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Club Member Sarah asked this question this week. She needed to provide a profile shot that had square dimensions, but only had one with rectangular dimensions.
This is such an easy thing to do on the Mac. There are a couple of ways to do it, but one in particular is just so quick - and worth discovering as it can come in handy in so many situations.
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I featured this tip about a year ago, but was reminded of it by a friend this week.
If you have some slides that you would like to scan into digital format, there is an App that may also be worth a try - and it is from the same people who made one of my favourite photo scanning apps (which I have covered in this previous Handy Hint: For those who are looking to organise all those old photos - there's a great app for that!).  One of the things that iTandCoffee is asked to assist with on a regular basis is issues relating to photos for special occasions - both happy and sad occasions.
More recently, these requests have been for converting HEIC format photos to JPG and to crop and blur the background of a photo so that only the foreground person is in focus. For the second one in particular, I thought it might be worth sharing how the blurring of photos can be easily done if you don't have any fancy photo editing software, and where you haven't used the 'Portrait' feature of the newer devices. In fact, you can achieve the required blurring using a couple of everyday apps on your Mac (if you have one). Or, using a mobile device, you can utilise a range of apps that provide blurring capability (and more). 
This question was asked this week by Club member Margaret B as part of a remote support appointment. I promised to included the answer in this week's newsletter, in case anyone else is having difficulty with this.
The questions was: How do you save an image that you receive in an email? In older versions of iOS, you used to have the Save Image/s option in the 'Reply' set of option. But that option is no longer there. So where is it? 9/12/2020 1 Comment Are you planning to organise all those old photos over Christmas? There's a great app for that! Over the Christmas break a couple of years ago, I finally got around to sorting out a pile of old family photos - photos that I wanted to scan and save as digital versions and then share with the rest of my family.
So, I thought ... Wouldn't it be great if you could just point your iPhone at a set of old photos and have them scanned, cropped, clarified and saved to your Photos app? Even better, wouldn't it be great if you could also put the information written on the back of the photo onto this digital photo, so that you don't lose that information? And, even better again, wouldn't it lovely if those photos then appeared in your Photos timeline in the correct year/month, so that you could easily find them again. 
I have often been asked in classes about photos about whether there is a way in the Photos app to record details about the photo.
The good news is that now it is really easy to add a 'caption' to any photo, from the Photos app on Mac, iPad or iPhone. Here's how. 7/11/2020 0 Comments How to set the date on a scanned photo - on Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Google Photos Just recently, we ran the online class Organising Photos (Old and New) on the iPad and iPhone, where (amongst lots of other things) we looked at how to really easily scan old photos straight into your Photos library on the iPad and iPhone. (We also looked at the change to the Photos app that arrived in iOS/iPad OS 14.)
If you missed that class, and would like to watch the 70-minute video pre-recording of it, here is the link to purchase access. This also gives you access to the slideshow from that class. (Note. Those of you who have Premium or Online iTandCoffee Club membership can watch the video here for free. New members welcome!! Here's the link.) One of the key questions that I get in relation to scanning of old photos is How do you change the date of an already scanned photo or of any photo that does not have the correct date (eg where the camera date was not set correctly)?  When you have a collection of photos that you want to share with others, how do you achieve this without having to send all the photos to those other people? Your collection of photos may be to large to send in an email.
There is a feature of the Photos app on all Apple devices that allows the sharing of an Album via your iCloud. In the video short tutorial below, we look at how to use useful feature on the iPad and iPhone - including the latest screens from iOS / iPadOS 14. 
When browsing your photos in the Photos app on the iPhone or iPad, you may come across a photos that would be a lovely background - or Wallpaper - for your Lock screen or Home screen.
You can always adjust these background by visiting Settings -> Wallpaper, and then finding that photo amongst your long list of photos. You might consider making it a Favourite so that you can more easily find it when doing this. But there is a much easier way to set a photo as your Wallpaper directly from the Photos app.  At the Photos on the Mac class series run recently by iTandCoffee, an attendee at these online classes wanted to know how to get photos onto her Mac from her Android device.
Here's the answer to that question. |
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