How to Put Pictures on an iPod

Video Transcript

"One of the cool things about having an ipod is being able to put your pictures onto it. Hi, I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyles expert and I'm going to show you just that: how to put pictures onto your ipod. One of the first things you need to do is to hook up your ipod to your computer by putting on the cable and hooking the usb port to the usb port on your computer. Next thing you want to do is launch itunes. You see itunes is the porthole to get things on, manage, and get things off of your ipod which makes it awesome to have a computer based interface to be able to do that. What we want to do here is that once we've connected it, we'll see under devices, here's our "Rokosz media ipod" here. We're going to go over to photos and what we want to do here now nothing is selected so we're going to "sync photos from". Now here's where your choices come into play. You can either sync photos from your iphoto library, if you manage everything through the iphoto protocol. Or, through your generic pictures file which is part of your default inside of your documents. Or, you can choose a folder. In this case, I like to store all my photos, because there's a lot of them, in an external device. Let them load it up and then I'll take the external device on and off at my leisure. So I'm going to "chose folder" here which launches a finders style window. Navigate down over here to my external hard drive. I'm going to go down to " DCIM" which is where I keep my pictures, down into here, and then you can see all my jpegs. All I have to do is click "open", this changes it. "Sync photos from " this folder right here. Now, there is a certain level of photo that you use that displays best on an ipod. But, sometimes you might want to be able show other people or download or give them to the photos also or back them up in their full full quality. In which case there, the ipod will actually store a copy in it's drive space of what it looks like, a second copy, in full quality. All you have to do to make that happen, a full resolution is to click that. Now that we've got that setup here, we simply hit "apply." You are going to see that it's syncing, it's optimizing the photos. Do not disconnect. When it says "isync complete, okay to disconnect", you may do so. Now you have all the photos you chose for as long as your memory will allow and full quality to share if you're out and about for other people to download off of your ipod unit. So that's just that easy. Choose 'em, sync 'em. I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert saying "stream ya later.""