How to Create a Photo Album on the iPhone

Using the photo album for storing and viewing images on your new iphone is similar to the way Tom Cruise looks through the pre-crime video streams from the Precogs, in the movie "Minority Report", except you don't need gloves or judges!
It's really cool!

The great news is, although it may seem like a complicated piece of technology to work, if you have fingers you can work it! Actually, I take that back, if you don't have fingers, you can still work it!

Personally I love the idea of having my phone, ipod (mp3 player for music or videos), internet access, e-mail, and all my photos in one state-of-the-art cool looking gadget!

WORD Of THE WISE: although grandparents love photos, I would stick to a good old fashion photo album as a present if I were you, that is unless yours is ther very techno-savy type of grandparent...mine is not. I never could get grandma to use the speed dial or the scroll for looking un numbers on her phone: she had me put a sticky note with our numbers instead.
Get my point?

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• iphone
• fingers (or pointing object)
• photos (or desire to take some)

1. Click on the Add button
   (This button looks like a plus sign, it is located in the bottom left hand corner of you iphoto window)

2. Choose Album from the pop-up menu.

3. Type in a name for your album
   
   pointer: it is always useful to use names you will easily associate to the content inside your album.

4. Click create.
   
   The album appears in your source list.
   Guess what? you are ready to start your photo album.

5. 
   From Minority Report to iphone....

   Click on Library, when all your photos appear, just drag them to your new album.

Tips & Warnings

• How do you get the photos: 1- Apple iphone comes with a 2 megapixel camera. You take them! 2- You can easily upload the photos from your computer (basically you will be using iphoto).
• To change perspective to match the photo on your screen; simply rotate your iphone to horizontal or vertical position and voila everything inside your view rotates and reframes itself.
• Other things you need to know: 1- You zoom in by pinching inwardly...the oposite motion zooms out. 2- You can move around a picture my dragging your finger around 3- You zoom back out to original size by double tapping on the screen again
• The apple phone does have a downside; your fingers better be clean and grease free!

Resources

• apple iphone has this guided video tour

[blue280]

on 8/31/2009 Just found out that the photos are NOT being duplicated. Read the thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6899737� - It is very helpful.

[blue280]

on 8/31/2009 The easiest solution I found was to make a folder that Itunes collects your pictures from and then put sub-folders within it. The only issue with this is that it will still put all your pictures into the camera roll and the photo library (i.e. duplicating them). Not worked out how to stop this yet :os

[shirts6]

on 7/15/2009 How do you transfer photos to iphone in alphabetical order from a mac? My photos in iphoto are alphabetized, but do not transfer to my iphone in the same order

[se13311]

on 11/14/2008 if you use windows platform try "uTunePhotos" to manipulate your iphone camera roll and photo albums.
http://www.mangaware.com/uTunePhotos_read_more.htm

[kacee999]

on 9/20/2008 I agree...what screen do you have to be in in order to start???? I have a camera screen and I have a daisy screen (photos) and neither has an add button. I have no "iPhoto" button or screen. I've had this for two months and am very frustrated. I read the instructions and STILL cannot figure it out. HELP!!!