iPhoto Plugins News

Improve Images in iPhoto

Bard Miser over at InformIT has a nice tutorial about improving your images in iPhoto LINK

iPhoto: Share Photos With Windows Users

This tip is from Apple's website: How to burn a CD or DVD with pictures for a Windows-based computer LINK

A CD or DVD created in iPhoto using the Burn command in the Share menu cannot be viewed on a Microsoft Windows-based computer or at a photo development lab.

Burn the disc using the Finder instead of iPhoto.

In the Finder, insert a blank CD or DVD. Your disc will show up on your desktop as a Burn Folder (as seen in the images below).



Open iPhoto.

Select the Album(s) you wish to burn to disc.

Choose File > Export.

Click the File Export tab.

Choose a format from the Format pop-up menu.

Note: Depending on the source of the images, you may want to select JPEG to ensure compatibility.

Configure the Size and Name options that you want. Make sure the "Use extension" or "Use filename" option is selected.

Click Export.

Select the Burn Folder you created to save the exported photos to and click OK.

Quit iPhoto when the export has completed.

From your desktop, open your disc's Burn folder and select the "Burn" button (as seen below).

Enhance Images For iPhoto

Datamind Products has released an upgrade to their photo enhancement application Jade. Jade is not a plug-in, but an external application that will work with iPhoto when you configure Jade to edit your photos: open “iPhoto > Preferences…” menu and set Jade in the “Edit photo” popup menu as an external editor.


Then select the photos you want to edit in iPhoto and click the “Edit” button. Jade will start with the selected photos in the gallery.
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iPhoto Integration With MyPublisher

One of the neatest features in iPhoto is the book publishing feature. For the past few years, our family has done annual "recaps" of the year and made copies available to any family member that wants one.

For some, the book publishing feature in iPhoto my be a bit too narrow of a selection in book size and the templates or themes that Apple offers.

Their Mac application called "MyPublisher" resides in your Applications folder. Once it's opened, it will walk you through the process of assembling and creating a book. The integration of iPhoto into the application is key to making this work (see screen shot). YOu can pick and choose the photos you want to use directly from the library, or create an album of the images you want to use for your book and then select them from that album. By creating the album, you can arrange them in the order you want ahead of time and then place them in sequence while assembling the pages.

You can download the MyPublisher.app application for free from MyPublisher.com

Placetagger in iPhone Syncs With iPhoto

Mel Martin of the Unofficial Apple Weblog has a nice article on an iPhone application that tags the location a photo was taken on your iPhone, then syncs the data to your iPhoto Library
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Manage Many Libraries in iPhoto 09

iPhoto Library Manger is avery useful application that allows you to conveniently organize and edit your digital photos in multiple iPhoto libraries. iPhoto Library Manager adds an additional level of control over your iPhoto collection by allowing you to keep your photos in multiple libraries and transfer them back and forth without losing your keywords, ratings, and all the other information you’ve worked to assign to your photos. Libraries can be split into smaller ones, or smaller libraries can be merged together into one large library. You can keep your photos on an external drive or another computer on your network, share them with other users on your machine, sync them all with your iPod, and use iPhoto Library Manager to keep track of it all. Check it our at Fatcat Software

GPS for iPhoto (Geotagging)

If you have a handheld GPS receiver, Geotagalog from Calf Trail Software will let you take full advantage of the Places feature in iPhoto '09 with any digital camera supported by OS X. Geotagalog uses our advanced geotagging technology to combine a tracklog file with the pictures on your camera, in a straightforward and intuitive workflow. The program features: Features:

• Geocoding and import into iPhoto with easy workflow
• Direct import from connected cameras and card readers
• Import from file folders also supported
• Live photo location preview, with mouseover thumbnails
• Lossless geotagging of JPEGs and many popular RAW formats
• Sophisticated, yet easy to use, geotagging algorithms
• Supports standard GPX files
• Supports NMEA 0183 logs
• Supports Garmin Training Center (.tcx) format
• Lots more!

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iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual

O'Reilly has just released iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual by David Pouge and J.D. Biersdorfer. LINK

myPhoto updated for iPhoto '09

myPhoto is a program that generates a photo album on your web site for you with your iPhoto images. How does it do it? Mac OS X comes with a web server pre-installed (called Apache) and myPhoto both configures and activates this server and generates a full featured PHP-based web site. This 'built-in" web site is always up-to-date and features all of the meaningful data from iPhoto you'd want on your web site--your albums, captions, a search engine, etc. It runs off of your Mac at home (iMac, G4, G5, Mini--whatever!) using your existing Internet connection and is online when you are. If you're worried that you don't have a web site yet, it's ok--install myPhoto and you will. All you have to do is plug in your digital camera, import your photos as you normally would into iPhoto, and your photos are on your web page! And what did you have to do to put them there? Simply install myPhoto. A one time thing. It's that easy. If you want to see a "live" site click here. The program developer, Michael Mulligan, has his site available for view.