Hello again! You are most wlecome, and please step right in for the next episode on using your iphone and/or ipad to enhance your memory-keeping and scrapbooking! There's a pdf at the foot of the post for additional details on the how-tos, so please do help yourself :). Today, we're managing photos and finding out ...
- where your photos are stored
- how to enable Photostream
- moving/copying photos between the iphone, the ipad, computer, camera
Where are my photos?
A photo taken with your iphone or ipad goes straight into your Camera Roll. You can leave your photos there, or set up albums to make it easier to find what you want ...

Photostream holds a copy of the photos you take on the iphone or ipad in the icloud. It will keep the last 1000 photos you've taken, and stores new photos for 30 days to give you time to copy them into more permanent storage (like your computer).
If you enable Photostream on your iphone and ipad, then a photo taken on the iphone will appear automatically on the ipad, and vice versa. (You can also enable Photostream on your Apple computer and the photos will go straight into iPhoto or Aperture if you have an up-to-date version of either of these).
How do I enable Photostream?
Easy! The instructions below are shown as for the iphone but apply equally to the ipad. You'll need to enable Photostream on both devices.

How do I move/copy photos between the iphone, ipad, camera and computer ?
There are four possible ways (to my knowledge!) of doing this:
- let Photostream do it for you (see above) for the ipad, iphone, computer
- use a piece of kit
- email it to yourself: fine for one or two photos at a time
- use Dropbox (www.dropbox.com)
The first option, Photostream, we've looked at above. It will seamlessly sync your photos between the ipad and iphone (and your computer if you use the up-to-date iPhoto or Aperture).
The second option requires some pieces of kit:

The Apple camera connection kit comes with two bits: a Secure Digital card connector if you use one of these in your camera, or a camera cable connector. I use the latter. The list below tells you which bits of kit you need for each combination of devices. (The Apple USB cable you will already have; it's the one supplied with each Apple device).
- iphone/ipad - computer: Apple USB cable and Preview (on your computer in the Applications folder, see pdf below)
- iphone - ipad: Apple USB cable and camera connection kit
- camera - ipad: camera cable and camera connection kit
Using the camera connection kit is quite straightforward. As soon as you plug it in, it will tell you what to do, but I've added detailed help and images in the pdf.
The third option, emailing, is very easy. It's a quick way to get an image from your iphone to your ipad (or vice versa) or to your computer. It is only really suitable for one or two images at a time.

The fourth option is Dropbox: your own free storage-in-the-cloud box where you can keep any types of files (photos, Word documents, presentations, bits of video etc). You can send files there from any devices you have, and download them onto any other of your devices. You can, for instance, upload photos to it while you're travelling (when you have a wi-fi connection) and should anything happen to your camera, they'll be there waiting for you to access from your computer back home. You'll need to install Dropbox on all your devices (very easy), and the apps for it are free.
Next steps
Well, that's really all there is to it! Pick one or two of the ways of managing your photos above which will work best in your situation, and off you go ...
If there is anything (and I mean anything) which is unclear to you, either in the post or on the pdf, then please do get back to me on here or via email (alexaatclaradotcodotuk). I know how frustrating it is to read an instruction and find that a non-obvious-to-me step has been omitted, and I really want this to be accessible and fun as you try out another tool to enhance your scrapbooking :).
The pdf is below. (For some reason, the small version of the cover page right is a little blurry but if you click on it it will open sharp and clear in another window).
Download COTMManagingYourPhotos (pdf)
Hoping very much you'll pop back next week for getting up-and-away with Keynote! See you then?