iPhoto: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits

About the Authors

David Pogue (original author, editor) is the founder of Yahoo Tech, former tech columnist for the New York Times, a double-Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and the creator of the Missing Manual series. He’s the author or coauthor of 72 books, including 30 in this series, six in the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), and a novel for middle-schoolers called Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power. In his other life, David is a former Broadway show conductor, a piano player, and a magician. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three awesome children.

Links to his columns and weekly videos await at www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes feedback about his books by email at [e-mail].

Lesa Snider, internationally acclaimed author and speaker, is on a mission to teach the world to create better graphics. She’s the author of several books, including the popular Photoshop: The Missing Manual and The Skinny Book series of ebooks (www.theskinnybooks.com). Lesa is a founding instructor for creativeLIVE.com (www.lesa.in/clvideos), where she teaches image editing, graphic design, and stock photography, and a regular columnist for Photoshop User, Adobe Photoshop Elements Techniques, and Macworld magazines. She’s also a stock photographer, a longtime member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors, and captain of her very own Prometheus-class starship. Lesa and her husband, Jay Nelson, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their two cats, Samantha and Sherlock.

Visit Lesa’s tutorial-riddled website at www.PhotoLesa.com, connect with her on Twitter (@PhotoLesa), or pose questions on her Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/Photolesa).

About the Creative Team

Dawn Mann (editor) is associate editor for the Missing Manual series. When not working, she plays soccer, beads, and causes trouble. Email: [e-mail].

Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) lives, works, and plays in Cambridge, Mass., where she bakes up whatever she can imagine. Email: [e-mail].

Charles Holt (technical reviewer) is an aerodynamic man of random talents. He’s co-founder of TheTikipedia.com, designed a steampunk ukulele, and has been handcuffed and interrogated by the police for performing roadside experiments with high voltage power lines and fluorescent light bulbs. He currently works with his wife, Melissa, as an Apple Consultant in beautiful Colorado (www.PEBMAC.com), but his heart can be found in Napili Bay—usually most visible at low tide.

Julie Van Keuren (proofreader) quit her newspaper job in 2006 to move to Montana and live the freelancing dream. She and her husband (who is living the novel-writing dream) have two hungry teenage sons. Email: [e-mail].

Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. Ron is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in Northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga. Email: [e-mail].

Acknowledgments

The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between Pogue Press (the dream team introduced on these pages) and O’Reilly Media (a dream publishing partner).

I also owe a debt of gratitude to my old Yale roommate Joe Schorr, who coauthored the first two editions of this book and wound up, years later, working at Apple, where he eventually became the product manager for Aperture and—how’s this for irony?—iPhoto. Some of his prose and his humor live on in this edition.

Various editions of this book have also enjoyed the prose stylings of professional photographer/writer Derrick Story and fellow New York Times tech columnist Jude Biersdorfer. Above all, it was my pleasure to welcome Lesa Snider, who cheerfully undertook the challenge of updating this book to reflect the changes in iPhoto without making it sound like two different authors were at work. She did a sensational job.

Above all, thanks to my beautiful bride Nicki and my gifted offspring Kelly, Tia, and Jeffrey, whose patience and sacrifices make these books—and everything else—possible.

— David Pogue

What a huge treat it was to rewrite this book and prepare all-new artwork! I’m really proud of the way the book turned out, and I think you’ll enjoy it, too. (FYI, all the photography in this edition came from my trusty Canon 40D and Canon 5D Mark III, the latter generously provided by www.LensProToGo.com.) Thanks to everyone who posed so beautifully for a large chunk of the shots used in this book: our neighbors Bob and Elsbeth Diehl; our Maui ’ohana (family) Jamie Lumlun-Kaeo, Marv and Shirley Rahn; and the musicians George Kahumoku Jr., Sterling Seaton, Ken Emerson, and of course the beautiful hula artist Wainani Kealoha. You can find their wonderfully authentic, Grammy-winning Hawaiian slack-key guitar music at www.kahumoku.com.

Of course, a million thanks go to David Pogue for mentoring me and teaching me how to make every figure a work of art, as well as how to write in an entertaining yet informative manner. His guidance has been the foundation for my career in more ways than I can count.

Thanks also to my editor, Dawn Mann, for her amazing attention to detail, and also to J. Charles “Hawk Eyes” Holt, who tech-edited this edition.

Last but not least, I owe a galactic debt of gratitude to my husband, Jay Nelson, for being incredibly supportive during this project and for keeping me, and our two loving cats, fed and watered.

— Lesa Snider

The Missing Manual Series

Missing Manuals are witty, superbly written guides to computer products that don’t come with printed manuals (which is just about all of them). Each book features a handcrafted index and cross-references to specific pages (not just chapters). For a full list of all Missing Manuals in print, go to www.missingmanuals.com/library.html.