Section 77. Carry Your Photos on an iPod Photo


77. Carry Your Photos on an iPod Photo

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

42 Transfer Your Music to Your iPod


SEE ALSO

78 Display Your Photos on a TV

79 Download Photos from Your Camera to Your iPod Photo

88 Temporarily Store Digital Photos on Your iPod


The top-of-the-line iPod model, the iPod photo, is equipped with a 65,536-color screen that turns the device into a lot more than just a music player. Its screen is ideal for showing off digital photographs, which fit with ease onto the capacious hard disk along with your music. Although the color screen enhances the rest of the iPod's normal functionality by adding richness and depth to the user interface (and album art as you play songs), the real benefit of the iPod photo is in the features surrounding synchronizing and displaying your digital photos.

77. Carry Your Photos on an iPod Photo


To use these features, you must have an iPod photo, and a collection of digital photographs archived in one of the following applications:

  • iPhoto (on the Mac)

  • Adobe Album (on Windows)

  • Adobe Photoshop Elements (on Windows)

You can also sync photos that are gathered into a single specific folder, if you don't have one of these applications. Another way to get your photos onto your iPod is to download them to it directly from your camera, using the iPod Camera Connector; see 79 Download Photos from Your Camera to Your iPod Photo for more information.

NOTE

The iPod photo can sync and display photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, or PNG format.


After your photos are loaded onto the iPod, you can browse them visually by selecting the Photos item from the Main Menu, then by selecting from the albums or collections synchronized from your photo collection. You can even start a slideshow of a selected collection of photos using background music from any of the playlists already on your iPod.

1.
Prepare Your Photo Library

Using your favorite digital photo organizer application (iPhoto, Adobe Album, or Adobe Photoshop Elements), set up photo "albums" (think of them as photo playlists) to group your photos into appropriately named, themed collections.

TIPS

If you're using iPhoto, create slideshows from your albums and set them to music from your iTunes Library; your iPod photo can use this music setting automatically when displaying its own slideshows.

Try to limit your photo albums to less than about 200 photos; larger photo albums tend to display more slowly on the iPod photo.

If you don't have one of these applications, place all the photos you want to sync to your iPod into a single folder somewhere on your computer's disk, such as your My Pictures folder. You can use subfolders within this folder to create the equivalent of the "albums" used by the supported applications.

2.
Connect Your iPod

Connect your iPod to your computer using the Dock or cable. Wait for it to finish synchronizing its information.

3.
Open the iPod Preferences

Choose iTunes, Preferences (on the Mac) or Edit, Preferences (in Windows) to open the Preferences window. Click the iPod tab, then click the Photos tab within the window. You will see all the photo-syncing configuration options.

4.
Choose the Photo Source

Enable the Synchronize photos from check box and choose the application where your photos are stored from the drop-down menu. If your photos are stored in a folder on your hard disk, choose that option and navigate to the folder's location in the navigation dialog box that appears. Select the folder by clicking Choose or Open .

5.
Select Photo Albums or Collections to Synchronize

When you select your photo source, the box below the Copy selected albums only option becomes populated with the names of the albums you've created. If you have enough room on the iPod, you can choose to sync all the photos in your collection by selecting Copy all photos and albums. If you want to save some room on your iPod for music, choose the Copy selected albums only option and enable the check boxes next to each album you want copied to the iPod.

TIP

The Preferences window says this as well, but it bears repeating: You can drag photo albums into the order you want them copied onto the iPod. This is important because iTunes copies selected albums in the displayed order onto the iPod until the iPod is full, without checking first to see whether it has enough space for all the selected photos. If the iPod fills up, some selected albums' contents might not be copied completely or at all. Putting the albums in a specified order can help ensure that certain photos make it to the iPod.

If you've got lots of room to spare on the iPod and want to carry full-resolution versions of your photos on its disk, enable the Include full-resolution photos check box. This option puts the large photo files into a folder called Photos on the iPod. See 80 Use Your iPod as an External Hard Disk to access this folder and the photos inside it.

6.
Sync Your Photos

Click OK when you're done configuring the photo sync options. iTunes begins copying photos out of your organizer application, shrinking them down ("optimizing" them) to a size appropriate for the iPod's screen and TV output, and transferring them to the iPod's disk. Depending on the size of your photo collection and the speed of your computer, this process can take 20 minutes to an hour or more. iTunes shows you a status bar indicating its progress.

When the sync process is complete and iTunes indicates it's safe to do so, disconnect your iPod.

NOTE

This procedure is relevant only for the first time you set up photo syncing. Each subsequent time you sync your iPod with iTunes, any new photos in your Photo Library or selected albums are copied to the iPod photo. You can click the Skip button to stop photos from being transferred, but they'll be sent anew to the iPod the next time you sync.

7.
View Photos on the iPod

Choose Photos from the iPod's Main Menu. The subsequent menu lists all the photo albums you selected to transfer, including an option (second from the top) called Photo Library which contains every photo in your entire photo-organizing application (if you chose to transfer the whole thing). Select this option or one of the albums listed below it and press Select .

The contents of the selected group of photos are shown in a contact sheet (a set of small thumbnail images in a grid, 25 to a screen). Rotate the wheel to move the yellow selection rectangle to a photo you want to see, then press Select to view it at the full size of the iPod's screen. Press Forward or Back (or rotate the wheel) to move manually through the collection of photos, or press Menu once to return to the contact sheet.

8.
Play a Photo Slideshow

Press the Select button while viewing a photo full-screen, or press Play while a photo album is selected in the Photos menu. A slideshow begins using the selected photo album and default presentation settings. Use the Select button to pause and resume the slideshow, or use Forward and Back to skip through the photos at your own speed.

9.
Configure Slideshow Timing

Press Menu repeatedly until you arrive at the Photos menu; choose Slideshow Settings to view the presentation options for your slideshows.

These options include whether the photos in the grouping should be shuffled (randomized), whether the slideshow should repeat after it's done, and whether a horizontal "wipe" effect should be used in transitions between photos. You can also define the timing between slides, as well as the background music to be played .

To set the time between slides, choose Time Per Slide , and in the subsequent screen choose a number of seconds from 2 to 20 for each photo to remain on the screen. You can also choose Manual to specify that the slides won't advance unless you press the Forward button. Press Select to make your choice.

10.
Configure Slideshow Music

To play music during your slideshow, return to the Slideshow Settings menu and choose Music . You can pick a playlist to use in the background of each slideshow (the iPod does the equivalent of beginning a new playback of the selected playlist at the beginning of the slideshow; if you're shuffling your music, a different song comes up each time). Alternatively, choose From iPhoto from the Slideshow Music screen to allow your slideshow settings in iPhoto (if you're using it) to dictate the background music for the iPod, or choose Off to play no music at all.

The next time you start a slideshow, it will use these newly defined settings.



iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap
iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672328992
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 152
Authors: Brian Tiemann

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