Apple MD478LL/A, MD481LL/A, MD480LL/A, MD477LL/A Syncing photos, Adding photos from your computer

Syncing photos

You can sync photos from your computer to iPod nano using iTunes, or manually add photos from a folder on your computer. Photos are optimized for viewing on iPod nano, but you can also add full resolution photos.

Adding photos from your computer

You can sync photos with iPod nano using iTunes on your computer. Adding photos to iPod nano the first time might take some time, depending on the number of photos.

Sync photos from your iPhoto library:

1Connect iPod nano to your computer and open iTunes.

2Select iPod nano in iTunes, then click Photos.

3Select “Sync Photos from,” then choose iPhoto from the pop-up menu.

4Select whether you want to include all of your photos, or only selected ones.

If you choose the second option, click the pop-up menu to make further refinements. Then select the Albums, Events, and Faces to sync.

5Click Apply.

Each time you connect iPod nano to your computer, photos are synced automatically.

Add photos from a folder on your hard disk to iPod nano:

1Add photos to a folder on your computer.

If you want images to appear in separate photo albums on iPod nano, create folders within the main image folder and drag images to the new folders.

2Connect iPod nano to your computer and open iTunes.

3Select iPod nano in iTunes, then click Photos.

4Select “Sync Photos from.”

5Choose “Choose Folder …” from the pop-up menu, then select the image folder.

6Select either “All folders” or “Selected folders.”

If you choose the second option, select the folders that you want to sync.

7Click Apply.

When you add photos to iPod nano, iTunes optimizes the photos for viewing. Full-resolution image files aren’t transferred by default. Adding full-resolution image files is useful if you want to move them from one computer to another, but it isn’t necessary for viewing the images on iPod nano.

Add full-resolution image files to iPod nano:

1Connect iPod nano to your computer and open iTunes.

2Select iPod nano in iTunes, then click Photos.

3Select “Include full-resolution photos.”

4Click Apply.

iTunes copies the full-resolution versions of the photos to the Photos folder on iPod nano. To retrieve them, see the following section, Copying photos from iPod nano to a computer.

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