Daddy Troy aka Gear Daddy reviews the new iPhoto by apple. This father friendly software is perfect for new photographers to manage family photos. The new iPhoto features include face recognition and geo locating that is guaranteed to enhance your digital photo book, and give new life to the term online photo album. When used with a digital camera with gps sync, the iPhoto can transform travel books, photo books, and pictures of kids into an professional photography family album. In this video Daddy Troy takes a hiking trip to Pedernales Falls State Park in Central Texas and teaches you how to create a flip book, and share your photos online using mobile me, facebook or other cloud computing software. Grab your map, your kids, and your gps camera and get out there and snap some great family pictures, then impress your family and friends by organizing your digital pictures in iPhoto. DadLabs ep. 523 Brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Daddy Troy: Welcome back to Gear Daddy, Im your Host, daddy Troy

Today I'm going to talk about an indispensable piece of software for families - its called iphoto. It helps you manage your family photos, and it has some new really amazing features such as face recognition So stick around till after the break.

Today's episode is sponsored by Baby Bjorn, They make some of the best baby gear on the planet, it's father friendly and check out this cover, a dad right on the cover. Baby Bjorn.

So this is iphoto by apple. One of things I really like about it as a parent is that it has multiple ways by which I can organize my photos. So here i've got them all organized by date or by an event. Today I want to focus on an event were my family and I went hiking at Perdenales State Park in Central Texas.

Down here at the bottom you see me scrolling through all the photos in that event. Really cool feature. I can do a quick preview. And I'm going to click on that event and there are all the photos I took that day. One of the features I'm really excited about with the new iphoto is face recognition. Check this out.

Let me pick a picture of my son. Lets tell i photo that I want to give this particular face a name. SO click on name feature and it know right were he is. Now it know that this face is my sons face. Click done and now I can go back to this event.

Rather than looking at it as an event lets look at it lets now look at it under the faces tab. And you'll see that it shows up as one of the faces on the cork board. I'm going to click on him and it goes through the rest of my photo collection and it finds photos that also might be my son.


There is this really quick tab I can press right here that says "confirm name" and you'll see these little words that come up beneath each picture and it asks me to confirm or not confirm if its my son and it actually focuses right in on the face.

So I'm going to go through and say, "yes, this is my son" . Notice how it turns green.
Yes this is my son,no that is not my son. And the more of these I click the better it gets at predicting who my son is.

And you'll now notice that all these pictures along the top are pictures that have my son in them. I can go back to the main cork board and I can just cycle through and see all these pictures of my son that are just stored under this image.

So here I am back at the events page and I want to talk about the geo location feature of iphoto.if you have a camera that has geo locating or gps capabilities it will know where you took a picture and transmit that information over to iphoto.

For instance this picture right here was taken while me and my son where biking on town lake in downtown Austin. If I click on the little information button I can actually look at a map and it knows right where I was in down town Austin. Pretty amazing that the camera actually told the computer that that was where I was.

Now the pictures that I took from the day I went to Pedernales state park. These were not taken with a camera that is able to geo locate. And so therefore I want to go in and tell iphoto they were. So I click on the i button and there is a map. I can actually type in "Pedernales falls State Park" and it finds it right there in the little bend in the river where we by the falls. This is a great feature for families because it can help you remember where you where when you took these photos.

Here's where it gets really fun. I can take all of these photos and go down here to the bottom and tell iphoto that I want to make a book out of these photos. This is really cool. I going to tell it to make a travel book, its got this travel theme that apple has already loaded for you. And I can drag my two favorite pictures down, such as my son hugging my daughter. And I can type this as our trip to "Pedernales State Park"

And well look at the inside of the book. I'm going to go the next page. I can type all this text about our trip and put a picture of my son and daughter on the way their anticipating the trip.

And then, one of the coolest features, Apple has a set of maps already loaded in. And you'll notice here that this is a map of texas, of the texas coast and it pinpoints the nearest city and actually puts a map in of where we were.

This is really fun to put your kids images in here like this. There is a picture of mom and son. And there's another picture of them learning to climb. I'll drag that picture in there. But if you don't think your really good at graphic design or you just want to do it quickly check this out.

At the bottom here I can do what's called "auto flow". So a travel book is actually a pretty big book, it's eight and half by eleven approximately sized book. But I can also buy a little flip book.

Let me show you that now, here. I'm going to go back to this particular event and um click on this event and I know want to make a new type of book. I'm going to make a little flip book thats three and half inches by two and 5/8ths inches. I'm going to choose that and click on auto flow. And watch this. It automatically takes all my images and stick them in the book for me.Pretty neat.

You'll notice down here at the bottom right. One click. Lay down your credit card and that book is shipped right to you. This little flip book costs under four dollars. it's a great way to have a permanent copy of your trip.

And you look in the lower part of the screen, Apple has made it really easy to share with their online service called "mobile me" which is a cloud service in which all of your photos calender and everything else is stored on their servers. It's great.

It's also got Facebook. You can also select a single image and go right to the email program and it'll email an image that is either high quality, middle quality, or low quality whatever you tell it. It's really easy to share images with your friends.

So here is a really cool feature. I'm going to select all the pictures and I'm going to make a slide show that feels like a movie and Im going to export it and share it with all my family and apple will actually choose the music for me. It's really cool. Watch this.

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So thats iphoto by apple. Next week I'll be reviewing another piece of apple software- Garage Band.

This weeks episode was sponsored by Baby Bjorn. The make some of the best baby gear on the planet. Baby Bjorn.

Now a big plug for Dadlabs.com if your a dad who likes to go on hikes with your kid we have a whole user group dedicated to just that.

We'll see you next week on gear daddy and all week on Dadlabs.com.