Adding Pictures from a Web Browser, an iOS Device, or Photos app
Media Items Are Added to Records, Marriages, Events and Facts
Preferred Pictures
Removing Media Items
Opening/Editing Media Items in Other Applications
Revealing a Media File in the Finder
Sorting and Rearranging Media Items
Copying Items To Other People and Apps
Copying an Image to the Clipboard
Duplicating Media Items
Sharing Media Items (Printing, Emailing, Copying)
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Working with iPhoto or the Photos App
Reunion provides rich media features to enhance the documenting, displaying, and sharing of your family information. You can work with a variety of files: pictures, movies, sounds, PDF files, RTF files, Word documents, and text files.
Media files can be linked to people, families, events, facts, marriages or sources (or any combination). You can link one person, family, or source to many media files, and you can link a single media file to many different people, families, or source records. (In this case, only one copy of the media file is necessary.)
Working with media items in source records is explained here.
The heart of media in Reunion is the Media sidebar, which appears when you click
in the Sidebar list.The Media sidebar is divided into three sections to show thumbnails for the husband, wife, and "family" media items.
Each of the three sections is divided into groups of media items depending on their location in the person or family...
In the bottom bar, under the Media sidebar, are several buttons whose functions are described in this chapter.
The contents of the Media sidebar are updated as you navigate to different people in the family file, reflecting the media items linked to the husband, wife, and family appearing in the family view.
Tip: If any media items are linked to the current husband, wife, or family, the icon in the button in the Sidebar list will give you a clue: it will contain an image.
Similarly, if any media items are linked to the current "family," an icon will appear inside the marriage field. Learn more.
Here are four ways to add, attach, or import media items to a person or family (such as pictures, photos, movies, pdf files, etc.)...
Dragging and Dropping Media Items Into the Family View.
Using the Media Sidebar to add Media Items.
or
Using the Media Window to add Media Items.
Using a (built-in or USB connected) camera with your Macintosh.
Adding Pictures from a Web Browser, an iOS Device, or the Photos App
Pictures can be dragged and dropped from a web browser (like Safari or Firefox) onto...
When an image is dragged from your web browser (or Apple's new Photos app) and dropped on a person in Reunion, the image file will be saved in a folder called Imported Media.
Similarly, if you add photos to people using an iOS device, ReunionTouch will sync them with your family file in Dropbox and the new image files (for the photos you linked on the device) will appear in the Imported Media folder.
This folder is, by default, located here: user/Pictures/Reunion Pictures/Imported Media. However, you may change the location where these image files will be saved. To do this...
Another way to change the location of the Imported Media folder (or to verify that Reunion knows the location)...
This setting only applies to the currently active family file.
The Imported Media folder can have any name, whether is it renamed in the Finder or changed by selecting a different folder in the Sharing Status window. "Imported Media" is simply the default name assigned by Reunion.
Imported image files will be automatically named by Reunion; however, you may rename or relocate them in the Finder.
Media Items Are Added to Records, Marriages, Events and Facts.
Media can be linked to source records, person records, family records and different locations within person and family records...
General media is a media item that is linked to a record and not any specific field within the record. Source records only support general media.
Event media, Fact media, and Marriage media are a media items that are linked to specific events, facts or marriage events.
For example, photos can be linked to people, family, source records, person events, person facts, family marriage or family event fields; however, you can't add a picture to a note field, a source citation, a place field, or a place record.
A birth certificate can be linked to Leroy's birth event and a death certificate can be linked to Leroy's death event. Clarifying comments for any media item, if needed, can be stored in the memo field for an event; or, in the Comments field associated with the image. Or perhaps in the Misc. Notes field.
Although many pictures may be linked to a person, only one picture can be "preferred" for each person.
In the family view, and in most books, reports, and charts, only the "preferred picture" is automatically included for each person. Preferred pictures apply to people, not families.
Only general media added to a person can be designated as a preferred picture.
Here's the easiest way to designate a picture as a "preferred" picture...
As you can see, Control-clicking a thumbnail image in any person's button in the family view will show the Image Tools menu, with several items described elsewhere...
Here's another way to designate a picture as a "preferred" picture...
To remove a media item from a person or family...
To open a media item (display a picture, play a movie or sound, open a PDF file, etc.)...
Tip: another way to show a media item is to Control/right-click a thumbnail and choose .
Opening/Editing Media Items in Other Applications
As explained elsewhere, a variety of media file types are supported in Reunion.
If you need to edit media files (such as a PDF, RTF, PNG, movie, or audio file), you'll need to have and use the appropriate application software. For example, to lighten or sharpen a picture, you'll need to use photo-editing software. To edit the PDF file (such as annotate, truncate, etc.) you'll need to use PDF-editing software. Etc.
Chances are, you're more likely to edit image files more than any other type of file. To edit image files...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Note: When both the original media file and any associated thumbnail are missing, this feature will be disabled and renamed "Open in External Application."
To edit other types of items in the Media sidebar, such as audio or video files, find the file on your hard disk and then open it in the appropriate editing application. Reunion has a nifty feature to make this easier. (Keep reading.)
Revealing a Media File in the Finder
To see the original media file in the Finder...
This will switch you to the Finder, and open the folder containing the media file.
Note: This feature is disabled if the original media file is missing.
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Sorting and Rearranging Media Items
Thumbnails in the Media sidebar (or Media window) can be dragged and dropped to change their position/order/location. The order of items here determines the order that the images will appear in a slideshow.
Note: General media items can be automatically sorted in the media window.
Images may be rotated 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees. To rotate an image that appears in the Media sidebar...
If a picture is already selected in the Media window, just click the icon in the bottom bar. Learn more.
Note: This feature is disabled if the original media file is missing.
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
To copy a media item from...
...just drag the thumbnail from one section of the Media sidebar to another. For example, drag an image from the husband's section to the "family" section or vice versa.
If you have a census image and you spend some time scaling and cropping the census image, you can then copy the scaled/cropped image into other records to whom the image refers.
When you drag and drop an item between people, another link to the image is created; the item is not unlinked from anybody. And the original media file on disk is not duplicated.
To copy a media item from...
Another way to copy a media item from one person to another...
Thumbnails in the Media sidebar and Media window can be dragged and dropped...
Thumbnails in the Media sidebar and Media window can be copied to the Clipboard and then pasted into charts or other documents, such as word processing documents or email messages.
To copy a media item to the Mac Clipboard...
Copy Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
As described above, copying a media file (via drag/drop) between people duplicates the link, not the actual file on disk. Here's another way to duplicate an item...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
Note: This feature is disabled if the original media file is missing.
Sharing Media Items - Printing, Emailing, Copying
To share pictures (print, email, or copy), select a thumbnail in the Media sidebar or the Media window and click the button in the bottom bar. This opens the Share window with the following options...
To print a picture...
This will open the image in Apple's Preview application where you can print a single page including the picture, description, and comments. The picture will print at the maximum size allowed by one page. If it's too big, the picture will be scaled down to fit on a page.
Other ways to print pictures:
To email a picture...
Copying an Image to the Clipboard
To copy a media item to the Mac Clipboard...
Tip: as a shortcut, Control-click a thumbnail and choose .
For convenience, the feature appears when clicking the or buttons.
More explanation and examples of copying/pasting appears earlier in this chapter.