G'Day Ronni While you are advising on iPhoto could you briefly advise me as to what advantages there would be for me to upgrade to iLife 11 from 9, I am using v 8.1.2. I am not a great photo taker but occassionally zap off a few. I don't use some of the features in my version mainly only "keywords" so perhaps upgrading would not offer much.
Many Thanks Barry iMac 10,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 8GB RAM 1.0 TB HD OS X 10.7.3 On 23/02/2012, at 4:06 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Well done Diana, > > I knew you could do it ;-) Print "save as PDF" any instructions I send, then > you will have them to refer back to if required. > > I won't post anything more on iPhoto until you have had time to absorb what I > already have given you. > We don't want to overload you with information; we aim to please... Not to > push ;-)) > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 23/02/2012, at 3:47 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens <diag...@iinet.net.au> > wrote: > >> Hi Ronni >> >> I haven't had time to do more with iPhoto but I am sure I shall be able to >> manage with your excellent instructions. >> >> I have managed to master iTunes. I had fun and games with the Peggy Lee, >> George Shearing Album. iTunes divided it into five, one had the original >> cover (on both my LP & CD), two had the same photo but cropped differently, >> one had an Archive Collection cover and the last was Generic iTunes. I >> edited them to have the same artist description and ticked the 'part of >> collection' box and got one album but not my preferred cover picture. >> >> Today Daniel delivered my Time Capsule and brought back the drives from my >> dead G5. He showed me how to find the covers for the albums I had copied >> from LPs using Spin Doctor. So then I changed the PL/GS album cover to my >> preferred cover. >> >> I am very pleased with myself! Thanks again for your wonderful instructions. >> >> Best wishes from Diana >> >> On 21/02/2012, at 1:49 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> Hello Diana, >>> >>> Where do I start… I think perhaps in parts. You first need to understand a >>> bit about iPhoto and iTunes. >>> >>> PART ONE: iPhoto: Are you using iPhoto 9.2.1 (iLife’11)? >>> First you need to understand how iPhoto works. >>> >>> iPhoto '11 presents two ways to view your library: by Thumbnails of every >>> photo or by ‘Events'. >>> >>> What you have mentioned below is “Events”, so I will explain ‘How to use >>> iPhoto Events to Organise Photos’: >>> >>> An event groups photos taken during a certain time period. Each event is >>> viewed as a thumbnail, and when you mouse over that thumbnail, you can skim >>> through the photos it contains. >>> >>> Viewing by events in iPhoto makes it easier to scroll through your photos, >>> particularly when your library contains thousands upon thousands of photos. >>> >>> iPhoto creates events as you import photos, and you can set parameters on >>> how it goes about doing so. >>> >>> You have four choices on how iPhoto creates events: >>> >>> Via iPhoto > Preferences > General, you you'll find a menu item labeled, >>> Autosplit into Events. >>> The choices are: One Event per day; One Event per week; Two-hour gaps, >>> and Eight-hour gaps. >>> The last two options are for serious photographers who take hundreds of >>> shots in a given day. >>> For most, creating an event per day or per week will suffice. >>> >>> You can merge and split events, should you, for example, import a week's >>> worth of vacation photos and find you created seven separate events. >>> Simply highlight the event or events you want to merge into another and >>> then drag and drop them on top of the event with which you'd like to merge >>> them. >>> (To highlight multiple events that are next to each other, use the shift >>> key. >>> For events that are not next to each other, use the command key.) >>> >>> To split an event, open an event and highlight the first photo that will be >>> the first photo in the new event. >>> Then under the Events menu option on the menu bar, choose Split Event. >>> >>> You can also move a photo or photos from one event to another. >>> To do so, highlight two events and then double-click on one of them, which >>> will open both events. >>> You can then drag and drop photos between the two open events. >>> >>> Lastly, you can choose the photo in an event to be the image to appear in >>> the thumbnail. >>> Apple calls it, the key photo. Drag your cursor over an event thumbnail to >>> skim through the photos. >>> Find one you like and hit the spacebar to assign it as the key photo. >>> ========= >>> >>> PART TWO: iTunes: Are you using iTunes 10.5.3? >>> How to Import a Music CD: >>> >>> You first need to setup your Import Format preference or leave it at >>> default which is AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) Format). • It is part of >>> the MP4 standard and can be used by any hardware or software. iOS devices >>> understand this format, but some MP3 players don’t support it. Probably >>> the default setting will suit you. >>> >>> (* I prefer to import using the same quality as the CD which is AIFF >>> Encoder: Both AIFF and WAV files encapsulate raw sound data from a music CD >>> in file headers so the data can be used on computers. This format is >>> uncompressed, and it takes up a lot of space, around 600–700 MB per disc, >>> or about 10 MB per minute of audio.) >>> I won’t go into Bit Rates at this time. >>> >>> 1. iTunes > Preferences - General: When you insert a CD: Show CD >>> 2. Click on Import Settings: this is where you can change the default AAC >>> Encoder if you wish. >>> 3. Select “Automatically retrieve CD track names from the Internet” >>> Select “Automatically download missing Album Artwork >>> Select Check for new software updates automatically >>> 4. Click OK >>> 5. Quit iTunes >>> >>> 6. Insert you your Music CD into your optical drive, after it spins up >>> iTunes should open (If not, Open iTunes and the CD will display in the >>> Sidebar, under Devices, then check the Gracenote CD Database for tag >>> information. If it finds this information, you’ll see the names of your >>> album, artist, and tracks >>> >>> 7. To Import the whole CD: >>> A) Select it in the Sidebar >>> B) Click ‘Import CD’ button >>> >>> Your Music CD will be imported into the iTunes Library. >>> >>> To View by Album: Select Music (under Library), Click the "Album by >>> Artist/Year” Column (at the top menu) >>> To View by Artist (which is probably what you have done), Click the >>> “Artist” Column >>> >>> You choose a view by clicking a view button at the top of the iTunes >>> window. >>> From left to right, the buttons are for 'List View', 'Album List View', >>> 'Grid View', and 'Cover Flow View'. >>> >>> To Choose which Columns to Display: >>> Choose View > View Options to open the View Options dialogue window. >>> Then, check a checkbox for a column name to display it, or uncheck one to >>> hide it. >>> >>> After adding columns, you may want to reposition them by dragging them to >>> the left or right, and resize them to show all the information they >>> contain, or to make sure they fit in your iTunes window. >>> >>> One way to resize columns is to Control-click on a column header, then >>> choose Auto Size Column or Auto Size All Columns. iTunes will fit the size >>> of one or all visible columns to hold the longest text that they contain. >>> You can also resize a column by dragging the divider between any two column >>> headers. >>> >>> That’s enough for the now, Ronni needs a coffee ;-) >>> I’ll look through my huge documents folder and also my Bookmarks in Safari >>> anything that might be of help to you. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >>> >>> OS X 10.7.3 Lion >>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >>> >>> >>> >>> On 21/02/2012, at 12:15 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: >>> >>>> I have avoided iPhoto & iTunes up until now as I thought they were >>>> unnecessarily complicated. >>>> >>>> I hate the way iPhoto puts one camera download in multiple folders if the >>>> pics were not all taken on the same day. I previously used the Canon >>>> software but my camera is so old there is no OSX version. Now I have a >>>> MacBookPro it is iPhoto or a card reader. >>>> >>>> I only used iTunes to put Pod Casts on my iPod but now I find I like some >>>> music on my iPad. I imported a Peggy Lee / George Shearing Album from CD >>>> and it filed the two instrumentals under George and the vocals under >>>> Peggy. Same nasty busy-body behaviour! >>>> >>>> But I need to learn to cope with this and manage my files. Please someone >>>> point me towards a tutorial for the simple-minded. >>>> >>>> And maybe someone can advise me about the iTunes Store. I wanted to buy a >>>> few tracks from the Kate Bush Album 'The Kick Inside', it is $8.99 and >>>> contains 13 tracks, 12 at $2.19 each plus one at $1.69, doesn't add up. >>>> Buying the album is the best option but can I be sure I shall get all the >>>> tracks? 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