Using Pages with iPhoto Book

Has anyone used Pages to create a page in an iPhoto Book and do you have any suggestions/tips?

Create the page and do a print to PDF using the send pdf to iPhoto option
See old Toad's tutorial #19 for more specifics - http://web.mac.com/toad.hall/OldToadsTutorials/
LN

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    In PS under Edit->Color Settings Working Spaces set Grayscale to Dot Gain 20% and set the RGB menu to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. This is for future uses.
    Now open each file in PS CS2 from withing iPhoto, go to the Image->Mode menu and select RGB. Save the changes, Command+S, and that's it. The photo will then appear normally in iPhoto.
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    Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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    3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
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    If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
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    3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
    This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
    If you ever do any scanning of B/W photos always scan as color.
    OT
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  • How to place a single photo, centered on page in iPhoto book layout, without it filling entire page layout?

    how to place a single photo, centered on page, in and iPhoto book layout?

    unless you can find a page layout like that you can not - you can create a custom page in Pages or word or other program and use it - Old Toad rebularry posts instructions as well as links to the tools necessary to to it
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  • Using Photoshop with Iphoto

    I've set the editing preference to use photoshop as the editor and when I click on a photo and then the edit icon, it launches photoshop but doesn't open the picture in photoshop. Any help would be appreciated.
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    Also, after you get the problem solved, this may be of some help:
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    This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
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  • Anyone help with Iphoto Book???

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    anyone know what happens if you leave a frame blank -- will Apple print the frame and it looks ridiculous --
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    Hi,
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  • Using Pages with iOS. How do I reduce image file size when I create a document with embedded images?

    Hi,
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    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 21 décembre 2011 18:32:19
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  • Using Elements with iPhoto

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  • Problem with iPhoto Book and pictures

    Hello,
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    You cannot change the actual sizes of the frames in the books. You can make some adjustments to the way your photo is displayed by double-clicking on it. You can resize the photo and move the photo within the frame, but that is about all you can do.
    For information about the iPhoto books, check out this website: http://www.lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes/
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  • Using picasa with iphoto?

    I was considering downloading Picasa as an easy way to share photos with family. If I do so, will I be forced to chose between using one or the other for editing/viewing. Do they work well together?

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  • Need help with iphoto book.

    I made one iphoto book and it turned out great! However, now I am trying to make another one and I can not get the photos to 'stick' on the page. I watched the video over and over trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've been trying to figure this out for over a week. Please help!

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