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Right alongside the new feature called Faces we have something that's called Places so that if you have a GPS-enabled camera you can easily know where you took a photograph. So if I go to Places you'll see I currently have the map here and I can look at any images that have the Places associated with them right here when I click this view. So, I'm looking at the world and I'm looking at the view of the images. So I can see the person and the place right here. Now let's talk about how to actually get this information onto your photographs. I have a folder I call GPS and inside of this folder I have four images: two that were taken in Princeton, New Jersey; and two that were taken at a winery in New Jersey. Now, these pictures were with my old iPhone that didn't have the GPS capabilities, and these were taken with the iPhone 3GS which does have that ability. So I'm going to click on this guy here then I'll click on the i, and then what I'll do is I will click on Photo Place and click Find on Map and you'll notice that it really doesn't know where I took this photograph. There's no pin here, so it has no idea. So I'll cancel that one, and I'll go ahead and click Done and then I'll click on this one and I'll do the same thing. Same deal. But don't worry about these two. I'll show you how to manually put the information you need, but I'll go to the iPhone 3GS ones and I'll click on Photo Place and find our Map. Ah, great! Warren, New Jersey, United States, and we get a pin where it thinks the winery is. So that's really, really cool. So why is this important anyway? Why do we need to have images that have the information embedded inside of it? Well, this is really good for location scouts. For example, if you are going to do a shoot for a film and you want to find exotic locations, let's say, some temples in the jungle, well, after you've been in the jungle for a little while I'm pretty sure every temple starts to look the same so when you're with the director you're like, hey, I found this one, and he'll say, "Where was that?" And you're like, "Ahh, there was a lot of trees. Yeah. And some snakes." So, the good news is, with the GPS capability, you'll be able to see on that map where you took those in the world. That's very, very helpful. So, let's go ahead and talk about how to manually input this information. So once again, this is the one from Princeton. I'll click on the little i and I'm going to click where it says Photo Place and I'll type Princeton, New Jersey. Then I'll click on Find Princeton, New Jersey on Map. In a moment it will find Princeton and then what I can do is look over here and it says Princeton University, Princeton-Mercer, and I can click a sign to photo down here on the bottom right, and now that's done. So, just like these guys it has a location assigned to it. And that's how easy it is to use this feature, but there's more. Let's say you're in your Events and you want to find those images. So I'll go down here and type Princeton and there we have it. That's how beneficial this feature is, so once again, if you're sitting next to your client and he or she wants to see all the pictures you took while you were in the Amazon, you can now easily find them.

Tutorial Information

Course: Apple iLife 09
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 34033
ISBN: 1-935320-68-8
Release Date: 2009-09-21
Duration: 7 hrs / 109 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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