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Good morning ladies and gentlemen my name is Rodney Urand and I would like to
welcome you to
our bits and bytes session today.
You should be seeing an iPad screen in front of you,
and this is a series of
sessions that we do via WebEx
that gives us the opportunity to go over
some of the hardest apps that are available to you.
In today's workshop I would like to focus on the
category once a month ???. Today's
category is going to be photography and anything photography related.
So what I wanted to do is point out to you
the total of six different apps
that we could use and
one of the things that we will be doing today is we'll be going
over
Shutterfly, an app called Over,
an app called Sketch, an app called Groupshot,
and an app called photo slideshow.
and all of these, I believe
are currently free on the App Store
and
excuse me, I'm sorry.
All of these are currently free on the App Store
as of, when I last checked with a couple of days ago. The App Store is having a sale
right now, so there's a number of apps that are free because the App Store
is currently celebrating a five year anniversary.
So, to begin with, what I'd like to do
is point out why photo apps are so important for an iPad.
Well, to begin with, the iPad is so rich
in terms of its ability to consume content that a lot of people have started using the iPad
to create content. And creating content is one of the easiest and quickest
ways is to take a photo or bring in a photo from another
source.
Well those photos take up a lot of room.
The iPad 2
when it was released, came with a camera. The original iPad does not.
The iPad 3 came with an even better camera
and the fourth with an even better camera still. And
so, now the quality of photographs you can take on an iPad
are as good as some of the digital cameras
that are out there. When you take a photo on
an Ipad, and you select the camera app,
what will happen is the photo will be stored on the
photos app here, and eventually
overtime, you'll run out of room.
That way you won't be able to update any more apps
or download any more apps. So
in order to manage your apps
or manage your space the best thing to do
is to find a, off-side storage
solution for your photos.
There are a number of solutions available to you.
Perhaps the best one is
the one that you would use all the time that won't cost you any money,
and that is Flickr. So the first thing I'm going to do it I'm going to
show you what Flickr is just by going to the
Safari screen, and Safari
is our Internet Explorer and Flickr
is an actual service managed and
run by Yahoo. So if you've got a yahoo account you actually have
a Flickr account, and you just may not know about it. The benefit to
Flickr is that they give you a free
terabyte of storage.
A lot of people may not know what a terabyte is.
Put it this way, thousands and thousands of
photos can be stored
on the Flickr service. So,
part one of this is signing up for this
Flickr service, and part two is using apps to integrate with the Flickr service.
So, we're going to create an account
which I've already done. You can sign up, it's completely free. There is no fee,
no fees whatsoever, and then you could sign in.
So I tap the sign and I sign in with
my Yahoo ID, and I'm just showing you the
Yahoo service but we're not getting to the apps yet.
Once the Flickr service pops up, you'll
see a website with friends of mine, comments on photos,
and so forth and so on. The problen with the
website on an app, on an iPad is as you can imagine
it gets a little challenging. So one of the tricks is to
purchase or download free apps that integrate with Flickr, so let's just
tap the Home button right now, and with the home button
tapped, we're going to slide until
I see my photo and video folder.
Here I have stored all of my apps
that I use with photography, and you'll notice that
there are a number of apps here with the word
Flickr in it, Flickr Studio, flickring, Flicker stacker
and I'll start with Flicks stacker which is the
first app in the bunch here.
And I click on that, and Flick stacker when you first launch it will
ask you to create your
connection to your account.
So you can add as many Flicker accounts as you want by tapping the Add Account button.
And you'll notice that here is my account here.
Now I can add a different account if I need to and I have my Facebook account
as well.
So I tap on my account and over on the right hand side
is the exact same information that was found
on Flickr website.
But at this point in time, what it is, is
an app that is designed specifically for the iPad.
So let's go in reverse order. I'm going to Explorer and waht Explorer does
is it allows me to view what other people on Flickr
are posting. So here is a photo here and if I like this photo
I tap on it and I can see the photo.
Just as a quick side here,
it might be Phillip, but I'm not too sure who, but
if someone is there, if you could mute your microphone
plase, there's a little bit of feedback that we're getting
so I think it might be Phillip but if you could mute your microphone.
Alright.
you can always unmute if you have a question or use the chat window if you
have a question as well.
Thank you. Next up
as I hit the Home button.
and hit the Settings button
I have my information.
And these are broken into different categories.
I'll start with my actual photostream.
and this is my photostream
which is essentially all of my photos in reverse chronological order.
So, there's a lot of personal photos I've got here, this is a garlic nut loaf
that I made the other day that I've
pinned to Pinterest, and here is a photograph
that we all took at a boat work and so forth and so on and here are some kids
crying, and you get the gist, well what we have here
is my entire history of
my entire photos that were taken either
on a digital camera. They were either taken
on an iPad or on my iPhone
and sent to Flickr. Now i can upload photos
using this app here. I can email
photos to Flickr, you get a personal email address.
There are a number of different ways that I can get photos
onto Flickr. There is an actual Flickr
Mac and PC desktop app that you could use.
Either automatically move your photos there.
But the point is you want to move your photos to
a storage serveice so that if you ever lost your hard drive
or if you ever had any sort of major malfunction
go wrong or a fire or anything like that your photos are safe.
It's important to know that music can be recovered. Data and documents can be
recovered.
You can always download new music but you can't ever get a photo back.
When you lose it, so Flickr
is a phenomenal app and this first app here
that I'm touching is called Flick Stacker.
And again, this just shows me my
Flickr account in one form. So let's just hit the Home button.
And another one is
Flickr Studio. Both of these are available on the App Store this is just a
different layout.
There you go, there's that same garlic nut loaf. By the way it's on Pinterest, it's fantastic if
you haven't
tried this recipe it's easy, here is my
photostream. And to find my photos for me it's pulling this stuff down
from the Flickr service, and here we go, the same photos that you saw before.
I happen to have 18,180 photos in my photostream.
In the date taken, it was first, so the next time I take photos
tehy'll pop up here automatically.
Next up with Flickr is on either of these two I can create
sets and a set is just like an album.
Let's load all of my sets. Here is a trip that I took to Australia you probably
figgured out where my accent's
from. And it will find all of the photos
regarding this album. So whenever you see set think of it as an album.
Here are the photos that I have in
that order, and you'll see all of the different that I did
over there for that trip.
The other thing is a collection.
A collection is not necessarily an album.
It could be anything that
has a trend or a category.
For example, Family Milestone's. If I tap
Family Milestones, here are all of the albums
with my Family Milestones. So my daughter's birth,
Christmas, and all the photos and so forth and so on.
I feel like I'm like an uncle now and boring you with slideshows but
anyway
this gives you the gist of what that was. Let's tap
back on our main screen and again
Flick Stacker, Flickr Studio, or Flickring.
They all three do the same job but you first must go to the
Flickr service I in order to
pay, not pay, in order to sign up to the service first.
And then once you've got your log in you can you these apps
to upload your photos. Once a photo is uploaded
you no longer need to have that photo
on your photos app here, and you can just
delete those photos, and when you delete those photos
you free up room on your iPad.
Next up is another
service that's similar to Flickr.
It is called Shutterfly.
Shutterfly too has the ability
to upload photos and store your photos.
But Shutterfly does one thing
different than Flickr. First of all, you would go to
Safari, and this time you would in your URL
tap in this little 'x', you would go to 'shutterfly
.com', and the difference that Shutterfly has
is that they allow you to do stuff with your photos.
You can create a book, you can create photo artwork,
they're called, some stationary.
??? - It's the same thing that you would do normally.
You would sign up for an account. The account is free.
You would upload your photos to Shutterfly.
Once your photos are uploaded to Shutterfly
then what you would do is you would view them using
the Shutterfly app. Let's just tap on
the home button here and let's take a look at Shutterfly. when I tap in
Shutterfly
I am viewing my apps
on Shutterfly compared to my apps
on Flickr. So I don't have it- on my photos, sorry not apps.
i dont have as many photos here
but what I can do is I can tap on an album
and the photos will appear and
if there is a photo that I like I can share this
with anyone using the share button.
I can share the picture, I can assign it to a contact, I can do anything
that I need to at this point in time. And I can use this
as a slideshow. I can slide
and slide back and forth to
show people my photos. And again i don't have to
store them. I can also use the
automatic built in slideshow feature.
Which will allow me to go slow
or fast. Use it to transition and
show my photos. So I have to do it at
slideshow, and here are all of the photos
in a quick slideshow format for you.
Let's click back on that, click back here on the Home tab.
Again, theres very little to the Shutterfly app.
most of the service is done by Safari
or by any sort of web browser. But again with the Shutterfly app one thing that I do
want to point out
is that you have a very easy
upload Feature. So we go to Upload.
We'll go to my Camera Roll
and I can just tap whatever photos
I want, I just tap them,
and then view my queue
and then start my upload.
Now in a very
short amount of time, I have uploaded those core services
those core photos
and you'll see them under my iPhone pictures.
And so those core photos will appear here.
Now, we've now focused our time and attention
on photo storage apps, and that is really content
consumption, which is what the Ipad was originally created for. Consuming
information. The next thing that we want to focus
on is content creation. And again the
theme and the category for this month is photo ones,
photo apps. The next step that i wanna talk about
is an app called Over. O-v-e-r.
Now, I need to search for my apps,
so I'm going to slide as you saw here is my home screen here.
I'm gonna slide from left to right.
This reveals my search screen and all I have to do is type in:
O-v-e-r
and it will find the app for me.
Now this app allows me to take any photo, as you see the examples here,
and overlay text. All I need to do
is look for a photo from my list
and I can then select that photo
and overlay text. Let's use one that was found on the Towson website
because I always like to make these
sesseions effective for people here, and here is my Towson website.
I can add text or artwork.
One thing that I might wanna do here at this point in time.
I'm gonna go back and get a better photo
I'm gonna go back to this yellow marker here.
aI'm going to reset, and I'm gonna start over.
Let's see if I can find a better photo.
I thought that was just a cropped photo.
Alright this will be a good one. Happy New Year. So we would
tap on that, and here is a photo
and all I need to do now is add text.
The whole concept is, it's Over, so I'm adding text over
my photo. I double tap to add text
and I can now type in any text that I want and I'll make it simple.
I'll make it Happy New Year.
2013
I click on the Done button.
Here is my Happy New Year 2013, and I can drag it
anywhere that I want. So if I want my happy new year to appear up top
I can move it up there, I can put it anywhere I want.
Once I tap on the Happy New Year
I get my rule of third. Now if you have ever dealt with any photography
before, you know that the rule of thirds
tells you that these four areas here is the best place
to put any sort of focal point. So if I wanted to I can put it just down here
Happy New Year.
I can tap on the text at any point in time and edit it. I can change a
different color if
I want. Or any sort of option
that would work for me, and click Done. Now the next part is
to expand it, and I'm going to use the Pinch
technique. My cursor does not do a Pinch technique, but I'm just pinching
and I'm making the font bigger and resizing it.
Next I select
my font. So I select the font
and there are a bunch of different fonts
that are created for you and some of them are
whimsical, some of them are more
serious, but essentially, it's a matter of
finding a font. If the text is too big
you can shrink it again using the Pinch to zoom.
We're going to go with VV, Happy New Year 2013.
I drag that down and now the next thing I need to
do is save this. When I save it
it saves to the camera roll, I click on OK.
And now Share it. I can share it with any one of these services.
and I have to get these services up(?) and once I've done that
I just tap on one
and it will share it via Twitter, I hit Send.
And I have now tweeted it. I can
go back and edit it or any number of things that I need to do.
Phillip if you could just mute your microphone
please, Phillip if you could mute your microphone.
*can you tell me where that is.*
Are you on a Mac?
you might want to go up to the status bar
up in the top right hand corner there
should be a microphone option there, for you to mute.
Or down on the panel here there should be an option to mute your microphone.
We're just getting a little bit feedback, I'm sorry.
So this app that we have here I allows you to take any image,
allows you to put any text on it and reposition that text
in any place that you want. The purpose of using this
is that you would find this
with a lot of inspirational quotes or anything along those lines.
So anything that will be inspirational you could use, or just something like this
Happy New Year.
Let's tap out of this back to our Home screen.
*Rodney*
*This is Joan, what was that app
that you were just demonstrating?* The app that I was just demonstrating is
called
Over, O-V-E-R. Here is the icon.
So it's gonna be a black background with two yellow circles.
And again, the whole concept and point is to lay text
over the top in a cute and whimsical fashion.
Or it could be used for more business practices
Where you might wanna overlay a text for a magazine cover
or any number of different thins along those lines.
*OK, thanks.* And right now this is on
sale for free on the App Store, so
it's normally a couple of dollars so definitely go and get it right because it's
free.
*I have a question*
*I just looked and it's a dollar 99 right now*
It's gone up in price?
Must of just happened this morning, they had a sale.
One thing and I'm just gonna jump around a little bit.
An app that I use is called
App Shopper. This is an app that allows you to
track pricing on favorite apps, so you can create a
wishlist of apps that you want
and it will send you an email when it drops in price again.
at go and watch later price all the time(?)
That might be an option that you might wanna try if it did indeed go up in price.
We missed that window, I apologize folks, but it is well worth it if you
ever need to
find an app that will get text on top.
The next type of app is more of a productivity app, and I'm going to search
for this.
It is called Skitch. Now Skitch
is made by Evernote. If you have used
Evernote before you're probably familiar with Skitch.
Skitch looks like a little laptop. Lets activate Skitch
and it too does
text over an image but this is more
for annotations. This is great if you need to
ark up someones work.Maybe you're a professor, you had
someone do a diagram and you need to mark it up, or directions.
For example, if you want to send people to your office.
Anything that you want, you can get.
So here, for example, there's an image that's on sale now for
$39 map, a map or anything along those lines.
Let me show you how the app works. We're going to activate a new
option here, a new Skitch note.
I can Take a Photo, Choose a Photo, Create From PDF.
This is definitely helpful, obviously if you have a
file or someones paper. Draw on a Map,
Start With Blank, or Caption From Web. We're just going to Draw on a Map
and the maps that will appear and the whole United States is here.
I can type in an address and I'm going to type in Towson
University and
I hit the Search button and it will put a pin near Towson
University. My cursor does not do Pinch to zoom
so I'm just going to use my two fingers to pinch in,
and pinch in, and I wanna pinch in to the point where
I see a good definition of what Towson University is.
So here we are. Now let's say for example
you are based on
a building that does not have a clear definition.
What we want to do here is we want to take a snapshot of this map.
and the Snap button in the top right hand corner does that for you.
When you do that, here is your snapshot, and here is your annotation tools on the
side.
The first annotation tool is an arrow, so let's drag an arrow
pointing to where your office
might be. So go anywhere from where the end of the arrow will be
to where you want the arrow pointing. So you'd go away and to.
So we go away, and we drag to,
and there we are. And now
that's where your office is. Next thing is the letter 'A'.
We tap the letter 'A' and here is our text and I can just click
anywhere on the screen, and I can add text.
So let's say
Smith Hall
room 213, for example.
Then I can move that anywhere
I want. I can reposition it
as I see fit. Tap anywhere else
and I'm good. Next I can
do things like circles.
Lines, shapes,
anything that I need, to identify this. I can move any of these
objects at any point in time, reposition them accordingly.
One other feature that's neat, if you don't like the pink, obviously I can change
that
to any number of colors here. One other feature that is neat
is, let's say you get people confused
by other areas. For example, Saint Joseph
Hospital. Maybe you don't want them to know that
Saint Joseph Hospital is here. This button over here is our pixelate tool.
What that will do is it will pixelate out a portion
of the map. So it won't delete it, it will just pixelate it.
Now you've got your pixel colors, and Saint Joseph Hospital is there.
Let's say you took a photo of something that was funny
and you wanted to pixelate someones face because they didn't give you
permission.
The pixelate tool will do that for you.
Again, you have the ability to save this
to the camera roll, and you can edited at any point in time.
You can also share it. So you can create a public link
and send it to people, you can put it on a television with an Apple TV.
Email, or camera roll, anything along those lines.
Hit the Done button, and that is Skitch.
If you have an Evernot account,
Evernote accounts are free. All of your sketch notes
will sync directly with Evernote. Now we've cover Evernote in
past Bits and Bytes. Evernote is perhaps the most
popular productivity app, and so
if you have not researched it
definitely look it up. It's free and it's fantastic.
We just don't have the time to get into it right now.
Let'*** the Home tab. We're now back to our Home screen.
Now i wanna cover two other photo
creation apps. One is
beyond neat. This is pretty powerful. It is called Group Shot
The back of my photo video folder.
Group Shot appears right here.
Let's take a look at what this does. I'm going to use this sample
file, because I don't have a good example here but let me tell you what Group Shot is
designed to do.
I've got two kids that are similar ages, I've got
two kids through different ages. So 11, 5, 3, and 18 months.
So the eleven-year-old looks in the camera, the five-year-old looks in the camera,
the three-year-old never does, and the 18-month-old doesn't know what a camera is.
As you can imagine, getting all four looking at the camera at the same time
is ridiculous.
So what I do is take multiple photos
and I use Group Shot to stitch
it together. Let's choose from the library.
We're going to use there demo album because their demo album is a great
example.
Here are four photos
of a family. I'm gonna select all four.
As you can imagine in just a second,
as the photos load, here the boy is not looking at the camera.
Now why they can't build children that look at cameras or
can look at cameras, I haven't figured that out yet. But,
here there is a photo of him looking at the camera.
So what I wanna do, is, I want to
circle his face, and I want to be pretty clear that I'm circling his face,
and as I circle his face,
it shows me where his face would be in the other four photos.
I select the photo that I want to replace,
which is this one, and it performs magic and even tells you it's performing magic.
Once the magic is performed, there is the boy
and all four people are looking at the camera
and it looks just wonderful and you can't even tell-
is that pretty cool or what? *It is very cool!*
When I say it performs magic it truly does.
Up here you have the Open In button. You can
save it, you can send it to Facebook, I'm not going to do that because people will wonder why I
have strange people on my Facebook.
Twitter, Print, Email, the same thing.
When you are next out and about, if you have a camera or iPhone,
in fact, let's go so far as to say you don't even need an iPhone, just
take a regular camera. You can pull in
a camera connection kit on your iPad, I'm showing my iPad up on the screen here.
The camera connection kit part plugs in to where the power would be.
you can put a memory card into the camera connection kit
and load all your photos onto your iPad and use this app
to fix them. Just make sure you take multiple
photos so that you get the right shot.
Hopefully that gives you an understanding of how that app works.
The demos work
pretty good. It does work in real life pretty good too. You just have to make
sure that
you painstakingly
circle the persons head and don't go to far
into the background. But it is a pretty awesome.
app. The last app
that I wanna focus on because we
are coming down to the wire here in terms of
time, but i wanna leave some time for questions.
Is our app, perhaps one of my favorite apps
that allows you to very quickly create
a slideshow
set to music with your favorite
photos. It's called Slideshow
HD. That's what the app looks like.
You can search for it by going to Photo Slideshow Director.
Via Photo Slideshow Director. We are going to create a new
slideshow, and we're going to actually create
a music video at this point in time.
Over here, are all of my albums.
One of the albums that I have is
a Favorites. So I have 49 photos in my favorites.
Here are all of the photos.
what I'm going to do is I'm just going to select All.
I'm gonna add all of them, and it adds
49 photos to the slideshow.
The dye that you see here between the two photos
is a transition effect. Many of you have probably sat in a PowerPoint class
with us
before you know about transition from one slide to another.
this is just set to automaticly create the transition.
I can change anthing by
choosing, and this is the dye, meaning random transition, I can make them
all the same transition here. I'm just gonna stick with random
at this point in time. Here are my photos.
There are a few favorites that are on the back here that should not be
in my slideshow. These are more my professional photos here.
As much as I love my self I don't need to see myself in
a photo, so I'm gonna drag it and get rid of it.
I can remove
any photo that I need and
relocate any photo that I need. So I can move them off
the grid, or move them around and so forth and so on.
Here are my photos, here are my transitions. The next thing is to add music.
I tap the music icon, and let's go look for a song.
And my songs will load.
I have way too many songs so it does take forever
for it to load my songs. This is one downside
to this, if you have a lot of music it will take
a long time. Here we go, and let's go down the list.
This is a good one, My Valentine so we'll click on that one.
And we'll accept that song. Now what
we're going to do is we're going to at that song to our music.
We can add multiple songs here.
So we've got our song, and now
what should happen is
we should, here we go.
Turn this into a PowerPoint
or a slideshow presentation.
Now I'm not going to subject you to my entire family history again but I wanted you to see
*Cute baby.*
When she's not crying she is very cute.
Notice the different transitions
between the slides. I haven't done anything, you saw all of this
created just while we're here. Obviously I have different background music that I
can do. I can create an entire list.
Let's pause this at this point in time and there's a lot more that I can do. I can set
timings up. I can set
how long I can sync the music in the slideshow, this is neat.
And I say Yes I want to do that. What that does is,
if the song is three minutes and 12 seconds long
the photo transitions will move to three minutes and 12 seconds long.
There's a lot more I can do as well. Over here
I can pull photos from any of my web albums.
I can edit any photos,
add text to any photos, so I can
add different text transitions. Again, if you've gone through a PowerPoint training
with us
a lot of the techniques that you've learned in PowerPoint work the same way
here. Over here I can pan
and zoom, which basically will zoom
in on a photo and back out. Any number of different icons or options that I have
Then I can apply different themes as well.
Blur backgrounds, white background, static frames,
wooden frames, dynamic, horizontal, you name it and I can customize my
own themes. Now this was on sale when
I Iacquired it. It is normally a
$4.99 app. Someone out there
is probably already on the App Store and can probably
chime in and tell me what the price is in the chat window if you could.
But it's normally $4.99. Sometimes it's on sale.
Sometimes it's free, again that App Shopper app would be the best
tool to use to help identify
what the pricing is on that.
We are now down to,
we've covered the different apps that I wanted to go over in todays workshop.
We're a little ahead of time, we had scheduled from 10:30 to 11:30.
It would be a great opportunity right now
if anyone is here and would like to ask
any questions that you have. Either of the workshops that we cover or anything
iPad related. I'd be happy to help address them.
*Did you already do the apps,
like work out apps or exercise apps?*
The eating healthy apps? No I have not done that yet.
*okay, I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.*
The work out apps are basically more,
it's not just work out. I'ts going to be
health and wellness apps.
I call them lifestyle apps, but that will be things like
using
Fitbit, and what Fitbit does.
Using the food tracker apps.
There's a great food tracking app that allows you to scan in
barcodes of food and it will automatically calculate the calories for you.
And so what we will do,
we will put together,
Cyndi and I, when we do our Bits and Bytes
schedule we'll put together what the categories are. So that when you sign up
you'll know
exactly what you're getting into
for the next week, or for the next session I should say.
Great question, by the way. Anything else that I can help folks with
while we have the time?
If I could just mention, if you have not given us your
last name,
I was gonna ask Rod to put together a list a hard copy of these apps and we would be
happy to send you e-mail
with them, but I don't have everybody's last name. So
if you could just send it to me privately that would be fantastic.
And i can compose that list.
Excellent folks, so what I wanna do,
what I'll do is I'll go over the six apps that
we covered right now,
and as I siad, we'll put them together in writing for you. So again,
in order that we delivered the
workshop on, we started with the Flickr services and the Flickr app.
There are three different apps
FlickStacker, Flickstudio, an Flinckering.
You're going to have to pick one that's going to work
for you best. It's all a matter of personal preference.
Next up we have an app that does the same thing that Flickr does,
but a different service that's called Shutterfly.
The Shutterfly service allows you to buy books,
and cards, and stationary.
The third app that we covered was the Over app.
And that allows you to take any image and put text
over it. And that's this app.
We found out that that was on sale, but now it's $1.99 , but it's well worth it.
The fourth app that we covered was
Skitch. Let's go and take a look at that.
Skitch is part of the Evernote family.
With Skitch, it allows you to
annotate over any image, web image or anything along those lines.
The fifth app that we covered was our Group
Shot magic app, and we got some "ooo's" and "aaa's" with that one.
That is the ability to take four photos from one family
and replace the kids face. And the
sixth and final app is Slideshow
HD, which is also known as
Photo Slideshow Director. So you can
look up Photo Slideshow Director. Those where the six apps that we covered,
and like all of our Bits and Bytes
once a month we go over different apps that will help
make your lives just a little easier. So, folks I'd like to thank you.
If there are no other questions, I really
appreciate you taking the time and being with us today and
again, we hope to see you at the next workshop, thank you.
If I could just add one more thing. At the very top of your screen you have
a drop down tools menu.
If you could just move your mouse to the top of the screen you'll see it come down.
In there you have a chat button. If you click on that chat button
then that's how you can tell me your last name, or
you can put any questions you'd like in the chat window, just in case you
didn't know that.
Thanks again folks.