Chapter 9

“Smile”: Taking Pictures with Your iPhone

In This Chapter

arrow Taking pictures

arrow Focusing your shot

arrow Importing your pictures

arrow Viewing and admiring pictures

arrow Using Photo Stream and Shared Photo Stream

arrow Creating a slideshow

arrow Finding pictures by face, event, and place

Camera phones may outsell dedicated digital cameras nowadays, but — with exceptions — camera phones are mediocre picture takers.

One of the biggest of those exceptions is the iPhone. The device you have recently purchased (or are lusting after) is a spectacular photo viewer. And though its built-in digital camera isn’t the one we’d rely on for snapping pictures during an African safari or perhaps even your kid’s fast-paced soccer game, the iPhone in your steady hands can produce perfectly acceptable, if not really good, photos. ...

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