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Think of how much your Grandma would appreciate a customized email filled with some of your most recent photos. You've been meaning to send one but you haven't been able to set aside a few minutes to do the whole "Export, Resize, and Attach" dance. Well, now you don't have an excuse, because iPhoto '11 has made that process quite simple. Head back up to iPhoto > Preferences and add your email account to get started.
Select your email service. Enter your username and password. You're good to go.
Choose the photos you want to include in your custom e-mail and then click Share > Email.
After you've elected to Share via Email, the theme builder is launched. This is where you can choose a theme and re-arrange the photos to your liking. Next, you can add some sincere text, choose a suitable typeface and send it off!
Attach a Photo to an E-mail
We know that if you choose to Share a photo via e-mail iPhoto will create an email in app with a selection of fancy templates.
Well in addition to the fancy templates, you can send the photo as an attachment by checking the "Attach photos to message" box in the lower right-hand corner. You can even send the full resolution version of the photo.
Just send the picture
If you're a fan of just sending a photo without all that fancy template stuff. Select the album that contains the picture or pictures you want to send.
Select the picture or pictures you want to send and copy them (File > Copy or Command + C.) Open your favorite email client and paste (Command + V or File > Paste) them in.
This send the full resolution version of the photo. It's a lame work around, hopefully we'll find a better solution soon.
If a nostalgic, teary-eyed night in front of the computer is what you're looking for, then you should probably create a slideshow of your old photos. Brand new animated themes are pre-loaded and ready for you to use.
Choose the theme that best fits the style you're looking for. The Places theme is especially cool because it surfs around a virtual globe pin-pointing the locations where your photos were taken, assuming you geotagged them properly.
Each slideshow theme has it's own perfectly-timed default soundtrack. But if that doesn't give you the vibe you're looking for, you can easily pull in a different audio track of your choosing.
Fine-tune your slideshow by tweaking the additional settings.
Watch Movies in iPhoto
Remember when you had to open QuickTime to watch a movie in iPhoto? Man what a pain.
Now movies play directly in iPhoto '11.
Trim Movie
Oh, while you're watching your video, you can also trim them just like in QuickTime X.
Just click on the gear in the player control in iPhone and you'll be presented with Trim in the drop down.
And just like QuickTime you can trim off unwanted footage by dragging the yellow trim handles in and clicking on the Trim button when you're done.
iPhoto's new templates and printing options make designing books and cards simpler than ever before. Chances are good that there's going to be a lot of photo books and letterpress cards floating around this holiday season. Perhaps you should get started on yours soon.
Just like the previously mentioned Email template, the photo book requires a bit of customization as well. You can choose between Hardcover, Softcover, or Wire-bound book styles; Large or Extra-Large size; and a few different color palettes.
The Design button launches a sidebar which allows you to tweak various layout styles and background colors.
Once you make the final adjustments to your book's layout, click "Buy Book" to start the checkout process.
Forget those cheap Hallmark.com print-outs. Heck, forget even going to the gift shop for greeting cards anymore. iPhoto's new customizable letterpress cards are where it's at. And after you customize them, Apple ships them right to your door.
Start your Card project the same way you start a Book project: select the photo you want to use and then click Create > Card in the bottom toolbar.
You have 15 themes to choose from, each of which features the traditional--and legit looking--letterpress printing technique.
Use the Design sidebar to customize the text and colors used in your card.
When you're confident that you've crafted the perfect card, send it to the presses.
Just because Apple offers a premium printing service doesn't mean you can't print your projects at home. This is extremely helpful when you just want to print one card.
Once you're in the edit screen, you can just go to File > Print and you can print your card or book at home. Of course, you won't get the fancy letterpress.
rtdunham
October 31, 2010 at 9:03pm
very nice summary. makes it easier to jump in. but a couple questions:
1) i've seen books with "spreads" or "double-trucks"--an image that spans two pages. how dey do dat? the illustration in your article on page formats doesn't show one like that in the formatting sidebar.
2) i also don't see a page format like the ones shown in the accompanying book mockups with facing horizontal images that are full-page wide but have white space above and below. Do the book layouts automatically include some page designs that cannot be selected manually and imposed?
3) a comment: to send a non-full-res image in a non-themed email, just drag the photo to the mail app in the dock: that'll open mail, create a new email, and place the photo in it. You can then choose the size for the image.
4) And this final question:when sending themed emails with images, there's a checkbox bottom right for whether or not to attach the image, with only two size choices, both of which create very data-intense attachments (4-5 MB compared to, say, 150kb for a plain-jane email with the same photo). That checkbox seems to click on and off arbitrarily. Has anyone found a way (I can't find it in prefs) to set it to a default of off, or unchecked?
