Export iPhoto Images

Task #63

Difficulty Level 3

The iPhoto application gives you many different options for exporting photographs to use in other applications. You can export an image or entire rolls of images.

You can use the File Export tab of the Export Photos dialog box to save images in JPG, PNG, and TIFF formats. JPG is useful for Web pages, e-mail attachments, and general-purpose uses where smaller file sizes are needed. PNG and TIFF files are much larger than JPG because they do not use compression. They also do not suffer from the degradation that JPG does.

You can export a roll of photographs as a set of Web pages by exporting via the Web Page tab, which offers settings that affect the HTML output of the export. You can upload this export to your Web site or store it on your hard drive for personal use in Safari.

The QuickTime tab permits you to save the image or roll as a QuickTime movie. This works well for creating a slideshow movie or when you need the QuickTime format for a still image in another application.

Customize It!

The images that iPhoto uses do not necessarily have to be photographs. For example, you can create an image in a graphics application such as Adobe Photoshop and import it into iPhoto. This means that you can create a title page, text annotations, and other images, which you can in turn use as part of a QuickTime export in iPhoto. iPhoto is so versatile that you can even use it as a quick-and-dirty movie application.

Did You Know?

Besides exporting images from an entire photo album, you can export individual photos as well. Select the images that you want to export by z+clicking each one. Then export as normal. iPhoto exports only the selected photos.