Apple Training Series: iLife ’09

Apple Training Series: iLife ’09

by Michael E. Cohen, Michael Wohl, Richard Harrington, Mary Plummer
Released March 2009
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
ISBN: 9780321637963

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Book description

In the only Apple-certified guide to iLife ’09, the authors have you working miracles with iLife within the first few pages. Featuring footage and images from around the world, this book/DVD combo uses real-life material and practical lessons that you can apply immediately to your own projects. Focused lessons take you step by step through all aspects of iLife ’09—everything from organizing and sharing your  photo library to creating polished video and soundtracks. Along the way, you’ll produce movies, photobooks, podcasts, websites, blogs, and custom DVDs.

• Master the iLife suite of tools quickly through fun, real-world projects
• Turn your photos into cards, picture books, calendars, or a web gallery
• Add motion and music to a slideshow, then publish it online
• Create a video with polished transitions, music, effects, and even greenscreen
• Learn “Hollywood-style” techniques for making better videos
• Build a soundtrack in GarageBand, and learn to score a simple movie
• Create websites, blogs, podcasts, and DVD menus in a snap.

The Apple Training Series is both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum of the Apple Training and Certification Program. To find out more about Apple Training, or to find an Authorized Training Center near you, go to www.apple.com/training.

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents (1/3)
  2. Table of Contents (2/3)
  3. Table of Contents (3/3)
  4. Getting Started (1/2)
  5. Getting Started (2/2)
  6. iPhoto: Great Pictures Made Easy
    1. Lesson 1 Importing and Organizing Your Photos
      1. Shooting Photos
      2. Grasping the Technical Details
      3. Opening iPhoto for the First Time
      4. Connecting Your Camera to iPhoto
      5. Importing Photos from a Camera or Card
      6. Importing Selected Photos
      7. Importing Photos from a Memory Card
      8. Importing Video from a Camera
      9. Importing from Applications
      10. Importing Photo Files
      11. Viewing Events
      12. Looking at Event Key Photos
      13. Skimming an Event
      14. Navigating the Viewing Area
      15. Zooming In
      16. Viewing the Entire iPhoto Library
      17. Organizing Your Events
      18. Choosing Meaningful Event Titles
      19. Adding Event Descriptions
      20. Changing an Event’s Key Photo
      21. Splitting Events
      22. Merging Events
      23. Reordering Events
      24. Moving Photos Between Events
      25. Creating a New Event
      26. Identifying Photos with Faces
      27. Manually Identifying Faces
      28. Automatically Identifying Faces
      29. Identifying Missing Faces
      30. Identifying Photos with Places
      31. Placing Photos
      32. Creating a Place
      33. Lesson Review
    2. Lesson 2 Reviewing and Improving Your Photos
      1. Comparing Photos
      2. Rating Your Photos
      3. Assigning Keywords to Your Photos
      4. Searching Your iPhoto Library
      5. Searching with Text
      6. Searching by Date
      7. Searching by Keyword
      8. Searching by Rating
      9. Hiding Unwanted Photos
      10. Throwing Photos Away
      11. Cropping Photos
      12. Straightening Photos
      13. Touching Up Photos
      14. Enhancing Photos
      15. Removing Red-Eye from Photos
      16. Retouching Your Photos
      17. Applying Adjustments to Improve a Photo
      18. Adjusting Exposure and Levels
      19. Adjusting Contrast and Definition
      20. Adjusting Highlights and Shadows
      21. Adjusting Saturation
      22. Adjusting Temperature and Tint
      23. Adjusting Sharpness and Noise
      24. Using Effects
      25. Lesson Review
    3. Lesson 3 Sharing Your Photos
      1. Making a Photo Album
      2. Changing an Album’s Contents
      3. Arranging an Album’s Photos
      4. Creating Empty Albums
      5. Organizing Your Albums with Folders
      6. Changing the Order of Albums
      7. Making a Smart Album
      8. Setting a Date Range for a Smart Album
      9. Putting People in Their Place with a Smart Album
      10. Displaying Photos as a Screen Saver
      11. Sharing Photos on Your Local Network
      12. Emailing Photos
      13. Syncing Photos to an Apple Device
      14. Making a Slideshow
      15. Customizing a Slideshow
      16. Exporting a Slideshow
      17. Sharing Photos in MobileMe Gallery
      18. Sharing Photos with Flickr
      19. Sharing Photos with Facebook
      20. Sharing Facebook Tags with Faces
      21. Lesson Review
    4. Lesson 4 Publishing Your Photos
      1. Printing Photos
      2. Customizing a Printed Photo
      3. Ordering Prints
      4. Assembling a Photo Book
      5. Laying Out Your Book
      6. Customizing a Map in Your Book
      7. Previewing Your Book
      8. Making a Greeting Card
      9. Making Backups of Your Photos
      10. Backing Up to a Recordable Disc
      11. Restoring Photos with Time Machine
      12. Lesson Review
  7. iMovie: Making Great Movies
    1. Lesson 5 Instant Moviemaking: Creating Your First iMovie
      1. Opening iMovie
      2. Managing Events
      3. Rejecting Footage
      4. Marking Favorites
      5. Building a Project
      6. Creating a New Project
      7. Adding More Clips
      8. Rearranging Clips
      9. Adjusting Clips
      10. Precision Editing
      11. Finishing Your Movie
      12. Improving Color
      13. Adding Transition Effects
      14. Adding Audio
      15. Using Themes
      16. Customizing Your Theme
      17. Customizing Transitions
      18. Modifying Titles
      19. Adding a Map
      20. Lesson Review
    2. Lesson 6 Tell All the World: Sharing and Publishing Your Movie
      1. Sharing Right Here, Right Now
      2. Playing Movies Full Screen
      3. Switching Between Projects and Events
      4. Sharing at School
      5. Sharing to iTunes
      6. Sharing to the Whole World
      7. Sharing to YouTube
      8. Sharing to the Whole World At Better Quality
      9. Sharing to Your MobileMe Gallery
      10. Sharing with Your Collaborators
      11. Sharing to the Media Browser
      12. Finding Movies in the Media Browser
      13. Making Changes After Publishing
      14. Sharing in the Living Room
      15. Adding Chapter Markers
      16. Exporting a QuickTime Movie
      17. Lesson Review
    3. Lesson 7 Making Your Masterpiece: Shooting and Importing Video
      1. Shooting to Edit
      2. Covering a Scene
      3. Looking for Story Structure
      4. Moving the Camera
      5. The Lingo of Motion
      6. Justify Any Movement
      7. Fix It Later
      8. Recording Sound
      9. Bringing It Home
      10. Understanding Video Formats
      11. Finding a Happy Medium
      12. Importing Movie Files
      13. Capturing from a Flip Camera
      14. Getting Footage from iPhoto
      15. Capturing from iSight
      16. Preparing Your Footage
      17. Adding Keywords
      18. Filtering Events
      19. Lesson Review
    4. Lesson 8 The Cutting Edge: Advanced Editing Techniques
      1. Editing Tips
      2. Why Cut at All?
      3. Avoid Redundancy
      4. Cut on Action
      5. Improving an Edit
      6. Adding Video from iPhoto
      7. Inserting a New Clip
      8. Adding a Cutaway
      9. Creating a Picture-in-Picture Effect
      10. Replacing a Shot
      11. Using the Clip Trimmer
      12. Fine-Tuning an Edit
      13. Lesson Review
    5. Lesson 9 Hollywood, Here I Come: Creating Visual Effects
      1. Creating a Polished Opening
      2. Adding a Still Image from iPhoto
      3. Adding a Title
      4. Applying Video Effects
      5. Adding a Single-Point Map
      6. Playing a Clip Backwards
      7. Changing Clip Speed
      8. Creating a Freeze Frame
      9. Adding Transitions
      10. Color Correction
      11. Stabilizing Your Clips
      12. Using Green-Screen Shots
      13. Performing a Green-Screen Edit
      14. Lesson Review
    6. Lesson 10 If Seeing Is Believing: Working with Audio
      1. Adjusting Audio Levels
      2. Adding Sound
      3. Adding Background Music
      4. Adding Sound Effects to a Clip
      5. Adding a Voiceover
      6. Mixing Levels
      7. Lesson Review
  8. GarageBand: A Musical Sampler
    1. Lesson 11 Learning to Play Music with GarageBand
      1. Opening GarageBand
      2. Connecting Musical Instruments to Your Computer
      3. Connecting a MIDI Instrument to the Computer
      4. Learning to Play Guitar or Piano
      5. Taking a Guitar or Piano Lesson
      6. Exploring the Interface
      7. Navigating Between Lesson Sections
      8. Customizing the Lesson Workspace
      9. Tuning and Recording During a Lesson
      10. Changing a Lesson Mix
      11. Downloading Additional Learn to Play Lessons
      12. Taking an Artist Lesson
      13. Lesson Review
    2. Lesson 12 Jamming with a Virtual Band
      1. Selecting a Musical Genre
      2. Navigating and Controlling Playback
      3. Auditioning Virtual Musicians (Instrument Parts)
      4. Mixing Instruments in Magic GarageBand
      5. Setting Up Your Instrument
      6. Adding an Instrument
      7. Recording a Part
      8. Opening and Saving the Song in GarageBand
      9. Sharing Your Finished Projects
      10. Sharing with iLife Applications
      11. Exporting Projects to iTunes
      12. Setting GarageBand Preferences for iTunes
      13. Evaluating the Song’s Output Level
      14. Sending a Song to iTunes
      15. Lesson Review
    3. Lesson 13 Creating an iPhone Ringtone
      1. Opening a Ringtone Template
      2. Recording a New Software Instrument Part
      3. Playing the Onscreen Music Keyboard
      4. Sending a Ringtone to iTunes
      5. Editing a Real Instrument Voice Track
      6. Editing Regions in the Editor
      7. Project Tasks
      8. Merging Real Instrument Regions
      9. Lesson Review
  9. iWeb and iDVD: Publishing with iLife
    1. Lesson 14 Recording a Podcast
      1. Creating a New Podcast Project
      2. Showing and Hiding the Podcast Track, Browser, and Editor
      3. Choosing Podcast Recording Equipment
      4. Exploring the Vocal Track Presets
      5. Project Tasks
      6. Working with Music and Sound Effects
      7. Editing the Podcast
      8. Adjusting a Recorded Track
      9. Importing a GarageBand Project
      10. Working with Automation Curves
      11. Working with Artwork and Markers
      12. Adding Artwork to the Media Browser
      13. Adding Episode Artwork to the Project
      14. Adding Artwork to the Podcast Track
      15. Resizing and Cropping Artwork
      16. Viewing Marker Information
      17. Adding a URL to a Marker
      18. Adding Episode Info to a Podcast
      19. Lesson Review
    2. Lesson 15 Publishing a Website
      1. Deciding the Site’s Purpose
      2. Choosing a Theme
      3. Making the Homepage
      4. Modifying the Header
      5. Adding Your Photos to the Page
      6. Adding Text to the Page
      7. Building a Photos Page
      8. Adding Pictures and Other Content to the Page
      9. Adding a Movie Page
      10. Adding a Map to a Blank Page
      11. Publishing the Site
      12. Publishing Your Website to MobileMe
      13. Publishing Your Website via FTP
      14. Publishing to a Folder
      15. Lesson Review
    3. Lesson 16 Creating a Blog and Podcast
      1. Making the Homepage
      2. Modifying the Browser Background
      3. Modifying the Page Background
      4. Modifying the Header
      5. Adding Your Photos and Graphics to the Page
      6. Adding Text to the Page
      7. Building a Blog
      8. Formatting the Archive and Page
      9. Creating Entries
      10. Creating a Video Post
      11. Making a Podcast
      12. Matching the Podcast Section to Your Site’s Style
      13. Refining and Archiving Your Entries
      14. Publishing the Site
      15. Adding the Podcast to iTunes
      16. Lesson Review
    4. Lesson 17 Making a DVD
      1. Exploring iDVD
      2. Exploring the iDVD Main Window
      3. Starting Your iDVD Project
      4. Navigating Your Project with the Map
      5. Switching Themes
      6. Editing Drop Zones
      7. Editing the Main Menu
      8. Previewing the DVD
      9. Adding a Slideshow to the DVD
      10. Modifying Menu Buttons
      11. Adding Photo Files to the DVD
      12. Burning the DVD
      13. Lesson Review
  10. Index
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    6. F
    7. G
    8. H
    9. I
    10. J
    11. K
    12. L
    13. M
    14. N
    15. O
    16. P
    17. Q
    18. R
    19. S
    20. T
    21. U
    22. V
    23. W
    24. Y
    25. Z

Product information

  • Title: Apple Training Series: iLife ’09
  • Author(s): Michael E. Cohen, Michael Wohl, Richard Harrington, Mary Plummer
  • Release date: March 2009
  • Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
  • ISBN: 9780321637963