{"id":2866,"date":"2022-12-11T08:28:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T12:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:26:26","slug":"how-to-convert-iphone-photos-for-use-in-family-cookbook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2022\/12\/how-to-convert-iphone-photos-for-use-in-family-cookbook-2.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert iPhone Photos for Use In Family Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple is always trying to be seen as innovative, <\/span> such as introducing \u201clive photos\u201d that seem to move when you view them on your phone or iPad. To accomplish this, they created a new image format called HEIC (High Efficiency Image File Format) that was rolled out in 2017.<\/p>\n

Family Cookbook Project (and most web sites) accept JPG photos only.\u00a0 If you are having issues with photos not uploading correctly, check to see if the file format on your Mac is HEIC.\u00a0 That is Apple\u2019s compressed format.\u00a0 The good news is that it\u2019s easy to convert to JPG.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to convert HEIC to JPG on Mac using Preview:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Open any HEIC image in Preview.<\/li>\n
  2. Click File \u2799 Export in the menu bar.<\/li>\n
  3. Select JPG in the format dropdown and adjust other settings as needed.<\/li>\n
  4. Choose Save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here\u2019s how to convert HEIC to JPG on PC using Microsoft Paint:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the file in Paint<\/li>\n
    2. Go to File>Save As>JPEG picture<\/li>\n
    3. Click Save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the<\/span><\/i> Great Family Cookbook Project<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The<\/span><\/i> Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a> and the<\/span><\/i> Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook<\/span><\/i><\/a> (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it\u2019s third printing and is an avid genealogist tracing his family back to the 1600’s.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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      Apple is always trying to be seen as innovative, such as introducing \u201clive photos\u201d that seem to move when you view them on your phone or iPad. To accomplish this, they created a new image format called HEIC (High Efficiency Image File Format) that was rolled out in 2017. Family Cookbook Project (and most web …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-tips","category-how-to-ideas","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}