Quick Look: Importing Your iPhone Photos

(or iPod Touch Screen Captures, as it is with me)

To begin, simply plug your iPhone or iPod Touch into your Mac and do something about iTunes to avoid enormously long backups, which my computer just now insisted on starting (I got away with it for two weeks too long it looks like).  Your device will show up in the side of iPhoto, similar to how it does in iTunes, or how an external camera is displayed.  Simply select this device, and your photos will show up on the right.

You can select the individual photos and import them one by one, or you can import all using the handy button in the lower right hand corner.

You can even enter an event name and description, if you like, so that it shows up in your iPhoto library as such.  Once the import is complete, you’ll be prompted to either delete the photos or leave them on the device.

This may seem obvious, but I’ve been emailing screenshots to myself one by one for the last two or three weeks.  It’s not quite as fun once you’ve done it forty times.  It took me looking at Ed run iPhoto on his shiny new computer to realize later in the evening that you could import them directly into iPhoto (although It would be nice if they could be manage from iTunes where EVERYTHING ELSE YOU USE YOUR iPHONE FOR IS MANAGED, but I digress).

~ by joshuadlwilliams on July 31, 2008.