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138 Chapter 9 : Photos, videos, and music
Camera
Take a picture
Your smartphone comes with an easy-to-use, 5-megapixel camera. You can
use the camera to take pictures, and then use the Photos app to view them
and send them to your friends and family (see
Share a picture ). To add a
personal touch to your smartphone, use your pictures as your wallpaper
(see
Save a picture as wallpaper ) and as caller ID images (see Add a picture
to a contact ).
1 Open Camera .
2 To take the picture in landscape view, turn your smartphone 90
degrees.
3 Slide out the keyboard and press Space or tap onscreen to
take the picture.
The picture you took is automatically saved in JPG format. You can keep
snapping pictures, and then go to Photos to look at them and delete the
ones you don’t want.
Review pictures
1 After taking a picture, tap the thumbnail of the picture in the lower-left
corner of the screen. This opens the picture in the Photo roll of the
Photos application.
2 Swipe left or right on the screen to view other pictures you took.
Photos
Look at pictures
To get pictures on the smartphone, you can do any of the following:
• Take a picture with your smartphone’s camera (see Take a picture ).
• Copy pictures from your computer (see Copy files between your
smartphone and your computer ).
• Receive pictures as email attachments (see Open email attachments ).
• Receive pictures as part of a multimedia message (see Receive and view
text and multimedia messages ).
• Copy a picture from a web page (see Copy a picture from a web page ).
TIP
Press and hold Space to take pictures in continuous burst mode. Release
Space to stop taking pictures. Continuous burst mode allows you to capture
several images with a single action.
DID YOU KNOW
?
Your smartphone offers another way to “take a picture”: You
can save any currently displayed screen as a picture file (also known as a screen
capture or screenshot). To take a picture of the currently displayed screen, press
and hold
Option + Sym + P . The picture is saved in PNG format to the Screen
captures album in Photos and is stored in the screencaptures folder of the USB
drive. You can work with it like any other picture.