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Apple iLife 08 Tutorials

iPhoto / Import from a Camera

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Ok, let's take a look at how to get images out of your digital camera and into iPhoto. Now, I have a camera that's a little tiny bit old and let's see what this is here. This is an HP camera, an HP PhotoSmart 318. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to plug in the camera cables that came with the camera and then you're going to hear a little bit of noise as I plug the camera into my USB keyboard slot here and hopefully, if all goes according to plan, iPhoto will recognize that the camera has been plugged in. So let me go ahead and turn the camera on. So the first thing I did was plug in the cable into the camera, then I plugged the USB cable into the slot and now I put the camera on and hopefully in a second or two, iPhoto will see that we have a camera there. So I'll just wait a moment and there we go. Thank you iPhoto. Thank you. So, as you see, the camera has been recognized and that's the important thing. Make sure that your camera will work with your iLife suite. So if you are in the market for a camera, I suggest to you that you go to the Apple store nearest you or go to Apple.com and do a search for cameras because those are going to work with your Macintosh. Nothing worse than buying a camera that is going to be Windows only, then there's nothing you can do. So it recognizes my camera in the devices category and what I can do is look over here and see that it's going to bring in these images from this date to this date. I can enter an event name here. I can also enter a description. I can choose to auto-split event after importing and what this really means is that the camera is smart enough to recognize say, for example, that you took 20 photos on Friday and on Sunday you took 10 photos. So it's going to split those into events for you. We can also hide photos already imported and we can import selected or we can import all. Down here, I see I have 47 photos in the camera that will be imported. So I'll go ahead and give this an event name and I'll just call this apartment because this is an apartment that has to be renovated and it belongs to my friend and what I can do is put a description and then I can auto-split the events and I can hide photos already imported or if I want this button to light up, I can click and drag my mouse and then I can import the selected, which I'll go ahead and do. So I'm going to take auto-split events off because they're going to be from the same event and then I'll simply see that I have six of 47 selected and when I click import all, it's going to bring all the pictures in and ignore the import selected, which means I will get 47 or I can click here and import just the six. So let's go ahead and bring in the six photos and then it's going to bring in the images and then it's going to ask me if I want to keep the originals on the camera or delete them. Personally speaking, I like to delete them myself from the camera, just in case something happens with my computer, it crashes, a meteor strike hits my house; trust me. That's happened to me three our four times. You don't want to get hit with a meteor. It's just horrible. So you can keep the originals on the camera and delete them yourself. Then I can look at my last import in here, the images, and then I can go ahead and do whatever I want to put them in their own album or whatever I need to do. So that's how easy it is to bring in images from your digital camera.

Tutorial Information

Course: Apple iLife 08
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33854
ISBN: 1-934743-53-4
Release Date: 2008-03-03
Duration: 6.5 hrs / 117 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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