Import edited photos into iPhoto or Aperture. To get files you’ve edited on your iOS device back into iPhoto or Aperture on your Mac, save them to your Camera Roll (as described in the box on Copying Edited Photos to Your Computer, photos you edit in iPhoto on your iPad aren’t automatically imported into iPhoto on your Mac). Next, plug your iPad (or other iOS device) into your Mac, fire up either program, and then import the photos at full size. (If you edit photos that are already in your Camera Roll, your changes are automatically saved in your Camera Roll.)

Save full-size copies of edited raw files. As described on Editing Raw and Full-Sized Photos, iPhoto for iOS displays, edits, and exports a JPEG version of any raw files you open. To save space on your iOS device, iPhoto also saves a downsized version of the edited JPEG to your Camera Roll. To save a full-size JPEG of your edited image instead, you have to save it to your Camera Roll (and, yes, you’ll end up with two versions of the same edited file in your Camera Roll, one larger in size than the other).

Apply multiple effects. iPhoto lets you apply only one effect to each photo, but saving the photo to your Camera Roll creates another copy of it. This lets you reopen the photo and apply another effect to it, and lets you save different versions of the same image (say, with different effects applied to it). But what if you want to apply three effects to the same shot? Simple: Apply one effect, save the photo to your Camera Roll, open the saved photo in iPhoto for iOS and apply another effect to it, save that photo to your Camera Roll, open the photo you just saved and apply another effect to it, and so on.

Themes. To swap themes, simply tap another theme’s thumbnail. iPhoto instantly updates your web journal.

Grid Size. Straight from the factory, iPhoto uses a medium-sized thumbnail for the majority of your pictures, and thoughtfully places a few of them at a larger size for contrast and visual interest. However, you can reduce the size of the smaller thumbnails by tapping Small (so more pictures fit on a journal page) or increase their size by tapping Large (for fewer pictures per page). There’s not much difference between Small and Medium, but Large makes the thumbnails noticeably bigger.

Figure 15-13. Top: The formatting options for any kind of web-journal text are few. You get three font and four alignment choices; click an option to apply it (it turns blue). Bottom: The Options menu is your key to changing themes, grid size, sort order, and the design of the grid layout (the Dark theme was used here). Adding photos is discussed later in this section.

Sort Photos. iPhoto assumes you want to drag photos on the journal page to rearrange them, but you can have them appear in chronological order. Tap the down arrow to put them in descending order (so the newest photos appear at the top of the journal page) or the up arrow to put them in ascending order (so the oldest ones appear at the top instead).

Layout. You can choose among four different grid designs by tapping the thumbnails in this section. The first layout, which is what iPhoto automatically uses, places larger photos at each of the page’s corners and fills the middle with small thumbnails. The other designs include different combinations of larger and smaller photos, except the last design, which consists of small thumbnails only.

Open the photo you want to add. In Photos or Albums view, open one of the photos that you want to add and then tap . Choose Web Journal, and then pick the pictures you want to add using the techniques described on Sharing Photos and Videos. When you’re finished, a pane appears showing all the journals you’ve created. Tap the one you want to add the shots to, and then tap New Page to add the photo(s) to a brand-new page, tap “Place by Date” to add the picture(s) in chronological order, or tap the individual page that you want to add it to. When you’re finished, tap Add Photos. In the confirmation message box, tap Show to view the journal or Done to return to the photos you were looking at.

Use the Add menu. Tap the labeled in Figure 15-13, bottom, and choose Photo. A pane appears with Photos, Albums, and Projects buttons at the top that let you pick a group of photos in order to find the ones you want to add. If you tap Albums or Projects, the pane displays your albums or projects; tap one to open it. Swipe downward to scroll through the resulting thumbnails and tap the ones you want to add to your journal. As you select photos, a blue appears on their thumbnails. When you’re finished, tap Add at the pane’s top left.

Move a photo. To move a photo to another position on the same journal page, touch and hold its thumbnail—leave your finger still for a second, and the thumbnail magically lifts beneath it—and then drag it to a new position. The other photos automatically scoot out of the way and rearrange themselves on the page.

Add a caption. When you tap a thumbnail, the text “Add Caption” appears at the bottom of the photo; just tap it and then type something more creative. Tap Done when you’re finished. Once you’ve added a caption, tapping the photo displays a menu above it that includes three font options and a photo-enlargement button (tap one to apply it). To remove a caption, tap the photo, tap the existing caption, and then use the Delete key on your iPad’s digital keyboard to get rid of it.

Resize a photo. Tap a photo (or any of the custom objects described in the next section) and then use your finger to drag any of the round, blue selection handles that appear around it (see Figure 15-14, left).

Reposition a photo within a frame. Double-tap a photo and use your finger to drag the photo up or down (arrows appear atop the photo letting you know which directions you can drag). This technique is helpful when you want to fine-tune the position of the photo’s subject, for example. You can also pinch the photo with two fingers to zoom out or spread your fingers atop the photo to zoom in.

Edit a photo. If you want to embellish the photo with some of the editing techniques you learned in Chapter 14, tap an image and then tap Edit in the menu that appears above the photo’s thumbnail. When you’re finished, tap the < to return to your journal.

Swap one photo with another. If you want to substitute one photo for another, at the same size as the other photo and without causing the other thumbnails to rearrange themselves on the page, tap the Swap icon circled in Figure 15-14 (right). Once the icon turns blue, you can drag one picture onto another to make them swap places. Turn off this behavior by tapping the Swap icon again.

Figure 15-14. Left: You can drag the round, blue selection handles in any direction to resize your pictures. Happily, iPhoto preserves the photo’s original aspect ratio, so the photo never gets squished or stretched. Tap a captioned photo to get the font and alignment options shown here. Right: After you tap the Swap icon (circled), you can drag one photo atop another to make them switch places. To go back to moving photos instead of swapping them, tap this icon again to turn it off.

Move a photo to a different page. If your journal has multiple pages, you can scoot photos from one page to the next. Tap and hold the photo and then drag it to the far left or right edge of your screen. When the page you want to add the photo to appears onscreen, drag the photo into the desired spot and then lift your finger. (This is handy if you add a photo to a journal and iPhoto plops it on page 2, when you really wanted it to land on page 1.)

If your journal includes only one page, you obviously need to add pages before you can move images between them. Tap the to open the Add menu, and then choose Page.

Delete a photo. Tap a thumbnail, and then tap the trash can icon that appears to remove the photo from your journal. You don’t get a confirmation message; the photo just disappears.

Photo. Tap this icon to add a photo to your journal. In the resulting pane, tap Photos, Albums, or Projects to see those thumbnails, and then navigate to the picture(s) you want to add. Tap to select as many thumbnails as you want, and then tap Add.

Header. See the title at the top of your first journal page? That’s a header. Tapping Header in the Add menu lets you add another one that you can enter text into and then drag into position on your journal page. When you’re finished typing, tap anywhere else on your screen to dismiss your iPad’s digital keyboard. To format the header, tap it to reveal a few formatting controls (they’re the same ones you saw back in Figure 15-13, top). To edit the text, double-tap the header.

Text, Memory, Note, Quote. These options give you room to add your own text. Tap Text to create a text box with no background; tap Memory to add text atop a piece of paper; tap Note for a realistic sticky-note background; or tap Quote to surround whatever you type with semi-lame curly quotes (they’re tiny and you can’t resize them). No matter which option you pick, you can resize the object just like you would a photo (Changing the Journal’s Key Photo). To format it, tap the object and then use the controls that appear above it; you get the same controls as you do with Header, though Memory also gives you a choice of four kinds of paper (torn, rounded corners, notebook, or graph) and Note gives you a choice of four colors (yellow green, blue, or gray). Double-tap the object to edit its text.

Flag, Currency. If your journal chronicles your adventures in another country, then these two options make for a slick addition to your journal. They add a picture of a flag or a picture of a pile of money, respectively. When you tap Flag, iPhoto automatically adds a flag for the country in which the photos closest to where you dropped flag object were taken. To select a different country, double-tap the flag, turn off Auto, and then tap Country.

The Currency object works the same way: Double-tap it, turn off Auto, and then tap Currency to reveal a menu that includes Egyptian pounds, Swiss francs, and so on.

Food. Perhaps the cheesiest of all, this option adds a text block with a teeny-tiny icon of boring gray cutlery above it, which you might use to describe a food picture in your journal. Unfortunately, you can’t change the size of the cutlery no matter how much you resize the text box. You get the same text formatting options as you do with Header.

Day. This option adds a calendar icon to your page that includes the month, day, and year you took the photos closest to where you drop the Calendar object (the date changes if you drag it next to a photo shot on another day). To enter a custom date, double-tap the calendar and, in the resulting menu, turn off Auto and then tap Date. Swipe up or down to find the date you want, and then tap to select it.

Map. This option adds a resizable map to your page, which makes for a nifty addition to your journal. If you’ve added location tags to your photos (Auto-Enhancing and Rotating) or if you took them with an iOS device or other geotag-happy camera, iPhoto places a pin on the map to indicate where the photo closest to the Map object was taken; otherwise, the map shows Cupertino, California (the location of Apple’s headquarters). Don’t worry; you can specify a new location easily enough.

When you first add a map object, four white arrows appear in its center to indicate that you can drag in any direction to reposition the map. You can also use the two-fingered pinch or spread gesture to change the map’s zoom level. Double-tap the map anytime to bring these controls back.

That said, it’s far easier to use the Map’s search feature to find a new location. Single-tap the map, and then tap Place Pin in the menu that appears above it. Tap the search field in the next pane and then type the location you’re looking for. (Any recent locations you’ve searched for appear in a list beneath the search field.) Tap Search to have iPhoto hunt for matching locations online and in your Contacts app. When the location you want appears in the list, tap it; iPhoto drops a pin onto the map in that spot. Tap the at the upper right of the pane to have iPhoto drop a pin on your current location (helpful if you took the photos at home and you’re currently at home). Once you’ve placed a pin, you can remove it by tapping the map and choosing Remove Pins.

Weather. Tap this icon to add the weather condition and temperature to your journal page, as shown in Figure 15-16)—a nice addition if the weather was a key factor in your trip (think beach, desert, or ski destinations). iPhoto performs this nifty trick using the location tag and date info embedded in the photo. If iPhoto doesn’t know what the weather was like when you took the shot, double-tap the weather object and, if necessary, tap the Auto switch to turn it off. Then tap Weather and pick a condition from the resulting list (sunny, cloudy, rainy, and so on). Tapping Temperature reveals a list of Fahrenheit options.

Divider. Adds a thin, gray, horizontal line the width of your journal page. iPhoto adds a little space before and after the line, making this option a great way to add some visual breathing room to your page. It’s also handy for dividing a journal page into sections.

Space. To keep your page from being too busy, you can use this option to add an empty photo frame. Think of it as an invisible spacer that you can reposition and resize any way you want (horizontally or vertically) in order to add a blank spot to your page.

Page. Adds another page to your web journal. Swipe left or use the Previous and Next icons labeled in Figure 15-13 to view other pages.

Combine pages. In the Page menu, tap the empty circle to the left of the pages you want to consolidate, and then tap Combine. (You have to select more than one page to use this command.)

Remove pages. Select the page you want to get rid of and then tap Remove. You don’t get a confirmation message with this option, though if you delete a page that you want back, tap the Undo icon.

Reorder pages. To rearrange journal pages, tap the icon labeled in Figure 15-17 and drag it up or down in the list.

Add photos. There are two ways to add photos to a slideshow. One method is to open the slideshow and then tap the at the top of your screen. Tap to select some photos; iPhoto adds them to your show (you can see this pane in action back on Ordering Prints).

The other method is to open an album or Event and then select photos using the methods described on Viewing and Selecting Multiple Photos. After that, tap and choose Slideshow. In the next pane, you can tweak your photo selection, if need be, and then tap Selected, Flagged, or All. When you do, you see the pane shown in Figure 15-21; just tap the slideshow you want to add the photos to. When iPhoto finishes adding photos, a confirmation message appears; tap Show to open the slideshow, or tap Done to go back to whatever pictures you were perusing.

Figure 15-21. Left: Once you pick the photos you want to add, the Slideshow pane lists all the slideshows you’ve made; just tap one to select it. As you can see, this method also lets you create a new slideshow. Right: Once iPhoto has added the images, you see this friendly, informative message.

Rearrange photos. Tap a slideshow’s thumbnail in Projects view to open it, tap and hold the photo you want to move (it appears to lift off the screen), and then drag it into place. iPhoto scoots the other thumbnails out of the way to make room for the one you’re dragging.

Play, pause, and exit. Go into Projects view and tap the thumbnail of the slideshow you want to see, and then tap the at the top of your screen to start the show. iPhoto happily auto-advances each slide, though you can run the show manually, too; just tap the screen and then use the controls described in Figure 15-22. To pause a slideshow, tap the . To exit the slideshow, tap the < at the top of the screen.

Edit a photo or change a slideshow’s key photo. Open a slideshow and then tap the photo you want to edit or use as the key photo (Viewing Photo Info). In the menu that appears, tap Edit. If the photo needs adjustment, you can do that here (see Chapter 14). To assign it as the slideshow’s key photo, tap the Options icon at the bottom right of the screen and choose “Set as Key Photo.” To return to the slideshow, tap the < at the top of the screen.

Figure 15-22. Tap your screen while a slideshow plays to reveal these controls. They let you view the previous or next image, pause/play the show, change the music’s volume (if there is any), or scrub through the show by dragging the slider labeled here. You can also swipe left or right to view the previous or next image (respectively).

Remove a photo. Open the slideshow and then tap the thumbnail of the picture you want to remove. Tap the tiny trash icon that appears above the thumbnail, and it disappears from the show (though it’s still on your iPad). You don’t get a confirmation message, so if you change your mind, you can get it back by tapping the Undo icon at the top of your screen.

Change theme, music, and slideshow speed. Open the slideshow and then tap the Options icon to reveal the controls described on Viewing Photos as a Slideshow.

Rename, duplicate, or delete a slideshow. In Projects view, tap and hold the slideshow you want to duplicate or delete. In the menu that appears, tap the action you want to take. To delete a slideshow, tap the trash icon and, in the confirmation message that appears, tap Delete.

iCloud. If you have an iCloud account (Using iCloud’s Photo Stream), you can post your slideshow on the Web and invite people to view it. When visitors watch your show in their web browsers, they get controls they can use to pause the show, display the images one by one, and adjust the volume of any music you’ve included. The slideshow-publishing process is exactly the same as for web journals (ditto for making changes to it once it’s been published). Sharing Web Journals has the mercifully easy details. To publish changes to a slideshow you’ve shared via iCloud, tap , choose iCloud, and then tap Publish Changes.

iTunes. Tapping this option lets you export your slideshow as HTML files (great for posting the slideshow on your own website) or as individual photos that you can do anything you want with (see Figure 15-23). Once the export process is finished, your iPad lets you know; when you tap OK, the next sync copies the files to your computer. Exporting iPhoto Web Pages tells you how to find the files once they’re on your computer.

Figure 15-23. By sharing your slideshow using iTunes, you can generate HTML files that you can post on your personal website (if you have one).

Beam, AirDrop. As with any other project—or picture, for that matter—iPhoto lets you beam slideshows to other iOS devices (see Beaming Photos). You can also use AirDrop to transfer it via wireless network to another iOS device that’s within 30 feet of you (Beaming Photos). Either way, the slideshow appears in the Slideshow section of Projects view in the recipient’s copy of iPhoto.

To add or replace a photo in a photo box, open the book you want to add the pictures to and then double-tap a page to open it. If you tap an empty photo box, the pane shown in Figure 15-26 appears. Navigate to the photo you want to add, and then tap it; iPhoto plops it into the photo box.

If you tap a photo box that already contains a photo, a menu appears above it. Tap Replace to see the pane shown in Figure 15-26, which you can use to find the picture you want to use instead. Tap a photo in the list; it replaces the image in the photo box. (Where does the old photo go, you ask? iPhoto puts it in a special storage bin called Extra Photos [Figure 15-27], where the photo patiently waits for you to use it on a page later.)

To add several pictures to your project, go to Photos or Albums view and tap an album or Event to open it. Use the techniques described on Viewing and Selecting Multiple Photos to select some shots, tap , and then tap Photo Book. The next pane lists all the books you’ve made; tap the one you want to add the pictures to, and then tap Add Photos. When iPhoto finishes adding them, a message appears; tap Show to open the book or Done to return to the album or Event you were viewing.

Pictures you add this way aren’t automatically placed; instead, they land in the Extra Photos section at the bottom of your screen (see Figure 15-27). Swipe left or right to see all the photos it contains.

To place a photo that’s in Extra Photos, tap and hold the thumbnail, and then drag it into a photo box. If the photo box you’re dragging it into already contains a photo, the two photos swap places—the one that was in the photo box gets tucked into Extra Photos, and the one you dragged is removed from Extra Photos and plopped into the photo box.

Figure 15-26. Double-tap a page to open it, and iPhoto displays its page numbers at the top of your screen. Tap an empty photo box to see this pane. Photos that are already included in your book have white checkmarks on them (two are visible here). Use gesturing to position a photo within a photo box (arrows indicate the directions you can drag). To zoom into the picture, use the two-finger spread gesture.

To remove a photo from a photo box, tap the photo and then, in the menu that appears above it, tap the trash icon. iPhoto removes the photo and tucks it into Extra Photos; a gray placeholder appears inside the photo box. (You can accomplish the same thing by tapping and holding a photo in a photo box and then dragging it into Extra Photos.)

Edit. In the menu that appears above the photo, tap Edit (Figure 15-28, top). Then use the techniques you learned in Chapter 14 to improve the picture. When you’re finished, tap the < at the left of your screen; iPhoto whisks you back to the page from whence you came.

Reposition. When you tap a photo, white arrows appear on it that indicate the directions you can drag to reposition it (see Figure 15-28, top). If you enlarge the photo using the two-finger spread gesture, you get arrows in all four directions. To reposition a photo inside a box, drag in any of the indicated directions.

Resize. Use the two-finger spread gesture to zoom into a photo, making it bigger (Figure 15-28, bottom). Once you’ve zoomed in, you can use the pinch gesture to zoom out, making it smaller.

Swap photos between boxes. To swap two photos on a page, tap and hold one photo until it shrinks and lifts off the screen, and then drag it onto the other photo box. When you lift your finger, iPhoto swaps the two.

Add a page by tapping the page icon at the top of your screen and choosing Add Page. iPhoto adds a new page to the end of your book.

Add a two-page spread to the end of your book by tapping the page icon and choosing Add Spread.

Move a page or two-page spread by tapping and holding the page until it miniaturizes and “lifts” off the screen, and then dragging it to a new location. iPhoto scoots nearby pages out of its way to make room.