You Oughta Be in Pictures - iPad Mini - page 221

amic scenes you've captured (on other devices because the feature isn't available on the iPad mini, at
least not without third-party apps), and Videos. (The process of shooting videos is described in the
previous chapter.)
Albums that were synced from your Macintosh computer carry the From My Mac tag. These include
the Events album and the Faces album, which used to have dedicated buttons in iOS, but no more.
Another album that used to have its own dedicated button is Places, but it's not visible in this view.
Tap an album listing to open it. When you do, you see the minimalistic interface, shown in Fig-
ure 9-3 , which reveals the by-now-familiar Camera Roll.
Browse the thumbnails until you find the picture or video you want, and then tap it. We soon show
you all the cool things you can do from there.
You'll know when a thumbnail represents a video rather than a still image because the
thumbnail displays a tiny movie camera icon accompanied by the length of the video.
If you can't locate the thumbnail for a photo you have in mind, flick up or down to scroll through the
pictures rapidly, or use a slower dragging motion to pore through the images more deliberately.
We're certain you will find the one you're looking for soon enough.
To return to the list of albums, tap Albums at the upper-left corner of the screen.
After backing out, you can create a new album from the Albums view by tapping the + in the upper-
left corner (refer to Figure 9-2 ) and choosing a name. Type that name and tap Save. To select pic-
tures (or videos) to add to your newly minted album, tap their thumbnails.
Shortly, we show you how to add pictures to an existing album.
Albums you create on the iPad reside only on the iPad. They can't be synced or
copied to your PC or Mac, though there are numerous ways, through e-mail or third-party
apps, to copy them.