Product Description

Taking digital pictures is easy enough. But organizing the hundreds of oddly named image files that wind up on your hard drive so that you can easily share your photos with friends--well, that can be quite a different story. Unless, of course, you have iPhoto, Apple's free digital photography program, and best-selling author Adam Engst's iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide to get you up to speed on how to use it.

While most consumer photography programs help you edit your digital photos and turn them into projects, iPhoto focuses on organizing those photos and sharing them with others. Using a step-by-step approach that emphasizes tasks over lengthy explication, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you importing, organizing, editing, and sharing your photo collections in no time. With a single click, you'll be able to order prints online, publish your photos to a Web page, or order a linen-bound book of your photographs. As with all VQS books, there are plenty of screen shots and graphics to illustrate key concepts, as well as tips to explain aspects of the program that aren't obvious form the interface or online help. Best of all, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide includes a trouble-shooting chapter that can save you hours of grief should something happen to an irreplaceable photo.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2133205 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The latest iMacs are designed--in the words of Steve Jobs--as "digital hubs" that sit at the centre of all kinds of household media work. In iPhoto for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, you get a great tutorial on how to use iPhoto to refine and improve your photographs, whether you're a home user with a collection of happy snaps or a serious amateur with artistic ambitions.

This book is great and certainly deserves your attention if you want to use iPhoto and don't know how. The Visual QuickStart Guide format relies on depicting almost everything in pictures, with explanatory support from prose. Most of the text takes the form of steps to follow in order to accomplish something, and makes frequent reference to the surrounding screen shots. Engst seems to do well with this format, and it's easy to learn how to do even the most difficult retouching work in iPhoto. --David Wall

Topics covered: Apple iPhoto for Mac OS X, explained for an everyday editor of digital photographs. Sections address photo importation, organisation of photos into albums and books, modification of photos (including how to repair flash-induced red-eye), and how to share photos on the Web.

From the Back Cover

Taking digital pictures is easy enough. But organizing the hundreds of oddly named image files that wind up on your hard drive so that you can easily share your photos with friends--well, that can be quite a different story. Unless, of course, you have iPhoto, Apple's free digital photography program, and best-selling author Adam Engst's iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide to get you up to speed on how to use it.

While most consumer photography programs help you edit your digital photos and turn them into projects, iPhoto focuses on organizing those photos and sharing them with others. Using a step-by-step approach that emphasizes tasks over lengthy explication, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you importing, organizing, editing, and sharing your photo collections in no time. With a single click, you'll be able to order prints online, publish your photos to a Web page, or order a linen-bound book of your photographs. As with all VQS books, there are plenty of screen shots and graphics to illustrate key concepts, as well as tips to explain aspects of the program that aren't obvious form the interface or online help. Best of all, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide includes a trouble-shooting chapter that can save you hours of grief should something happen to an irreplaceable photo.

About the Author

Adam Engst is the editor and publisher for TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters. TidBITS is distributed to hundreds of thousands of readers via email, the Web, and other methods. Adam has written and co-authored numerous Internet books and magazine articles, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and, more recently, Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. He is the first computer book author to have an action figure created in his likeness.