Improving Photos in iPhoto
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
One of the best things about using iPhoto is that you can improve the photos you take. Is something included in a picture that you’d rather not see? Just crop it out. Something seem off-kilter? Straighten a photo to make it look right. Do the subjects of a photo appear to have become demon-possessed? You don’t need an exorcist; a few clicks of the Red-eye tool will get them back to the light side. Want to apply your artistic creativity to some photos? With iPhoto, it’s no problemo.
iPhoto’s editing tools enable you to improve photos to correct problems or to make them better, more effective, and more enjoyable to look at. To edit a photo, you select it, and then put iPhoto into Edit mode. You can do this within the iPhoto window, or you can use full-screen editing.
When you edit within the iPhoto window, you see the Source list on the left as you normally do. At the top of the right part of the window, you see the photo browser, where thumbnails of photos you are editing appear. When you select a thumbnail, the photo appears in the largest part of the window, which is where you edit it. At the bottom of the right part of the window, you see iPhoto’s editing tools.
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Editing Photos
No matter which specific editing tasks you want to do, you follow some common steps. These include selecting the photo you want to edit, moving into the Edit mode, zooming and navigating in the photo, editing it, and saving your changes. You need to perform these general steps when you perform the remainder of the tasks in this chapter.
Select Events, Photos, or an album containing the photos you want to edit.
Click the Edit button.
Browse the photos and select the one you want to edit.
If you are doing detailed editing (such as retouching), use the size slider to zoom in or out.
Drag the box in the Navigation window to focus on the area you want to edit.
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Editing in Full Screen If you want to try editing in full screen, click the Full Screen button (it has two diagonal arrows pointing away from each other). The photo fills the screen. Point to the top of the screen to see the browser and to the bottom to see the editing tools. Press Escape to exit.
Use the editing tools to edit the photo.
Click the Previous or Next button to move to the previous or next photo in the selected source to edit it.
Edit the next photo. Repeat until you’ve edited the photos in the selected source.
Click Done.
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Editing in Full Screen All the Time You can set your default Edit mode (full screen or in the main window) using the Edit Photo pop-up menu on the General tab
of the iPhoto Preferences dialog box.
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Save? Edits to your photos are saved when you select another photo by clicking its thumbnail, the Previous or Next buttons, and when you click the Done button.