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Getting Your Pictures into iPhoto

With iPhoto installed and set up to run, information technology'due south time for you to import your ain pictures into the program—a process that's remarkably easy, especially if your photos are going directly from your camera into iPhoto.

Of course, if you've been taking digital photos for some time, you probably take a lot of photo files already crammed into folders on your hard drive or on Zippo disks or CDs. If you shoot pictures with a traditional film camera and use a scanner to digitize them, y'all've probably got piles of JPEG or TIFF images stashed away on disk already, waiting to be cataloged using iPhoto.

This section explains how to transfer files into iPhoto from each of these sources.

Connecting with a USB Camera

Every modern digital camera tin connect to a Mac using the USB port. If your Mac has more than one USB jack, any of them volition do.

Plugging a USB-compatible photographic camera into your Mac is the easiest fashion to transfer pictures from your photographic camera into iPhoto. In fact, the whole process practically happens by itself:

1. Don't bother looking for the Import push.

   This button, the key to importing photos in previous versions of the program, has gone to the great CompUSA in the sky. In fact, the whole importing procedure is much unlike in iPhoto 5.

   A few cameras require a step that would be numbered 1.five right nearly hither: turning the Style dial on the top to whatsoever tiny symbol means "computer connection." If yours does, do that.

2. Connect the camera to one of your Mac'southward USB jacks.

   To make this camera-to-Mac USB connexion, you need what is commonly called an A-to-B USB cable; your photographic camera probably came with one. The "A" end—the function you plug into your camera—has a small, apartment-bottomed plug whose shape varies by manufacturer. The Mac end of the cable has a larger, flatter, rectangular, standard USB plug. Brand sure both ends of the cable are plugged in firmly.

   If iPhoto isn't already running when yous make this connexion, the programme opens and springs into activity equally shortly as y'all switch on the photographic camera (that is, unless you've changed the factory settings in Prototype Capture, a fiddling program that sits in your Applications binder).

   Notation

   If this is the first time you've ever run iPhoto, it asks if you always want information technology to run when you plug in the camera. If you value your fourth dimension, say yes.

   In iPhoto 5, there's no wondering whether iPhoto is ready to practise its job; the entire screen changes to bear witness y'all the "fix" message shown in Figure 4-3.

   Tip

   If, for some reason, iPhoto doesn't "see" your camera after you connect information technology, try turning the camera off, then on once again.

   In improver, your camera's icon appears in the Source list. That'southward handy, considering it means that you lot tin switch back and forth between the importing mode (click the camera'southward icon) and the regular working-in-iPhoto mode (click any other icon in the Source list), fifty-fifty while the time-consuming importing is under way.

   (Incidentally, as long as the photographic camera's appearing in the Source listing—wouldn't it be cool if you could elevate photos onto the camera too? Perchance next year.)

3. If you like, blazon in a roll proper name and clarification for the pictures you lot're about to import.

   Each fourth dimension you import a new fix of photos into iPhoto—whether from your hard drive, a camera, or a memory carte du jour—that batch of imported photos is called a film whorl.

   

   Effigy 4-iii. iPhoto is ready to import, captain! If you lot accept to wait a long fourth dimension for this screen to appear, it'south considering you've got a lot of pictures on your photographic camera, and it takes iPhoto a while to count them up and ready for the task at hand. (The number may be somewhat larger than you await if you forgot to erase your final batch of photos.)

   Of course, there's no existent film in digital photography, and your pictures aren't on a "roll" of annihilation. But if you remember most it, the metaphor makes sense. Only equally in traditional photography, where each batch of photos y'all shoot is captured on a separate scroll of film, each separate batch of photos you download into iPhoto gets classified as its own picture roll.

   You'll learn much more well-nigh motion picture rolls in Affiliate 5. For the moment, typing in a name for each new batch— Disney, First Weekend or Baby Meets Lasagna, for example—will help you organize and detect your pictures later. (Use the Description box for more elaborate textual blurbs, if yous like. You lot could specify the appointment, who was on the trip, the circumstances of the shoot, and then on.)

4. Turn on the "Delete items from camera after importing" checkbox, if you like.

   

   Figure 4-4. Peak: If yous're not in the habit of using the "Delete items from camera after importing" option, you may occasionally run across the "Import duplicates?" message. iPhoto notices the arrival of duplicates and offers you lot the selection of downloading them again, resulting in duplicates on your Mac, or ignoring them and importing simply the new photos from your camera. The latter option can save yous a lot of time.Bottom: A nice new characteristic in iPhoto 5: As the pictures get slurped into your Mac, iPhoto shows them to you, nice and big, as a sort of slideshow. Y'all tin see correct away which ones were your hits, which were the misses, and which you'll desire to delete the instant the importing process is complete.

   If you lot plough on this box, iPhoto will automatically delete all photos from your camera'south memory carte once they're safely on the Mac. Your camera's retention card volition exist all ready for you to fill with more pictures.

   Now, iPhoto won't delete your pictures until afterwards it has successfully copied them all to the Photograph Library. Yet, information technology's not beyond the realm of possibility that a hard deejay could fail during an iPhoto import, or that a file could become corrupted when copied, thereby becoming unopenable. If y'all desire to play it safety, leave the "Delete items from photographic camera after importing" option turned off.

   And so, subsequently you've confirmed that all of your photos have been copied safely, yous can utilise the camera's ain menus to erase its retentivity card.

5. Click the Import push.

   If y'all chose the auto-erase characteristic, you'll meet a final "Confirm Move" dialog box, affording you one last chance to back out of that decision. Click Delete Originals if you lot're sure yous want the camera erased after the transfer, or Keep Originals if yous want iPhoto to import copies of them, leaving the originals on the camera.

   A different message appears if you're about to import photos you've already imported (encounter Effigy 4-4, height).

   In any case, iPhoto swings into action, copying each photograph from your photographic camera to your hard drive. You go to encounter them as they parade past (Figure 4-four, bottom).

   When the process is over, your freshly imported photos announced in the main iPhoto window, awaiting your organizational talents.

   Tip

   If yous receive whatever kind of error message, you lot might have an older camera that requires "unmounting" from the screen earlier disconnecting. To do this, Control-click the photographic camera's icon and choose Unmount. Even if the camera'south still attached to your Mac, its icon disappears from the Source list.

6. Plow off the camera, and then unplug it from the USB cable.

   You're fix to start having fun with your new pictures (page 94).

USB Card Readers

A USB retentivity bill of fare reader offers another convenient style to transfer photos into iPhoto. Most of these card readers, which wait like tiny disk drives, are under $20, and some can even read more than one kind of memory card.

If you have a reader, then instead of connecting the camera to the Mac, just remove the camera's memory card and insert it into the reader (which you lot can go out permanently connected to the Mac). iPhoto recognizes the reader equally though it's a photographic camera and offers to import (and erase) the photos, simply as described on the previous pages.

This method offers several advantages over the camera-connection method. First, information technology eliminates the considerable battery bleed involved in pumping the photos directly off the camera. 2d, it's less hassle to pull a memory menu out of your camera and sideslip information technology into your carte du jour reader (which is always plugged in) than it is to constantly plug and unplug camera cables. Finally, this method lets you use almost whatsoever digital camera with iPhoto, fifty-fifty those as well old to include a USB cable connector.

Tip

iPhoto doesn't recognize virtually camcorders, even though most models can take still pictures. Many camcorders store their stills on a memory card just as digital cameras practice, and then a memory menu reader is exactly what y'all need to go those pictures into iPhoto.

Connecting with a USB-uniform retentiveness card reader is nigh identical to connecting a camera. Here'due south how:

1. Pop a memory card out of your camera and insert information technology into the reader.

   Of course, the carte du jour reader should already exist plugged into the Mac'south USB jack.

   As when you connect a photographic camera, iPhoto acknowledges the presence of the memory card reader. A huge camera icon appears in the chief window, you encounter the number of images on the carte, and you're offered a chance to blazon in a coil name and description. As described on page 86, you tin also turn on the "Delete items from camera after importing" checkbox if you desire iPhoto to automatically clear the memory card afterward copying the files to your Mac.

2. Click Import.

   iPhoto swings into action, copying the photos off the bill of fare.

3. Click the tiny Eject button (⏏) next to the card'southward name in the Source list, and so remove the carte du jour from the reader.

   Put the carte du jour dorsum into the camera, so it's ready for more action.

Importing Photos from Non-USB Cameras

If your camera doesn't have a USB connection and you don't have a memory card reader, you're nonetheless not out of luck.

First, copy the photos from your camera/memory card onto your hard drive (or other disk) using whatever software or hardware came with your photographic camera. So bring them into iPhoto as yous would any other graphics files.

Tip

If your camera or memory card appears on the Mac desktop like any other removable disk, you lot can as well drag its photo icons, binder icons, or even the "disk" icon itself directly into iPhoto.

Importing Existing Graphics Files

If you've already got digital photos—or any other kinds of graphics files—stored somewhere on your computer, the easiest way to import them into iPhoto is just to drag their icons into the chief iPhoto window, using one of these two methods:

• Drag the files direct into the primary iPhoto window, which automatically starts the import process. Yous can also drop an unabridged folder of images into iPhoto to import the contents of the whole binder, as shown in Effigy four-5.

  What's particularly nice in iPhoto five is that you can drag a bunch of folders at in one case.

  Tip

  Take the time to proper name your folders intelligently earlier dragging them into iPhoto, because the program retains their names. If y'all elevate a folder directly into the main photo area, you get a new picture show gyre named for the folder (page 103); if yous drag the binder into the Source listing at the left side of the screen, y'all become a new album named for the binder. And if there are folders inside folders, they, also, become new film rolls and albums. Details on all this reside in Affiliate five.

• Choose File → Add to Library (or printing ⌘-O) in iPhoto and select a file or folder in the Open dialog box, shown in Figure 4-six.

Note

Apple tree changes both the wording and the keystroke for this control, which, before iPhoto 5, was called Import. The modify is logical plenty, as it usefully suggests what'due south really going to happen. (Yous're nearly to create a duplicate of any you import, adding a copy of the original to iPhoto's own internal library folder.) However, it may come every bit a bewildering surprise to iPhoto veterans.

Figure iv-5. When yous drop a folder into iPhoto, the program automatically scans all the folders inside it, looking for pictures to catalog. It creates a new film roll (Affiliate 5) for each folder it finds. iPhoto ignores irrelevant files and stores only the pictures that are in a format it can read.

Figure 4-half dozen. When the Import Photos dialog box appears, navigate to and select whatsoever graphics files y'all want to bring into iPhoto. Yous can ⌘-click individual graphics to select more than one simultaneously, every bit shown here. You can as well click one, so Shift-click some other one, to highlight both files and everything in the list in between.

These techniques likewise let you select and import files from other hard drives, CDs, DVDs, Jaz or Zip disks, or other disks on the network.

If your photos are on a Kodak Photo CD, you can insert the CD (with iPhoto already running), and and so click the Import button on the Import pane, just as if you lot were importing photos from a connected camera. As e'er, iPhoto makes fresh copies of the files you import, storing them in i centralized photograph repository (the iPhoto Library folder) on your hard drive. The program also creates thumbnail versions of each image for display in the main iPhoto window.

Through this process and all other importing processes, think this: iPhoto never moves a file, whether from a memory card or disk; it simply copies it.

The File Format Factor

iPhoto can't import digital pictures unless information technology understands their file format, simply that rarely poses a problem. But about every digital camera on world saves photos every bit JPEG files—and iPhoto handles this format beautifully. (JPEG is the world'southward most popular file format for photos, because even though it's compressed to occupy a lot less disk space, the visual quality is withal very high.)

Note

While most digital photos yous work with are probably JPEG files, they're non always called JPEG files. Y'all may also see JPEG referred to every bit JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format). Bottom line: The terms JPEG, JFIF, JPEG JFIF, and JPEG 2000 all mean the aforementioned affair.

Just there's more to this story—in iPhoto 5, much more. The plan now imports and recognizes some very useful additional formats.

RAW format

Most digital cameras piece of work like this: When yous squeeze the shutter button, the camera studies the data picked up past its sensors. The circuitry then makes decisions pertaining to sharpening level, contrast and saturation settings, color "temperature," white residue, and so on—and then saves the resulting candy epitome as a compressed JPEG file on your memory card.

For millions of people, the resulting movie quality is just fine, even terrific. Only all that in-camera processing drives professional shutterbugs nuts. They'd much rather preserve every concluding iota of original picture information, no thing how huge the resulting file on the retentivity card—and then process the file past hand once it's been safely transferred to the Mac, using a plan like Photoshop.

That'south the thought backside the RAW file format, which is an pick in many pricier digital cameras. (RAW stands for null in particular, and it'due south usually written in all capital letters like that just to announce how imposing and of import serious photographers recollect it is.)

A RAW image isn't processed at all; it'south a complete record of all the data passed along by the camera's sensors. Every bit a result, each RAW photo takes upwardly much more infinite on your retentivity card. For example, on a six-megapixel camera, a JPEG photograph is around 2MB, but over viii MB when saved as a RAW file. Most cameras take longer to store RAW photos on the card, as well.

Just for epitome-manipulation nerds, the beauty of RAW files is that once you open up them upwards on the Mac, you lot tin can perform astounding acts of editing on them. You can actually modify the lighting of the scene—retroactively! And you lot don't lose a single speck of image quality forth the style.

Until recently, most people used a program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to do this kind of editing. Merely amazingly enough, humble, cheap petty iPhoto 5 can at present edit them, besides. For details on editing RAW images, see Chapter six.

Note

Not every camera offers an option to relieve your files in RAW format—and amidst those that do, not all are iPhoto compatible. Apple maintains a partial list of uniform cameras at http://world wide web.apple tree.com/ilife/iphoto/import.html.

Movies

With iPhoto 5, Apple has brought the software 1 delicate pace into the 21st century. In addition to nevertheless photos, most consumer digital cameras these days can too capture cute petty digital movies. Some are jittery, silent affairs the size of a Wheat Thin; others are full-blown, 30-frames-per-second, fill-your-screen movies (that eat upwards a memory carte du jour plenty fast). Either fashion, iPhoto can at present import and organize them. (The program recognizes .mov files, .avi files, and many other movie formats. In fact, it can import whatsoever format that QuickTime itself recognizes, which is a very long list indeed.)

You don't accept to do anything special to import movies, since they go slurped in automatically. To play one of these movies once they're in iPhoto, see Effigy 4-7.

Other graphics formats

Of class, iPhoto also lets you load pictures that take been saved in a number of other file formats, too—including a few unusual ones. They include:

• TIFF. Virtually digital cameras capture photos in a graphics-file format chosen JPEG. Some cameras, though, offer you the chance to leave your photos uncompressed on the camera, in what's called TIFF format. These files are huge—in fact, yous'll be lucky if you tin fit one TIFF file on the memory card that came with the camera. Fortunately, they retain 100 percent of the picture'south original quality.

  Note, even so, that the instant you lot edit a TIFF-format photograph (Chapter 6), iPhoto converts it into JPEG.

  That'due south fine if you programme to order prints or a photograph book (Chapter 10) from iPhoto, since JPEG files are required for those purposes. But if you took that once-in-a-lifetime, priceless shot as a TIFF file, don't do whatever editing in iPhoto—don't fifty-fifty rotate it—if you lot promise to maintain its perfect, pristine quality.

• GIF is the almost mutual format used for non-photographic images on Web pages. The borders, backgrounds, and logos y'all typically run across on Spider web sites are unremarkably GIF files—likewise as 98 percent of those blinking, flashing banner ads that drive you insane.

• PNG and FlashPix are also used in Web blueprint, though not nearly as often equally JPEG and GIF. They often brandish more complex graphic elements.

  

  Effigy 4-7. The start frame of each video prune shows up as though it'due south a photograph in your library; only a little camera icon and the total running fourth dimension let you know that it'due south a movie and not a photo. iPhoto is no iMovie, though; it tin can't fifty-fifty play these video clips. If you double-click one, it actually opens upwardly in QuickTime Player, a different program on your Mac that's defended to playing digital movies.See Affiliate 11 for details on editing these movies, either in iMovie or in QuickTime Player Pro.

• BMP is a popular graphics file format in Windows.

• PICT was the original graphics file format of the Macintosh prior to Mac Os Ten. When yous have a screenshot in Mac Os 9, paste a picture from the Clipboard, or copy an image from the Scrapbook, you're using a PICT file.

• Photoshop refers to Adobe Photoshop, the earth's most pop epitome-editing and photograph-retouching program. iPhoto can even recognize and import layered Photoshop files—those in which different epitome adjustments or graphic elements are stored in sandwiched-together layers.

• MacPaint is the ancient file format of Apple'due south very first graphics program from the mid-1980s. No, you probably won't be working with whatsoever MacPaint files in iPhoto, but isn't it squeamish to know that if ane of these old, black-and-white, 8 ten 10 pictures, generated on a vintage Mac SE, happens to slip through a wormhole in the fabric of time and land on your desk, you'll exist gear up?

• SGI and Targa are specialized graphics formats used on high-cease Silicon Graphics workstations and Truevision video-editing systems.

• PDF files are Portable Document Format files that open up in Preview or Acrobat Reader. They can be user manuals, brochures, or Read Me files that you lot downloaded or received on a CD. Apple doesn't publicize the fact that iPhoto can import PDF files, peradventure because iPhoto displays but the showtime page of multipage documents. (Nearly of the PDFs you come across probably aren't photos; they're usually multipage documents filled with both text and graphics.)

If you try to import a file that iPhoto doesn't understand, you encounter the message shown in Figure 4-8.

Effigy 4-8. Here'southward iPhoto's way of telling you lot that y'all only tried to feed it a file that it can't digest: an EPS file, Adobe Illustrator drawing, or PowerPoint file, for example.

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