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We're at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco with the latest news about the show. Check back often this week for updates!
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- Jobs Clears the Air on Health Issue
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To take a screenshot of something other than the entire screen, press Command-Shift-4. You'll get a crosshairs cursor with which you can drag out a selection rectangle. However, there are some other tricks you can use after pressing Command-Shift-4:
- Press the space bar to select the entire window that the cursor is over; the resulting screenshot will even get a nice drop shadow.
- Hold down the space bar while dragging out a selection to move your selection rectangle around on the screen. Let up on the space bar to resize the rectangle.
- Hold down Shift while dragging out a selection to constrain the selection in either horizontal or vertical orientation, depending on the direction of your drag.
- Hold down Option while dragging out a selection to expand the selection around a center point.
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| DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's photoprinto
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On to this week's drawing! Holiday cards bug me. Buying pre-printed cards and just signing them feels like a cop-out, but hand-writing individual notes to the 130 or so people on our list is far too much work. For some years we've addressed the problem with a holiday letter that we enclose in a card, but that approach lacks panache. The last two years we instead designed our cards in InDesign, adding photos from the year and the text of the holiday letter, and then had them printed on glossy, pre-scored stock. It's still a lot of work, and it's not cheap (though no more so than commercial holiday cards), but the results are worth it, and the cards engender lots of nice comments.
So when Greg Scown and Philip Goward of SmileOnMyMac told me at Macworld Expo they'd come up with a new program, called photoprinto, that makes it easy to design both entire photo albums and page layouts with text and photos, I asked them to simulate my holiday card layout, which took me quite some time in InDesign. A few minutes later, and they'd done a great mock-up; photoprinto really did make photo layouts easy.
Needless to say, photoprinto can import photos from iPhoto or from a folder; it can create single sheets or full multi-page photo albums; and it can help you go beyond what's possible in iPhoto with a set of customizable, full-graphic, album templates for many occasions; numerous frames; and a variety of effects that you can apply to photos, including captions, cropping, soft edges, and more.
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