iPhoto® '09 Portable Genius

Introduction

Technology is at its best when it enables you to do amazing things while enabling you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto '09 Portable Genius is your companion: it helps you get going with iPhoto and quickly improve your skills so that you'll be doing things with photos that will amaze and delight you.

iPhoto is built on its library, which is where you collect, label (tag), and organize your photos. Some of the coolest tag features are Faces, which identify the people in your photos and help you find photos with specific people in them, and Places, which serves a similar purpose for the locations associated with your pictures. You can add photos to your library from a digital camera, an iPhone, from the Web, and many other sources. Of course, you can improve your photos by editing them. You can view your photos in collections iPhoto creates for you automatically or in slide shows or photo albums that you create. And speaking of projects, you can do all kinds of creative things with your photos, such as building photo books, creating personalized calendars, and designing greeting cards. You can put amazing slide shows of your photos on DVD. And you can share your photos online many ways, including through MobileMe, Face-book, iWeb, and Flickr. All this photographic power is delivered in an ...