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Visual QuickStart Guide —the quick and easy way to learn!
With iPhoto '08 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the applications, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual guide uses step-by-step instructions and hundreds of full-color screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to make the most out of their digital photos with iPhoto '08. Perfect for anyone who needs to learn the program inside out, this guide covers everything from importing, tagging, editing, and perfecting images to creating slideshows and photo albums to easy online Web publishing. Readers will learn about everything new in iPhoto '08, including automatically organizing photos by event; new editing tools that allow the user to paste a set of adjustments from one photo into another; creating new hardcover photo books, large-font calendars, and more; sharing photos via the .Mac Web Gallery; printing high-quality, frame-worthy photos with colored textures, borders, and mattes; and much more.
About the Author
Adam Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and most-respected Internet publications, and the best-selling
Take C ontrol series of electronic books. His writing credits include a co-author spot on two editions of
The Wireless Networkin g Starter Ki t, the best-selling
Internet Start er Kit series, and contributing editor positions at
Ma cUser,
MacWEE K, and
Macworl d. Industry surveys rank him as one of the most influential people in the Macintosh community, and he has been turned into an action figure. His digital camera is almost always in his pocket.