#EDIT PHOTOS IN IPHOTO HOW TO#
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I think it’s a little dark – there’s a grey overcast on the whole photo. Here’s another example of a “Before” photo below. ***Photo Book Tip: From personal experience and from what I’ve seen in some other reviews, photos tend to print darker in photo books overall, so if you’re not sure, err on the side of brightening your photos. What’s useful is if you’re touching up two photos that are similar, you can “Copy” the settings and then “Paste” the same settings onto the similar photo so you can save some time. Note that the numbers don’t really mean anything, I’m doing it by eye. It’s kind of hard to see the difference by doing that – but it didn’t hurt. Sharpness: I increased the sharpness from zero to.Levels: I lightened the photo overall by changing the white level from 100% to 94% and I moved the middle (grey level) to the left – both actions brought out more of the color in the grass and gave me more detail in the fence too.Below is a close up of what the panel looks like in case the screenshots are too small to read. The reason why I’m adjusting this photo is because I feel the grassy area at the bottom is a little dark and I want a bit of the green of the grass to come through. The best thing to do is to just try it and adjust the photo to your liking by sight and don’t worry about the numbers. When you hover your mouse over the specific slider bar, a description of what that tool does pops up which is helpful. If you compare the two screenshots and look at the numbers you’ll see what I did.ĥ) On the Adjust editing panel you can use the slider to increase or decrease exposure, contrast, saturation etc. This shows my photo in it’s original unaltered state (the “Before”) Ĥ) Just above is my “After” shot.

#EDIT PHOTOS IN IPHOTO SOFTWARE#

The topic of this post is photo editing however, so let’s take a look at how Mac users can use the software already provided on their computers to easily give a boost to their photos.ġ) After uploading to iPhoto, select the photo you want to edit Ģ) Click on the “Edit” button on the bottom navigation bar ģ) Click on “Adjust” and the editing panel will pop up as you see below.

Both iPhoto and Aperture 3 photo books are printed at the same Apple facility. I haven’t tried iPhoto’s photo book making program yet, but I did do a review of Apple Aperture 3.0. That means you can print your iPhoto books with any photo book printer. The link to Apple’s forum above explains the workaround. However, if you want to save them in the 300 dpi jpeg format, which is the recommended minimum dpi for printing photo books, there is a way to do that by downloading additional software.

#EDIT PHOTOS IN IPHOTO PDF#

I have read on Apple’s support forum that you can save your book design as a PDF or as 200 dpi jpegs. iPhoto also includes photo book making software that you can print with Apple. IPhoto is the photo storage, organization and editing software program that comes factory installed on Mac computers.

#EDIT PHOTOS IN IPHOTO HOW TO#

The next series of posts will focus on how to edit your photos using various photo editing programs. Once you’ve selected those photos, you may find that some of them need some tweaking. Part 2 of my series focused on how to narrow down your photos to a workable set in preparation for your photo book.

#EDIT PHOTOS IN IPHOTO UPDATE#

I don’t have Photos so I can’t do an update yet, but here’s info from Apple’s website. Photos retains much of the similar photo editing tools as you see here. Also gone from Apple’s lineup is Aperture – a post processing program aimed at pros. PLEASE NOTE: As of 2015, Apple has replaced the iPhoto program with Photos – a new photo database that syncs automatically with Apple’s iCloud. Check out the overview of my step-by-step photo book guide with links to each of the individual posts. This is Part 3 of my series on making your own digital photo book.

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