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Get more from Apple’s set-top box

32 Tune into TV on demand

We look at alternatives to Apple TV

35 Next 30 years of Mac

What’s the future for the Mac?

36 Customise your Mac

Trick out OS X with our tips

38 How to: iMovie for Mac

Use the Precision Editor

40 How to: iPhoto for Mac

Give photos a professional finish

42 How to: GarageBand Mac

Learn to play the guitar

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55 HP Colour LaserJet Pro M177fw

54 Nuance Dragon Dictate for Mac 4

57 The Banner Saga

No iPhone left behind

68 News & Noteworthy

The best new kit for your iPad,

iPhone and iPod touch

Software for your iPad, iPhone

and iPod touch

72 iPhone photography

10 rules for taking shots on an iPhone

80 Find an app for any task

We ensure you get the right app

83 Funny things to ask Siri

Discover Siri’s funny side

84 iTunes Guy

Answering your iOS questions

87 Ashleigh Allsopp

Apple should make a bigger iPhone

88 How to: iMovie for iOS

Put together a trailer of a home movie

90 How to: iPhoto iOS

What’s new in iPhoto 2

92 How to: GarageBand iOS

Ensure your songs sound fantastic

94 Buyer’s Guide

The best hardware and software

products and buying advice

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A  full 17 months after its last

refresh the Mac mini appears

to be caught in suspended animation We’ve been expecting an update since October last year – and still, nothing So what’s the reason for this hold up?

Truth is, Apple’s never been that regimented over its Mac mini upgrade cycle In the past it’s waited a year and

a half between updates to the system

Perhaps this delay isn’t a delay at all

Whereas every other Mac in Apple’s line-up is now running an Intel Haswell processor, the Mac mini still runs old Ivy Bridge stock Then again, what use is

an energy-effi cient chip to a PC whose usefulness doesn’t depend on runtime?

The Mac mini could benefi t from Haswell’s updated graphics, mind

Apple has always selected low-end integrated GPUs for its mini Mac, so its framerates leave something to be desired

But today’s integrated graphics are much improved over those of the past

Finally, Intel graphics are powerful enough to comfortably play games, which means the Mac mini could potentially morph into a games console, with its HDMI port enabling users to plug it into an HDTV

The mini is an ideal fi rst Mac for those wanting a low-cost entry point to OS X It’s

a popular choice for placing at the heart of

a home-entertainment centre It’s also an excellent server solution for workgroups

And the Mac mini could be a great equipment choice for any business looking

to update their employee workstations

Starting at £499, it costs less than half the price of an entry-level iMac (£1,149) Note that you would have to factor in the cost

of a monitor (none is supplied)

However, despite the logic of Apple giving the Mac mini some attention, in ignoring it for so long the company is in danger of giving the impression that it doesn’t consider it to be important Perhaps

the Mac mini is no longer signifi cant in the grand scheme of things

We know that Apple sells signifi cantly more laptops than it does desktops Indeed, the whole PC industry shifts more laptops than desktops Is Apple wise to move attention away from a Mac model that has

a minimum impact on its bottom line?

Maybe the desktop’s days are numbered;

maybe Apple will never again update the Mac mini Apple could even remove from sale the Mac mini

The last time Apple ended the life of a Mac was the Cube The G4 Cube launched

in 2000 and was discontinued the following July It looked great, but suff ered from a high price and manufacturing issues

The problem with making a decision based on current trends is that nobody knows what is around the corner We know tablets are negatively aff ecting PC sales

Will users eventually replace their laptop with an iPad? And will the PC then make a comeback as people realise an iPad isn’t enough for doing real work? If so, we could yet see a revival of the Mac mini’s fortunes

Maybe the desktop’s days are numbered; maybe Apple will never again update the Mac mini

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Perhaps Apple just isn’t all that bothered about its mini Mac any more

Is this the end for the Mac mini?

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buttons rather than the old rectangular buttons The full-screen images that previously appeared when calling or being called by a contact with a photo associated have been replaced by small circular icons beside the contact name

Apple has changed the design of the keyboard in iOS 7.1, too, making the typography a little bolder and changing the grey to a slightly darker and bluer tone The Shift and Delete buttons now have white symbols rather than the black outline icons they have in iOS 7.0

However, this change has caused some grumbles from users, as the Shift key now leads to confusion as to whether it’s actually activated or not

For iPhone 5s owners, Apple has improved the camera functionality, adding

a new setting that automatically enables HDR if appropriate The Touch ID feature has been updated, too

iPhone 4 owners who’ve been experiencing difficulties since updating

to iOS 7 will be pleased to hear that Apple has improved performance for the device, so some of those issues should now be resolved

iOS 7.1 can be downloaded by going to Settings → General → Software Update

  Apple has released iOS 7.1, a

significant update to iOS 7 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owners that brings some new features,

improvements and tweaks to the mobile

operating system

As promised, the upgrade includes

CarPlay compatibility, which allows an

iOS device to integrate with a car’s

dashboard for information, entertainment,

and more (see photo below) You’ll need

a CarPlay-enabled car to use it, though

Among the areas to receive

improvements is Siri, which has been

given new voices Previously, those using

Apple’s personal assistant in UK English

had only a male option, but iOS 7.1 has

added a female voice To access this, go

to General → Siri → Voice Gender and tap

Female Siri’s male voice has changed,

too Another new option lets users control

how long Siri listens for You can now

hold down the Home button while you

speak and let go when you’ve finished,

rather than letting Siri automatically

notice when you stop talking

The Calendar app has received

a couple of tweaks – the first is a

new option to display events in month

view, while the second lets you see

country specific holidays

Apple has also improved Accessibility

options in iOS 7.1, such as a new bold font

for the keyboard, calculator and many

icon glyphs A hidden Accessibility

feature within the Switch Control options

now enables users to use the camera to

control their iPhone, using a head

movement to activate Siri, for example

Overall performance improvements

help with multitasking and many users

have described the update as nippy

Among the most significant design

changes is to the Phone app The

incoming call and outgoing call screens

now have circular call, decline and accept

By A s h l e i g h A l l s o p p

iPhones, iPads and iPod touches get significant iOS update

Apple releases iOS 7.1

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Apple has quietly launched a

new, cheaper version of the iPhone 5c with 8GB storage

It’s available for £429, which is £40

less than the 16GB model

It’s currently for sale in five markets:

Australia, China, France, Germany and

the UK In those countries, Apple has

retained the 4s in its line-up, contrary to

some earlier speculation that it would

drop the handset from its line-up

It’s possible that the reason for Apple’s

change of heart in releasing a slightly

cheaper iPhone 5c is due to reports of

disappointing sales Industry experts

have always speculated that the 5c range

was priced too high “This is a very clever

way for Apple to lower prices without

discounting,” argues Ben Thompson, an

independent analyst

Jack Gold, principle analyst

at J Gold Associates, says:

“This is discounting The 5c hasn’t sold up to expectations, including Apple’s So how do you get ride of that product?

You cut prices.”

Some have scoffed at Apple’s pricing, arguing that the new 5c is worthless as the storage space is insufficient

An 8GB device is rather limited, particularly when it comes to media, photos or even apps However, Gold argues: “At the lower end of the market, most people aren’t coming close to filling up 8GB.”

Given that the iPhone 4s is likely to

be the model that appeals to the truly

budget-conscious customer, it’s hard to peg exactly who the 8GB iPhone 5c is for, but only time will tell whether it’s a successful move by Apple

BY K A R E N H A S L A M

Is this Apple’s last-ditch attempt at saving its colourful, plastic-backed iPhone?

Apple launches cheaper, 8GB iPhone 5c for £429

BY A S H L E i g H A L L S o p p

The 16GB iPad 4 has made a comeback, now acting as the entry-level iPad at £329

Apple finally ditches iPad 2, reintroduces iPad 4

In addition to introducing a new,

cheaper, 8GB iPhone 5c, Apple has

also discontinued the ageing iPad 2

On 18 March, the company reintroduced

the 16GB iPad 4 as the entry-level iPad

Launched in 2011, the iPad 2 managed

to outlive both its successor and the

iPad 4 However, now three years old,

Apple has decided that it’s time to

say goodbye. The company has

rereleased the fourth-generation iPad

with Retina display; available for the

first time since the iPad Air was

launched in November last year

Aside from the reduced capacity

options, nothing has changed about

the tablet with this rerelease Apple is

offering it at the same price as the iPad

2: £329 for the WiFi-only model, or £429 for the Wi-Fi+ Cellular model

This iOS shake-up leaves the iPhone 4s as the only device left without a Lightning connector, and the original iPad mini as the only non-Retina iOS

device available Does this signify the end for both of those devices, too?

It’s not yet clear why Apple decided to make these changes, but we’re sure it’ll spark speculation about new products that could be on their way soon

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News

BY A S H L E I G H A L L S O P P

Apple design guru Jonathan Ive says ‘copying Apple’s designs is theft’ in rare interview

Jony Ive on Apple copycats

Apple design guru Jony Ive has

spoken out about design values, his thoughts about copycats and the future of Apple in a rare interview with

journalist John Aldridge, published in The

Sunday Times and Time The interview

offers some insight into what goes on

in the minds of Apple’s executives and

behind the scenes at the company

During the lengthy interview, Ive

explains: “Objects and their manufacture

are inseparable You understand a

product if you understand how it’s

made. I want to know what things are

for, how they work, what they can or

should be made of, before I even began

to think what they look like More and

more people do There is a resurgence

of the idea of craft.”

He argues that: “We’re surrounded by

anonymous, poorly-made objects It’s

tempting to think it’s because the people

who use them don’t care – just like the

people who make them.”

Ive explains that Apple’s success has

shown that people do care about the

quality of the devices they own “It’s not

just about aesthetics,” he says “They

care about things that are thoughtfully

conceived and well made We make and

sell a very, very large number of

(hopefully) beautiful, well-made things

Our success is a victory for purity,

integrity – for giving a damn.”

Ive says he and his team go over the

details of each design extensively to

perfect it For example, he spent “months

and months and months” getting the

design of the iMac stand just right, he

revealed “When you realise how well

you can make something, falling short,

whether seen or not, feels like failure.”

It’s this laborious design process that

makes copycats a particularly severe

blow to the company “It’s theft,” argues

Ive “What’s copied isn’t just a design, it’s

thousands and thousands of hours of struggle It’s only when you’ve achieved what you set out to do that you can say:

‘This was worth pursuing.’ It takes years

of investment, years of pain.”

Ive works in a design studio that’s only accessible to those core members of the design team and top Apple executives

Why? “Because it’s the one place you can

go and see everything we’re working on – all the designs, all the prototypes,” he says We really want to go there, don’t you? Ah well, we can only dream

The core team consists of about 15 people, “smaller than you think,” reveals Ive “Most of us have worked together for

15 to 20 years We can be bitterly critical

of our work The personal issues of ego have long since faded Everyone I work with shares the same love of and respect for making.”

In addition to discussing the design process at Apple, Ive also reminisces about the time he spent

working with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs He suggests that, one of the reasons he worked so well with Jobs, despite their different personalities, is that:

“When we were looking at objects, what our eyes physically saw and what we came to perceive were exactly the same

And we would ask the same questions, have the same curiosity about things.”

He adds that: “So much has been written about Steve, and I don’t recognise

my friend in much of it Yes, he had a surgically precise opinion Yes, it could sting Yes, he constantly questioned ‘Is this good enough? Is this right?’, but he was so clever His ideas were bold and magnificent They could suck the air from the room And when the ideas didn’t come, he decided to believe we would eventually make something great And,

oh, the joy of getting there!”

Of course, when talking about the future of the company, Ive takes the traditional cryptic approach that Apple is known for, saying: “We are at the beginning of a remarkable time, when a remarkable number of products will be developed When you think about technology and what it has enabled us

to do so far, and what it will enable us to

do in future, we’re not even close to any kind of limit It’s still so, so new.”

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Apple has announced that

long-serving Apple executive and current Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer (pictured right) will be

retiring from the company in September

The company’s vice-president of

finance and corporate controller Luca

Maestri will take over as CFO from June,

reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook

Since taking up the job 10 years ago,

Oppenheimer has presided over

immense growth at Apple “Peter has

served as our CFO for the past decade

Apple’s annual revenue grew from

$8bn to $171bn and our global footprint

expanded dramatically,” enthuses Tim

Cook in a statement He adds that

Oppenheimer’s “contributions and

integrity as our CFO create a new

benchmark for public company CFOs.”

Maestri, for his part, brings 25 years

of experience to the job, including stints

as CFO at Xerox and Nokia Siemens Networks Prior to those appointments,

he served as CFO of General Motors’

European Division He officially joined Apple in March of 2013 and even made

an appearance on the company’s quarterly conference call in January

In a press release sent out by Apple

to announce Oppenheimer’s retirement, CEO Tim Cook had some positive things

to say about Maestri: “Luca has over 25 years of global experience in senior financial management, including roles as

a public company CFO, and I’m confident

he will be a good CFO at Apple

“When we were recruiting for a corporate controller, we met Luca and knew he would become Peter’s

successor His contributions to Apple have already been significant in his time with us and he has gained respect from his colleagues throughout the company.”

BY A s h l e i g h A l l s o p p

Luca Maestri will take over as CFO of Apple later this year, the company has revealed

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer to retire

BY A s h l e i g h A l l s o p p

Apple CEO Tim Cook has described the book by a former WSJ reporter as “nonsense”

Tim Cook riled by new book on Apple

Anew book about Apple, written

by a former Wall Street Journal reporter, has caused a bit of a stir So much so that even CEO Tim Cook

has something to say about it, and that’s

that the book is a load of “nonsense”

Yukari Iwatani Kane’s Haunted Empire:

Apple After Steve Jobs is based on 200

interviews with current and former

executives, business partners, Apple

watchers, and others It suggests that

the company is struggling without Jobs,

and also compares Cook with the late

Apple co-founder in great depth

But Tim Cook certainly doesn’t like it

“This nonsense belongs with some of the

other books I’ve read about Apple,” he

told CNBC “It fails to capture Apple,

Steve, or anyone else in the company

Apple has over 85,000 employees that come to work each day to do their best work, to create the world’s best products,

to put their mark in the universe and leave it better than they found it.”

In response to Cook’s less than positive thoughts about the book, Kane told Re/code: “For Tim Cook to have such strong feelings about the book,

it must have touched a nerve Even I was surprised by my conclusions, so I understand the sentiment

“I’m happy to speak with him or anyone at Apple in public or in private

My hope in writing this book was to

be thought-provoking and to start a conversation, which I’m glad it has.”

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Features iLIFE

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How well do you know iPhoto and iMovie? Here are quick primers on both

ILLUSTRATIONS BY I LOVE DUST

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than SD, you can buy a memory card reader that plugs into a Mac’s USB port

Insert the card into the appropriate slot

on the reader, then iPhoto will launch

Import your pictures

Imagine that you’ve plugged your iOS device, camera or media card into your

In the absence of a technology enabling

OS X to recognise every camera that

comes along, Apple creates updates to

let cameras work with its software The

updates cover many popular cameras, so

you can easily connect a camera to your

Mac and copy over its photos However,

some models don’t make the cut

There is a solution Your digital camera contains a memory card – usually an SD storage card If your Mac has an SD slot, remove the card from your camera and slide it into this slot By default, iPhoto will launch and offer to import your images

If your Mac doesn’t have such a slot,

or if you use a media card format other

ImportIng & SharIng ImageS

When you string a USB cable between your mac and your iphone, ipod touch, ipad or switched-on

camera, iphoto launches and offers to import images from the device Unfortunately, although

importing usually works well when you’re linking to an ioS device, it doesn’t work with some cameras

editing images and using Photo Stream

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If you click Prepare Photos, you may have to wait a while as iPhoto readies the images for use I click Continue Playback

If a problem arises due to the lack of a full-size image, I quit the slideshow and try again, this time clicking Prepare Photos

Before your slideshow starts, iPhoto opens a window in which you can choose

a theme and music and configure settings

Once you’ve created a slideshow, the theme, music and settings you applied to it take effect whenever you play it To change those settings, move the cursor and the transport controls will appear Click the Themes, Music or Settings button to adjust that element To leave a slideshow, press the <Esc> button

on the top-left of the Mac’s keyboard

along with a Stop Import button

Click that button to halt your first order

When iPhoto has finished importing the images, a window will ask if you’d like iPhoto to delete the now-imported images from your device

Your options are Delete Photos and Keep Photos I click the latter and delete them on my camera because iPhoto’s command isn’t as reliable

View your images

To view an image so that it fills most of the iPhoto window – or the Mac’s screen

if you’ve chosen View → Enter Full Screen (1-<Control>-F) – double-click it At Full Screen, you can move between images

by using the Mac’s left- and right arrow keys or the arrow icons at the top of the window, or (on a trackpad or Magic Mouse)

by swiping two fingers to the left or right

Creating a slideshow is a cinch While viewing images as thumbnails, just click the Slideshow button at the bottom of the window Any images in the selected album

or event become part of the slideshow

When you click the Slideshow button,

a sheet informs you that some photos need to be prepared for full-size viewing

Mac iPhoto launches and a progress bar

appears When the progress bar vanishes,

an Import pane takes up most of the

iPhoto window The pane’s top-left area

shows the name of your iOS device,

camera or memory card, as well as a date

range derived from the timestamps of the

first and last images Below this name is

an ‘Add event name’ field and a Split

Events option In that field you can enter

a name for your event, rather than having

iPhoto create a series of ‘Untitled Event’

entries, followed by their date

If you enable the Split Events option,

iPhoto creates events based on the

Autosplit Into Events setting on the

General tab The choices are One Event

Per Day, One Event Per Week, Two-Hour

Gaps and Eight-Hour Gaps

Image thumbnails fill most of the Import

pane The Already Imported row displays

small thumbnails of previously imported

images The New Photos area shows

pictures you haven’t yet imported

To the upper-right are two buttons:

Import Selected and Import X Photos

(X being the number of not-yet-imported

photos) To import all the photos, click

Import X Photos To import some of them,

1-click to select images non-contiguously

(or <Shift>-click to select a certain range

of images) and click Import Selected

When you take either action, you’ll see

a progress bar at the top of the window,

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Card reader import

A typical card reader can import from a variety of card types

iPhoto’s Import pane From here, add a name for your event and select photos for import.

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At this point, Photo Stream will share your iPhoto images with any devices that use your Apple ID and have suitably configured Photo Stream options

Configure Photo Stream

on other devices

iOS devices:On your iPhone, iPod touch

or iPad, tap Settings and then tap iCloud

In the iCloud screen, tap Photo Stream

In the Photo Stream screen, enable My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams

Your device will now share the photos it takes and let you see photos added to your Photo Stream or added to shared streams to which you subscribe

Apple TV: On your Apple TV’s Home screen select Photo Stream to see any albums in your Photo Stream as well as those you subscribe to Choose an album and press the remote’s Select button to

Photo Stream

Photo Stream is a component of apple’s iCloud service the general idea behind it is pretty simple

once you’ve signed up for an iCloud account and configured it properly, you can sync any images

on a device associated with your apple ID with other devices that use that same ID

Shared Photo Stream People with whom you

share a stream receive an email invitation

If you’ve taken a picture with your iPhone,

that picture can appear on your iPad, your

Apple TV and (within iPhoto) your Mac

And it will do so without your having to

choose to share it Everything happens

in the background

Set up Photo Stream

on your Mac

Begin by launching System Preferences

(under the Apple menu) and selecting the

iCloud preference If you haven’t signed

into your iCloud account, do so now

(If you haven’t obtained an Apple ID, click

the link to do so.) In this window, first

enable the Photo Stream option Then

click the Options button that appears to

its right, enable My Photo Stream and

Shared Photo Streams, then click Ok

The first option instructs your Mac

to download new photos that your other

devices share via iCloud and to upload to

your devices any images you add to Photo

Stream on your Mac The second option

lets you share streams with other people

and subscribe to other users’ streams

Launch iPhoto and select the Photo Stream entry in iPhoto’s Library pane In iPhoto’s main window, click Turn On Photo Stream If you’re already sharing one or more Photo Stream albums from another device (or from someone else’s shared Photo Stream album), those images will appear in the main window

To confirm the configuration on your Mac, choose iPhoto → Preferences and click Photo Stream in the resulting window

You’ll see four checked options: My Photo Stream, Automatic Import, Automatic Upload and Shared Photo Streams I’ve explained the first and last options, so now let’s review the middle two

Automatic Import ensures that images

in your My Photo Stream album get downloaded to and included in the Events, Photos, Faces and Places albums

(On an iOS device, Photo Stream permanently downloads images to the device only when you add them to another album.) Because you’ve enabled Automatic Upload, your stream will share any photos that you add to iPhoto (limited

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Stop sharing Photo Streams

You can add or remove people from your Photo Streams On the Mac, select Photo Stream, choose the stream you want to work with and then click the Info button at the bottom-right of the iPhoto screen

The names of subscribers to the stream appear in the Shared With area To add subscribers, click this area and enter their names To drop individuals from the subscriber list, highlight the ones you wish to delete and press your Mac’s <Delete> key

On an iPhone or iPod touch, launch the Photos app, tap the Photo Stream item, then tap the blue right-pointing arrow icon The resulting Edit Photo Stream screen shows the stream’s subscribers and includes an Add People entry To add subscribers, tap this entry and enter other email addresses in the

To field Tap Add when you’re done

To rid your stream of a subscriber, tap the person’s name and then tap Remove Subscriber in the resulting screen

On an iPad, launch the Photos app, tap the Photo Stream tab, tap the Edit button, then tap the Photo Stream album you want to work with In the Edit Photo Stream window that appears, tap Add People (to enlarge your audience) or select a name and, in the next window, tap Remove Subscriber (to shrink it)

add names to the To field and, if you like, give your Photo Stream a suitable name

If you want to make the images available

on a public website, enable that option

Tap the Next button and the window flips around Add a comment if you care

to and tap Post The software then places images in a new Photo Stream album and sends an invitation to anyone you’ve specified to join the stream

In either case, Photo Stream uploads your shared images to iCloud, then the people you’ve invited receive an email notification Each invitee who has an Apple device can click the message’s

Subscribe to this Photo Stream link to alert iPhoto (or the Photos app) that they would like to view your shared photos

When invitees click Join, the Photo Stream will appear under the Web heading in iPhoto If they view this email

on an iOS device, they can tap to accept;

the Photos app then launches and they can find the shared stream by tapping Shared at the bottom of the screen

view the images as you would any other

picture on the Apple TV To delete an

image from one of your Photo Stream

albums, press and hold the remote’s

Select button until a window with a Delete

Photo button appears Press the remote’s

Select button again to delete the image

from the Photo Stream album

To turn off your streams, scroll to the

bottom of the Photo Stream window and

click Settings The next screen has three

options: Turn Off My Photo Stream, Turn

Off Shared Photo Streams and Sign Out

Each option does what its name indicates

Share Photo Streams

You can share your photos with others

(and in turn, view their shared photos)

with Photo Stream The procedure differs

slightly between iPhoto and iOS devices

iPhoto: In iPhoto choose an album,

event, face, place or group of selected

photos and click Share → Photo Stream

In the window that appears at the

bottom-right of the iPhoto window click New

Photo Stream A New Shared Photo

Stream sheet appears In the sheet’s

To field enter the email addresses

(separated by commas) of other people

with whom you want to share the Photo

Stream Enter a name for the stream in

the Name field if you like If a person you

want to share the stream with doesn’t

have an Apple device (including a Mac),

enable the Public Website option so they

can view your pictures via a web browser

iOS:On an iOS device launch the

Photos app Open an album by selecting

it, then tap the Edit button Tap the

images you’d like to share, then tap the

Share button In the window that appears,

tap Photo Stream An ‘Add to a Photo

Stream’ window will appear Tap that

window to add the selected images to an

existing Photo Stream album, or tap New

Photo Stream As on the Mac, you can

The software places images in a new Photo Stream

album and sends an invitation to anyone you’ve

specified to join the stream

Photo Stream pane This pane shows you all of the images in your Photo Stream albums

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hover your cursor over an affected eye in the image Use the Size slider to make the target cursor the same size as the

The Edit window

To begin the editing process, select an

image and choose Photos → Edit Photos

(1-E) or click the Edit button at the bottom

of the iPhoto window The resulting

window offers an enlargement of your

image, previews of nearby images and

three tabs – Quick Fixes, Effects and

Adjust Let’s walk through each one

The Quick Fixes tab

iPhoto’s Quick Fixes area is for making

broad edits without a lot of bother

Rotate: If your image is in portrait view

when it should be in landscape view, you

correct its orientation with this control

Click Rotate and the image moves

90 degrees counterclockwise Hold down

Editing imagEs

You can use far more powerful applications to edit your images Consider

the following coverage as merely outlining the first steps in image editing

the <Alt> key and click Rotate to turn the image clockwise Keep clicking until the image is oriented as you desire

Enhance: This is iPhoto’s ‘Take Your Best Shot at Fixing This Image’ button

Click it and iPhoto automatically adjusts levels, exposure, contrast, saturation and other controls to improve the image In some cases, Enhance vastly improves the image; in others, the results may be a bit rough You can use other controls to tweak the settings that Enhance imposes

Increasing the contrast often adds a bit more drama

to an image Conversely, reducing the contrast causes the image to look somewhat flatter

Edge Blur The subject is near the frame’s edge,

but the edge blur helps you focus on him

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look On the other hand, if an image appears too yellow because it was lit with an indoor bulb, you can reduce its yellowness by clicking Cooler

Saturate: When you increase an image’s saturation, non-neutral colours become bolder Click Saturate to bring out reds, blues, greens, yellows and so

on more effectively Dull or achromatic colours such as grey, white and black are unaffected by changes in saturation

Saturating an image can make it seem more vibrant, but oversaturating an image can make it appear garish or unnatural

Other effects: Below the top six effects buttons are presets for such options as B&W, Sepia, Antique, Matte, Vignette, Edge Blur, Fade and Boost You can add any or all of these effects to your image

by clicking them Click the None button to remove the effects you applied earlier

The Adjust tab

Compared with the options in the Quick Fixes and Effects tabs, the ones in the Adjust pane can seem pretty scary – but they’re not really Let’s take a peek

Histogram: The hills-and-valleys graph at the top of the Adjust pane is called a histogram In this case the graph represents the distribution of tones – from dark on the left to light on the right – that your image contains The higher the peaks, the greater the number of

often adds a bit more drama to an image

Conversely, reducing the contrast causes the image to look somewhat flatter

Warmer and Cooler: Photographers describe colours as having a particular temperature, as measured on the Kelvin scale iPhoto supports this idea by allowing you to adjust an image’s warmth

or coolness Broadly, when you click the Warmer button, the image becomes more yellow Click Cooler and the image acquires bluer tones You might use the Warmer button to give an image that you shot indoors with a flash a more lamp-lit

eye’s red zone, then click the eye This

should turn the pupil from red to black

Straighten:Click the Straighten button

to bring up a slider that lets you adjust the

angle of the image by up to 45 degrees

To aid you in making the adjustment

a grid appears over the image Find

something in the image that gives you a

reliable horizon line (say, the horizon itself

if you’ve taken a shot of the sun setting

over the sea), then drag the slider until

the image looks properly aligned

Crop: The Crop tool cuts out stuff on

the edges of a shot to produce a more

compelling image Click Crop and the

frame around the image becomes

adjustable To make a crop, create your

selection and click the Done button that

appears within the Crop area The

unselected content will disappear and

the cropped image will zoom to fill the

preview area To undo a crop, click the

Undo button or, once again, click Crop

and hit the Reset button

Retouch: Click Retouch to open a Size

slider Adjust this slider to cover whatever

you want to obscure in a photo, then

‘paint’ over the offending area When you

let go of the mouse or trackpad, iPhoto

looks at areas just outside of the painted

area and blends those colours to make

what you’ve painted vanish

The Effects tab

The Effects tab holds controls for making

quick adjustments to exposure, contrast,

temperature and saturation In addition,

you can use it to ‘vintage-ise’ your

images The tab includes an array of

useful elements for altering images

Lighten and Darken: With each click

of these buttons, the image’s exposure

setting increases or decreases by 0.10

across a range from –3.0 to +3.0 The

setting adjusts only the image’s exposure,

not its highlights or shadows

Contrast: The Contrast control works

similarly to Lighten and Darken, but

across a range from –100 to +100 Each

click of the Contrast button alters the

image’s contrast by an increment of 5

When you increase the contrast, you

make darker areas darker and lighter

areas lighter Increasing the contrast

Creative crop when the action is in the centre of the frame, crop to accentuate it.

Quick Fixes The Quick Fixes window gives access to a half-dozen common editing tools

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pixels in that tonal range So if you see

lots of peaks near the far left side of your

image and few on the right side, your

image is going to be dark Peaks located

toward the far right indicate that areas of

your photo are blown-out – pure white

with no image detail in that part of the

spectrum to work with The portion of

the graph between the left and right

sides represents midtones A workable

image will show a fairly even distribution

of tones across the histogram

Sitting immediately below the

histogram are the Black Point slider (left),

the Mid-Tone slider (middle) and the White

Point slider (right) They define how iPhoto

should interpret ‘this is black, this is the

centre of my midtones, and this is white’,

respectively By adjusting them, you

redefine those reference points

Exposure, Contrast and Saturation:

These three sliders give you finer control

over the Effects tab’s Lighten, Darken,

Contrast and Saturate buttons Move the

Exposure slider to the right and the image

brightens Move it to the left and the

image darkens The Contrast slider

increases or decreases the difference

between light and dark areas, while the

Saturation slider pumps up colours or

tones them down As you move these

sliders, the histogram changes Making

such tweaks can help you better

understand exactly what the histogram is

doing and what a ‘good’ graph looks like

Below the Saturation slider is the

Avoid saturating skin tones option If you

enable it when you have an image with a

human subject, the person’s skin tone won’t change even though the image’s other colours do as you adjust the slider

Definition, Sharpness and De-noise:

Move the Definition slider to add detail by removing ‘haze’ from your image At its highest setting everything in the image is clear, but with human subjects, too much definition yields unduly harsh results

Sharpness increases contrast between adjacent elements Again, at high levels, Sharpness can translate into harshness

De-noise tries to smooth out overly pixelated or too-sharp images You might use it if you took an underexposed shot (indoors without a flash, say), increased the exposure and then found that the image looked blocky when you zoomed

in Overused, it smears away detail

Highlights and Shadows:When you push the Shadows slider to the right, the image’s dark areas lighten, bringing a murky subject into the light Do this with the Highlights slider and bright areas get dimmer, reducing glare in the background and bringing your subject to the fore

Extreme adjustments with either of these sliders may produce a ‘halo’ effect around your subject, unnaturally separating it from the background Use each judiciously and in tandem with the Exposure, Contrast and histogram options

Temperature and Tint:You can alter an image’s temperature between the blue and yellow extremes by using the Adjust pane’s Temperature slider Likewise, you can make adjustments between purple and green hues using the Tint slider

You can save yourself some work, however, by relying instead on the eyedropper tool next to the Tint slider

Click it and click a grey or white area in your photo; iPhoto then moves the Temperature and Tint sliders based on its internal calculations The result is very unlikely to be a perfectly balanced image, but you may find that it is satisfactory

One-Click fix iPhoto’s one-click (left) and

manual (right) black-and-white adjustments

Adjust pane If Quick Fixes and Effects don’t

get the job done, the adjust pane should

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if you plug in an iPad, click Import and select the iPad under the Cameras heading, you see thumbnails of the images and videos it holds Select a photo or video in the preview window above the thumbnails and it appears there If it’s a video clip, press the Mac’s spacebar to make the clip play in this window To stop playback, press the spacebar again

the device’s name under the Cameras heading The top of the Import window will reveal an ‘Import to’ menu where you can choose an existing event or click New Event to create one On the far right

is a pop-up menu for choosing the media type you want to see in the preview area:

Videos, Photos, or Photos and Videos

You can preview media on some Mac-connected devices For example,

videos – from start to finish

Starting a project

iMovie 10 gathers its import options in a single window that you access by

clicking the import button in the toolbar or by choosing File → import Media

With the Import window open, you’ll see

three headings: Cameras (for cameras

and iOS devices attached to your Mac),

Devices (for volumes such as hard drives

connected to your Mac), and Favourites

(for Home and Desktop entries)

Import digital assets

To import media from a connected digital

camera, camcorder or iOS device, select

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add transitions and titles, and export the resulting movie in viewable form

To create a movie, choose File → New Movie or press 1-N In the resulting Create window, choose No Theme, click the Create button at the window’s base, then give your movie a name

To add video clips to your movie’s timeline, select an event in the Libraries pane; any clips belonging to that event will appear in the browser pane to the right To add an entire clip, click the clip and press the keyboard’s X key Click the plus (+) button that appears when you hover your cursor over the clip to add it

to the timeline, or press the E key You can even drag the clip into the timeline

To add a specific portion of a clip, click and drag over the portion you want to add; then press the E key, click the plus button, or drag the clip to the timeline

To add still clips, select iPhoto Library from the Libraries pane and, from the pop-up menu that appears in the browser pane’s top-left corner, choose an image classification – Events, Faces, Places, Albums, Facebook, Flickr or Smart Albums

Drag the desired image into the timeline

Manipulate clips

Rearrange clips: To shift a clip or image

to a new location, click and drag it to the place where you want it

Shorten or lengthen clips: When you first make a selection in the browser pane,

it may not be as precise as you’d like To fix that, click on either edge of the clip and drag it toward the clip’s middle (to shorten it) or away from the middle (to lengthen it)

If you’ve pulled a portion of a longer clip from the browser pane, you can extend it

to as much as the full length of the original clip You can make your still images longer

or shorter by dragging their edges, too

Shorten or lengthen audio: If you have a clip in the timeline that contains audio, and you’d like that clip’s audio to

Capture live video

To capture FaceTime-compatible video from a camera attached to your Mac, click the Import button and select your camera under the Cameras heading To start the capture, click the red Record button To stop the recording, click the button again

Click the Close button at the bottom of the window and you’ll find the camera-captured clip in the browser pane

Import audio

To import audio files, click Import, choose

an attached volume under the Devices heading, navigate to an audio file, select

it, then click the Import Selected button

The files will show up in the browser pane as green bars

Or click the iTunes entry below the Content Library heading in the Libraries pane and, in the browser pane, drag the track you want into the Project pane

Create a movie and add clips

Once you’ve imported media, you can place the media you want in the timeline,

With some devices – such as a digital

camcorder connected via USB – the

preview may take a long time to play, or

it may stop and start Some connected

devices may display no preview window

To import images or clips, select them

and click the Import Selected button that

appears in the bottom right iMovie

imports media at its original resolution

Once the importation is complete, you’ll

see a prompt to eject the device The

media you imported will appear in the

browser pane for the event

iMovie doesn’t support all camcorders

and cameras To check if yours made the

grade, see tinyurl.com/nn7eto4

Alternatively, you can import video

clips into an iMovie project by dragging

them from the Finder into the timeline

or on to an event in the Libraries pane

Import analogue video

iMovie 10 supports many tape-based DV

camcorders Connect such a device, click

Import and, if supported, its name should

appear under the Cameras heading To

import video, select it, insert a tape and

use the controls under the preview to

rewind or fast-forward to the beginning

of the footage you want to capture

After you click Import, the tape plays

as iMovie captures the output When

it’s done, click Stop Import

You can import video clips into an iMovie project by dragging them from the Finder into the timeline or

on to an event in the Libraries pane

Import from iPhone Importing video from an iOS device is just like doing it from a camcorder.

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Constructing a project

After importing your media, you can add transitions, titles and soundtracks

If you want to increase

or decrease the music’s volume to suit the video, simply hover your cursor over the grey line that runs through the middle

of the track and then drag up or down that line accordingly

To import an audio clip from somewhere other than your iTunes library, drag it from the Finder into this music track

Share your movie

You’ll use the Share menu at the top of the iMovie window to share your movie

Click the Share menu to reveal your choices: Theatre, Email, iTunes, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, CNN iReport and File

Theatre: By default, when you share

a movie via Theatre, it automatically uploads to iCloud and is viewable on

continue past the length of the edited

clip, you can arrange this by detaching

the audio track from the video: choose

Modify → Detach Audio (1-<Alt>-B)

Add transitions

Video transitions serve as bridges from

one clip to another, help denote passing

time or movement from one subject to

another, or make it less jarring for your

viewers to adjust to the next clip

To add transitions to your movie, select

Transitions under the Content Library

heading (or press 1-1) The browser pane

displays all iMovie’s built-in transitions

Select the one you want and drag it to the

beginning or end of a clip You can alter

the transition’s default duration by

selecting the transition and entering a

new length in the field to the right of the

Transitions pop-up menu

Add titles

To add a title to the beginning of your

movie, select Titles under the Content

Library heading (or press 1-2) iMovie’s

titles appear in the browser pane If

you’ve applied a theme to your movie,

appropriate titles for that theme show up

in the titles area Underneath you’ll see

iMovie’s stock collection of titles

Drag a title to the location where you

want it to appear, select the title in the

timeline, and you’ll see placeholder text;

double-click that text to enter your own

title To adjust the title’s font, size,

alignment and formatting, click the Adjust

button at the top of the iMovie window

Add background music

To add a musical track to your video,

choose iTunes under the Content Library

heading (or press 1-4) In the browser

pane you’ll see the contents of your

iTunes library Drag a track you want to

use as background music into the music

track located below iMovie’s timeline

devices linked to your iCloud account

To view a movie in Theatre, click Play

Email:Select the Email option to email your movie In the resulting window you can edit the movie’s description and tags, and choose a size (Small, Medium or Large) from a pop-up menu

Click Share and iMovie will create the movie When it finishes, your email client will open, displaying a message with your movie appended to it Fill in the To field, enter any other text you like and send it

iTunes:To share your movie directly

to your iTunes library, first click iTunes to bring up a window similar to the Email window just described Size options are

SD, Large, HD 720p and HD 1080p Click the Compatibility entry and a menu tells you which devices will play your movie

Click Share to encode the movie and add

it to your iTunes library as a home video

Video transitions help denote passing time or

movement from one subject to another, or make it

less jarring for viewers to adjust to the next clip

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Specific adjustments

Recent iMovie versions offer windows and tabs for adjusting colour, cropping, audio and effects In iMovie 10, Apple places those features in a single Adjust toolbar, which you can access by clicking the Adjust button at the top of the iMovie window Here’s what the toolbar contains

Colour balance: The colour balance control lets you use Auto, Match Colour, White Balance and Skin Tone Balance options to change the tone of your clip

The Auto option analyses the frame and changes the colour cast of the clip based

on its calculations of what looks best

Match Colour splits the viewer pane into two views, consisting of the current frame and the frame to be mimicked

The White Balance option lets you select a white balance based on a neutral colour in the frame When you choose this option, the eyedropper tool appears

Click a neutral colour in the frame to change the balance

The Skin Tone Balance option works similarly Click the eyedropper on the skin

of someone in the frame; the colour shifts

to balance against that tone

Colour correction: You adjust colour correction via three sliders The one for tweaking brightness and contrast holds

Double-click the clip and the clip trimmer

opens above the timeline The active

portion of the clip is bright and shiny Any

material that occurs before or after the

active clip has a grey sheen To move to

the beginning or ending edit point, click

and drag the white line denoting the clip’s

edge Drag the line toward the centre of

the clip to shorten the clip Drag it away

from the centre to lengthen the clip In

the viewer pane above, you’ll see the

beginning of the clip’s active portion

Another way to alter a clip’s beginning

and ending points is to click somewhere

other than on those lines and drag the

clip left or right, asking it to begin and

end 3 seconds earlier, for example

The Precision Editor

The Precision Editor deals with the point

where two clips meet You can use it to

move a transition, change a transition’s

duration, choose a new edit point, or

extend an audio track

In a timeline containing two or more

clips, double-click the edge of one clip to

open the Precision Editor You’ll see grey

dots with black centres sitting above the

beginning and end of the timeline’s clips

Click a grey dot and the clips move

The clip before the dot moves above the

Editing Clips

Within the timeline, you can drag the bottom corners of a clip’s edge to

shorten or lengthen the clip this tactic works fine, but you can’t see what

precedes or follows the clip’s edges For that you need the clip trimmer

later clips and shows in its entirety, with the active part of the clip bright and the inactive part dull Drag the dot to the left

to make the second clip play earlier and last longer (and to shorten the first clip)

Drag the dot to the right to extend the first clip and shorten the second

You can independently shorten or lengthen a clip’s audio track, but first you must make your clips’ waveforms visible

Click the Adjust Thumbnail Appearance icon in the top-right corner of the timeline, then enable the Show Waveforms option

In the blue audio track that appears below the video thumbnail, click and drag the line denoting the end of the active portion of the clip If you drag it to the right – beyond the bounds of the active portion of the video clip – the audio will continue playing into the next clip

If you invoke the Precision Editor after adding a transition between clips, you’ll see a grey bubble with dots on either end and arrows inside This bubble represents the length of the transition To extend the transition, drag a dot away from the centre

A time readout shows the transition’s length Drag a dot toward the centre to shorten it To make the transition earlier

or later, click in the middle of the bubble and drag it to the left or right

Transitions You can adjust the length of your

movie’s transitions with the Precision Editor

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Use the Lower Volume of Other Clips slider to perform a technique known as

‘ducking’, which ensures that the audio in your clips is louder than any other audio track that’s playing at the same time

You can manipulate audio directly within the waveform view If you want to change the clip’s overall volume, click and drag up or down on the thin grey audio-adjustment line that appears in the middle of the waveform

The waveform has fade controls in the form of small dots at both ends of this line Drag the left dot to the right to create

a fade-in effect Drag the right dot to the left to make the audio fade out

To adjust audio within a single clip, hold the <Alt> key and click points on to the audio-adjustment line Drag these points

up or down to increase or decrease, respectively, that portion of the audio

sensors try to capture a lot of movement

or are exposed to pulsing or flickering light iMovie attempts to remove this effect when you enable the Fix Rolling Shutter control You can choose how much

of the option to apply – Low, Medium, High or Extra High If you notice rolling shutter, start with Low and work your way

up if the selected setting doesn’t improve your movie enough (To undo the last setting, click the Undo arrow icon.)

Volume: Here you find controls for adjusting the loudness of selected clips

The Auto control ‘normalises’ the audio

by increasing the loudest sounds in the track to a point just below distortion, and proportionally bringing up quieter sounds

The Mute button silences the audio in selected clips Alternatively, you can use

a volume slider to increase or decrease the audio of the selected clips

five controls: Adjust Shadows, Adjust

Contrast, Adjust Brightness, another

Adjust Contrast and Adjust Highlights

The second slider adjusts a clip’s

saturation; the third alters a clip’s colour

temperature, with colder colours on the

left and warmer tones on the right

Cropping: The tool for adjusting a

clip’s cropping and rotation in iMovie 10

works just the way it always has

You have three styles: Fit, Crop and

Ken Burns To force the clip to appear in

its original aspect ratio, choose Fit If the

original video clip or still image doesn’t fit

the frame exactly, it won’t fill the frame

Choose Crop to resize the clip to fit

‘Ken Burns’ is iMovie’s pan-and-scan

effect in which the ‘camera’ moves across

the frame and zooms in or out

To use the effect, first adjust the solid

rectangle marked Start This rectangle

determines what the frame looks like

when the clip begins Then click the

dotted rectangle marked End and size it

to encompass the area that you want to

fill the frame at the end of the clip To

impose the effect, click the checkmark

icon to the right When you play the clip,

it will begin at the Start point and, over

time, move to the size of the End frame

The Ken Burns effect works across an

entire clip You can’t impose it on just a

portion of a clip If you’d like to do that,

select the clip in the timeline, <Control>-

or right-click it, then choose Split Clip at

the point where you want Ken to finish his

business Now you can apply the effect to

just that portion of your movie

Rotate buttons near the crop style

buttons turn the frame 90 degrees

Stabilisation: When you select the

controls for stabilisation, two options

appear, labelled ‘Stabilise Shaky Video’

and ‘Fix Rolling Shutter’

To remove shakiness from your footage,

enable the Stabilise Shaky Video option

iMovie analyses the selected clip for shaky

video It then crops the video to cut out

the edges and tries to take the shake out

of the remaining frame The more

stabilisation you apply, the greater the

crop is likely to be

‘Rolling shutter’ is a distortion effect

that occurs when certain kinds of camera

Video effects iMovie comes with a generous assortment of built-in special effects.

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Noise reduction and equaliser:

Although iMovie is not a full-featured

audio-editing application, you can use

it to enhance your audio in a couple of

ways Click this adjustment and you’ll see

two options The first is for reducing

background noise; you use the slider to

adjust how much noise to let through

This effect is pretty broad If someone

is running a vacuum cleaner in the

background, for instance, you won’t be

able to get rid of that sound And even

removing a less obnoxious hum may

adversely affect some of the sound that

you want to keep

The equaliser option has presets that

can emphasise or de-emphasise certain

audio frequencies, so you can bring up

the bass or treble, for example Presets

include Flat, Voice Enhance, Music

Enhance, Loudness, Hum Reduction,

Bass Boost, Bass Reduce, Treble Boost

and Treble Reduce

Video and audio effects: Select

your clips in the timeline, choose this

adjustment, and two pop-up menus greet

you The first, Video Effect, offers 19

effects, including Flipped, Film Grain,

Vignette, Black & White and Sepia Hover

your pointer over an effect to see it

applied to a sample of your video in the

viewer Click an effect to apply it

The Audio Effect menu lets you add

any of 19 sound effects to your clip’s

audio track The reverb effects (small

room, medium room, large room and

cathedral) could be useful The others

are mostly for messing around

Info: The last adjustment in this area provides one useful control Select a clip

to see its duration in the field of the same name Enter a different duration and the clip expands (up to the length of the source clip) or contracts When it contracts, the video doesn’t speed up;

instead, the clip ends sooner than it did prior to your making the adjustment

Speed effects

iMovie lets you slow down and speed up clips, and it includes an Instant Replay effect that works great with sports videos

To adjust a clip’s speed, select it in the timeline In the Modify menu are Slow Motion, Fast Forward, Instant Replay, Rewind and Reset Speed commands

Slow Motion and Fast Forward are for slowing down and speeding up the action (and audio) respectively The first gives you options for slowing down the video

by 50-, 25- or 10 percent The Fast Forward submenu lists 2-, 4-, 8- and 20x adjustments When you apply an effect from these groups, a chrome dot appears

in the top-right corner of the clip, indicating that the speed has been adjusted You can then play with that adjustment by dragging the dot: drag

it to the right and the clip slows down;

drag it to the left and the clip plays faster

A rabbit or turtle icon imposed on the clip indicates whether the clip is currently playing faster or slower than the original

The Instant Replay effect replays the selected video clip, imposing an ‘Instant Replay’ title over the top-right corner of the clip This command’s submenu offers options of 100-, 50-, 25- and 10 percent;

the numbers refer to the speed of the resulting replay At 100 percent, the clip plays at the same speed as the original

At 10 percent, it runs 10 times as long (and 10 times as slow) as the original

The Rewind effect appends a reversed copy of the clip to the end of the clip and plays it at 1-, 2- or 4x speed, then repeats the original clip The effect is like playing some video, pressing Rewind, watching the video and audio scrub back, and then pressing Play to start playing it again

The equaliser option has presets that emphasise

or de-emphasise certain audio frequencies, so you can bring up the bass or treble, for example

Cropping options iMovie offers you the choice of three cropping styles: Fit (to retain the original

image’s aspect ratio), Crop (to resize the image) and Ken Burns (for a pan-and-scan effect)

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Features APPLE TV GUIDE

 Of all Apple’s products, the

least known is probably the Apple TV Until recently, the set-top box was hidden away on the Apple Store in the iPod

section However, after the company’s

latest financial results revealed that the

iPod is fading into insignificance in terms

of sales, the device finally received its

own section of the store

BY K A R E N H A S L A M

Your complete guide to setting up and making the most of Apple’s set-top box

Apple TV guide

This lack of attention is probably not

so surprising given that it’s a product that Steve Jobs once referred to as a

“hobby”; though, this is unfortunate because at £99 it’s one of the best Apple products you can get for your money

This lack of attention means there’s little guidance about the product or in the way of instructions for using the device – and troubleshooting problems There

is an Apple TV support section on the company’s website, but it only touches

on the basics

Over the next few pages, we’ll look

at some Apple TV tips, give guidance

on setting up the device and provide answers to problems with the device

If you’re thinking of buying an Apple TV, it might be worth holding off for a month or two as Apple is

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expected to launch an upgraded version

of its set-top box soon

What is an Apple TV?

The Apple TV is a 10cm squared box

that’s less than an inch high and plugs

into your HDTV, so you can watch movies

and TV shows from the iTunes Store You

can also play content from Netflix (for a

£5.99 per month subscription); view

videos on YouTube and Vimeo; and stream music and photos from iCloud

You can even view whatever is on your iOS device’s screen, and push content from your Mac to your TV screen

Apple is continuing to add more features – recently it gained Sky’s Now

TV service, which allows people who aren’t Sky subscribers to sign up for 24-hour access to sports events for £9.99

And with an update expected soon there are rumours that BBC iPlayer might get its own Apple TV app

Set up an Apple TV

1 Get an HDMI cable

You’ll need an HDMI cable to connect the Apple TV to your television and you won’t get very far without one Unfortunately, one isn’t included one in the box, so you’ll

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need to buy one separately Apple sells a

1.8m HDMI to HDMI cable for £15, but you

can buy one for less if you look around

Once you have the cable, connect your

Apple TV to your television, turn it on and

wait until the setup screen is appears

2 Use an iOS device

If you have an iPhone 4s or later, a

third-generation iPad or later, an iPad mini

or a fifth-generation iPod touch running

iOS 7, you’ll be able to use an iOS device

to set up the set-top box wirelessly (as

long as it’s running Apple TV Software

6.0) You’ll be able to transfer the

following from your iOS 7 device to your

Apple TV: Wi-Fi network and password;

iTunes Store account details; language

and region format preferences

First, unlock your iOS 7 device and

enable Bluetooth Next, make sure you’re

connected to the same Wi-Fi network as

the Apple TV Then all you need do is

connect your iOS device to the set-top

box and wait for the prompts before you

enter your Apple ID and password on

your iOS device You can then choose

whether you want the device to

remember your Apple ID password, and

if you want it to send data to Apple

3 Without an iPhone or iPad

If you don’t have an iOS device, setting

up an Apple TV isn’t complicated, it’s

just more frustrating as you’ll need to

add passwords and other information by

scrolling around an onscreen keyboard

4 Remove channels from the menu

You can choose which apps appear on

the Apple TV’s home screen When

you first use the device, you’ll see the

following services: movie and box

set streaming service Netflix; video

community Vimeo; concerts and music

documentaries from Qello; music videos

and concerts from Vevo; photos from

Flickr; Japanese anime from Crunchyroll;

live Korean TV from K&R TV (why?);

business reports from Bloomberg and

WSJ Live; Sky News; Sky Sports Now TV

service; more sports from NHL and MLB

(yawn); YouTube; and Red Bull TV

Removing channels from the Home

screen recently became easier The

Apple TV 6.1 update brought the option to

remove channels in a similar way to how

you interact with iOS 7 Select an item in the menu, press and hold the Select button on your remote until the icon jiggles, then press Play/Pause, Hide

5 Rearrange icons on the home screen

You can also rearrange icons on the Apple TV home screen Press and hold the button in the centre of your remote and when the apps start jiggling you can move them around

Navigating the Apple TV interface

1 Return to the home screen.

Fed up with clicking back through submenus to get to the home screen?

Rather than go back through every one you opened, press and hold down the menu button for a few seconds

2 Read about what you are watching

To view information about what you are watching, press the up button on the remote control

5 Fast-forward and rewind

Hold down the right button to forward Press this again to increase the speed – there are three speeds to choose from To rewind, follow the same rules, but press the left button instead

fast-6 Slow motion

Press the Play/Pause button to pause the video, then press the right or left button To skip forward or back in 10-second increments, press the Play/

Pause button to pause the video, then hold down the right or left button

7 Skip ahead

To skip to the next or previous chapter, press the down button, then right or left to skip chapters

Remote control your Apple TV

1 Use an iOS device

The remote that comes with the Apple

TV isn’t the only way to control the box If you have an iPhone or iPad, for example, you can download the free Remote app

You’ll need an HDMI cable to connect the Apple TV

to your television and you won’t get very far without one Unfortunately, one isn’t included one in the box

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However, before it can work, you’ll

need to enable Home Sharing on your

iOS device

Once connected, you can tap the

Apple TV image to control the device

Click the back arrow and at the bottom

of the screen you’ll find various controls

for the Apple TV Tap Menu until you go

back to the menu screen Swipe up and

down, and left and right to navigate the

menus Just tap to select anywhere on

your television’s screen

The advantage of using Apple’s app

is that you can use your iOS device’s

keyboard to enter search terms and

passwords Type in your search term,

and then when you no longer need the

keyboard, tap hide and navigate to the

item you have found

2 Use a Bluetooth keyboard

Apple says only recent Apple Wireless

Keyboards (where ‘recent’ means ‘all but

the original 2003 model’) are officially

supported by the Apple TV (running

Apple TV Software 5.2 or later) However,

the company also points out that:

“Third-party Bluetooth keyboards that use the

Apple keyboard layout may also be compatible.” In our tests, we found that third-party Bluetooth keyboards and iPad keyboards worked perfectly well

To pair your keyboard with the Apple

TV, you’ll need to do the following:

Many Bluetooth keyboards have a dedicated Pairing button that you press (or hold) until a light flashes to indicate

pairing mode Others (including Apple’s Wireless Keyboard) require you press and hold the keyboard’s power button until the pairing-mode light flashes

Use your Apple TV’s remote to navigate

to Settings → General → Bluetooth The set-top box will automatically begin searching for nearby Bluetooth devices that are in pairing mode

Once your keyboard appears in the list, choose it and press the Select key

on the Apple TV remote

After a few seconds, you’ll be prompted

to enter a four-digit code using the keyboard – this will appear on your

television’s screen Input this and press Return or Enter You’ll receive a confirmation message that the keyboard

is now paired with the Apple TV

From now on, whenever you turn your Bluetooth keyboard on, it will automatically reconnect to the Apple

TV – you’ll see an onscreen indicator that looks like Apple’s Wireless Keyboard with a link symbol above it

3 Navigating with a wireless keyboard

You can use the arrow keys on your keyboard function just like the up, down, left and right buttons on the Apple TV’s remote The Return and Enter keys on your keyboard act as the remote’s Select button You can emulate the remote’s Menu button by pressing Escape on the keyboard

The best thing is that when you’re scrolling through menus on the Apple TV, you can type the first few letters of any menu item to jump directly to it If you have an Apple Wireless Keyboard, or any Mac- or iPad-focused keyboard with media-playback keys (Play/Pause, Previous, and Next), you can use them

to control media playback

4 Use any remote with the Apple TV

You can also use a universal remote

to control the Apple TV (it has to be a universal remote – chances are your existing remote won’t suffice) To connect this, go to Settings → General → Remotes

The remote that comes with the Apple TV isn’t the

only way to control the box If you have an iPhone or

iPad, for example, you can download the Remote app

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Features APPLE TV ALTERNATIVES

 The days of spending an evening

in front of the TV watching broadcasts seem to be long gone, with people choosing to binge on full television series streamed

from Netflix, opting to watch programmes

and movies they have Sky Plussed, or just

catching up with on-demand television

programmes via their laptop or iPad

The on-demand generation doesn’t

watch TV when it’s broadcasted, instead

we catch up with our favourite shows on

the various apps and internet services

available to us and watch at the time

(and place) that suites us

The popularly of catching up with our

favourite programmes online is illustrated

by the fact that E4 often broadcasts an

episode of a hit TV series online before

airing it on television And BBC Three has

announced that it’s closing its TV channel

and will instead stream its programming

online through iPlayer In this age of TV

on demand, shows can be watched on laptops, iPads or iPhones, although the viewing may still done via the big screen

in our living rooms, perhaps by hooking

a Mac up to the screen via an HDMI connection, or by plugging in a set-top box that offers streaming capabilities

If you’ve bought a new television in the past few years perhaps it is ‘smart’

Smart TVs are connected to the internet and grant owners access to a platform of on-demand apps via the user interface

Due, however, to the high price of these Smart TVs many consumers choose instead to connect their television to set-top devices such as the Apple TV or

a Roku to access extra content As long

as you have a decent broadband connection, these will grant access to a great combination of free and paid-for streaming services to view on the TV

Channel choice

Apple TV: Apple boasts that there are thousands of films and TV programmes available on the Apple TV (£99), these are available to rent or buy from iTunes In addition, you can subscribe to Netflix (£5.99 per month) Beyond that the

‘channels’ on offer are limited, and generally US focused Familiar names include Sky News and the Now TV Sky Sports day pass (£9.99 a day), but when you consider that US users have access to Hulu Plus (subscription); HBO (subscription); various Disney channels;

PBS; ABC and ESPN, the UK Apple TV users have definitely drawn the short straw Hopefully Apple is working on bringing more on demand services (such as iPlayer and 4oD) to the Apple

TV here in the UK

Roku: There are a collection of Roku boxes available, including the Roku 3

Tune into TV on demand

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(£99.99) and the new Roku Steaming

Stick (£49.99) Each offers UK users

access to more than 450 entertainment

channels In the US there’s access to

more than 1000 channels, so as usual the

UK misses out Users get access to films

from Netflix (subscription), Sky Movies via

Now TV (subscription), Popcornflix (free)

and Crackle (free) You can also catch up

with TV via iPlayer, the Sky Store, and

Demand 5 There are also hundreds of

channels that don’t appear by default,

discovered by browsing the channel store

Google Chromecast: Launched in the

UK on 19 March 2014, the Chromecast

lets you watch content streamed or

downloaded from Google Play movies

and music and there’s also Netflix

(subscription) BBC iPlayer was the only

UK catch-up TV service to support the

Chromecast at launch You can also

mirror any tab within the Chrome browser,

whether using a PC or Mac In February

Google released its Chromecast SDK

(software development kit), so you can

expect to see more channels soon

Western Digital: The WD TV Live (£89.99)

lets you stream movies and catch up on

TV shows via Netflix (subscription) As

with the other solutions, there are a

limited number of channels available to

UK users but it does feature iPlayer, as

well as Pop Flix (free classic TV and films)

Sony PlayStation: The PlayStation (PS4,

£349.99; PS3, £149.99) includes iPlayer,

ITV player, 4oD, Amazon Love Film (now

called Amazon Prime Instant Video, £5.99

a month), Netflix (subscription), and the

PlayStation Store You can plug a PlayTV

in to the PS3 to watch, pause and record

Freeview TV channels (unit purchased

separately), but this is incompatible with

the PS4 Sony has announced it will

launch a cloud-based TV and video

streaming service in the US this year

of movies on demand for an extra £16 per month There are also 1000s of movies to rent from the Sky Store

Now TV: Also from Sky, the Now TV (£9.99, plus subscription) lets you watch BBC iPlayer, 4oD and Demand 5 Sky Atlantic, Sky 1, Discovery, MTV, Comedy Central, Disney and Fox are included in the Sky Entertainment Month Pass (£4.99

a month introductory price, then £8.99)

Sky Movies Month Pass (£8.99 per month – usually £14.99 a month), and a Sky Sports Day Pass (£9.99 a day)

Virgin Media Tivo: With a Virgin Media Tivo you can record, pause or rewind live TV, watch Sky channels, seven-day Catch Up TV, and view hundreds of on-demand movies and shows, as well

as anything on Netflix (subscription)

You can also access UK on-demand channels including BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and 5 Demand Unit prices depend on your subscription package

YouView: A YouView box gives you access to any of the UK’s free catch-up

TV channels including iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD, Demand 5, Dave on Demand, Milkshake (Channel 5’s children’s programming) and the 50+ Freeview

HD channels Some additional content available on demand It also includes seven-day scroll back TV for access to catch-up TV from the UK’s on-demand services

The box costs around £229, but you can get it for free from TalkTalk or BT

FreeTime: Like YouView, FreeTime includes access to BBC iPlayer, ITV player, 4oD, Demand 5 and there are around 150 Freesat channels available for free You can use the TV guide to access the past seven days content from 26 channels Also includes YouTube Prices start at £96, but you pay more for the units that include storage space for recording You also need to factor in the cost of the satellite dish and installation

Apple tuned out

Apple TV has been left behind, with most

of the competition offering on-demand content from the UK TV channels If it wasn’t for Netflix the Apple TV would have very little going for it here in the UK

The lack of iPlayer is embarrassing given that Roku, WDTV Live, Sky+, Now TV, Virgin Media Tivi, YouView and the FreeTime, all offer iPlayer Along with the Roku and WDTV Live, Apple lacks 4oD but every other alternatives to the Apple

TV mentioned above does offer 4oD

Demand 5 is offered by Sky+, Now TV, Virgin Media Tivo, YouView and Freetime

And the ITV player also appears on Sky+, Tivo, YouView, PlayStation and Freetime

If Apple wants to be taken seriously in this space, it needs to join the alternatives

in offering this content You can, of course, stream some on-demand content via your iOS device to your Apple TV – iPlayer can be streamed using AirPlay

Hopefully Apple will soon launch a new Apple TV and update the software on the existing units If the update doesn’t feature these on-demand channels, there will be a lot of disappointed Apple fans in the UK

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We’re closer to the end of the Mac’s life than we are to the beginning, especially considering Apple’s propensity for innovating

Long live the Mac

I believe the Mac will persist for a good while longer, serving Mac enthusiasts and people (such as video editors and app developers) who require its capabilities

The Mac has already persevered against long odds, given its survival over the past

30 years Yes, it has changed operating systems and hardware platforms, and gone through countless models But at the most basic level, the Mac of 1984 is surprisingly recognisable in the Mac of today In a field where progress seems to happen with whiplash-inducing speed, that’s impressive

Ten years from now, will we still be using Macs? I think so But 20 or 30?

Perhaps not We’re closer to the end of the Mac’s life than we are to the beginning, especially considering Apple’s propensity for innovating And the way we interact with technology is changing rapidly

For now, Apple’s success of recent years shows no signs of abating, and the Mac will surely be with us until it’s no longer profitable Despite any worry that the Mac’s smaller, sleeker cousins have overshadowed it, consumer interest in the iPad and iPhone has helped the Mac, too So don’t write it off just yet

The Mac’s 30th anniversary has

come and gone, and I can’t help wondering how much longer the Mac will play a key role in our lives Apple execs say it still has its place in

the grand scheme of things I’m not so sure

Taking a backseat

In the 80s and 90s, Apple’s future was tied

to the success of the Mac When its

fortunes dipped under the onslaught of

Windows PCs, consumers feared for the

company’s survival And the device that

ushered in Apple’s late-90s renaissance

was the original iMac

But increasingly, despite its recent

record-setting sales, the Mac has taken a

backseat to Apple’s newer products: first

the iPod, then the iPhone, and now the

iPad With these other lines contributing so

much to Apple’s overall revenue and sales,

it sometimes seems as though the good

old Macintosh is to Apple what bicycles

became to Land Rover: a once-profitable

sideline business that has reached

technological- and market maturity

The iPhone and the iPad are more

prominent and popular than was the Mac

in its heyday They are cheaper than most

Macs, and society has evolved to a point

where computing no longer requires a

traditional computer

We’ve all heard Steve Jobs’s sound

bite comparing computers to trucks, and

smartphones and tablets to cars It’s not

a case of one technology replacing

another just because it’s better, nor is

it a matter of two complementary technologies co-existing Rather, the question is whether a technology is good enough for most people

Smartphones and tablets are not ushering computers out of existence, but reducing them to specialised tools reserved for the people who need them The Mac has already started down this road Consider the new Mac Pro – a machine that even power users acknowledge may be too much

I don’t expect to go Mac-free any time soon As a writer, I’m still in a niche market:

The iPad and iPhone can handle a lot, but they can’t match the convenience and customisability of my MacBook Air

Then again, I’m a tech-savvy user whose Mac tweaks once prompted raised eyebrows from a couple of Apple Geniuses Many other users just need to read email and view web pages; they’re only too happy to ditch a seven-year-old laptop to go iPad-exclusive And that isn’t

a surprise: most people don’t want to change their own oil or replace their own timing belt; they just want a car that will get them from point A to point B and not break down The same is true for computers,

no matter what form they take

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Even though you use your Mac

for serious work, you may want

to add a touch of whimsy to it

Here are our tips for customising

OS X and making it more fun to use

1 iTunes artwork screensaver

When you’re not working, by

default your Mac’s screen turns black with

a subtle, shifting white Apple icon and a

bit of text, usually your username But you

needn’t settle for that To pick something

different, go to Apple menu → System

Preferences, select Desktop & Screen

Saver, and then click the Screen Saver

tab You’ll find a lot of fun options to explore here, such as ‘Word of the Day’

If you’re a music fan, though, try the iTunes Artwork screensaver, which displays a collage of random album covers from your iTunes library

Scroll through the list of options in the lefthand column When you see iTunes Artwork, click it, and then click Screen Saver Options You’ll have the option to choose the number of album-cover rows and the ‘delay’ (in seconds) By default the delay is set to 2 seconds, meaning that every 2 seconds one of the album covers will flip to expose a new cover

Click in the Preview section of the preference pane to see the screensaver

in action You’ll see the different albums changing at random, one at a time As a bonus, if you spot an album you want to play, you can hover your cursor over its artwork and click to start the music

2 Change your wallpaper

Changing your Mac’s wallpaper – the image or background colour on your Desktop – is easy To do so, first open System Preferences (from the Apple menu or the Dock) and click Desktop

& Screen Saver Click the Desktop tab,

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and then you can choose an image

from a number of folders, or from

your iPhoto albums

But one setting will make your

Desktop a lot more interesting: at the

bottom of the window, select Change

picture, then choose a frequency – say,

every 5 seconds, every day, or when

waking from sleep To make the image

unpredictable, select the Random order

option Now you’ll never know which

photo will come up, and your Desktop

will be a source of surprise

3 Mix it up with emoji

Emoji are small graphics that work

like fonts You might have seen these

little faces, animals and other images pop

up in text messages or tweets But you

may not realise that you can use them

in your file and folder names, too

To change an item’s name and add

an emoji character to it, first select a file

or folder in the Finder, and then press

<Return> or <Enter> This action will

highlight the item’s name Next, choose

Edit → Special Characters, or press

1-<Control>-<Space> A pop-up palette

will appear; click any of the icons at the

bottom of the palette The clock icon

shows characters that you’ve recently

used; the others sort special characters

– including emoji – by category

Browse through people (smiley faces

and more), nature (including cute little

animals and flowers), objects (such as

food items and sports balls), places (like

buildings, vehicles and road signs) and

symbols (for instance, from the zodiac),

to find one you like Click an emoji

character to add it to a file or folder

name You can type normal letters

before or after the graphic Emoji

will make your file and folder names

stand out, and they certainly won’t

suffer from drabness

4 Custom folder icons

Are you tired of all those boring

blue folders in the Finder? Change them

You can use almost any graphic – a photo

of your child or of a pet, album art

featuring a favourite band, or almost

any other graphic – as a folder icon

You can search Google for nice images to use; but they might be difficult

to recognise as icons Try downloading art designed to serve as folder icons – for instance, something from InterfaceLift (tinyurl.com/ojqzubs) or Icon-Archive (tinyurl.com/cjgr3o)

Double-click a picture to open it in Preview, or open it in your favourite image editor If you want to crop it, drag the crosshair cursor over the picture, then choose Tools → Crop, or press 1-K You might want to crop the picture to a square

so that it will look more balanced as an icon To do so, press the <Shift> key while dragging the crosshair cursor

Next, press 1-A to select the picture, and 1-C to copy it In the Finder, look for the folder you want to embellish with the icon Select it and press 1-I to display its Info window Click the small blue folder icon at the Info window’s top-left corner

Press 1-V to paste your picture over the standard folder icon, then close the Info window The folder will henceforth appear sporting its fancy new icon

“Something that is useful as well as attractive is Simon Barnett’s free SideEffects (tinyurl.com/pl2eqgk), which restores colour and custom icons to the Finder window sidebar in OS X 10.7, 8 and 9

If you use the sidebar for navigation, as I do, Apple’s default grey UI is a major step backward in usability.”

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How tos iMOVIE FOR MAC

 

Apple has removed many of the options found in

previous releases of iMovie in order to simplify the video-editing process The idea seems to be that if you want more advanced tools, you can use Final Cut Pro X instead This doesn’t mean that iMovie has been

reduced to a bare-bones program, though It still has options to

you to help you fine-tune your edits with great precision Here,

we’ll be looking at the appropriately-named ‘Precision Editor’

B Y S T E V E P A R I S

Use the Precision Editor to fine-tune edits

 

2Your project should be populated with at least four

segments of clips before proceeding further You can trim or extend your selected clip by moving your cursor to one of its edges and dragging it left or right You’re essentially working in the dark, though, as you can extend your clip but can’t see how much of the original footage there is for you to add

 

1 First, choose a project or create a new one – go to File → New

Movie Whenever you create a project, it’s stored with an

Event, which can make it difficult to find again since that Event

can include clips from other projects as well However, in the

sidebar is a menu called ‘All Projects’ where every project

you’ve created can be accessed

 

4The Precision Editor lets you alter the edit point This is

represented by an off-white circle with two vertical thick lines extending from it Move your cursor over the top clip’s line and it’ll change shape When that happens, drag it to the right – your first clip (the top one) will get longer, and the second clip (the bottom one) and subsequent ones will move to the right

 

3This is where the Precision Editor comes in It’s located in

the menu bar, though, it may be greyed out To access it,

double-click on the dark grey upright rectangle, located in the

gap between two clips Doing so raises the clip on the left above

the one on the right You can now see all the footage you hadn’t

used to the right of the first clip and to the left of the second

Editing a movie

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5You can, of course, reduce the length of the top clip by

dragging that line to the left The same thing happens when

you move your cursor over the second clip’s white line and drag

it in either direction You can do this as long as your have

unused and available footage in your selected clip

 

6Here there’s a break between the video and audio part of the

clips This means you can create an L-cut – an edit where the audio and video are cut at different times Move your cursor over that line but within the audio section Dragging from there will leave the video cut untouched, but will change the audio

 

8Previewing your edit can be a little confusing at first as what

is being played back differs depending on where your cursor is The process is the same whether you hit the spacebar

to view your edit in real-time or if you skim through your footage

by moving the cursor to the left or right

 

7You may see other dots along your timeline If not, drag the

slider, top right of the timeline interface, to the left This

reduces the number of thumbnails per clip, so you can see more

of it Stop once you can see other dots When you click on one,

the Precision Editor will focus on that edit point This lets you

navigate through your edit without leaving the Precision Editor

 

10To the right of the slider you used in Step 7 is a filmstrip

icon Click on it to reveal further options The Show Waveform tick box lets you see your clips’ audio waveform If you’re not interested in audio manipulation, untick it The Clip Size slider makes the clips’ thumbnails bigger to make it easier

to see what you’re working with

 

9Move the cursor over the top clip and to the left of the line

Next, move it right until it passes beyond that line You’ll

keep previewing the same clip if the cursor is over the clip

Move the cursor above it into the timeline’s dark grey section

and repeat the same motion This time, as you move beyond

the line, iMovie will display the video from the lower clip

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Use iPhoto’s new options to give your images a professional fi nish

 

2First, switch to full-screen mode Hit the Edit button in the

bottom-right corner and this set of Quick Fix editing tools will appear These include an Enhance option, which allows iPhoto to automatically try and improve the colours within your images This shot doesn’t look too bad, but some of the colours are a little pale, so we’ll hit Enhance and see what happens

 

1iPhoto provides an impressive and easy-to-use set of options

for organising and browsing your photo library However, it

also has a number of editing tools that you can use to spruce up

your images These aren’t always as straightforward as you

might expect, though, so it’s worth taking a closer look at some

of these to see how you can use them to enhance your photos

 

4This photo looks pretty washed out, with a combination of

white snow and clouds overwhelming the colours in other areas of the image Enhance won’t have much effect, so click

on the Adjust tab in the top-right corner to see a more advanced set of controls for adjusting settings, including contrast and exposure Above these is the Levels histogram

 

3Here’s a Before/After comparison of the Enhance option

The colours on the left are much brighter than in the original

(on the right) This shot is a good candidate for using the

Enhance option, as the lighting is good and there’s a range of

different colours, which gives iPhoto plenty of data to work with

Unfortunately, things aren’t always quite so straightforward

Enhancing your photos

After Before

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