Derrick Story at Macworld 2008: Managing preferences in iPhoto '08
By Derrick Story
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Derrick Story - iPhoto '08
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So the first thing, I wanna go into the preference pane for a second. I want to show you a couple things. Again, we’re in iPhoto ’08. Now the number one thing you should do, how many of you work are in a network environment ever like at work or in a public network? Any network folks here? Not too many. What are the rest of you hanging out in the living room? Yeah, mostly? All right. All right, well that’s okay. For, okay, so this tip is for three of you, so that’s what I like to do. I like tips that apply to a lot of people.
The first thing you should do and the rest of you should do this anyway ‘cause you may someday get out of the house and end up in public. Go to Sharing, right. It’s okay to look for shared photos but don’t have this box sometimes is checked by default. Don’t share your photos with the world automatically. If this box is checked, and you’re on a network, what’ll happen is your photos will show up in other people’s iPhoto pane right here. Now that may be okay. That may not be okay. Sometimes it’s sort of shocking when you have people you know show up here, and you go, “Should I look at those photos?” They haven’t asked me to look at ‘em. So make sure that you turn that box off.
Okay, that’s my num’ – this is all part of one tip. We’re still in one tip right now, so these tips have A, B, and C levels, okay, so that’s one thing. Now there’s some new things happening over in the general pane here, and one of ‘em is double-click behavior. Double-click behavior in iPhoto ’08 is very important and very fun. Right now what I recommend is that for double-click behavior you have magnifies photo, and I’ll show you why. Most of the time when we’re looking at photos, right, when we’re in our thumbnails here, we wanna see them. We just wanna double-click and get a bigger picture. Now in previous versions of iPhoto, you would double-click and a lot o’ times you end up in edit mode, all right. You don’t really wanna edit most of the time. Hopefully, you don’t even need to edit most of the time. You just want a bigger look at the shot, so in iPhoto ’08, they gave you that option, so now when you double-click, right. When you double-click, you can just look at the photo, and you just have your regular rotate and email and all that kinda stuff, and you click again and it goes away. But you go what sometimes I do wanna edit, so do I have to like click on the photo and then go down here to the pencil in order to edit? You don’t.
One of the most important keys in iPhoto – the key you should burn this into your memory – is the option key. The option key the engineers who made iPhoto love the option key, so now I’m just gonna hold down the option key. I’m gonna double-click. Now I’m in edit mode. That option key is very important. Now it comes to play in a lot of other areas too. Now what happens if you’re in edit mode and then you don’t wanna save your changes? Does anyone know what you do? Escape. You escape from edit mode. If you hit the escape key, and that’s whether you’re in full screen or any other edit mode, hit escape; you can get out of there and none of your changes are saved which is pretty important. It’s pretty important stuff.
Now rotating photos is another place when you’re in preferences, you get to choose which way you’re gonna rotate your photos. When you hit the rotate key, right? And of course, you always know you think about we all know which way we’re gonna hold the camera all the time, right? Do you always hold it the same way? Sometimes? No. You know what’s really fun? You know a lot of things break up marriages, right, money and differences in religion and stuff like that. One thing that’ll break up a marriage very quickly is if you’re sharing one camera on a vacation because invariably, right, she holds it this way which she does rather close, and then hands it to him and then he holds it this way, right. And then you get your photos back and they’re all catty-wampus, right, or sometimes he might hold it this way sometimes and then he changes his mind and is gonna hold it that way just to keep it fun. All right, that’s not good, but iPhoto can help preserve your relationships and I’ll show you how.
You do make, you have to make some sort of decision here but it really doesn’t make any difference which way photos initially rotate. Like right now here we have a photo right here and we have the rotate button. Now it’s set to rotate the wrong way. If I click on it and hit rotate, it’s gonna put her on her head. I don’t necessarily wanna do that, but we’ll do it anyway. Okay, now do I need to go back to preferences in order to get her going the right way? What key would I probably use to go the other direction? Option key, absolutely! Hold down the option key and we can straighten things out, so this is how it saves your marriage. You don’t care which way the photos are because you just go through with the rotate key and then if it’s turned the wrong way, you hold down the option key and it goes the other way. You don’t have to keep going back to preferences to change your preference there.
So this is two instances where the option key is really helpful. One is to go from double-click just to view, and then the other is, of course, to go double-click to edit, so the option key toggles that and then rotating in different directions.
