Sharing Photos via Email


Email takes the immediacy of digital photography to a global scale. You can take a photo of a birthday cake and email it across the world before the candle wax solidifies. It takes just a few mouse clicksiPhoto takes care of the often tricky chores behind creating email photo attachments.

iPhoto can also make images smaller so they transfer faster. Take advantage of this feature, and you won't bog down your recipients' email sessions with huge image attachments.

Normally, iPhoto uses the Mac OS X Mail program to email photos. If you use a different email program, you can configure iPhoto to use it, as described on the next page.

Step 1.

Select the Photos

Step 2.

Click the Email Button

iPhoto displays the Mail Photo dialog box.

Step 3.

Specify the Image Size

After iPhoto creates smaller versions, it starts Mac OS X's Mail program. Your photos are added to a new email, which you can complete and send on its way.

Tips for Emailing Photos

Setting Email Preferences

You don't use Mac OS X's email program? Me neitherI prefer Microsoft Entourage. You can use iPhoto's Preferences command to tell iPhoto to use a program other than Mail to send your photos. Besides Mac OS X's Mail program, iPhoto can work with Microsoft Entourage, Qualcomm's Eudora, or America Online.

To change your email program preference, choose Preferences from the iPhoto menu and click the General button. Then, choose your preferred email program from the popup menu at the bottom of the Preferences window.

Tip

If iPhoto won't let you choose a program that you know you have, check that you haven't renamed the program's icon. For example, iPhoto expects your AOL program to be named America Online.


Exporting Photos By Hand

When you email a photo using iPhoto's Email button, iPhoto uses the name of the original photo's disk file as the name of the attachment. Problem is, most of your photos probably have incomprehensible filenames, such as 200203241958.jpg, that were assigned to them by your digital camera.

You might want an attachment to have a friendlier file name, such as holidays.jpg. For such cases, export the photo "by hand" and then add it to an email as an attachment. Choose Export from iPhoto's File menu, and be sure the File Export tab is active.

Export the photo as described at right. Save the exported photo in a convenient location, such as on your desktop. (You can delete it after you've emailed it.) Finally, switch to your email program, create a new email message, and add the photo to it as an attachment.




The Macintosh iLife '06
The Macintosh iLife 06
ISBN: 0321426541
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 229
Authors: Jim Heid

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