Welcome Class!

We will have a very successful year! Please review the goals and classroom policies carefully.

First you will learn generalities about Digital Technology (What is Digital?) and the iLife Suite of products (iLife applications):
iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand. You will learn to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos using iPhoto; while creating albums, books, and slide shows - you will use the iLife 06 Textbook. You will also learn: What are pixels? What are file formats? How to use the iLife applications to manipulate digital media. What can you do with these programs? Be patient! You have to learn the essentials. The faster you learn the faster we can work on interesting projects and fun hands-on activities.

Then, you will start working with each iLife application more extensively, following exercises and learning how each one works and how we can integrate all of them when we are creating digital media projects.

The first program that you will learn is iPhoto. iPhoto is the photo software (I will give you an iLife handout). iPhoto makes it easy to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos; allowing you to create your own Albums, Books, Slide Shows, Web pages and Movies. You can store and organize photos for use in your digital movies. iPhoto is organized much like iTunes (I know you're familiar with iTunes!); on the left side of the screen (window) are the "sources" - a Photo Library and a bunch of Albums.

With iPhoto you can automatically import content from your digital camera - which is copied onto your hard disk and organized in your Library - and you can print photos. You can select music from iTunes to accompany a slide show (the program connects automatically to your playlist in iTunes.) iPhoto can play one song or an entire iTunes playlist to accompany a slide show. You can also add motion to your still photos in iPhoto using the "Ken Burns Effect." The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production from still imagery.

Read the iLife handout - you will have to study this information and your notes on "What is Digital?" for quiz September 20th. Also study the handout on iLife (the iLife Suite of products). You must understand what these applications are. Example: iPhoto - is the photo software; you can download and organize images in iPhoto. You can enhance, crop, fix red eyes and make some adjustments in your photos. You can also create albums, slideshows and books.

You will learn to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos; you will be able to create your own albums, books, slide shows, web pages and movies. You can also store and organize photos for use in your  digital movies (using iMovie). You will also learn to select music from iTunes to accompany a slide show and to create special sound and visual effects.

You will download the entire folder called L2.Student roll 1 (from the Server - iLife06 - iLifeLesson2) into your open iPhoto window (or just drag it into the iPhoto icon on the dock). iPhoto will automatically start importing the folder of photos. After this folder is downloaded you will also download L3.Biz roll 1, L3.Biz roll 2, L3.Biz roll 3 and L3.Dad roll 1. Be patient, it may take a while! Check page 74, the rolls of film should look like the ones on this page (newer versions will look a little different). Click the triangle to close or collapse each roll into a single line (page 75).

Copy the following questions and answers in your notes:

1. How do you import pictures into iPhoto from a folder on your computer? Just dragging the folder into the main iPhoto window.

2. Name two things you should do right after you import photos: Delete bad images and rotate the remaining images so they're properly oriented.

1) Change the name of the L2.Student roll 1 to Student roll 1. Delete the images that you think are really bad. Go to page 66 and keep the images you see there, for the Student roll 1. 

2) Rotate the picture of the vase and any others that need to be rotated (pictures that are sideways). If you need help with this, ask Mrs. Feld to help you.

[Tip: when shooting photos the rule of thumb for locating your main light source and taking better pictures is to keep the sun at your back or keep the light behind you. But bear in mind that this can cause subjects with eyes to squint.]

3) You will create four albums using the pictures you downloaded. It's a good idea to organize your photos into albums. You can click the plus (+) sign at the bottom of the iPhoto window to create an album or a slideshow. Please follow the following instructions:

• Name the album "Birthday Party". Drag the entire roll of film called L3.Dad roll 1 from your library onto the Birthday Party album icon in the source list (around 29 pictures).
• Click the album name to see the shots you moved (page 77).
• Make three more albums: Company Press, Sgraffito and Ceramic Process. 
• Find the shots on page 78 and move into the Sgraffito album (11 photos). You can move one photo at a time, or move the whole roll to the album. To delete pictures you don't want just press the Delete key.
• Open the L3.Biz roll 2 and the L3.Biz roll 3 and select the images on page 79 and move them to the Company Press album. Also check L3.Biz roll 1, some of the shots may be there. Tip: if you want to select a group of contiguous shots, you can select the first, Shift-select the last, and then drag the entire batch to the appropriate album.
• You can reorder the pictures in an album (not in a roll of film). Open the Ceramic Process album and move the shot of the finished ceramic piece, the vase, from the beginning of the album to the end. Just drag it to the new position. 
• Organize the rest of the shots so they tell a story. Check page 81. You should have the pictures you see on this page (at least most of them). If you don't find some of them, you can go back to the Server - iLife06 and find them and download them in iPhoto.
• Find the picture of the alien (page 95) and crop it.
• Find the picture of the fish and enhance it.
• Find the picture of the girl (page 104) and fix the red eyes. There's a Red-Eye Tool. Newer versions: go to Edit.
• Straighten crooked photos (page 105).
• Lastly, organize your sources into folders. Go to File - New Folder and create the following folders: Biz Owner, Dad, and Student. Check page 108 to see how they should look in your Source Column in iPhoto. The Biz Owner folder should contain the Sgraffito and Company Press albums. The Dad folder should contain the Birthday Party album. The Student folder must contain the Ceramic Process album.
• You won't have a Cool Pieces Smart Album - I eliminated this step. 
• You will create slideshows for all the albums and placed them in their respective folders.

When done, Mrs. Feld will grade your work.

Feel free to ask questions to Mrs. Feld, some of our computers have newer versions of the iLife Suite of products and some things are done a little differently than older versions.

Vocabulary:
Digital, Digital System, Digitize, Binary Numbers (or Binary Digits), Bit(s), Byte(s), Kilobyte(s), Megabyte(s), Gigabyte(s), iLife, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, Ken Burns Effect.