iPhoto

In my mind, flagging an image in iPhoto is a way to select pictures that I want to act on. They might not be the best photos (those get higher star ratings) but they’re the photos I want to email someone or print or remember to caption or keyword later. As a result I’ve got ... read more
January 11, 2010 in Tutorials by David Schloss

iPhoto has a built-in tool for burning images to a DVD, which means you don’t need a third party tool like Toast or Disco to create a backup disc or quick tool for sending images to friends or family.Select ImagesSelect the images you’d like to burn to DVD.ShareFrom the Share menu, select Burn.Insert DisciPhoto ... read more
December 29, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss

iPhoto arranges Events based on the order they were imported. And while that’s very handy when wanting to find something, sometimes you want to move some photos from one Event into another that’s separated widely apart. There may be other times when you want simply want to work on two different Events and need ... read more
December 17, 2009 in Tutorials by Kevin Carter

When you import RAW files into iPhoto, the application stores those RAWs and creates speedy JPEG previews for your display and viewing. Luckily, that RAW data is what iPhoto goes to when you do an edit. However, when you tell iPhoto to use an external editor, by default it passes that file along as a ... read more
December 17, 2009 in Tips by David Schloss

Here at the UK office of MacCreate, we bought a Canon PIXMA MX850 all-in-one to scan and print text (not to mention the occasional photo), after recommending it in one our reviews for a magazine (I forget which now). But today it stopped working faultlessly, ... read more
December 17, 2009 in Tips by Kevin Carter

iPhoto automatically groups images into Events based on the date of capture. That’s great, but many times it’s convenient to split photos into Events not based on time of capture, but based on things like subject matter. One of my favorite ways to do this is to flag photos and then create new Events based ... read more
December 15, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss

Thanks to the built-in camera in the iPhone, Mac OS X sees the world’s best phone as being a camera and so every time it’s plugged in your designated imaging program will launch. That’s really a pain when all you’re trying to do is sync your phone. Under Leopard there were a few shareware programs ... read more
December 10, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss

iPhoto 09 provides a built-in image-location-tagging tool called Places and it works with images that either have GPS coordinates already (like your iPhone) or ones that don’t. You can easily manage Places and tag your images after you shoot them. While we’ve talked about the Places button before for geotagging, in this tutorial we’ll talk ... read more
December 8, 2009 in Tutorials by David Schloss