Ordering a Book on iPhoto

[Dennis R. Cohen]

On 7/5/03 at 7:25 PM, Thomas D. Kearns <thomas.d.kearns at verizon.net>
transmitted the following electronic message:

>
>Has anybody actually been able to do it? The process of organizing the
>Book is very hard.  The photos keep shifting around. There is a
>warning that some pix are too low resolution for good copies but I
>can't find a control to shrink the picture other than the "one, "two"
>etc control (how many pix on a page).   Even when I do that, I can't
>get the pix to stay on the page selected.
>
>iPhoto needs a lot of work in this area.
>Any ideas other the The Missing Manual (which I'll try to buy
tonight?).
>

There are a number of things you can do, all of which are covered in my
book (iLife Bible) and almost all of which are covered in iPhoto 2: The
Missing Manual (I was the tech editor).

The page templates are just that: templates of page layouts that the
book producer supports. iPhoto merely gives a graphic interface to the
allowed layouts. The layouts support n photos per page and the size and
organization will be determined by the orientation of the photos
involved. You cannot "shrink" or "enlarge" individual items. For
example, in the Picture Book theme, one portrait and two landscapes will
fill the page, with the landscapes stacked and the portrait to one side.
Assuming that all three were the same resolution, the portrait will be
reduced less than the landscape. Three landscapes will result in a
"pyramid" layout.

Your best option for low-resolution figures is to group them in the
Organize pane so that they are sequential in the Book view and choose a
page layout where their resolution is not a problem.

To avoid things moving around as the result of cascading changes, you
should work from left to right along the sequence -- that way, the
changes only affect items to the right, which you have yet to lay out.
Additionally, you can select a page in the sequence and click the Lock
Page checkbox. Now, changes made to the left will not cascade into or
past the locked page, but if you ever unlock that page, expect a massive
ripple effect to take place.

-- 
Dennis Cohen
Mac Digital Photography (Sept 2003)
iLife Bible
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