iPod: The Missing Manual, 11th Edition

Chapter 15. Picture Your Photos On the iPod

You’ll learn to:

• Copy photos from computer to iPod

• View pics on your ’Pod

• Play slideshows

• Display photos and slideshows on your TV

• Share photos using iCloud’s Photo Stream

WHO WANTS TO SHARE treasured photos with friends when they’re in a cracked plastic picture sleeve? If you have an iPod Touch, Nano, or Classic, you can transfer your prized shots from your computer to your ’Pod and display them on a glossy color screen wherever you happen to be.

And if you have an iPod Touch running Apple’s iOS 6 software, you can share photos in more ways than ever: You can tweet them to your Twitter followers, post them on your Facebook page, zip them to other iOS users as instant messages, add them to your iCloud photo stream, or go retro and send them as good old-fashioned v attachments.

The picture-perfect fun doesn’t stop there, either. This trio of ’Pods can create slideshows of your images right there in the palm of your hand. And as with many previous iPod models, you can plug the Touch or the Classic into a TV set and enjoy your stills on a big living-room screen. This chapter shows you how to do everything but microwave the popcorn.

Set Up: Get Ready to Put Photos on Your iPod

TO MOVE PICTURES TO your ’Pod, you need a computer loaded with iTunes and an iPod outfitted with a screen—sorry, Shuffle owners, the photos thing is just not happening for you, ...