Derrick Story at Macworld: Editing with iPhoto '08, Part One
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Now once we have stuff in there, sometimes we want to edit them, we want to play with them a little bit. So let’s just take, we’ll take my iPhone. By the way this is out through an airplane window; I’m gonna hold down the option key and I’m gonna double click on this, this shot here and so I have my thumbnails up here and I’m in edit mode now and the reason why I know I’m in edit mode is because I have my editing tools down here.
Now the first thing that you should remember is that you can zoom in and zoom out very easily in iPhoto so you can get a better look at stuff. So let’s say I wanted to see – well, you know do I have a lot of image noise on the shot or whatever. It says easy as 1, 2, 0; 1, 2, 0. I just put the mouse wherever I want a 100% view; push the No. 1; I get a 100%. Push the No. 2, I can go to 200% and if I wanna go back to fit in window, that’s where the 0 comes in. Okay so zooming is as easy as 1, 2, 0, really rolls off the tongue doesn’t it? 1, 0, 2, 0, you can just go in and out; it’s very easy. And that way you can get a good look at your image and wherever you put the mouse, say we put the pointer up here, that’s the are it’ll go to. So it follows where your pointer is. Let me go back to 0.
Now if I wanna go to full screen mode, you can try to remember where the full screen mode icon is. Where is it? Oh, now I don’t see it, I don’t see it, you know what? I’m tired of trying to guess, just do option, command F. Option, command, F – that will get you in the full screen mode. Now when you’re in full screen mode, your thumbnails may or may not be up here and you can hide them if you want. And then down here are all of your editing tools. But when I’m in full screen mode, what I really wanna do is enjoy my picture. I don’t wanna have to come down here and sorta fool around.
And we have some very nice editing tools. We have you know the adjust palate, which you click on and you can do all sorts of fun things, play with the exposure, contrast, you can bump up the contrast, you can have all sorts of fun and if you don’t like what you’ve done you can just hit the reset button. So we do this and now I gotta go all the way back down here; all the way over to here. I’m gonna hit the effects button. This is fun.
This one I like especially, you can convert to black and white or sepia or you can boost the color. We’ll go over here to boost, let’s – oh let’s punch up that. Now if you hit it again it’ll boost it some more and you go again and again and – oh wait – that’s too much. So you can go backwards by hitting the little arrow key. All right? And then if you go – you know what? I’m just going wacky here; go back to original.
So you have effects, really fun now I’m gonna go all the way back down here, go all the way over here. You got retouch which I’ll show you in a minute, redeye, enhance – so you have all these tools, they’re very nice but they’re not really conducive so those of you who have pen and paper, you might wanna write this down although they’re easy to remember. I’m right here, I’m in edit mode, hit the A key. You get adjust, hit the A key again, adjust goes bye-bye.
I wanna change it to black and white, that’s in effects, hit the E key. Hit the E key again, good-bye. I wanna crop, hit the C key. Oh cropping is fun, cropping has really changed in iPhoto. Now in – back in the olden days when we were all like a year younger, cropping a lot of times meant that you were actually throwing away information. That’s a lot of pressure right? You know because if you made a crop then you better like it. Well now, we’re just gonna move the cropper thing around and I’ll just grab a corner here. Let’s just say I want this little portion of this sunset. I’ll bring it down a little bit like this. I get it the way I want and I hit apply and now I have a nice crop, just like before.
And then let’s say that I’m actually done okay? So I’ll hit apply, I’ll actually apply this edit. I’m gonna make this edit, this is an edit. By doing that of course, I hit the return key. Return key applies the edit. The escape key lets me get outta dodge without doing any harm but this time I actually wanna apply it, so I hit the return key, I’ve applied that edit, there we go, right there. All right but now let’s say that you know what? I’m having second thoughts, I don't know if I want to crop that or not after all.
You always have the option of going back to the beginning right? You can always revert to original. But maybe you’ve done other things and you don’t wanna get rid of that, all you wanna do, right is change your mind about the crop. So I’m gonna hold down the option key and double click. All you have to do is hit the crop key again, the C and look what happens.
The rest of your picture is still there and this is even after you’ve applied the edit, it’s still there. It remembers that it’s going – you know what? I know you. I know the way you are. You like to change your mind. I know that you’re gonna do that so I’m gonna remember where everything is. You can come back, you can change your mind, you can apply it again, and there you go.
So that way if you do wanna change your mind on a crop you don’t have to revert to original and throw away all of your other stuff. All you have to do is hit the crop key again and it will remember for you. So that –
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