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 <[email protected]> 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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