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If you want only some of the albums from your photo-shoebox software, turn
on their checkboxes. Once you make your selections and click Apply in the
lower-right corner of the iTunes window, the program bustles around “optimizing”
copies of your photos to make them look great on the iPhone (for
example, downsizing them from 10-megapixel overkill to something more
appropriate for a 0.15-megapixel screen) and then ports them over.
After the sync is complete, you’ll be able to wave your iPhone around, and
people will beg to see your photos.
Syncing Photos (iPhoneÆComputer)
The previous discussion describes copying photos only in one direction:
ComputerÆiPhone. But here’s one of those rare instances when you can actually
create data on the iPhone so that you can later transfer it to the computer:
photos you take with the iPhone’s own camera. You can rest easy, knowing
that they can be copied back to your computer for safekeeping, with only
one click.
Now, it’s important to understand that iTunes is not involved in this process. It
doesn’t know anything about photos coming from the iPhone; its job is just
to copy pictures to the iPhone.
So what’s handling the iPhoneÆcomputer transfer? Your operating system. It
sees the iPhone as though it’s a digital camera, and suggests importing them
just as it would from a camera’s memory card.
Here’s how it goes: put the iPhone into its cradle. What you’ll see is probably
something like this:
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On the Macintosh, iPhoto opens. This free photo-organizing/editing
software comes on every Mac. Shortly after it notices that the iPhone is
on the premises, it goes into Import mode.
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