Master every aspect of iPhoto '08 with step-by-step, visual instructions!
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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 50-page sample, since it is different from the Take Control design.
If you want a complete manual for iPhoto '08, look no further than Take Control publisher Adam Engst's iPhoto '08: 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 create slideshows and prints, along with stunning photo books, greeting cards, and calendars. Also covered are how to make Web galleries, burn CDs for Mac and Windows users, send photos via email, share an iPhoto library with another person, and more.
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.
"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 the previous edition
Read this ebook to learn the answers to questions such as:
How do I use new features of iPhoto '08 like events, keywords, and printing?
What's the best way to create and switch among multiple iPhoto Libraries?
How do I split and merge events so they contain the right photos?
What happens when I adjust highlight and shadow detail in a photo?
How do I create a Web gallery for publishing on .Mac?
What's the best way to print a contact sheet in the new print interface?
What's necessary to burn a CD of photos for a Windows user?
Book Info
220 pages
Version 1.0
Published 06-Dec-07
7.4 MB download
ISBN: 0321501888
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.
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 with every Mac—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-look- ing printed works (prints, greeting cards, hardcover books, and even calendars).
If iPhoto is so easy, why write this book? Even though iPhoto 7 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, edit- ing 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 '08 or iPhoto 7?
They're the same, actually. Annoyingly, Apple refers to the various programs in iLife '08 interchangeably as "iPhoto '08" and "iPhoto 7," "GarageBand '08" and "GarageBand 4," and so on. I prefer the actual version numbers to the year, since otherwise the full name would be the insanely confusing iPhoto '08 7.1.1. As a result, I use the iPhoto 7 name throughout the book, but I the iPhoto '08 name for the title of the book.
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