Step 8: Stop, Drop, and Crop
Shrinking photos you want to use as podcast art down to iPod-friendly postage-stamp size doesn't require launching iPhoto. Just double-click any piece of artwork in the Track Editor (including the Episode Artwork and Podcast Preview images) to load that image into GarageBand's Artwork Editor; use the slider to scale the image, and then drag the image to adjust what appears in the visible center of the crop frame.
Who says that size doesn't matter?
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> podOmatic (www.podomatic.com) provides a selection of canned George W. Bush answers for your fake-interview pleasure.
> Odeo.com (www.odeo.com) can pipe your podcast directly to the iTunes Music Store's Podcast directory.
> ClickCaster (www.clickcaster.com) currently a free beta, promotes your own on-demand radio show.
