Y) in the iPhoto Menu.
Export : Once you have made all of the selections you want to make, click on the export button. iPhoto will ask you where to save the Slideshow (by default it will save it in the Movie Folder but you can save it anywhere you like). It will then begin creating the Slideshow. Once completed, go to the file and double click it to play the Slideshow. Click here to see a sample slideshow created using the Quicktime Export Feature. iPhoto, Quicktime, .Mac, and iDisk are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. |
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perfect picture. With iPhoto setting your desktop is now a three step process. First step, find the picture in your photo library or in one of your photo albums and click on it. You can be sure that the image is selected because it will have a blue border around it. Next, click on the share button. Finally, click on the desktop button (image right). You should see the desktop change to whichever picture you selected.
Another way to view your photos is through the use of your screen saver. The first step to setting up your screen saver is set up a photo album with the images that you want in your screen saver. Next, click on the Screen Saver button. This will bring up a panel where you will make all of your selections (see image below). 
your System Preferences. You want to make sure that Pictures Folder is selected (image right). Now that you have set the Pictures Folder as your Screen Saver, you can close your System Preferences window and go back into iPhoto and select OK on the screen saver Selection Panel. 
The Export button allows you to export your images in a number of formats. Basically, this is a catch all. If any of the other methods for sharing your images did not work then you can probably find one here that will. The first step to using this is, of course, selecting the images that you want to export. You can select a single image or a group of images. Once you have selected the images for export, click on the Export Icon. This will bring up the Export Selection Panel (see image below). Here you will select the type of export that you will use. The three choices are File Export, Web Page and Quicktime.
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