Tonight’s meeting highlighted Dan Herrmann’s presentation entitled “More with iPhoto.” Dan has previously demonstrated iPhoto, and tonight he presented additional information to help us work with this software. Before Dan began, Peter spent a few minutes explaining the web site iGive.com and our affiliation with it. Through iGive.com, UAUG can benefit from online purchases that members make from one of the 1000+ participating vendors. He demonstrated how to to sign up for iGive and install the iGive Button so that your browser will automatically store the info regarding your favorite cause or charity that you want your shopping to support . This button will download an iGive extension. Everyone who joins initially earns $5 for the group. Future purchases will earn additional amounts.

Dan distributed an agenda to each member which listed the topics he planned to cover. These included a review of the left sidebar, preferences, organizational tools, photo editing, the create button (for cards, books, slideshows, etc.) and the share button. He surveyed the group to determine how many members used each of the topics.
He then opened up iPhoto and showed a library that he had created that contained 136 photos. He had 5 events which had various photos in each. He showed how to make key photos. He then showed how to split events by choosing Events-split events in the menu bar. Then he moved on to “changing dates.” He selected the photo, went to photo, change date and time. Dan explained that the original is saved and a new date can be created.
Next on his list was “Adding Faces.” and then “Adding Places.” Dan also discussed how to drag your iPhoto Library to an external hard drive.

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