Ways to manage your photos on the iPad


Get Pictures onto Your iPad

The iPad can show your handsome photographs in the majority of the file formats digital cameras use, including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, as well as those large, uncompressed RAW files popular with serious photographers who don't want to squish a pixel of precious image data. But to show them off on the iPad, you have to first get them on the iPad. There are several ways you can do that.

Transfer Photos with iTunes

If you keep your digital photo collection organized in programs like Photoshop cs4 Elements, iPhoto, or Aperture - or even loose in a folder on your hard drive - you can sling them onto the iPad with an iTunes syncing session.

Connect your iPad to your PC or Mac using the iPad's USB cable. Once the iPad shows up in the iTunes Source list, click its icon to pick it. In the iTunes tabs for your iPad, click the one for Photos, the last tab over. Turn on the checkbox alongside "Sync photos from" and then choose your photo program or photo-storage folder; that lets iTunes know finding your pix.

You can copy everything over or simply the albums you decide on. If you don't use any of the programs that the "Sync photos from" menu lists and you simply want to copy on the folder of random photos from your hard drive, select "Choose folder" from the menu and then navigate to the desired folder. Click Sync once you make your selections.

Once you start the sync, iTunes "optimizes" your photos. This has nothing to do with your photographic skills and everything related to storage space. If necessary, iTunes down-samples your pix to "TV quality" so that they take up less room on your 'Pad but still display in high-res format on your tablet or TV screen.

Transfer Photos from Mail Messages

Do you have a bunch of photos someone sent you as file attachments to an email message? Or would you see an image on the web page you want to add to your collection? To add these pictures to your iPad's Photos program, press your finger on the photo once the iPad displays it.

Wait for box to pop up with a Save Image button. Tap Save Image to keep a copy of the picture in the Photos?Saved Photos album, where you can admire it. If you have multiple photos mounted on an email message, the iPad asks if you want to save them all.

Transfer Photos using the iPad Camera Connection Kit

The iPad can slurp pictures directly off of your digital camera, but there's a catch: you first need to plunk down $29 for Apple's iPad Camera Connection Kit at store.apple.com or another fine retail establishments.

The kit contains two white plastic adapters for the iPad's Dock Connector port. One has a jack for your camera's USB cable and also the other has a slot for Secure Digital memory cards filled with pictures - in case you don't have your camera's USB cable. Once you plug an adapter into the iPad and connect your camera via USB cable - or insert the memory card - wait for the Photos app to open, and then:

Tap Import All to seize all the pictures, or tap individual shots to checkmark them before you tap the Import button. When the iPad asks, decide if you wish to keep or delete the photos on the camera or memory card after you import them. To determine the new arrivals on your iPad, tap Photos, thenLast Import. Unplug the iPad camera connector and set it in a safe place.

Whenever you get back to your computer, you can sync these pictures back to iPhoto or Adobe Photoshop Elements by connecting the iPad and using your picture program's command to import the new photos.

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