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iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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by Adam Engst
Sales Rank: 1116181
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Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1st edition June 13, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321121651
ISBN-13: 978-0321121653
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.1 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
Product Review
The latest iMacs are designed--in the words of Steve Jobs--as "digital hubs" that sit at the center of all kinds of household media work. Perhaps chief among these tasks is the management and editing of digital photographs, for which Apple has provided iPhoto. In iPhoto for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, you get a great tutorial on how to use iPhoto to refine and improve your photographs, whether you're a home user with a collection of happy snaps or a serious amateur with artistic ambitions.
This book is great and certainly deserves your attention if you want to use iPhoto and don't know how. The Visual QuickStart Guide format relies on depicting almost everything in pictures, with explanatory support from prose. Most of the text takes the form of steps to follow in order to accomplish something and makes frequent reference to the surrounding screen shots. Engst seems to do well with this format, and it's easy to learn how to do even the most difficult retouching work in iPhoto. --David Wall
Topics covered: Apple iPhoto for Mac OS X, explained for an everyday editor of digital photographs. Sections address photo importation, organization of photos into albums and books, modification of photos (including how to repair flash-induced red-eye), and how to share photos on the Web.
Book Description
Taking digital pictures is easy enough. But organizing the hundreds of oddly named image files that wind up on your hard drive so that you can easily share your photos with friends--well, that can be quite a different story. Unless, of course, you have iPhoto, Apple's free digital photography program, and best-selling author Adam Engst's iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide to get you up to speed on how to use it.
While most consumer photography programs help you edit your digital photos and turn them into projects, iPhoto focuses on organizing those photos and sharing them with others. Using a step-by-step approach that emphasizes tasks over lengthy explication, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you importing, organizing, editing, and sharing your photo collections in no time. With a single click, you'll be able to order prints online, publish your photos to a Web page, or order a linen-bound book of your photographs. As with all VQS books, there are plenty of screen shots and graphics to illustrate key concepts, as well as tips to explain aspects of the program that aren't obvious form the interface or online help. Best of all, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide includes a trouble-shooting chapter that can save you hours of grief should something happen to an irreplaceable photo.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I bought this book first, and then later bought a copy of a competitor book: David Pogue and company's "IPhoto, The Missing Manual". There's no comparison. This book will teach you the mechanics of how to use iPhoto, but not much more than that. The Missing Manual goes much deeper, telling you how iPhoto works and techniques for using it effectively. My quickstart guide is now collecting dust while I refer to the missing manual frequently.
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