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iPhoto ‘09: Visual QuickStart Guide
Master every aspect of iPhoto '09 with step-by-step, visual instructions!
Hey, What's This?
This ebook began as a print book in Peachpit Press's Visual QuickStart Guide series. We've converted it to a true ebook by increasing the page (and thus font) size; adding bookmarks; and linking the table of contents, index, and URLs. We encourage you to view the free 55-page sample, since it is different from the Take Control design.
If you want a complete manual for iPhoto '09, look no further than Take Control publisher Adam Engst's iPhoto '09: Visual QuickStart Guide. Relying on concise, step-by-step instructions supported by numerous full-color screenshots and photos, this title first explains how best to import, organize, and edit your photos. Adam then shows you how to master iPhoto's new Faces and Places features; publish photos to Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe; and create themed slideshows and prints, along with stunning photo books, greeting cards, and calendars. Also covered are how to burn CDs for Mac and Windows users, send photos via email, share an iPhoto library with another person, and, well, everything else that iPhoto can do.
A troubleshooting chapter helps readers solve common problems, and the appendixes cover background topics like aspect ratios, resolution, and color management and provide plenty of tips for taking better photos.
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"Mr. Engst's book is well written, easy to follow, and contains lots of in depth information to help you become an iPhoto expert quickly."
—Nancy Gravley, writing for The Mac Observer about an earlier edition
Read this ebook to learn the answers to questions such as:
How do I use iPhoto '09's new Faces and Places features?
How should I publish photos to Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe?
What's the best way to create and switch among multiple iPhoto libraries?
How does the new automatic red-eye reduction feature work?
What does the Adjust window's "Avoid saturating skin tones" checkbox do?
How do I create and manage my own custom places for geotagging?
What's necessary to burn a CD of photos for a Windows user?
Book Info
240 pages
Version 1.0
Published 27-May-09
19.7 MB download
ISBN: 0321601319
Free sample with Table of Contents, Introduction, Quick Start, and section starts.
About the Author
Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS and of the Take Control ebook series. He has written numerous technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. He has been turned into an action figure.
iPhoto '09 may be easy to use at a basic level, but there is a lot under the hood in Apple's photo management program. This ebook contains step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots to explain how to do everything in iPhoto. This ebook was written by Adam Engst, edited by Tonya Engst, and published by Peachpit Press.
Introduction
Digital cameras have become commonplace, and few people even consider purchasing a traditional analog camera anymore. But with digital photos, the camera is only part of the equation. Once you've taken photos, you need software to help you import, organize, edit, and share your photos. Since 2001, the most popular application for that task on the Mac has been Apple's iPhoto.
But iPhoto's popularity doesn't stem just from the fact that Apple bundles it—it's a genuinely useful program, providing a broad set of features while remaining easy to use. With iPhoto, you can organize your photos, perform common editing tasks, and create professional-looking printed works (prints, greeting cards, hardcover books, and even calendars).
If iPhoto is so easy, why write this book? Even though iPhoto '09 is the best version of the program that Apple has released so far, it still doesn't entirely demystify the process of importing a digital photograph, editing it, and presenting it on paper or on the computer screen. And iPhoto comes with no documentation beyond minimal and often incomplete online help. Read on, then, not just for the manual iPhoto lacks, but also for the help you need to take digital photos and make the most of them.
Does this book cover iPhoto '09 or iPhoto 8.0?
Both, actually. Annoyingly, Apple refers to iPhoto '09 interchangeably as "iPhoto '09" and "iPhoto 8," the latter of which is the actual version number. Although I prefer the actual version number to the year, I fear it would be too confusing to call it iPhoto 8, given that the previous version, iPhoto 7, was also called iPhoto '08. As a result, I'll use the iPhoto '09 name throughout this book, except when I'm referring to a very specific version of iPhoto '09, such as the current-as-of-this-writing iPhoto 8.0.2.
Do you have books about previous versions of iPhoto?
Yes, we have earlier versions of this book available for people still using iPhoto 6 or iPhoto '08.
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Every year or so, Apple releases a new version of iPhoto, and I squeeze in the workload of researching and writing my "iPhoto Visual QuickStart Guide" for Peachpit Press. (I'm not sure where the time comes from, but Tonya and Tristan get major credit for taking up the slack.) But the work is done, Peachpit has printed the 240-page iPhoto '09: Visual QuickStart Guide and distributed it to bookstores, and I've converted it into a true ebook, with a fully hotlinked table of contents and index, hotlinks for internal page references, bookmarks to every page, and live Web links. I also increased the page size (and thus the font size) to make it easier to read onscreen on modern displays.
So if you're looking for complete documentation about iPhoto '09, with coverage of new features such as Faces and Places; publishing of photos to Facebook, Flickr, and MobileMe; themed slideshows; enhanced editing capabilities; and more, you can now get it in ebook form for only $15. If you'd prefer a full-color print copy, that's available too from Amazon; click the Buy Print Book button on the page linked below.
As with previous editions, iPhoto '09: Visual QuickStart Guide uses step-by-step instructions paired with screenshots to illustrate all of iPhoto's capabilities. Chapters cover:
Importing photos and managing multiple iPhoto libraries
Organizing photos with albums, smart albums, and keywords
Automatic identification of people in your photos via Faces
Marking where your photos were taken for use in Places
Editing photos with iPhoto '09's improved tools
Making themed slideshows with still images and movies
Publishing photos to many different Web sites
Sharing photos via email and on CD
Printing photos, and making cards, books, and calendars
Troubleshooting and solving common problems
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