SCOI0049 iPhoto for iOS - Part 1

I have digital photos in iPhoto, Aperture, Flickr, Facebook as well as on my iPhone and iPad. I have no real idea which is uploaded to where and I've given up on trying to sort out duplicates. If only there was a service I could just upload the lot, and let them sort it out!

Step forward Everpix - a brilliant service that let's you upload all your photos and takes away the pain of manual organisation.

Everpix is a unique Photo service that takes a different approach to managing your photos. Rather than making you spend time managing and organising your photos manually, Everpix aggregates all your photos from iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom on your Mac , as well as from your iPhone and iPad (or Windows PC). if you've already exported photos to Flickr, Facebook or many of the other online services, it will aggregate them too.

It then takes over and de-duplicates your photos, organises them into smart albums called Moments and even hides problematic photos that are blurry, out of focus or under or over exposed in a Highlights view.

You can access your photos via the web or via an universal iOS app.

All your photos are private by default, but you can share via photo email with other Everpix users or via public photo pages, as well as by Facebook and Twitter. By virtue of it's integration with your favourite photo editor, you can still go in an edit your photos, and Everpix will synchronise any changes back to the web.

Check out this week's Mac show for information on the Everpix Mac uploader and accessing the website client.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Installing the Everpix iOS App
• Using the Everpix iOS App
• Sharing Photos
• Sources & Photo Mail in Everpix
• Everpix Settings
• Exverpix on iPhone & iPod touch

Edit, view and share your photos, directly from your iPad or iPhone. Apple have done it again with a groundbreaking new application for iOS.

In this tutorial, I take you through some of the new editing and sharing features of iPhoto for iOS, and examine some potential workflows.

Once you have your photos copied into iPhoto for iOS, there's a wealth of new conyrols and effects to allow you to edit, correct and enhance your photos. This tutorial leads you through all the major controls and effects, and demonstrates some common techniques, now available via touch gestures. I also take you through how to share your photos using iTunes and the new Journal feature built into iPhoto for iOS, allowing you to create and arrange sophisticated Journals via iCloud, to share with friends and family.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Basic Editing
• Crop & Straighten
• Exposure
• Colours
• Brushes
• Using Effects
• Sharing Your Photos
• Sharing via Journals
• Sharing via iTunes

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

[Originally published May 2010] This week's show really demonstrates how Apple can create amazing hardware platforms that perform beautifully, and enhance the experience by developing software that brings it all together, a real tour de force on how Apple stuff just works!

Firstly, I take a look at the newly released iPad Camera Connection kit and follow through with a look at managing your digital images, along with some iPad applications to edit them. These are two""dongles"" that connect to the iPad. One for USB devices and one for SD cards. These relatively inexpensive additions to the iPad enable it to capture images, movies and audio clips from a multitude of devices. Using the built in Software, the iPad is a great tool for capturing your media and displaying it on the iPad immediately.

As well as displaying your media, you can manage the images on your Camera or SD card, trim videos and create Multimedia slideshows, all without a Mac. The iPad becomes a media "aggregator" allowing you to clear your camera or SD card or more sensibly, becomes a backup of your digital assets when on the road.

The show demonstrates importing media from several devices including an iPhone, a point and shoot camera and a SD based camcorder.

As well as using your iPad to safely import your digital media, the show also takes a look at two applications demonstrating the potential of the iPad as a creative tool and not just a device for media consumption PhotoGene: a digital image editor and ReelDirector: A video editor for the iPad

Once you have your media safely stored on the iPad, the show also demonstrates a digital workflow, moving your images and video from the iPad, to a laptop and then to a desktop using Aperture libraries, along with a recommendation for automatically creating and synchronising pristine, unedited backups of all your digital media during import. There are also some pointers for iPhoto users.

Finishing off with a section on how to access your imported media via the standard Apple media browser (e.g. in iMovie) along with a quick demonstration of a free third party media browse - the iMedia Browser from Karelia software

In detail, the show covers:

• iPad Camera Connection Kit
• Importing from Canon Powershot G10
• Importing from iPhone 3GS
• Importing from Kodak Zi8
• Digital Editing on the iPad
• Photogene
• ReelDirector Video Editing
• Organising your Digital Workflow
• Importing into Aperture from iPad
• Syncing Backup Copies
• Importing into iPhoto from iPad
• Karelia iMedia Browser

[Originally published Feb 2009] Following on from last weeks show about iPhoto '09, I've been playing some more with Places. There is something fascinating about being able to see the exact place on a map where you took a photo. Surprisingly, it also makes it so much easier to organise and find your photos as well. I was so impressed, I seriously started to consider how I might geotag photos in the future, especially with my forthcoming MacMania9 trip to China, South Korea and Japan in the summer. Yes, I could manually geotag my photos when I get back but I'll probably be taking lots of photos (hundreds?) and I won't really know where exactly I am at any particular time.

No, I thought I'd have to bite the bullet and consider a GPS enabled camera!

But after a flurry of questions and answers via Twitter, it became apparent that there is a much less expensive solution to allow me to accurately geotag my photos. That's to use a GPS Data logger to capture my GPS location and just carry on using my existing camera, combining the GPS data and the images on the mac. Super!

?Things got even more interesting when it was pointed out that there is an application for the iPhone 3G that enables it to act as a GPS logger - all for the princely sum of £1.79!

Well I downloaded the app Trails - A geologger for iPhone (geotagging) - App store link - and gave it a whirl and was thrilled with the results. Basically, you use Trails on the iPhone 3G to track your position whilst you're taking photos with a normal digital camera. Email yourself the resultant GPS waypoint file when you're finished and use an application called HoudahGeo* to combine the GPS date with your photos and you're done! Import the photos into iPhot '09 and they appear in your Places section with accurate positioning information.

So this week, I couldn't resist sharing this little gem with you, and went out on a mini ScreenCastsOnline roadrip to take some photos of two famous Liverpool landmarks. In the show I take you through the complete process from start to finish demonstrating Trails, HoudahGeo and iPhoto '09.

There is also a little tip to enable you to switch on scroll wheel and multitouch support in iPhoto '09 plus a quick pointer to some recommendations for dedicated GPS Trackers if you want to do some serious Geotagging.

The terminal command to enable the scroll wheel and multi-touch support in iPhoto is:

defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YES