By David Pogue, Derrick Story
First Edition
January 2008
Pages: 424
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN 10: 0-596-51618-5 |
ISBN 13: 9780596516185
Press Release
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Apple has taken iPhoto 08 to a whole new level, with powerful and beguiling new features that let you easily navigate through thousands of digital photos and a whole lot more. Apple makes it all sound easy, but you can still get confused. This witty and objective guide gives you clear-cut explanations of how things work, with undocumented tips and tricks for mastering this new version. It's the top-selling iPhoto book for good reason.
Full Description
Apple makes it all sound easy: drag this, click that, and you're done. But you can still get lost, especially if you're a newcomer. iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual explains how to take advantage of all these powerful tools and new features without confusion or frustration. Bestselling authors David Pogue and Derrick Story give you a witty, objective, and clear-cut explanation of how things work, with plenty of undocumented tips and tricks for mastering the new iPhoto.
Four sections help you import, organize, edit, share, and even take your photos:
- Digital Photography: The Missing Manual offers a course in picture-taking and digital cameras -- how to buy and use your digital camera, how to compose brilliant photos in various situations (sports, portraits, nighttime shots, even kid photography), and how to get the most out of batteries and memory cards.
- iPhoto Basics covers the fundamentals of getting your photos into iPhoto, organizing and filing them, searching and editing them.
- Meet Your Public teaches you all about slideshows, making or ordering prints, creating books, calendars and greeting cards, and sharing photos on web sites or by email.
- iPhoto Stunts explains how to turn photos into screen savers or desktop pictures, using plug-ins, managing Photo Libraries, and even getting photos to and from camera phones and Palm organizers.
Featured customer reviews
iPhone, January 31 2008
iPhoto 08 - a Review by Ellis Brayham. Jan/08
O’Reilly Press have just released this new edition of iPhoto 08. Its one of the well respected ‘Missing Manuals’ series, by David Pogue, and Derrick Story. The Missing Manuals are filling a valuable gap in that Apple do not include written instruction book with their computers. iPhoto is such a useful, and essential program that a book like this is necessary if we are to make use of its many hidden features.
For Mac users, iPhoto has no peer - its the complete integrated system and this book starts by giving the reader guidance in selecting, and using a digital camera. Then the main portion of the book deals with editing - from importing, resizing, correcting, fixing flaws, cropping, dealing with red eye, scratches, and imperfections. You will also learn about color balancing, how to use the histogram, what raw means, contrast, and sharpening.
For those of us who may have had a stab at Photoshop Elements, and found it too technical, Apple have taken the best and most useful of the features and included them for free in iPhoto. You get a great suite of editing tools, and this book tells you how to use them.
A book like this is best read with a digital camera, and a computer by your side - then you can experiment with some of the techniques, take your own photos and see how they can be improved, and then when you have mastered some of the lessons, the book shows you how to have them published - in a book, on the web, or maybe in a slideshow.
In essence, here are the tools to make you a better photographer, and after taking the photo, how to make the image even better. Lastly, when you have your photos perfected, here too are the ideas for computer storage - how to sort, arrange, flag, use tag words; after all, in no time you will likely have many hundreds, if not thousands of photos on your computer, and finding them will become a very useful skill that this book will tell you how to do.
So, if your digital photographic skills need honing, if you want to get the very most out of your ‘snaps’ pick up a copy of iPhoto 08 - 400 odd pages for only $35. Great value.
Media reviews
"One of the beauties of the Missing Manuals is that there is always something new to discover and the research is quite thorough...I kept finding snippets of information, in the way of Tips or Notes, that would give just that bit extra."
-- Graham K. Rogers, Bangkok Post
"Pogue, the New York Times computer columnist, is among the world's best explainers."
-- Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired
"This most excellent book provides an invaluable grounding in professional photography. More importantly, used together, any good digital camera and iPhoto have all the technical tools you need to produce photographic presentations of stunning visual quality."
-- John Vacca, Amazon.com
