Thank you Doug. Yours is the very first letter helping me that I have opened. I am so surprised at the number of good people who are willing to help me out. I am not going to delete any answers. Sincerely, Susan Sent from my iPad2 On 2011-09-08, at 12:51 PM, doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sue, I have an iPad 1G. It does not have a camera, so I can't help with that > issue. > > On 2011-09-08, at 12:30 PM, rogers doug wrote: > >>> My sister forwarded me 28 pictures that showed up in Albums and since then, >>> I have received a couple of photos from another friend which did not show >>> up there. > > If someone forwarded you a picture, that was done in the mail app. You should > be able to touch and hold on the attached pictures and a pop up menu will > appear with choices. > > >>> I took a few pictures and they joined the album that my sister sent me and >>> I can't figure out yet how to save pictures in separate, named albums. > > the Photo app on your iPad doesn't have this ability. Albums are managed > solely through the iPhoto app on the computer. > > >>> Also I tried to take a photo of myself and a black screen appeared with a >>> white line box on the side which I touched. After that it was impossible to >>> take a photo of myself looking straight in into the lens. It was as though >>> it was pointed at me by someone else from the side and I couldn't look into >>> the lens. > >