iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition

About This Book

Don’t let the rumors fool you. iPhoto may be simple, but it isn’t simplistic. It offers a wide range of tools, shortcuts, and database-like features; a complete arsenal of photo-presentation features; and sophisticated multimedia and Internet hooks. Unfortunately, many of the best techniques aren’t covered in the only “manual” you get with iPhoto—its slow, sparse electronic help screens.

This book was born to address two needs. First, it’s designed to serve as the iPhoto manual—the book that should have been in the box. It explores each iPhoto feature in depth, offers shortcuts and workarounds, and unearths features that the online help doesn’t even mention.

Second, this book provides an invaluable grounding in professional photography. Used together, any good digital camera and iPhoto have all the technical tools you need to produce photographic presentations of stunning visual quality. What’s missing are the artistic factors involved in shooting—composition, lighting, and manual exposure—and how to apply them using the myriad features packed into the modern digital camera. This book gives you all you need to know.

And to make it all go down easier, this book has been printed in full color (a first for the Missing Manual series). Kind of makes sense for a book about photography, doesn’t it?

About the Outline

This book is divided into four parts, each containing several chapters:

• Part 1, Digital Cameras: The Missing Manual, is the course in photography and digital cameras ...