Most of the reporting to date on logically focuses on getting your pictures into the program, dealing with (the syncing service used to copy all your pictures onto all your devices), the Adjustment panel’s smart sliders, and so on. In this column, you’ll learn a few slick Photos tricks that you may not have read about anywhere else. Read on and prepare to be impressed! Eight Levels sliders Photos sports some seriously advanced image editing controls in its Adjustments panel, the most powerful of which is Levels. But wherein a Levels adjustment in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements has just three sliders, Photos’ has eight. This gives you precise control over the brightness levels—hence the adjustment’s name—of allthe tones in your image.
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For example, you can control brightness levels in just the darkest shadows, just the midtones, just the lightest highlights, in the tones that fall between shadows and midtones, and in the tones that fall between midtones and highlights (and you can control which tones are affect by the latter two using the sliders perched at the top of the histogram). Plus, you can adjust the RGB histogram—the one that shows the red, green, and blue graphs superimposed atop each other—or each color channel’s individualhistogram. You can also adjust the luminance channel, which produces a histogram based on how our eyes perceive color. To open a Levels adjustment, open the Adjustments panel, click Add and choose Levels from the resulting menu. Behold, Photos’ eight Levels sliders (one is hidden behind this menu). Of course, teaching you how to use them all is fodder for another column!
Add text to any slide in a slideshow project Yes, you read that right—you can add custom text to any slide. To do it, activate a slide in a saved slideshow project and click the plus symbol at lower right of the Photos window (not shown). From the resulting menu, choose Add Text. Highlight the placeholder text that appears and enter whatever you want. You can’t change the position of the text, but you can change fonts, size, and text color using OS X’s Fonts panel. Press Command-T to summon the Fonts panel. Using the eyedropper tool in OS X’s Colors panel, you can steal a color that exists in the image and use it for text.
I have a picture and video slideshow I am making, but I want to add text to some of the pictures and maybe a few pages of just text (section intros etc). Just had a quick look in iMovie and I can't see any way of adding text to individual photos only a way of adding titles, there doesn't seem to be any way of stopping the spinning and bouncing effects that are automatically applied to the text.
Customize pages in a book project while you’re viewing all the page thumbnails Happily, you can change page layouts, swap pictures between pages, and add pictures to pages while you’re viewing all the page thumbnails in a book project (in other words, you don’t have to double-click a page to do it). As a result, you get a much broader view of the overall book project than you ever did in iPhoto because you can see all the pages while you’re designing the layout. To swap pictures between pages, click and hold your mouse button until the picture on the page sprouts a blue border, and then drag it atop an image on another page. To move the pages themselves, click to activate them and then drag the handle that appears underneath them (shown below). The key to swapping pictures between pages is to keep holding down your mouse button until the picture itself—not the page—is active.
Though when you start to drag, the blue border around the image itself disappears. To change the layout of page, click to activate a page and then open the Layout panel by clicking the button circled below. Scroll through the resulting Layout panel to find the layout you want and give it a swift click to apply it. If you’ve got any unused images in your project, they appear in the Unused section at the bottom of the window—just drag a photo onto a page to place it. The Layout panel gives you quick access to all the page layouts a design theme contains.
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Add a custom dark edge vignette You can easily apply a customizable dark edge vignette to any picture. Just open an image in Edit mode and then click Adjust (or press the A key on your keyboard). Next, click the Add button at upper right and from the resulting menu, choose Vignette.