iPad™ For Dummies®

Chapter 10. You Oughta Be in Pictures

In This Chapter

• Importing your pictures

• Viewing and admiring pictures

• Creating a slideshow

• Using pictures for wallpaper

• E-mailing pictures

• Assigning photos to contacts

• Adding photos to MobileMe

Throughout this book, we sing the praises of the iPad's vibrant multitouch display. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more appealing portable screen for watching movies or playing games. As you might imagine, the iPad you have recently purchased (or are lusting after) is also a spectacular photo viewer. Images are crisp and vivid, at least those that were properly shot by you. (C'mon, we know Ansel Adams is a distant cousin.) Over the next few pages, you discover how best to make the digital photos that reside on the iPad come alive, no matter how they managed to arrive on your machine. Though we regret that out of the gate, the iPad lacks a built-in camera — we would have loved to see one as much for its potential virtues in letting you engage in video chats versus actually capturing snapshots — we can't get too down on Apple for version 1.0 shortcomings. In other words, when it comes to pictures and the iPad, we're focusing on the positive.

Importing Pictures

Even in the absence of a digital camera, you'll discover a few ways to get pictures onto the iPad. Alas, one of the methods involves buying an accessory. We zoom in in the following sections.

Syncing pix

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