5. Taking Professional-Quality Photos

Learn basic picture-taking techniques that pros use to help you shoot professional-quality photos with any digital camera.

iPhoto ’11 is an incredible tool for handling almost every aspect of digital photography, except for one key thing...actually taking pictures. This chapter offers a handful of techniques to help you quickly and easily improve your picture-taking abilities using any digital camera.

Later, you’ll want to apply some of these techniques related to photo composition when cropping and editing photos you’ve already taken.

Of course, if you do happen to make a minor mistake while shooting, the editing and photo enhancement tools built into iPhoto ’11 can help you fix them after the fact.

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