iPad iPhoto

My hobby, if I really have one, is photography. Hence, I watch for technology applications related to photography and sharing photographs.

I process my photos through iPhoto on a Mac (and then on to Flickr) because of the storage capacity of a desktop machine. The valuable qualities of an iPad simply cannot include storage capacity. However, processing images on the iPad offers some unique opportunities and there are plenty of interesting apps.

A feature of the iPhoto app that is unique to this platform is the journal. I see no reason that this capability is absent on iPhoto for MacOS, but is the way it is. Anyway, the Journal is a way to incorporate images from iPhoto with other objects as “pages” and then to share these images with others online. Journals are shared through iCloud.

A useful feature of a journal image is that any image from a page can be clicked to display a full sized image. This capability – presentation of “thumbnails” in a meaningful structure than can be used to link to full size images – offers a useful way to guide the exploration of a viewer.

Here is the active version of the image capture that appears above. Click on an individual image to experience the capability to display full sized images.

It takes some exploration time to make effective use of the iPad version of iPhoto. One thing I have discovered is the screen size of images within this app can be deceiving. Typically, you will want to build your journal from large images if you want the user to be able to view large individual images. My process involves uploading LARGE images from my 7D to Flickr and then downloading images for iPad projects from Flickr. I have resorted to using a browser on the iPad to access images because flickr apps seem to download small images.