My Mom's Guide to Using iPhoto 2 A step-by-step guide to the everyday features of iPhoto.

Rotating your photos

Sometimes you'll take picture with your digital camera of something that is taller than it is wide. To make this image fit nicely in your viewfinder you'll turn your camera on its side and snap your pic.

But when you import this pic into iPhoto it will be sideways on your screen. In order to fix this iPhoto has an easy-to-use ROTATE button.

I strongly recommend that you DO NOT do this kind of editing on the only copy of a photo. Before rotating your photo, Duplicate it, and then Crop the copy.

After you've imported your pictures into iPhoto...

1. Locate the picture you want to fix in the Organize view...
2. Choose it by clicking on it. A blue frame will appear around the photo.
3. Click on the Edit button down below to see a larger versio of your photo.
4. Click on the Rotate button. It's located near the lower left corner of your screen, beneath the list of photo albums.
5. Your photo will rotate 90 degrees...

   If your photo rotated the wrong way you can click Rotate a couple more times until it's right. Be patient, it might take a few seconds for each rotation to finish.

Rotate the other way.

You don't really need to click Rotate so many times. Just hold down the option key while clicking Rotate, and it will go the other direction.

Copyright 2003 by Jack Hodgson userguides@da4.com

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