iApps for Creativity

The first set of iApps are designed to help you organize, edit, and distribute your digital photos and movies.

iPhoto

Here’s a program that I think has been a tad overrated, mostly because of confusion over what it does.

If you always take perfect digital photographs—or are just too lazy to make them better—then iPhoto may be all the digital photography software you need. It will download photos from your camera to your Mac, do some repairs, help you print the images, and allow you to create Web pages and assemble your images into very cool books that Apple will have professionally printed for you.

None of those things are really what iPhoto is about, however; the heart and soul of iPhoto are its organizational capabilities ...

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