Thursday, July 20, 2006
Art Fair
Monday, July 03, 2006
Free iPhoto 6 Books
First, create your book as you normally would—select your images, click on the Book button, and choose the book’s theme. Organize the photos on the pages, create your text, and so on. When you’re at the point where you’d normally click on the Buy Book button, click on Play instead. A dialog box in which you can specify some settings and music for your slide show will appear. Since you’re trying to emulate a printed book, use the Page Flip transition, and specify how long you’d like each page to appear. If you like, visit the Music tab and attach a song to your book. (Obligatory warning: If you’re sharing the book with the general public, make sure you’ve got the rights to use the music.)
Once you’ve got everything set up, either click on Play to see your slide show or click on Save Settings to return to iPhoto’s Book Layout view. You don’t have to view the on-screen version before the next step, but doing so to make sure it works properly is worthwhile.
The last step is to convert your slide show into a QuickTime movie. But how? The File: Export menu item is grayed out. Thankfully, the Share: Send To iDVD menu is not. Select this menu item, and iPhoto will convert your slide show for use in iDVD. Your project will be reduced to DV resolution (720 by 540 pixels), but that’s still large enough for an on-screen movie. After a few minutes (the time will vary based on the size of the book and the speed of your Mac), iDVD will launch. Quit it, and click on Don’t Save when warned that you have unsaved changes in the project—you don’t need to use iDVD for this to work.
Switch back to the Finder and navigate to your user folder/Movies. In this folder, you’ll find a new QuickTime movie with the name you gave your book. (If you didn’t name the book, the file will be called Untitled Book.) Double-click on the movie, and you can now watch your “book” in QuickTime Player.
- from MacWorld 7/06
Once you’ve got everything set up, either click on Play to see your slide show or click on Save Settings to return to iPhoto’s Book Layout view. You don’t have to view the on-screen version before the next step, but doing so to make sure it works properly is worthwhile.
The last step is to convert your slide show into a QuickTime movie. But how? The File: Export menu item is grayed out. Thankfully, the Share: Send To iDVD menu is not. Select this menu item, and iPhoto will convert your slide show for use in iDVD. Your project will be reduced to DV resolution (720 by 540 pixels), but that’s still large enough for an on-screen movie. After a few minutes (the time will vary based on the size of the book and the speed of your Mac), iDVD will launch. Quit it, and click on Don’t Save when warned that you have unsaved changes in the project—you don’t need to use iDVD for this to work.
Switch back to the Finder and navigate to your user folder/Movies. In this folder, you’ll find a new QuickTime movie with the name you gave your book. (If you didn’t name the book, the file will be called Untitled Book.) Double-click on the movie, and you can now watch your “book” in QuickTime Player.
- from MacWorld 7/06
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