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You're having family or friends over and want to show off the pictures of that trip you made last year. Those pictures you haven't already shared on Facebook (and aren't likely to) are waiting patiently on your computer until you can gather around your guests and share the memories you made. There are a couple of ways to access your pictures and slideshows on your Apple TV.
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Last May, I wrote about Apple's iOS photo sharing feature, Photo Stream, which automatically syncs photos to a users' iCloud account where they can be accessed in one or more of a user's iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) or Mac computer. Since that time Apple has added a few important features and enhancements to Photo Stream that might go unnoticed by new Apple customers.
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Ever since its initial release, the iPad has been for me the best mobile tool for showcasing photos. While several basic iPad image programs, including the built-in Photo app, are great for photo management and quick slide shows, the latest version of the Pholium iPad app includes tools for actually creating ebooks.
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When I want to share private family photos, I find in the long run that iPhoto is still one of the most useful ways to manage and share many of my most cherished pictures. iPhoto 9 has a few elegant free options for both sharing photos and making sure they are still around for years to come. If you're not a heavy user of iPhoto, you may not know about its email collage feature, and its built-in integration with Flickr and Facebook.
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PhotoSweeper from Overmacs is an essential space saver and photo tidy-up utility for both professionals and home users alike. PhotoSweeper examines your photos to find similar images, allowing you quickly sort through and choose the best. This week, we're giving away 25 copies of PhotoSweeper for OS X, valued at $250. Read more to explore the app and join the giveaway.
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These days, Apple is all about getting your data synced between your Mac and iOS devices. The company realizes that many Apple customers have more than one device and, although they may have a slightly different purpose, we rely on the ability to share data between those devices without the hassle of emailing documents or using some sort of iDisk or Dropbox connection to make it happen.
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With each version of Apple's premiere photo editing application, iPhoto, it seems the company tries to make the application as accessible and user friendly as possible for people who are not professional or even serious amateur photographers. With iPhoto '09, Apple added some quick Effects tools that require little or no knowledge about photo editing.
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In the release of iOS 5, Apple introduced Photo Stream as a possible solution to managing and sharing iOS camera photos between Apple mobile and computer devices. Indeed, Photo Stream has been helpful, but in this article I share the limitations of Photo Stream and the Camera Roll features for iOS, and how I'm trying to work around those issues.
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Last October, Apple announced that its cloud and media streaming service, iCloud, would replace MobileMe, and all the latter's active accounts will be deleted as of June 30, 2012. Well, it seems in the recent release iOS iPhoto, its Journal feature is the new way Apple and iCloud users can share photos online.
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Last week, as part of Apple's unveiling of the new iPad, it also introduced the iOS version of iPhoto - similar to Apple's popular photo management and editing software of the same name for the Mac. With the iOS camera increasingly replacing traditional point-and-shoot cameras and video cams, the new iPhoto should be welcomed by avid photo hobbyists who want to better organize and edit photos on their iOS devices.
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With summer still way off and spring only just poking its head out, there's still time to get some creative juices flowing while stuck in front of your computer. If you still haven't done anything with last year's video footage and photographs, here are 4 creative projects you can do on your Mac (or on the Internet), mostly for free.
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For iPhoto users who have travel photos taken in different places throughout the country or world, iPhoto offers a pretty cool slideshow theme that is relatively easy to put together, depending on how well you have managed your iPhoto library. It even includes a great piece of stock background music if you don't have anything better to use.
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The end of the year is a good of time as any to tidy up, organize, and back up your iPhoto library. Even if you're using Apple's Time Machine to back up the contents of your Mac, your memorable photos are definitely files that you will want to preserve in more than one place. Apple has made the process fairly easy, in that you can simply back up your entire iPhoto library on a disc or external hard drive.
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Now that iLife applications can be purchased separately in the App Store, I highly recommend iPhoto '11 as the most essential program in the suite to have on your Mac, especially if you regularly take digital photos. Apple has added features that make its premiere image management and enhancement application do everything you need with your photos.
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If you ever couldn’t email a digital photo or post it up on a website, typically it was because the image was too large in size. Even a standard 3 megapixel size iPhone photo, with the dimension of 768 x 1024 may be too large for posting on an online forum, though its resolution size [...]
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