Using iTunes to Add Photos to Your iPhone

As you learn in Chapter 13, your iPhone is a great way to view your photos while you are on the go.You can move photos from a computer onto iPhone so you can view them individually and as slideshows.The steps to move photos from a computer to iPhone are slightly different between Windows PCs and Macs. See the section that applies to your computer.
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Moving Photos from a Windows PC onto iPhone

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You can use iTunes to move photos you’re storing on your PC using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 or later or Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 or later.
1. Connect the iPhone to your computer and open iTunes (if it doesn’t open automatically).
2. Click the Photos tab.
Click the Photos tab.Check the Sync photos from check box.
3. Check the Sync photos from check box.
4. On the pop-up menu, choose the application containing the photos you want to move onto iPhone, such as Photoshop Elements.
5. If you want all the photos in the selected source to be moved onto iPhone, click the All photos and albums radio button and skip to step 8.
6. If you want only selected albums to be moved onto iPhone,click the Selected albums radio button.
7. Check the check box next to each photo album that you want to sync with iPhone.
8. Click Apply. The photos you selected move onto the iPhone.If you make changes to the photo albums or to the photos you selected,the updates move onto your iPhone the next time you sync it.
Click Apply.
Other Sync Options If you choose My Pictures on the Sync Photos From pop-up menu, you can move photos stored in your My Pictures folder onto the iPhone. If you select Choose Folder, you are prompted to select a folder of photos that you want to move onto your iPhone. Depending on the option you choose, you might or might not be able to select specific photo albums to move onto the iPhone.


Moving Photos from a Mac to iPhone

iTunes is designed to work seamlessly with iPhoto.You can move all your photos or selected photo albums from iPhoto to iPhone by using iTunes’syncing.You can also move photos you’ve stored in a folder on your Mac almost as easily.
1. Connect the iPhone to your computer and open iTunes (if it doesn’t open automatically).
2. Click the Photos tab.
3. Check the Sync photos from check box.
4. On the pop-up menu,choose iPhoto.
5. If you want all the photos in iPhoto to be moved onto iPhone, click the All photos and albums radio button and skip to step 9.
6. If you want to move specific events (which are collections of photos based on when those photos were taken), click the middle radio button and choose All on the pop-up menu to move all events onto iPhone or choose the number of recent events you want to move, such as 5 most recent to move the most recent five events onto iPhone;skip to step 9.
Check the Sync photos from check box.On the pop-up menu,choose iPhoto.
7. If you want only selected albums to move onto the iPhone,click the Selected albums radio button.
8. Check the check box next to each photo album that you want to sync on iPhone (uncheck an album’s check box to remove it from the iPhone).
9. Click Apply.The photos you selected move onto the iPhone.If there’s not enough memory to store the photos you selected, you’re warned;you’ll need to remove some of the photos from the sync or remove other kinds of content to make more room.
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Other Sync Options

If you choose Pictures on the Sync photos from the pop-up menu, you can move photos stored in your Pictures folder onto iPhone.Ifyou select Choose Folder, you are prompted to select a folder of photos that you want to move. Depending on the option you choose, you might or might not be able to select specific collections of photos to move into iPhone. For example, if you select a folder that contains other folders, you can select the contents of each folder individually (which is similar to selecting a photo album to sync).

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