1. Tap on the Photos app icon to launch it.
2. Tap one of the viewing options. You should have two to five choices, depending on how you synced your iPad.
3. Tap Photos to make sure you are in photo viewing mode.
4. Drag and scroll vertically or flick vertically to move through all the photos on your iPad.
5. Tap a photo to view that one. For most photos, you might want to rotate the iPad to its horizontal orientation for wide-screen viewing.
   

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   You Can’t Edit, Not Even a Little Bit
   The Photos app is strictly a viewer. You can’t edit photos or make adjustments like you can in iPhoto. You can’t even move photos from one album to another. All editing and organization must be done on your Mac or PC before you sync.

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6. To move to the next or previous photo, drag left or right.
7. To bring up controls at the top and bottom of a photo, tap in the center of the screen.
8. You can tap and run your finger over the small thumbnails at the bottom of the screen to move through photos.
9. Tap the All Photos button at the top of the screen to return to the list of photos.

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ZOOM AND ROTATE

Here are a few tips on how to navigate your photos as you view them:

• Touch two fingers to the screen while viewing a photo, and pinch or unpinch to zoom out and in.

• Double-tap a photo to zoom back out to normal size.

• While a photo is at normal size, double-tap to zoom it to make it fit on the screen with the edges cropped.

• If you pinch in far enough, the picture closes, and you return to the browsing mode.

1. Touch the boxed arrow button.
2. Tap one of the functions in the list.
3. After you tap Email photo, the Mail app launches and starts a new message. The photo is attached to the message.
   

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   It’s Not the Original Image
   If you sync a photo from your computer to your iPad, and then email it to people, they actually receive a reduced image, not the original. iPad albums contain reduced images to save space. If you want to send the original, email it from your computer.

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4. Tapping Assign to Contact displays a list of all your contacts so that you can add the photo to the contact’s thumbnail image.
5. Tap Use as Wallpaper to assign the image to either the Lock Screen background or the Home screen background, or both.
6. Tap Copy Photo to copy the photo to the clipboard. To copy more than one image, tap the boxed arrow button while viewing your photos, and then select one or more photos to email or copy.

1. In the Photos app, tap the Albums button. Most of the albums will correspond to your iPhoto albums or your folders if you sync images from your computer’s file system.
2. Tap on an album to expand it to see all the photos.
3. Tap any photo to view it.
4. Tap the Albums button to return to the list of albums.
   

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   Getting Back to the Album
   After you finish digging down into an album, you can go back to the list of albums by pressing the Albums button, or a similarly named button, at the top left. But you can also pinch in all photos to group them in the middle of the screen and then release to move back to the albums list.

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5. Tap Places to see your geo-tagged photos (those marked with GPS locations).
6. Tap a pin on the map and a set of photos appears above it.
7. Tap the set of photos to dig down into the pictures.

What Are Saved Photos?

Saved Photos are photos that you took on your iPad. But, wait—the iPad doesn’t have a camera! That’s true, but you can still collect “pictures” by capturing screen grabs (Home + Wake/Sleep), selecting images, and choosing Save Photo in Safari and Mail, and saving drawings and artwork in other apps. These captures are stored as Saved Photos.

1. Tap Photos on your Home screen.
2. Go to your Photos list, or select Album, Event, Faces, or Places.
3. Tap the Slideshow button.
4. Switch the Play Music button on or off.
5. If you want to use music, tap to select a song from your iTunes collection.
6. Choose a transition.
7. Tap Start Slideshow.

Stopping a Slideshow

Tap on the screen anywhere to stop a slideshow.

Slideshow on TV

Want to present a slideshow on a monitor or a TV? Use the Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter to hook your iPad up to a standard VGA monitor or a TV that accepts VGA input. We take a close look at the adapter in Chapter 17, “i Pad Accessories.”

1. Go to the Settings app.
2. Tap Picture Frame.
3. Choose either the Dissolve or Origami transition.
4. Turn Zoom in on Faces on or off. When it is on, pictures with faces in them are zoomed and cropped to show the faces close up.
5. Turn Shuffle on to show photos in random order.
6. Choose either All Photos, Albums, Faces, or Events.
7. Depending on your choice in step 6, you can check off one or more albums, faces, or events.
   

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   Picture Frame Album
   If you want ultimate control over your picture frame slideshow and you use a Mac, create a special album in iPhoto called something like “iPad Picture Frame” and fill it with just the photos you want to use. Make sure you set iTunes to sync this photo album. Then set your Picture Frame settings to show only this one album.

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8. Lock your iPad by pressing the Wake/Sleep button at the top of the device.
9. Press the Home button to bring up the Lock screen.
10. Without unlocking your iPad, tap the Picture Frame button to the right of the Slide to Unlock switch to put your iPad in Picture Frame mode.
11. Tap the screen at any time to bring back the Lock Screen controls so that you can unlock your iPad.

1. Make sure the screen shows what you want to capture. Try the Home screen as an example.
2. Press and hold the Wake/Sleep button and Home button at the same time. The screen flashes and you hear a camera shutter sound unless you have the volume turned down.
3. Go to the Photos app.
4. Tap on the Saved Photos album. The last image in this album should be your new screen capture. Tap it to open it.
5. The example is a vertical capture of the Home screen, so it might be confusing to look at. Turn your iPad horizontally.
6. Tap the boxed arrow icon to email the photo or copy it to use in another application. Or you can leave the photo in your Saved Photos album for future use.

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PRINTING FROM YOUR IPAD

Printing from your iPad isn’t supported by many apps. None of the Apple-included apps have the capability to print. So if you want to print something you see on your screen, such as a contact, map, or web page, capturing the screen and saving it as a photo is a good first step. After you have the capture, sync your iPad, and transfer the photo to your computer to be printed from there.

Some Wi-Fi printers have an accompanying iPhone/iPad printing app. After you add this app to your iPad, you can then run it and select a photo, such as this screenshot, and print directly from your iPad. Canon, HP, and other manufacturers make Wi-Fi printers and apps to go along with them.

1. In Photos, go to the Albums view.
2. Tap on Saved Photos.
3. Tap a photo to view it.
4. Tap the Trash Can button.
5. Tap Delete Photo.
6. Alternatively, you can go back to step 2 and then tap the boxed arrow button.
7. Tap multiple photos to select them.
8. Tap Delete.

SO HOW CAN I DELETE OTHER PHOTOS?

The Saved Photos album is special; it contains photos created on your iPad. The rest of the albums are just copies of photos synced from your computer. You can’t delete them from your iPad any more than you can delete music synced to your iPad.

To delete these photos, go back to iPhoto on your computer, and remove them from any albums that you have set to sync to your iPad. Also, go into iTunes on your computer, and make sure the photo syncing options there—such as to sync Last 12 Months–—won’t copy that photo.

If you think of your photos like you think of your music, understanding which photos are synced and why makes more sense.