Chapter 9

“Smile”: Taking Pictures with Your iPhone

In This Chapter

Taking pictures

Focusing your shot

Importing your pictures

Viewing and admiring pictures

Using PhotoStream

Creating a slideshow

Finding pictures by face, event, and place

Camera phones may outsell dedicated digital cameras nowadays, but with relatively few exceptions, camera phones are rather mediocre picture takers. Come to think of it, most mobile phones don’t show off digital images all that well, either.

Of course, most mobile phones aren’t iPhones.

The device you have recently purchased (or are lusting after) is a spectacular photo viewer. And though its built-in digital camera isn’t the one we’d rely on for snapping pictures during an African safari or even your kid’s fast-paced soccer game, the iPhone in your steady hands can produce perfectly acceptable photos.