Chapter 28. Using and Sharing Photographs
Collecting and storing pictures might be nice for some people, but others may want to do something with those pictures, such as turn them into wallpaper for their iPad’s Home screen or add a picture of someone’s face to their name and personal information in the Contacts app. Or you may want to share your favorite pictures with others. If you want to do more than just store and stare at your pictures, then this chapter is for you.
In this chapter, you will learn how to email your pictures to others or use your pictures to customize your iPad.
Sending Pictures by Email
Before you can send a picture by email, you need to set up an email account and make sure your iPad has an Internet connection. After you have set up an email account, you can email single pictures or send a whole group of photos.
Sending a Single Picture by Email
To send a single picture by email, you need to find the picture that you want to send and then follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Photos. The Photos screen appears.
Tap one of the tabs at the top of the screen (Photos, Albums, Events, Faces, or Places). If you tap Photos, you’ll see thumbnail images of all your pictures. If you choose any of the other options, you’ll need to choose an album, event, face, or place to view thumbnail images of all your pictures.
Tap a picture that you want to send. Your chosen picture fills the screen.
Tap the screen to display controls at the top and bottom of the screen. Then tap the Send icon that appears in the upper-right corner of the screen. A menu appears, as shown in Figure 28-1.
Tap Email Photo. An email message appears with the virtual keyboard at the bottom of the screen, as shown in Figure 28-2.
Tap the To text field, and type an email address to receive your photo. (If you tap the plus sign icon to the far right of the To text field, a Contacts window appears, letting you choose a name of someone whose email address you have already stored in the Contacts app).
(Optional) Tap the Subject and Message text fields to type a subject and any text you want to send along with your photo.
Tap Send to send your email message with your chosen photo.
Sending Multiple Pictures by Email
If you want to send someone two or more pictures, it’s easier to send a group of pictures as a file attachment by following these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Photos. The Photos screen appears.
Tap one of the tabs at the top of the screen (Photos, Albums, Events, Faces, or Places). If you tap Photos, you’ll see thumbnail images of all your pictures. If you choose any of the other options, you’ll need to choose an album, event, face, or place to view thumbnail images of all your pictures.
Tap the Send icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. Email and Copy buttons appear in the upper-left corner of the screen. (If you tapped the Photos tab, you’ll also see a red Delete button next to the Copy button.)
Tap one or more pictures that you want to send by email. Each time you select a picture, a check mark appears to let you know which pictures you’ve already selected, as shown in Figure 28-3.
Tap Email in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Note
Instead of tapping the Email button, you can tap the Copy button to copy a picture, which you can later paste into another app such as Pages or Keynote. You can also tap the Print button to print your selected photos if you have a printer connected to your computer that works with your iPad.
An email message appears with the virtual keyboard at the bottom of the screen (shown earlier in Figure 28-2).
Tap the To text field, and type an email address to receive your photo. (If you tap the plus sign icon to the far right of the To text field, a Contacts window appears, letting you choose the name of someone whose email address you have already stored in the Contacts app.)
(Optional) Tap the Subject and Message text fields to type a subject and any text you want to send along with your photo.
Tap Send to send your email message with your chosen photo.
Assigning a Picture to a Contact
When you start storing names and other personal information about people in the Contacts app, you might also want to store a picture of that person (or a picture that best represents that person) in the Contacts app. To assign a picture to a name in the contacts app, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Photos. The Photos screen appears.
Tap one of the tabs at the top of the screen (Photos, Albums, Events, Faces, or Places). If you tap Photos, you’ll see thumbnail images of all your pictures. If you choose any of the other options, you’ll need to choose an album, event, face, or place to view thumbnail images of all your pictures.
Tap a picture. Your chosen picture fills the screen.
Tap the screen to display the Send icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Tap the Send icon. A menu appears (shown earlier in Figure 28-1).
Tap Assign to Contact. The All Contacts window appears, as shown in Figure 28-4.
Tap a name. The Choose Photo window appears, as shown in Figure 28-5.
Move or resize your picture. When you’re happy with the size and position of the picture, tap Use. Now if you open the Contacts app and choose this person’s name, you’ll see your chosen picture.
Additional Ideas for Using Your Pictures
Many times you’ll be using your iPad and suddenly wish you could show someone what’s on your screen, such as a funny picture you’re viewing through the Safari browser. Any time you wish you had a picture of your iPad screen image to share with others, just press the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time. You’ll hear a clicking sound, which means your iPad just took a picture of the screen and stored it in the Photo app. Now you can go into the Photo app, look in the Album category, and peek in the Saved Photos album to see all of your captured screenshots.
Another way to enjoy your pictures is to assign unusual pictures to the names stored in the Contacts app, such as using a picture of a horse’s rear end to represent your boss or a picture of a demon or witch to represent a particularly odious co-worker or relative. If you want to turn your pictures into wallpaper to display on your iPad, refer back to Chapter 6.
With so many different types of pictures that you can store on your iPad—from digital photographs to artwork created or modified with programs such as Photoshop or Corel Painter—you can use your iPad as a portable picture frame or a storage device before sending your pictures to others by email.
Viewing, organizing, and sharing pictures may not be the sole reason you got an iPad, but it’s just one of many ways you can make your iPad more useful.