iPhoto

=DIRECTIONS FOR RESIZING PHOTOS IN IPHOTO=

We are going to use iPhoto to ‘hold’ our pictures. iPhoto allows you to place the photos into an album and then iMovie can easily import albums from iPhoto.

From iPhoto, go to File, Import to library. Select your photos and click Import.

Before we can go to iMovie to import these photos, we need to resize the images. iPhoto does not have a direct way of resizing photos. We must first export the photos at the size we want and then import them back into the library resized. To do this, select all the photos and go to File, Export. Select the File Export tab at the top of the window and under Kind, select JPEG. JPEG Quality should be set to Maximum. Check Title and keywords. Size should be set to Custom. Max to width of 800. Click Export.

Next you will be asked to select a place to save your files. Create a temporary folder on your desktop and save them there. The name is not important because you can delete this desktop folder later to save space on your computer.

Now, back in iPhoto, we want to go to File, Import to library again and import the newly resized photos. If the Duplicate Photo window appears, check the box ‘Apply to all duplicates’ and click Import.

Let’s put the resized photos into an album so that iMovie can find them. Select all the photos and go to ‘New album from selection’, give the album an appropriate name, be sure that ‘Use selected items in new album’ is checked and then click Create.