News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
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If you use iPhoto ’09 and its Events organisational feature in a true events manner—separating your photos by actual event—then you may have stumbled onto a limitation in the current version of iPhoto. Let’s say you’re interested in creating a photo album for a friend who you’ve photographed at a number of events. But you don’t just want photos that contain your friend in this album; you want all the photos from any event they attended.
While iPhoto offers a plethora of choices when creating a Smart Album, “all events containing person X” isn’t one of the options. However, thanks to Mac OS X Hints reader Justin Carter, you can create just such an album with a fairly simple process.
First select Faces from the Library section of iPhoto’s sidebar, then double-click on the face of the person you’re interested in using for the all-events album. Use drag-select to select all the “known” faces for that person, and then click on Events in the Library section of the iPhoto sidebar.
When you click back into Events, you’ll see that any events containing the faces you selected are now highlighted. Click the Plus sign to create a new album, and make sure that the “Use selected items in a new album” option is checked in the dialog that appears. Type in a name for your new album, click Create, and you’re done—the new album will contain every event in which the selected person’s image appears at least once.
For most of us, it’s easier to remember where we took a picture than to remember when . Most digital cameras don’t possess this sort of location awareness. However, you can easily embed the coordinates after the fact through a process called geotagging .
Ben Long | Oct 6, 2008
Since Apple brought iPhoto printing services to Australia, we’ve finally had access to cool printed materials our overseas cousins have had access to for years: not just the well-publicised books, but also calendars and cards with a professional polish. However, it's as easy to make a book, card or calendar that looks ready for recycling as it is to make something you want to keep. Here’s how to get a calendar looking cool.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 29, 2008
Since Apple brought iPhoto printing services to Australia, we’ve finally had access to cool printed materials our overseas cousins have had access to for years: not just the well-publicised books, but also calendars and cards with a professional polish. However, it's as easy to make a book, card or calendar that looks ready for recycling as it is to make something you want to keep. Here’s how to get a calendar looking cool.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 29, 2008
Since iPhoto’s printing services have been available in Australia, customers down under have had access to the same iPhoto products — books, calendars and cards — that our overseas neighbours have enjoyed for years. The great part about them is that they’re extremely easy to use. The bad part is they’re extremely easy to make badly. Here’s a few tips on getting an iPhoto card to print beautifully.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 30, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
