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By David Pogue, Derrick Story
First Edition
March 2006
Pages: 408
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN 10: 0-596-52725-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596527259
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
Along with its host of new features, iPhoto 6 can handle as many as 250,000 images. It's incredible, and Apple makes it sound so easy. But you can still get lost, especially if you're new to iPhoto. Not to worry. The latest edition of this popular book gives you plenty of undocumented tips & tricks for taking advantage of the new version and every feature packed into it.
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- View and work on full-screen images
- Make quick edits with one click
- Work with RAW images
- Create cool new calendars, greeting cards and books
- Post photos online with the new iWeb application
- Use a method of sharing called "Photocasting"
Apple makes it all sound so easy: just drag this, click that and you're done. But, as intuitive as these features are, you can still get lost, especially if you're new to iPhoto. Not to worry. iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual gives you plenty of undocumented tips & tricks for taking advantage of the new version and every little feature packed into it.
It's the top-selling iPhoto book for good reason. With wit and objectivity, David Pogue and Derrick Story start you out with a crash course on digital photography, complete with tutorials on buying a camera, composing brilliant photos in various situations (sports, portraits, nighttime shots, even kid photography), and making digital movies. From there, you'll dive into every detail of iPhoto, from camera-meets-Mac basics to storing, searching, editing, and creating books, calendars and greeting cards. You'll learn to build a personal web site built with iWeb, and discover "Photocasting"-the new service that allows. Mac subscribers to publish photo albums online so that others can use the photos, even if they work on PCs.
With iPhoto 6, you could add 1000 photos a month for the next 20 years and not fill it. With iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual, you can get going in no time.
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Another exemplary title in The Missing Manual series!, July 30 2006
Even iPhoto veterans will appreciate the excellent coverage of new features offered in iPhoto 6 over previous versions of iPhoto.
The first part of this book goes outside the iPhoto application itself and presents the basics of digital photography with brief discussions of camera selection, terminology and image capture techniques (in roughly 60 pages). Nice for a digital photography newbie, but fluff for those who already own any one of a multitude of books on digital camera photography.
Parts 2 and 3 cover the majority of iPhoto’s features in enough depth and detail to represent the missing manual moniker perfectly. This is great for relative newcomers to iPhoto, but some chapters will seem like a re-hash of the basics to an iPhoto veteran. Part 3’s chapters cover the sweet spot of iPhoto 6’s new features and their integration within the iLife ’06 suite of products. It also makes a compelling case for purchase of iLife ’06 if you don’t already have it.
Some of the most valuable information for the beginner and experienced user alike, can be found in the sidebar topics that cover gotcha’s, FAQ’s and power user tips. These are sprinkled throughout the book, and keep the reader’s interest.
Part 4 covers more advanced topics like using iPhoto to generate desktop backgrounds correctly, automation & scripting, and file management. I was hoping for much more depth on creative ways of using Automator and AppleScript with iPhoto 6, but then again this isn’t a book on AppleScript or Automator.
The last chapter on iPhoto file management skips talking about one of the biggest mistakes that many iPhoto users make. That is; mucking around with the iPhoto library files by renaming, relocating, and deleting files and folders directly in the Finder. Thus breaking the iPhoto database. From a troubleshooter’s standpoint, I’d like to see the authors advise readers to resist the temptation to do this. It’d make a nice sidebar to their core discussion of managing iPhoto libraries and archiving. The appendix covers techniques to recover and/or rebuild the iPhoto database once broken and misbehaving.
This book is a great reference to have at your side when working in iPhoto, especially when using it as part of an iLife ’06 workflow. Highly recommended!
Superb, June 21 2006
Thanks David Pogue and company for this book! It made iPhoto much, much richer and now I can use iPhoto the way it's meant to!
I also just bought a new digital camera and iPhoto6 MM helped me make the right purchase. I never expected so much valuable info in a book about software. I'm rediscovering the joy of digital photography in part because of this book. If you think you don't need iPhoto6 The Missing Manual because you have a previous edition, think again. There so much new and updated information here.
Media reviews
"The 382 pages will have the reader mastering iPhoto 6 and looking like a pro, with many hidden tips, tricks, and explanations of why things act the way they do...Before you know it you'll be making stunning calendars for friends and family, making blogs, photocasting your priceless photos over the Internet, sharing iPhoto Libraries, playing DVD slideshows, backing up your photos on CD or DVD for future generations, ordering Kodak prints, and so on...This book is a must-have missing manual for every user of iPhoto 6."
-- Maria O. Arguello, Main Line Macintosh Users Group (MLMUG)
"I love the way David Pogue communicates with his readers. Always easy to understand & follow."
-- Nancy Pollack, Amazon Reviewer
"Despite the fact that I am a professional photographer doing a good deal of digital work, this book has taught me how much more (there is) to this program than I ever expected. It has great value for the profesional image maker as well as a great place to start for the beginning shooter."
-- Owen P. O'meara, Amazon Reviewer
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"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."
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