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Note: What’s in a Name?

iPhoto inserts the album’s name in the Title field, but you can change that page title to anything you want.

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Click the arrow next to the album name at the top of the window to see your album online.

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Note: Big and Little

iPhoto creates all the full-size and thumbnail images your web album needs, but you must specify sizes. Thumbnail images are small versions of the photos on which viewers can click to see the full-size versions.

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Applying Fun Photo Effects

Ever spent time in one of those mall photo booths, messing around to produce a strip of funny photos? Now there’s no trip to the mall needed; just use Photo Booth to take pictures of yourself using your webcam. You can also add cool special effects and even change the background so it looks as though you’re sitting in, say, the mall.

Start up Photo Booth (you’ll find it in the Applications folder).

Adjust your position within the photo frame and click the Effects button.

Use the arrow buttons to scroll through the available effects.

Double-click on the thumbnail image for the effect you want to use.

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Note: Wait! There’s More

Photo Booth’s Effects include lens effects—such as fisheye—and backdrops that you can put behind your image. You can even add your own backdrops: Just drag a photo into one of the blank spaces in the Effects pane of the Photo Booth window.

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Note: Flickring Photos

If you use Flickr to share photos with friends and family, you’ll love FlickrBooth (www.otierney.net/flickrbooth). It’s a plug-in for Photo Booth that lets you send your photos directly to Flickr—no Web browser required!

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Click the camera button when you’re ready to shoot a picture. Photo Booth counts down and then takes the photo.

Click one of the photos shown at the bottom of the window to use it.

Click a button to indicate what you want to do with the photo: email it, send it to iPhoto, use it as your login picture, or use it as your buddy icon in iChat.

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Tip: More in Store

When you feel that you’ve exhausted Photo Booth’s possibilities, hold your horses. You can also take quick bursts of four pictures (which are then displayed four-up, rather than singly), and you can take videos as well. Click the Burst button in the lower-left corner of the Photo Booth window to shoot a burst, and click the Video button to shoot a movie.

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Ripping Songs from a CD

You’ll be amazed at how much more use you get from your CD collection after you get the music off CDs and into iTunes. The songs on CDs are already digital files; ripping them consists of transferring them to your hard drive and resaving them in MP3 format.

Insert the CD.

If iTunes doesn’t start up automatically, open the Applications folder and double-click to start up iTunes.

Click to remove the check marks next to any songs on the CD that you don’t want to add to your library.

Click Import CD.

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Tip: The Sounds of Silence

iTunes plays songs while it’s importing them, but if you don’t want to listen to them, you can click Pause to stop the playback. iTunes continues importing the songs.

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Tip: Mind the Gap

If you want consecutive songs to play with no pause between them, choose Advanced, Join CD Tracks before clicking Import.

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Making a New Playlist

Playlists are simply groups of songs, containing just one song or hundreds. You can use them to create party mixes, plan mix CDs, or categorize your music by genre or any other criterion. Building playlists is a simple drag-and-drop operation.

In iTunes, click the Create Playlist button.

Type a name for the playlist.

Click the Music entry in the Source column to see all your songs, or click the name of another playlist.

Drag songs from the Name column and drop them into the new playlist.

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Tip: Finding What