B.6. View Menu

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B.5. Share Menu

Version by version, iPhoto's menus are growing. New for iPhoto 5: the Share menu, which Apple used to offload some of the icons that had been crowding the bottom toolbar.

B.5.1. Show in Toolbar

See those icons at the bottom of the main iPhoto window? Some of them are permanently installed and nonnegotiable, like Rotate, Edit, Book, and Slideshow.

The others, though, are optional in iPhoto 5. By choosing their names from the Show in Toolbar submenu, you can make them appear or disappear. (The names bearing checkmarks in the submenu are the ones that currently appear on the toolbar.)

The freedom to eliminate certain icons make a lot of sense. For one thing, some of them may not apply to you. The HomePage icon is useful only if you're a .Mac subscriber, the Send to iDVD button is helpful if your Mac can burn DVDs, and so on. Furthermore, hiding the less useful icons leaves more room for the ones you do use (and reduces the likelihood that some of the buttons will be hidden behind the >> menu that sprouts whenever the window isn't wide enough).

Anyway, whatever functions you eliminate from the toolbar aren't gone for good. They're still available as commands right in the body of the Share menu.

B.5.2. Print, Email, Desktop, HomePage

Choosing one of these commands is exactly the same as clicking the corresponding toolbar button below the main iPhoto window. See Chapter 8 for more on printing and ordering prints, Chapter 9 for emailing, .Mac slideshows, and Web pages, Chapter 13 for desktop pictures and screen savers, or Chapter 12 for burning slides to a DVD.

B.5.3. Export

Opens the Export Images window. Its panels offer the following three different ways of copying photos:

  • File Export. Makes fresh copies of your photos in the file format and size you specify. You can export photos in their existing file format or convert them to JPEG, TIFF, or PNG format. You also can set a maximum size for the photos, so that iPhoto scales down larger photos on the fly as it exports them.

  • Web Page. Publishes selected photos as a series of HTML pages that you can post on a Web site. The finished product includes an index page with clickable thumbnails that open individual pages containing each photo. (See Chapter 9 for step-by-step instructions on using this pane to set image sizes and format the HTML pages.)

  • QuickTime. Turns a series of photos into a self-running slideshow, saved as a QuickTime movie that you can post on the Internet, send to friends , or burn to a CD. You can set the size of the movie, pick a background color , and add music (the sound file selected for the current photos' album or slideshow) before exporting. You'll find more about going from iPhoto to QuickTime in Chapter 11.

You can save yourself a trip to the Export menu by using the keyboard shortcut Shift- -E. (And by the way, you may find additional tabs in the Export dialog box if you've installed iPhoto plug-in software.)

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iPhoto 5. The Missing Manual
iPhoto 5. The Missing Manual
ISBN: 596100345
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 179

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