Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hi Barry, If iPhoto v8.1.2 is doing everything you want to do with your photos, upgrading is probably not worth it. iPhoto v9 does have a lot of ‘New Features’ to iPhoto v8. Have a look here for details of all the new features: http://www.apple.com/au/ilife/iphoto/ Click on “What’s New in iPhoto” and then click on the ‘Read more’ sections. It all depends if you want any of the new features. Cheers, Ronni On 23/02/2012, at 4:43 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: 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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Many thanks Ronni, I will look at the references. Barry On 23/02/2012, at 5:39 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Barry, If iPhoto v8.1.2 is doing everything you want to do with your photos, upgrading is probably not worth it. iPhoto v9 does have a lot of ‘New Features’ to iPhoto v8. Have a look here for details of all the new features: http://www.apple.com/au/ilife/iphoto/ Click on “What’s New in iPhoto” and then click on the ‘Read more’ sections. It all depends if you want any of the new features. Cheers, Ronni On 23/02/2012, at 4:43 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: 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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hi Neil The software for my old Canon PowerShot G2 was OS9. I spoke to Trevor at Team Digital, he sold it to me in the Perth Pro days, he said he was sure there was an OSX version. I had failed to find one and so did he. Trevor suggested a Card Reader and I shall probably get one. In the meantime I located the JPGs for the photos I downloaded in iPhoto, duplicated them and put them in a folder in my system. But I do need to master iPhoto so that I can have photos etc on my iPad. These include my Family History Charts that are in Canvas 3.5 (no substitute in OSX) which I export as JPGs and put in iPhoto. Thanks for your help. Regards Diana On 21/02/2012, at 6:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Diana, If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image Capture sees the Canon camera? I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them - rather than the way iPhoto wants to file them - and use a separate editor (eg Photoshop Elements or Graphic Converter) if I want to edit them. My old Canon camera has now died :o( - but with my iPhone, I have turned off synching with iPhoto and I use Image capture to download photos off the phone. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/2/12 12:15 PM, Diana Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au 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? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. Best wishes to all from Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hello John I took your advice, got the album. Listened to it while I tried importing CDs the correct way reading Ronni's instructions on the iPad and importing to the MacBookPro. A mixture of triumph and puzzlement, I certainly learned a lot. Today has been rather fraught and now it is time to relax, go out for dinner then to the ACO concert. Full report tomorrow (I hope). Best wishes to all from Diana On 21/02/2012, at 6:38 PM, Winters John wrote: Hello Diana, After that dissertation, I'm sure Ronni needs a rest! For your other question… You get a discount for buying a whole album off iTunes. That's why the album price is $8.99 but the total of the individual tracks is $27.97. You will get ALL the tracks if you buy the album (and often some album only extras FWTW too). If you buy a couple of tracks, then decide the complete the album, there is usually a discounted price to complete my album. I've only purchased Wuthering Heights off that album, and I could complete the album and get all tracks now for $7.30. Don't worry, you wont miss out on a track with a full but discounted album purchase. Regards, John On 21/02/2012, at 12:15 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: 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? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hi Diana, My suggestion/question regarding Image Capture was whether Image Capture would see the attached camera WITHOUT using any Canon software - in essence using the camera as its own Card Reader - this may not be possible but have you actually tried connecting the camera by usb and opening Image Capture - does it just say No camera or scanner connected - if so then, yes, a Card reader may be required. However, if iPhoto is getting the photos off your camera without the Canon software then I would have expected Image capture to be able to do the same. But then again, my expectations are frequently unmet ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/2/12 4:42 PM, Diana Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil The software for my old Canon PowerShot G2 was OS9. I spoke to Trevor at Team Digital, he sold it to me in the Perth Pro days, he said he was sure there was an OSX version. I had failed to find one and so did he. Trevor suggested a Card Reader and I shall probably get one. In the meantime I located the JPGs for the photos I downloaded in iPhoto, duplicated them and put them in a folder in my system. But I do need to master iPhoto so that I can have photos etc on my iPad. These include my Family History Charts that are in Canvas 3.5 (no substitute in OSX) which I export as JPGs and put in iPhoto. Thanks for your help. Regards Diana On 21/02/2012, at 6:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Diana, If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image Capture sees the Canon camera? I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them - rather than the way iPhoto wants to file them - and use a separate editor (eg Photoshop Elements or Graphic Converter) if I want to edit them. My old Canon camera has now died :o( - but with my iPhone, I have turned off synching with iPhoto and I use Image capture to download photos off the phone. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/2/12 12:15 PM, Diana Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au 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? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. Best wishes to all from Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hi Peter, No, iLife ’11 is an Upgrade not an Update. You need to purchase iLife ’11 I think now you can only purchase and download the iLife iWork Apps through the App Store. I don’t think Apple have the DVD for purchase anymore. I have the physical DVD as I prefer to have the disc. There are rumours going around that both iLife’11 iWork ’09 will be upgraded this year. Last release of iWork was iWork ’09 in June 2009 Last release of iLife was iLife ’11 in October 2010 But then I think I said iWork would be upgraded last year, so don’t take any notice of what I predict ;-) There may be people on this list who are beta testing the next version of iWork iLife but even they don't know when it will be released and they signed an NDA agreeing to say nothing about the products anyway. Cheers, Ronni On 21/02/2012, at 2:38 PM, Curtis Peter wrote: Hi Ronni This query is timely, it reflects my situation as well, so I'll be following your answers very carefully. I have iPhoto 8.1.2. Can this be upgraded or do I need to purchase iLife'11. I did have an earlier iLife at one stage. Regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hello Ronni Thanks for taking so much trouble. I am not the brightest pebble on the beach at present! I have just come home and now I have a visitor so I shall have to get back to you later. Best regards 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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hello Again Ronni Yes I am using iPhoto 9.2.1 (iLife’11). Your explanation, as ever, is wonderfully clear. I have only imported one batch of photos and I shall now organise them properly and hopefully get it right next time.! Yes I am using iTunes 10.5.3. After dinner I shall work through your instructions and re-import my CDs properly. I shall report my progress tomorrow. Thanks again and 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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hello Diana, After that dissertation, I'm sure Ronni needs a rest! For your other question… You get a discount for buying a whole album off iTunes. That's why the album price is $8.99 but the total of the individual tracks is $27.97. You will get ALL the tracks if you buy the album (and often some album only extras FWTW too). If you buy a couple of tracks, then decide the complete the album, there is usually a discounted price to complete my album. I've only purchased Wuthering Heights off that album, and I could complete the album and get all tracks now for $7.30. Don't worry, you wont miss out on a track with a full but discounted album purchase. Regards, John On 21/02/2012, at 12:15 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: 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? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hi Diana, If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image Capture sees the Canon camera? I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them - rather than the way iPhoto wants to file them - and use a separate editor (eg Photoshop Elements or Graphic Converter) if I want to edit them. My old Canon camera has now died :o( - but with my iPhone, I have turned off synching with iPhoto and I use Image capture to download photos off the phone. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/2/12 12:15 PM, Diana Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au 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? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. Best wishes to all from Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
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
Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help
Hi Ronni This query is timely, it reflects my situation as well, so I'll be following your answers very carefully. I have iPhoto 8.1.2. Can this be upgraded or do I need to purchase iLife'11. I did have an earlier iLife at one stage. Regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
