If you store photos in an iPhoto library on a Mac, or in a photo library managed by Adobe Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements on a Windows PC, you can transfer photos to your color-display iPod automatically, and synchronize your iPod to your library so that any changes you make to the library are copied to your iPod. You can also limit the transfer and synchronization to albums or collections rather than the entire library.
To transfer all photos in a library to a color-display iPod and keep your iPod synchronized with your photo library, follow these steps:
1. Connect the color-display iPod to your computer.
Your iPod must be connected for you to change the update preferences. iTunes starts automatically when you connect the iPod to your computer.
2. Select the iPod in the iTunes Source pane.
Your iPod appears in the Source pane using the name you gave it when you installed the iPod software.
3. Click the iPod Options button on the bottom-right side of the iTunes window, or click the iPod button in the iTunes Preferences dialog.
The iPod Options button appears only when an iPod is connected and selected in the Source pane. You can also choose iTunes --> Preferences on a Mac or Edit --> Preferences on a Windows PC, and click the iPod button - whether or not the iPod is selected in the Source pane (although it has to be connected). The iPod Preferences dialog appears.
4. Click the Photos button to view the iPod Photos preferences.
The Photos button appears for color-display iPod models. The iPod photo preferences pane appears, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Set your color-display iPod to synchronize with your photo library.
5. Click the "Synchronize photos from" option and select the library from the pop-up menu.
The pop-up menu lists iPhoto on a Mac; on a Windows PC, your choices are Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements.
6. Click the "Copy all photos and albums" option.
7. Click OK.
From this point on, until you change these preferences, every time you connect your color-display iPod to this computer, iTunes automatically synchronizes your iPod with your entire photo library, keeping the iPod up-to-date with any new photos, improvements to photos, or deletions in your library. Your iPod also copies your photo album assignments, so that your photos are organized by album.
To transfer only photos in specific albums in a library to a color-display iPod and keep your iPod synchronized with these albums (not the entire library), follow these steps:
1. Connect the color-display iPod to your computer.
Your iPod must be connected for you to change the update preferences. iTunes starts automatically when you connect the iPod to your computer.
2. Select the iPod in the iTunes Source pane.
3. Click the iPod Options button on the bottom-right side of the iTunes window, or click the iPod button in the iTunes Preferences dialog.
4. Click the Photos button to view the iPod Photos preferences.
5. Click the "Synchronize photos from" option and select the library from the pop-up menu.
6. Click the "Copy selected albums only" option.
7. In the list box, select each album that you want to copy.
Select the check box next to each album to select it for the update, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Set your color-display iPod to synchronize only with selected albums in your photo library.8. Click OK.
From this point on, until you change these preferences, every time you connect your color-display iPod to this computer, iTunes automatically synchronizes your iPod with the selected albums in the photo library, keeping your iPod up-to-date with any new photos, improvements to photos, or deletions that occur in those albums.
