iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual |  | Authors: David Pogue, J D Biersdorfer J.D.
Publisher: Pogue Press
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Whether you're the next Ansel Adams or just a photo nut, iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual lets you marry the stunning quality of digital photography with the power of your imagination. Tips from iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual
1. Take That (Slide)Show on the Road
Got a saved iPhoto slideshow that you’re especially proud of? Take a copy with you to show off on your iPhone, iPod, computer, Apple TV, or Web site. With the slideshow open in iPhoto, click the big Export button on the toolbar. The Slideshow Export box pops up, offering you a selection of movie sizes designed for specific devices. Click the option you want and then click the Export button in the box to make a video that’s perfectly sized for your pocket gadget or big screen. If you plan to watch the show on an iPhone or iPod, make sure the “Automatically send slideshow to iTunes” box is turned on—all you need to do now is sync up your portable with the computer and your slideshow is good to go. |  | 2. The Places You Go (End Up on Flickr, Too)
With iPhoto ’09, pictures taken with a GPS-enabled camera or mobile phone can be automatically geotagged — that is, plotted to a map that shows where they were taken. Even if you don’t have a GPS camera or geotagging gadget to stamp your photos with location coordinates, you can add that information to the pictures manually. Click the Info icon on the lower right corner of a photo thumbnail to spin the picture around. There on the “back” of the photo, click “Enter a photo location” and start typing the name. Most of the time, iPhoto recognizes the place name and drops a pin on a virtual map to mark the photo’s location. (If it doesn’t, click the New Place bar to pop out to Google Maps and find the location there.) One great thing about geotagging and iPhoto — if you plan to post the pictures to your Flickr page through iPhoto, all those places you tagged follow the photo up to the Web. (To publish them from iPhoto, choose Share?Flickr.) Visitors to your Flickr page just need to click the Map link there to see where you took the photo. |  | 3. Smart Albums for Your Favorite Faces
The new Faces feature in iPhoto ’09 can identify people in your photos by analyzing them and matching up similar faces. Once you have identified a bunch of friends or family, you can make a Smart Album that automatically gathers pictures of specified people every time you add photos and confirm the names to iPhoto. This can be helpful, say, if you need to whip together a slideshow of multiple people for an upcoming wedding reception or anniversary party. To make a face-based Smart Album:
a) Click the + button underneath the iPhoto Source list, click the Smart Album icon and give it a name.
b) In the “Match conditions” like, choose “Any” if you want separate photos of each person you’re about to name, or “All” if you only want pictures containing all the people.
c) In the first box, choose Name from the pop-up menu on the left. (For example, “Jack.”)
d) Choose “is” in the middle box.
e) In the third box, type in the name of the first person you want to add to the Smart Album. (Make sure you’ve identified and named the subject with the Faces feature first.)
f) Click the + button to add a new line in the Smart Album box.
g) Repeat steps 2-4 for the next person, but type in the second name. (Say, “Diane.”)
h) Click OK to add the new Smart Album to the iPhoto Source list, where it now is on the lookout for “Jack” and/or “Diane,” depending on your matching conditions. |  | 4. Make a Smart Album from the Places on Screen
Smart Albums just aren’t for pretty faces, either. You can easily make a Smart Album to automatically round up all the photos you tag with specific location information. One quick way to make a Smart Album for a bunch of different places, say, an annual summer vacation to England and France:
a) Click Places in the Source list.
b) If the map view is not on screen, click the globe icon in the iPhoto toolbar.
c) Zoom in close enough on map to show all the cities or countries you want to include in your Smart Album.
d) Click the Smart Album button on the iPhoto toolbar.
You now have a new Smart Album in the iPhoto source list, ready to collect copies of any photo that contains the same location information as the places you just group-tagged. If you visit the same towns regularly, all the geotagged photos from these locations get added to the Smart Album, no matter when you took them. |  | 5. Put Your Vacation on the Map
With iPhoto ’09, you can add personalized maps of your vacation destinations to the glossy color books you can make from your photos. To add custom cartography to a book in progress:
a) Choose Layout-->Map from the iPhoto toolbar.
b) On the resulting pop-up menu, select Map.
You can add a map to any book theme, but if you choose the Travel theme, you have 20 different map styles at your disposal.
c) Once the map page is added to the book, click it to add the places you visited to the map.
A box pops up showing the locations of any geotagged photos in the book.
Even if you haven’t added location information to your photos with iPhoto’s Places feature, you can still plot your trip on the map. In the Places box on the Map page, click the + button to add a new location and type in the name of the city. If iPhoto doesn’t recognize then place and mark it on the map, click “New Place” to jump to Google Maps and find it there. Once you find it, iPhoto adds a dot to the map. If this was a multi-destination trip, turn on the Show Lines box to get a series of red arrows that show your route. |  |
Product Description
With iPhoto '09, Apple's popular photo organizer and editing program is better than ever. Unfortunately, intuitive as it may be, iPhoto still has the power to confuse anyone who uses it. That's why more people rely on our Missing Manual than any other iPhoto resource. Author and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue provides clear and objective guidance on every iPhoto feature, including new tools such as face recognition, place recognition based on GPS data, themed slideshows, online sharing, enhanced editing, and travel maps. You'll find step-by-step instructions, along with many undocumented tips and tricks.
With iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual, you will: - Get a course in picture-taking and digital cameras -- how to buy and use a digital camera, how to compose brilliant photos in various situations
- Import, organize, and file your photos -- and learn how to search and edit them
- Create slideshows, photo books, calendars, and greeting cards, and either make or order prints
- Share photos on websites or by email, and turn photos into screensavers or desktop pictures
- Learn to manage your Photo Libraries, use plug-ins, and get photos to and from camera phones
There's much more in this comprehensive guide. Discover today why iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual is the top-selling iPhoto book.
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 Great book July 25, 2009
Mariane Matera (Richmond, VA USA)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have never used iPhoto before, despite always having it preinstalled on all of my recent Macs, and now I could kick myself. It's a great program and does so many of the things I always wish the Mac could do with photos. This book made me get into the program and finally figure it out, and it's not that hard. I'm excited about making photo album books for gifts in the future, and now I use iPhoto to routinely crop and fix my photos, even though I do have Photoshop. Thanks Dave, for helping me get over my fear of iPhoto! Hope your iMovie book works, too, because that program really scares me.
Squeeze the jucy goodness out of iPhoto May 28, 2009
Michael McKee (Port Townsend, WA United States)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I look forward to David Pogue's Missing Manuals. He has the gift for explaining technical subjects in a clear and straightforward fashion. This book continues his success. His co-author, Jude Biersdorfer must be good, too because I find this book excellent.
I've been told that iPhoto is supposed to be so easy to use that you don't need a guide. It kinda-sorta is, but not totally. With more features comes more complexity. And the latest version of iPhoto does have some nice features like Faces and Places. In some cases it's not even that the features are difficult to work as that people don't even know that they are there. iPhoto comes with a new Mac and isn't something that people research.
Explanations are clear and straightforward. If you haven't considered geotagging your photos or don't know why you should bother, this book serves as a good nudge to try that out.
As for the killer new feature of face recognition, if you take people photos, get ready to streamline your iPhoto album. The book makes the process simple and approachable, as it does for most of iPhoto's features.
David Pogue has done it again. November 6, 2009
Cardiff Q (San Diego, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
David Pogue has done it again, this time with the very able assistance of J. D. Biersdorfer. This latest book in the "Missing Manual" series, iPhoto '09 The Missing Manual, published by O'Reilly Media, is an equally valuable resource for those new to the Mac and/or iPhoto as well as for those who have used iPhoto for many years.
Part One, iPhoto Basics, covers everything from getting photos from the camera into iPhoto to organizing, and editing them once they are there. Particularly helpful is the chapter on the newest organizing features, introduced in iPhoto '09, Faces and Places. Using the face recognition method is fairly straightforward, while manually geotagging photos is more challenging. Pogue's step-by-step guidance makes it easy. The section on editing photos is so thorough and revealing that even novices can produce professional-looking results with ease. Those who shoot in RAW will find the advice in that section particularly helpful.
Part Two, Meet Your Public, guides the reader in the making of prints, web galleries, DVD slideshows and more, including publishing to Flickr and Facebook. Detailed instructions for using iPhoto to make and order books, calendars and cards is included. Using the information provided saves not only precious time but also can save money while assuring good results that will wow family and friends.
Part Three, Photo Stunts, is devoted to designing and building Screen Savers; finding prewritten AppleScripts, and developing Automator Actions that add new and timesaving features to iPhoto. Methods for managing the thousands of photos that eventually populate iPhoto by burning them to disc or backing them up to an external disk is explained. iPhoto '09 The Missing Manual explains how to create, swap, and merge iPhoto Libraries and the pitfalls to avoid.
Part Four, Appendixes, though brief, is packed with very important and helpful information. The first section, on Troubleshooting, can save the day when things go awry. How to retrieve photos using Time Machine is worth memorizing. iPhoto '09 Menu by Menu explains in useful detail every one of the menu items included in the program.
Although those coming from using other photo management programs (e.g., Picasa) might wish for more in this book to ease their transition to iPhoto, the information in this book will shorten their learning curve while providing a series of confidence-building successes.
As Pogue himself says, the Missing Manual books are "entertaining [and] unafraid to state when a feature is useless or doesn't work right." The indispensible information contained in this book is delivered in an easy-to-understand, witty, and engaging way. Even those with years of experience with previous versions of iPhoto will learn new tricks. And everyone will benefit from keeping iPhoto '09 The Missing Manual as a handy reference book and valuable resource.
Essential March 16, 2010
Hydro Guy
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have several of David Pogue's Missing Manuals and consider every one an essential accessory to effective and efficient use of their subject Apple software. Each book is chock full of "the-light-goes-on" moments. His informal writing style keeps otherwise geeky material very readable. And, he often goes tangentially off topic to introduce or remind his readers of other very important concepts, shortcuts, or insights.
In short, try it - you'll like it.
iPhoto Missing Manual September 12, 2009
Joseph F. Kuhn (Mobile, AL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book. Provides answers to your questions and even answers for questions you haven't thought of yet! Great buy.
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