Chapter 8 Photos 41
Add photos from your computer
You can sync photos with iPod nano using iTunes on your computer. Adding photos to
iPod nano the rst time might take some time, depending on the number of photos.
Sync photos from your Photos library:
1 Connect iPod nano to your computer and open iTunes if it doesn’t open automatically.
2 In iTunes, select iPod nano, then click Photos.
3 Select “Sync Photos from,” then choose Photos from the pop-up menu.
4 Select 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 renements. Then select
the Albums and Events to sync.
5 Click Apply.
Now, each time you connect iPod nano to your computer, photos are synced automatically.
Add photos from a folder on your computer to iPod nano:
1 Add 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.
2 Connect iPod nano to your computer and open iTunes if it doesn’t open automatically.
3 In iTunes, select iPod nano, then click Photos.
4 Select “Sync Photos from.”
5 Click the pop-up menu and choose Choose Folder, then select the image folder.
6 Select either “All folders” or “Selected folders.”
If you choose the second option, select the folders that you want to sync.
7 Click Apply.
When you add photos to iPod nano, iTunes optimizes the photos for viewing. Full-resolution
image les aren’t transferred by default. Adding full-resolution image les 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 les to iPod nano:
1 Connect iPod nano to your computer and open iTunes if it doesn’t open automatically.
2 In iTunes, select iPod nano, then click Photos.
3 Select “Include full-resolution photos.”
4 Click Apply.
iTunes copies the full-resolution versions of the photos to the Photos folder on iPod nano. To
retrieve them, see the following section, Copy photos from iPod nano to a computer.
