Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let me show you all the different ways you can export photos from iPhoto.
I'm using iPhoto version 9.5 and I'm going to show you the export options.
There are tons of options to be able to share a photo but I'm not going to talk about those.
I'm going to talk about if you select a single photo and you want to export it from your
iPhoto library.
At the end I'm going to show you the easiest, quickest and maybe best way to do it.
But for now let's look at the options inside File Export.
There is a lot of them.
We're going to concentrate right now on File Export.
You can export photos as a Web Page or a video Slideshow.
But File Export is where you get your photos out and you can save them in the original
format that they are in or JPEG or another format here.
JPEG is probably what you want for most photos.
You can select a quality option.
You don't have more specifics here but you can go Medium, High, Maximum.
Medium is probably good enough if you are going to be sharing a photo by email or posting
it to a webpage.
You can also include some things on the photo.
We'll see how those turn out.
You can select the size.
Full Size which is the original size of the photo.
Small, medium, and large are Custom.
With Custom you can basically specify a maximum width, a maximum height, or just a maximum
of one of the two.
So let's just go to a say medium size photo.
Then you can determine the type of file name you are going to use.
Of course you can change this very easily afterwards so it is not that important.
If you are going to do several photos, if I had selected several, I could choose a prefix.
Say photo and it would do photo 1, photo 2, photo 3.
So let's export this photo here and save it to the desktop.
So if we hide iPhoto we can see there is the file on the desktop.
It is definitely a smaller size than before.
We can actually look at it here.
Command I tells us it is 65K whereas if we were to go to iPhoto and let's say export
that same photo.
Let's do same quality but for size let's go to a Large size and export and then we'll
call this with a slightly different name.
Now when I hide I've got two photos here.
I can see this one is larger, obviously, not just in dimensions but if I get information
on this I can see it is 65K for the smaller one and then 218K for the larger photo.
Now I'm going to select another photo.
This is one I took with my iPhone so it has GPS information in it.
When I export I'm going to use the same options and I've got Location Information selected
just to show you what that does.
I'm going to export and then hide iPhoto.
I'm going to double click on it to open it up in Preview.
In Preview I'm going to use Command I to get information about it.
You can see all this information that is included with JPEG.
I can click on GPS and sure enough it has the GPS location for the photo.
If I had not checked that box off the GPS data would be blank in this exported version
of the photo.
I've been showing you how to export one photo.
Go into it and do File Export.
But you can export multiple photos.
Select them.
Select an entire Event.
Select an entire Album.
All sorts of different ways you can select photos and then export, and then your exporting
all of these photos.
So you can do them in groups just like that.
Now exporting is great if you want to shrink the file down to post it on the web or send
to a friend or do something else with it.
But what if you want to get the original photo.
The actual full resolution photo that you've got in iPhoto out of the iPhoto library and
as a file in the Finder that you can use somewhere else.
Well there is two ways to do it, the hard way and the easy way.
So let's select this photo here and export and do it the hard way.
We can select Kind as original and there we go.
We're going to export now this file and we could save it to the desktop and it's going
to give us the original file out as a file by itself outside of the iPhoto library.
But there is an easier way to do it.
You could simply, this is the desktop and this is iPhoto, you can just drag and drop
and it is as easy as that.
You get the original that way.
You can do it with groups.
You want to get these three out here, drag and drop, and now there they are.
You can but them into a Finder window.
You can drag them onto a desktop, you can even drag them into other applications.
So, for instance, if I want to open this up in another app.
I can simply drag and drop to any app that accepts a photo, like Preview, and there you
go.
I didn't have to export and save it somewhere.
I can just go right from iPhoto to another app.