Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let me show you the basic of editing photos in iPhoto.
So I am using iPhoto version 9.5.
We're going to take a look at editing a photo.
Really adjusting it not as much as editing it.
Let's go into a sample photo here.
Then I'm going to hit the Edit button at the bottom right.
We go into the iPhoto editor where we have three different tabs of things that we can
do.
So the simplest, most basic thing that you can do is to press this Enhance button.
What it does is it automatically looks at the photo's colors and tries to basically
make it look a little bit better based on whatever the computer finds.
It is not always true that it makes it better but a lot of times you can just hit that button
and make a photo look good.
Especially if the photo is a little too dark or too bright or something is just not ideal
about how you took the photo.
Now anytime you do any of these you can use the Revert to Original button here at the
bottom or the Undo button.
The Undo button undoes one step.
Revert to Original undoes all the steps of all the different things you have done because
you can keep adding more things.
So if there was a person in this photo we can use the Fix Red-Eye which would allow
us then to use this target here and click on red-eye in the photo and then it will automatically
fix that.
We also have the Straighten tool which basically allows you to straighten it up.
There is no real problem here but you can see, for instance, the coast line here isn't
perfectly straight with the photo and if for some reason that bothered us we could adjust
it and actually you can see we have it straight there now.
That might be more important in some photos than others.
We also can Crop the photo.
So in this case it draws a box around the whole photo and we can bring this box in and
move its edges and sides.
Do whatever we want.
We can also constrain the photo to a certain screen ratio.
So if you wanted to make it sure it was a 4 x 3 or a 3 x 4 we can do that.
All sorts of different constraints there.
There is the Retouch button which is the only real editing, perhaps beside red-eye, that
you can do here.
This isn't a tool like PhotoShop or something where we can play with the pixels in the photo.
These are mostly adjustments.
But the Retouch tool, you can change the size of it and you can see the size here is that
circle, you can use to retouch things in the photo.
It will basically take samples of the items around it.
For instance, this is a really good example.
I've got this rock right here in the middle of the water.
Well, I can get rid of it.
Like that.
That is a little blurry but if I play with it a little bit I find I can create some pretty
decent effects here from the way I stroke the area to get rid of it.
You know maybe if this photo was shrunk down and used on the web you wouldn't even notice
that the area is a little blurry there.
So let's move on to the Effects here.
We have a variety of different effects and you can kind of just click on them and click
on them multiple times to enhance these effects.
If I want to darken this photo I click on this once but I can also keep clicking and
it gets darker, and darker, and darker.
I can do that with any of these.
So I can make higher Contrast.
I can Saturate the colors.
Then these are more obvious of what they do.
They can actually change the photo in a more dramatic way.
You can also, you know, click these multiple times.
It will even give you a number underneath.
So I can do Fade 8 and I can actually reverse that all the way down to zero.
I can also combine these.
Fade and Boost.
Maybe do a little bit more of a boost and then add an edge blur.
So you can do lots of combinations of these to create the special effects for the photo.
Now the Adjust tab here brings you in closer contact to the actual colors in the photo.
You can adjust it using a lot of these more pro level tools here.
You know, adjust the levels very specifically.
You can adjust the exposure.
Some of these may actually be easier to use depending on your experience with photography
or with the actual condition of the photo.
There is a lot you can do in here to change the photo.
You can even drastically change the colors that are in it.
Even use the Eye Dropper tool here to grab.
To optimize the color you should grab something that is white or gray to optimize the color
but you could actually grab something that is not to dramatically change the color.
So there is a lot you can do here.
Pretty much everything you can do here in terms of adjusting the color.
Now let's just go and use the simple effect here and boost it and create a mat around
it like this.
Probably not something you would normally want to do but I just want to use this as
a demonstration.
When we are done with this photo and I can jump quickly to another photo in this event
here.
I just go back to the event and you can see the photo now apparently has that change on
it.
So I've got this photo and there is the change.
But if I go to Edit I can still hit Revert to Original and go back to the original version
because iPhoto remembers the original version plus all these changes that are applied to
it.
So you can edit away.
Change something like you want and still know in your iPhoto Library you've got that original
version there should you ever want to go back to it.