Section B.2. File Menu


B.2. File Menu

Most of the commands in the File menu involve creating new storage entities: albums, books, slideshows, and so on. This is also where you do all your printing.

B.2.1. New Album

Creates a new photo album in the Source list, and prompts you to name it. (You can also create an album by pressing -N or clicking the + button in the main iPhoto window.) See Chapters 5, 10, and 7, respectively.

B.2.2. New Album From Selection

Select some photos in the iPhoto window, then choose this command. iPhoto creates a new album, already stocked with the selected pictures.

B.2.3. New Smart Album

Opens a dialog box where you can set up criteria for a smart album, as described in Section 5.6.11.

B.2.4. New Folder

This humble command is the key to one of iPhoto 6's most welcome features: the all-powerful folder. A folder is a Source-list icon that can contain other icons, like albums, book layouts, and slideshows.

B.2.5. Import to Library

Use this command (formerly called Import) to add photos to your iPhoto Library from your hard disk, a CD, or some other disk. Choose Add to Library, select the file or folder you want to add, then click the Import button in the Import Photos dialog box. (Apple evidently renamed this command to make clear that you're importing a copy of the selected photos into iPhoto's own, internal collection.) Keyboard shortcut : Shift- -I.

B.2.6. Export

Yes, kids , it's the amazing peripatetic Export commandin a different menu every version of iPhoto!

Anyway, it opens the Export Images window, whose panels offer the following 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. (By the way, you may find additional tabs in the Export dialog box if you've installed iPhoto plug-in software.)

B.2.7. Close Window

Closes the frontmost window. Usually, you'll use this command after opening a photo into its own window for editing. If only the main iPhoto window is open, this command quits the program. Keyboard shortcut : -W.

B.2.8. Edit Smart Album

Lets you edit the criteria for an existing smart album. Select the album before choosing this command. When you click OK, iPhoto updates the smart album.

B.2.9. Create Film Roll

Creates a new film roll (Section 5.2) from a batch of selected photos. Great for dividing a huge import into more manageable chunks . (Dimmed unless you've first selected some thumbnails.)

B.2.10. Subscribe to Photocast

Asks you for the URL (Web address) for a photocast (Internet "publishing") that somebody has initiated, so that you can enjoy their pictures in your copy of iPhoto. See Section 9.4.2.

B.2.11. Page Setup

Opens the standard Page Setup dialog box for your printer, where you can select the paper size, orientation, and scaling of your print job.

B.2.12. Print

Opens iPhoto's Print dialog box, where you can print contact sheets, greeting cards, full-page photos, or groups of photos in standard sizes like 4 x 6 or 5 x 7. See Chapter 8 for details.




iPhoto 6
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 059652725X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 183

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