Last week we covered publishing and ordering a picture book in iPhoto. This week, we'll wrap up the iPhoto coverage with apologies to all the readers who use Windows. After ordering our books, I turned to other panels in the Share mode.
The first was to set up a web page using Apple's online iTools, where I'd already established an account. Clicking on the Web Page icon connected me with iTools and started uploading the images. Keep in mind that these are essentially raw JPG images from my digital camera file. Uploading took about three minutes. I was looking at my new web page in about four minutes. It's not fancy but five choices of frames should satisfy the creative urges of most hobbyists. Check it out at homepage.mac.com
Next, we turned to another Apple profit center: Ordering Prints. Enlargements up to 8x10 are very reasonably priced and the print order is shuffled on to Kodak. Prints as large as 20x30 can be ordered. Uploading here was considerably more leisurely, about 11 minutes for as many prints. Again, Apple's One-Click ordering made it a simple task.
The prints arrived in about five days and are of better quality than I've received from any other online source. They came with a contact sheet for the 4x6 size and a separate one for the 8x10. Finish is glossy and flawless.
Making prints at home is fairly easy in iPhoto, providing you have the correct printer driver for your inkjet installed in OS-X. Formats for prints include a Contact Sheet (shown), two Greeting Card folds, a 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10.
The Slide Show feature is really super but can't be exported with a sound track. Apple has already recognized this as a shortcoming and has issued Apple Scripts (download from iPhoto site) that should solve the problem.
For its first version, iPhoto offers a lot of quality, especially to the hobbyist digital photographer.
Jim
Patterson was a respected, trusted resource for anything
to do with digital imaging and a regular digital photo
columnist for Mac Design Magazine and contributor to
Photoshop User magazine. He passed away the summer of
2004. Jim was frequently-published as a freelance travel
photojournalist, and authored the novel, "The Thirteen." There
was much more to Jim than just a writer, and he was much
more to us than just a friend.
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