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32 Tune into TV on demand
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
Trang 13How 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 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.
Trang 16At 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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from the App Store (tinyurl.com/q4twe7c)
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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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
We pit the Apple TV against these alternatives
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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,
Four fun ways to customise your Mac
Trick out your version of OS X with these easy-to-follow tips
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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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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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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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B Y C L I F F J O S E P H
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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