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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
http://homepage.mac.com/jsaurian1/PhotoAlbum1.html
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. |