The Home screen displays sixteen icons, each representing a different application or function. Follow this link to read my earlier post.
Here, lets see having fun with the pictures on your iPhone. These are merely a few of the iPhone’s excellent multimedia features.
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So where exactly do your pictures hang out on the iPhone? The ones you snapped on iPhone end up in a photo album appropriately dubbed the Camera Roll. Of course, the photos you imported are readily available too (and grouped in the same albums they were on the computer). We’ll show you not only where they are, but how to display them and share them with others — and how to dispose of the duds that don’t measure up to your lofty photographic standards.
So get ready to literally get your fingers on the pix (without having to worry about smudging them):
1. From the Camera application, tap the Camera Roll icon (refer to figure above). Or you can tap the Photos icon on the Home screen, and then tap Camera Roll or any other album in the list of Photo Albums.
The shutter closes for just an instant and is replaced by the screen depicted in the figure below, which shows thumbnail images of the complete roll of pictures you’ve shot with the iPhone. This is the Camera Roll.
Using the first method, you can access only the Camera Roll. Using the second method, you can access the Camera Roll and all your other photo albums.
2. Browse through the thumbnail images in the album until you find the picture you want to display. If the thumbnail you have in mind doesn’t appear on this screen, flick your finger up or down to scroll through the pictures rapidly or use a slower dragging motion to pore through the images more deliberately.
3. Tap the appropriate thumbnail. The picture you’ve selected fills the entire screen.
4. Tap the screen again. The picture controls appear, as shown in the following figure. We discuss what these do later.
5. To make the controls disappear, tap the screen again, or just wait a few seconds and they’ll go away on their own.
6. To transform the iPhone back into a picture-taker rather than a pictureviewer, make sure the picture controls are displayed and then tap the camera icon at the upper-right.
Note that this option is available only if you arrived at the Camera Roll from the Camera application. If you didn’t, you have to back out of this application altogether and tap the Home button and then the Camera application icon to call the iPhone’s digital camera back into duty.
7. To return to the thumbnails view of your Camera Roll or the thumbnails for any of your other albums, make sure the picture controls are displayed. Then tap the Camera Roll button at the upper left.
The Camera Roll button will carry the name of one of your other photo albums if you are trying to return to that collection of pictures instead.
Having Fun With Pictures:
Photographs are meant to be seen, of course, not buried in the digital equivalent of a shoebox. And the iPhone affords you some neat ways to manipulate, view, and share your best photos.
We already know from the preceding section how to find a photo and view it full-screen and bring up picture controls. But you can do a lot of maneuvering of pictures without summoning those controls. Here are some options:
- Skipping ahead or viewing the previous picture: Flick your finger left or right or tap the left or right arrow controls.
- Landscape or portrait: The iPhone’s wizardry (or more specifically, the device’s accelerometer sensor) is at work. When you turn the iPhone sideways, the picture automatically reorients itself from portrait to landscape mode, as shown in the below Figure. Pictures shot in landscape mode fill the screen when you rotate the iPhone. Rotate the device back to portrait mode, and the picture readjusts accordingly.
- Zoom: Double-tap to zoom in on an image and make it larger. Do so again to zoom out and make it smaller. Alternatively, take your thumb and index finger and pinch to zoom in, or un-pinch the photo to zoom out.
- Pan and scroll: This cool little feature is practically guaranteed to make you the life of the party. Once you’ve zoomed in on a picture, drag it around the screen with your finger. Besides impressing your friends, you can bring the part of the image you most care about front and center.
That’ll let you zoom in on Fido’s adorable face as opposed to, say, the unflattering picture of the person holding the dog in his or her lap.
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