Organizing Your Photos...

So, your pictures are now on your computer, but they are in no kind of order! Here are some tips from organizing your photos and making specific pictures easy to find.
To have your pictures successfully organized, the key is to use ALBUMS!
1. First, create a new album. You can either choose “File” and then “New Album”, or click no the plus sign in the left corner.
2. Type in the name for your new photo album. (Ex: End of the Year Party)
3. Click OK
4. Locate “Library” and then click on “Photos”. Click on any photo you would like in this album and drag it to the album title. You can also highlight more than one at a time and drag them into the album.
This way, you can have your photos organized by events, months, or place, depending on how you title your albums
You can also organize your photos using keywords. This is helpful, because you may want to find a particular picture, but you don’t know which album it falls under. iPhoto has some keywords available for you, such as favorite, family, vacation, etc. You can use words for school photos, such as science or project to make these photos easily accessible.
To add a keyword to your picture, click on “View” at the top of your toolbar, and then make sure Keywords is checked. Next, run your cursor under the picture’s name. It will prompt “add keywords”, then click. Add keywords to help you identify your pictures.
To find a picture with a particular keyword, type in the keyword in the spot available next to the magnifying glass and hit enter. It will pull up any picture with that word.
Good luck organizing all of those great shots!
Next time, we will talk about editing your photos…

Logging in at the Computer Lab

There have been some questions as to how to log on to the computers in the computer lab. Your students each have a log-in that they can use. It is as follows:

Log-in: Student number
Password: Last 4 numbers of their Social Security Number

You may want to consider making cards with your students' information on it, laminate them, and use these whenever you go to the lab.

Good luck and have fun! :)

How to Import Photos into iPhoto

For the next entries, I will be giving you a few helpful hints for importing, organizing, and editing your photos. These can be pictures you take with your digital camera or ones that you take using photo booth.
First, we need to get these beginning of the year shots off of your camera and onto your computer. Follow these easy steps to import your pictures.
1. Connect you digital camera to your laptop.
2. Launch iPhoto (This should happen automatically, but just in case…)
3. Type in a name for this set of pictures.
4. Add a description for the roll if you would like. This can help you find images later on.
5. Click the Import Button
It may prompt you to delete items from the camera. Only do this if you do not want to add these images to another device and you no longer want them on your memory card.
If you have images on a CD, you can insert your CD, wait for the CD image to appear on your desktop, and then drag the CD to the iPhoto icon in your dock.
If you have taken pictures in Photo Booth and you wish to add them to your iPhoto library, open Photo Booth and select the picture you would like to move. Next, click on the second icon from the left which is labeled “iPhoto”. Your Apple will then send it to your iPhoto Library.
Have fun snapping those pictures!