iLife® '09 Portable Genius

Introduction

Your Mac is a fantastic tool for enjoying multimedia, and the iLife suite of applications lets you create and share your own multimedia content with the whole wired world.

iLife '09 Portable Genius shows you how to get the most out of the iLife applications. Here's a taste of what you can do with this book:

• Enjoy music and videos in iTunes. Exploit iTunes to the full by setting it and your iPod to deliver high audio quality, building a powerful, easy-to-use media library, creating videos that work with iTunes, getting the most out of playlists, and using your iPod or iPhone to carry files.

• Bring your photos into iPhoto. Import your digital photos directly from your digital camera or a removable memory card — or from another folder on your Mac or your network. Use Image Capture to scan printed photos so that you can use them on your Mac.

• Organize, improve, and share your photos. Quickly organize your photos into iPhoto Events and tag them with keywords so that you can instantly find the photos you want. Use iPhoto's new Faces feature to automatically identify the key people in your photos and the Places feature to organize photos by location. Once you've cropped and adjusted your photos so that they look exactly as you want them, you can create powerful slide shows, share your photos with other people on your network or the Internet, or simply use them to enhance your copy of Mac OS X.

• Import your video footage into iMovie. Bring your video clips into iMovie from your DV ...