Overview
Renowned Mac columnists Andy Ihnatko and David Plotkin deliver a fun, informative, full-color guide to iPhoto, Apple's hot digital photo-editing application. Digital camera users more than doubled last year to nearly nine million, and iPhoto is the most popular the four multimedia applications that make up
Apple's "digital hub." Ihnatko and Plotkin show this exploding market of digital photographers how to make the most of iPhoto, and review how iPhoto has been designed to work seamlessly with the other iLife applications.
* A fun, indispensable guide to the Mac OS X image-editing tool, written in cooperation with Apple Computer, Inc., which also covers iPhoto 4
* Written in a witty, conversational style, this book appeals to Mac users' sense of individuality and offers real-world tips and techniques to help readers get the most out of Apple technologies
* Goes the extra mile to engage readers and make them feel as though the book is not only technically valuable, but a good read as well
Synopsis
Picture the fun you can have with iPhoto
- Includes plenty of illustrations, witty observations, and great advice
- Covers digital photography basics; importing, organizing, editing, and sharing photos; and creating an iPhoto Book
- Explores using iPhoto with other iLife® applications
"Yes, I am the jerk who blocked the aisle in the British Museum, because it occurred to me that if a young woman happened to walk up real close to those female statues and hold a similar pose, it'd make a wicked cool photo. Yes, I am the relative who told everyone to come back in five hours so my nephew could cut his birthday cake with nice western light. Yes, I am the reason security was called to Westminster Abbey. Look, if they really didn't want people taking flash photos during High Mass, their sign would have said '. . .not even if you use a pocket-sized camera and are really sneaky about it.' Yes: I am a photo geek."
—Andy Ihnatko
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewiPhoto 4 is faster, simpler to navigate, and full of neat enhancements, from Smart Albums to new slideshow transitions. Whether you’re upgrading or new to iPhoto, The iPhoto 4 Book will help you master it a whole lot faster. Not just the stuff you’d pick up by random pointing and clicking: all of iPhoto.
Since better images “in” equals better images “out,” the authors start with tips on capturing better photos: not just basics like composition and lighting but also how to compensate for a slow camera (something that bedevils many film photographers). You’ll walk through the iPhoto interface, tweaking to your taste, then import in every way imaginable -- from drag-and-drop through copying from iPhoto disc.
The authors next turn to iPhoto’s improved organization features, including the aforementioned Smart Albums. They offer a full section on photo editing and another on sharing -- from QuickTime movies through professional prints. You’ll walk step-by-step through building one of those sensational iPhoto books and getting it manufactured (a marvelous family gift if ever there was one). And, since iPhoto’s only one piece of Steve Jobs’s “iLife,” you’ll learn how to use your iPhoto-managed images in iMovie and iDVD, too.
There’s even a three-chapter contribution from the legendary Andy Ihnatko, who’s been writing about the Mac for more than 16 years (We fondly recall his Macworld and MacUser columns.) Ihnatko teaches you how to automate iPhoto 4 with AppleScript, then answers the type of questions your “Aunt Estelle” would ask, and even offers a few great digital camera tips of his own. (Bill Camarda, from the January 2005 Read Only)