With over 100 million iPods sold as of this month, I figure most of you have one. If you have a Nano or a regular iPod (not a Shuffle) you can put pictures of your baby on your iPod and eliminate the need to carry photos. Trust me, on your iPod, photos look 80 billion times better than on your phone.
So here’s the tutorial. If you already know this, just move along, geek. I just thought I’d share because it seems to me that a large percentage of baby-owners are also digital picture-takers and iPod-listeners, and that sadly, very few pictures actually make it off of the camera.
Prerequisite: You need to be organizing your pictures in some logical way on your computer. At my house, each folder is marked with the month and year. Ideally, you do not keep every single shot you take. If you do, then you’ll want to create a new folder of just the photos you want on your iPod.
- Open iTunes
- Connect your iPod to your computer using the normal method (white USB cable)
- When the iPod icon appears in iTunes, select it from the left-hand column
- Click the Photos tab, highlighted in the screenshot above.
- Select the “Sync photos from” checkbox and choose the folder that contains the photos you want to copy from the pop-up menu.
Apple warns, “It may take a while to copy all your photos the first time you perform a sync. Subsequent syncs should take less time.”
For more iPod tips, consider this book: iPod: The Missing Manual
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Yeah, this is a great way to show off your baby when people ask if you have photos! I have my baby’s photos on the iPod. Also, I love that you can play music from a chosen playlist while you look at the photos. Really cool…..
That was the first and only thing I’ve really done with my Ipod.
I literally got my ipod mid-labor. I was in so much pain TRYING to avoid the epideral, that hubby gave my half-sister and her friend his debt card and sent them to walmart. I guess after they played with it a little, I had rolled my head over, saw it, smiled, and then CONTRACTION.
I had tried talking hubby into a video ipod after we had our 3d ultrasound done, lol.
but my i tunes dose not come up with that menu how do i do it then?
Thank you for the help!!! your article was very helpful for me.
I’m a hold out. No ipod of any kind in my house but I’m sure the readers at Picture This will love this! I’ll send them over. Thanks ladies. You Rookies are full of excellent ideas!
Thanks for sharing! I will definitely have to do this. I have a 2G Nano, so since I don’t have a ton of room for both photos and my music, I would imagine that resizing my photos would be best prior to putting them on the Ipod.
Like Molly, my iTunes does not come up like that, HELP PLEASE! This is a GREAT tutoral… thank you for taking the time to share it.
this is a great guide, but i have encountered a problem, when i try to put a different folder on my ipod, it deletes the folder i synced before
Thank you so much for the tips! I got a new video nano for Christmas and was trying to figure out how to get my pics off my computer on to ipod. For those above not getting the menu, you need to plug your ipod in after you are in itunes. Then you’ll see the photo tab.
I’m having the same problem as Molly and Melanie that doesn’t show up when i connect my ipod.
HELP please!!!
my computer tells me the required file can not be found when i try to sync my photos please help me i just dont understand
i’m 13 not a mother and it was the only way i found to get photos on thnx a lot
You can also just buy an iPhone and have the albums sync up automatically
Just sayin’ I love my iPhone. A lot.
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