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Mark Wallace: Hey everybody, welcome to this week's iPad App review right here at Adorama
TV. This week we're looking at an application that is called Portfolio for iPad. It's a
really high end application that lets you create custom portfolios, slideshows. You
can even show and hide portfolios. So it's really for working with clients and showing
off their work, and even rating photos and taking notes so you know which photos your
clients might want you to print out. So let's take a closer look at Portfolio for iPad.
Let's take a closer look at Portfolio for iPad. The first thing that you'll see is that
you have a nice interface here where you have your logo on one side and a list of all your
portfolios on the left hand side. This is totally customizable. In fact, what you can
do is, on this side over here I'll hit configure so I can say change front image. You'll notice
that we have three different images that we can load in. One is for landscape mode like
we have it displayed here. You can add another one for portrait mode so that when you change
the orientation of your iPad it still looks nice and clean.
Then you also have one for the external screen. So if you're attaching this to an external
monitor like an LCD screen or a television or something like that, you have something
that's full page. You can put your logo a picture, anything you want there. You have
to make sure you have these configured at the correct aspect ratio. So this one is 657
pixels by 748. That's 493 by 1,004. If you don't do these correctly, it will sort of
squish the image in and it won't look good. So make sure you pay attention to the pixel
sizes for each of these.
I've only put in one. I'll hit done there. You'll come back in there. You can see that
there's my logo, but it can be anything, really. The next thing you'll see is on the left hand
side I have one portfolio that's been added. You can have a bunch of portfolios on the
left hand side.
Let's talk about how you can create a portfolio. The first thing you'll do is hit this little
icon here, and it will ask you to configure your galleries. You can manage the galleries,
you can change the front image. There's even a nice help file here. One of the nice things
that I'd like to show you before we go on is this little lock button. Now that I've
locked my portfolios, if I go in here and want to change anything, I can't. This is
really useful if you're passing your iPad around and you want people to look at your
portfolios, but you don't want them to manage the galleries.
I'll go ahead and unlock that, and I have a four number code. It's very secret - 1234.
Now you can see that I've unlocked that, and now I can manage galleries again. Let's go
into manage galleries. I have one gallery loaded right now, and it's my portraits gallery.
I'm going to push that. Now you can see that I have three images that are loaded. I just
brought these in from my photo gallery that I have on my iPad.
I can hit edit, then I can delete photos if I want which is really nice. I can rearrange
these photos. It's very familiar to anybody that has an iPhone or iPad, to see these little
squiggly icons here. The other thing I can do is I can hit this little icon here, and
then I can bring in new photos. So I can choose from my photos that I've saved on my iPad,
I can load it from the web using a URL, or I can even load from Dropbox. So if you have
a Dropbox account this is really nice, because that's a great way to synchronize your portfolios
with your desktop machine.
I'm going to go in here and I'm going to say choose from photos. Here's all of my photo
albums. So then I'll go in here to my fashion portfolio, and then I'll just pick this image
right here, and it's loading in. I'll pick another one really fast. Then once I'm done
I'll go over here. And you can see that I've got a weird name on each of these. I'm not
sure how these names are created, but they need to be changed.
So there are some things that you can do. Either you can push one of these, and you
can say rename it or you can go in here. You can hit this little icon again, and you can
just say number all photos, and boom. They're all numbered one through five. So you can
do it either way. Just to save time I'm not going to rename each of these, but you could
say, you know, girl with the fur coat, person that's highly saturated, whatever you want.
Also you notice that when you push this icon here, you can edit the keywords. So when I
when I click edit keywords, you can see that I can add a list of keywords here. So I'll
put in here coat, you can put in as many as you want here. Then you can have a bunch of
keywords on your images which is really, really nice.
OK, let's look at a couple of other things here. We can also configure a slideshow. So
if I hit that, I can say here's how long I want my images to last - 2.4 seconds. Then
I can have music, and you can get this music from the music that's on your iPad. I'm going
to turn off the music because we don't have copyrights to play this music, and we don't
want to get in trouble with Tina Dico who is an awesome artist. So I'll turn that off.
We can also go in here and push this button here. We can clear ratings and notes, or we
can email those. We can email those to a client. So I'll show you what those ratings and notes
are here in a second. So that's getting images in, renaming the images, and sort of managing
your portfolio.
Let's do another thing here. Let's push this plus button over here. It's going to ask me
for a new gallery, I'm going to put a new gallery. I'm going to call it street. I'll
create that. Now, I have no photos in this, so I'm going to go in here. I'm going to say
choose from photos. I'm going to go down here to my street gallery, and I'm going to import
these images just by pushing on them, just like this. I'm going to also go back here,
and we'll have a couple of other images here. So I'll go to my saved photos, and I'm going
to add a picture I took of the Eiffel Tower and another shot I took of a train in Germany.
Now that that's done, I'll click here. You can see these photos are coming in. Once again,
they have the mystery names, so I want to get rid of that right away. To get rid of
these and to rename these, what I'll do is I'll hit my little icon here. I'll say number
all photos, and bam - one through seven. One of the things you'll notice that I don't have
an image here on my street photos, so what I'll do is I'll push this guy, and I will
say set as gallery cover. Then I need to scale this and make sure that it's just right. So
I'll get him into this little box and tap that and say save. Now I have an image there.
Now I have some of these set up. I'll hit done.
Now when you go in you can see that I have two portfolios to show. If I go in here to
street, you'll see that now I have an image. I can click these, and it goes from one image
to the other which is very, very nice. I can double click this, and now I have an image
that I can show and move around. If this was a much larger image then I would have this
as an image that I could zoom in. You can see that this one is a large image, so I can
zoom in. This is for looking at fine details to make sure that the image meets up to a
customer's expectations, I guess, if it's in focus, things like that.
The other thing you can do is you can hit this image right here, this icon. I can rate
my images now, so I'm going to say that's three stars. Then I'm going to add some notes
and say I like this one. So I'll just say I like this, and then I can hide this. Now
I've got some notes. I've got some ratings there. Then I'll go into my Eiffel Tower here
and I'll say wrong gallery. It doesn't really fit. I'll type that in there.
Now we have some information in here. This is really nice because then I can tap on the
name of my portfolio, and I can say I only want to show my images that have three stars
or higher. You can see I only have one as three stars or higher. This is good for going
through a portfolio with clients or reviewing images, because you can go through and rate
things and then go back and sort those.
I can say, you know what, I'm just going to show the ones that have one image or higher.
I have two images that are like that. Then I can go in here and see what notes I have.
Remember, we showed you earlier, you can actually export these ratings and notes and you can
email those. So you have a record of what's in your portfolios.
There's one other feature I want to show you. Let's say that you're showing a portfolio
to one client. Let's say I'm showing some stuff to somebody that's interested in my
portraits, but I really don't want them to see my street photos because maybe it's the
wrong client or there's some other reason for that. Well, I can go in here, manage my
galleries. I can say edit, and then on this one - I'll click that - and I can say off.
So now this one, when I save it... So that's saved. I'll say done.
Notice, now that doesn't show up. So I can show and hide galleries. I can have a portfolio
that's specific to a client to make sure that I'm showing the correct photos and make sure
everything's all good. I'm going to go back in here, manage galleries, edit, hit that.
I'm going to turn it back on, save that. Say done.
I'm going to show you one more thing, and that's the slide show. We configured a slide
show earlier. To make that slide show go I just hit this play button, and there it goes.
There's my slideshow. And if I had music to the background, if we had the rights to play
music, you would hear music coming out. This is really nice. You can have this going. Also,
this works on an external display. So if you're in at an event or something like that, you
could always put this to a video projector or a large screen TV, something like that,
and then show your images with music and it would be beautiful.
Well that's Portfolio for iPad, another great app that we've reviewed right here at Adorama
TV. Remember, if you want to see more iPad apps you can go to the Adorama Learning Center
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a single episode. Thanks for joining us this week, and I'll see you next week.
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