Feld's Digital Applications Classes

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Lesson 5 (iLife'05 Textbook)

If you haven't created slideshows for all the albums created on Lesson 4 (Company Press, Sgraffito and Ceramic Process), please do so. When completed, please show me so that I can mark them as done. As we did with the "Birthday Party" slideshow, you can select any music and transition of your choice. Also, make sure that you deselect the Repeat slideshow option of the "Settings" window. You can experiment with the slide duration by setting a higher number of seconds and with the speed of your transitions.

Goal: to make sure that you understand how to create slideshows in iPhoto, adding music from iTunes and transitions.

Note: The Settings window has an option "Show titles". This only refers to the title or name of your photos. To change these titles, you would go to the Information Pane. Then, if you select "Show titles" for your slideshow, they will show up.

Start reading pages 121 - 141 and follow the directions.

iPhoto is designed to create a good quality hardback book of photos. You have many options and formats. This software helps you put pictures on pages and then you can automatically access a Web site to order the book (or books) you designed. (Of course you would have to pay for these books)

You can select from many different book styles -predesigned formats that let you vary the size of images, the arrangement of photos on each page, and the position and font of notes and captions. With newer versions of iLife offer more "themes" and options in general.

Note: the quality of your pictures is important. Pictures with a low number of pixels (which means low resolution pictures) will show a caution sign -small yellow triangle with an exclamation point.

The first step is deciding what the book will be for, what photos to include, and in what general order they should appear in the book (the iPhoto Album or iBook). You can modify the order later; but it's definitely better to organize you pictures in advance.

Read carefully "Choosing a Theme" on page 123 (first you'll practice with the textbook exercise and later you'll create your own with your own pictures), and continue creating the iBook, per the instructions given - selecting a theme, creating a cover, adding pictures, etc.

Type the notes on pages 150 (only the 3rd and 4th notes).

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