Part One. The coolest Mac apps for creativity

The collection of Mac software known as iLife includes five applications: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb. All five are incredibly powerful and wonderfully creative. However, we’ve narrowed the focus in this book to our favorite three that we find most useful, versatile, and fun: iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD.

We find that we spend most of our creative time in one or all three of these apps. With iPhoto you can manage a large library of photos; create slideshows, books, calendars, cards, and much more; iMovie awakens your creative potential and you can share your movies in a variety of ways—just click a button to send your movie to YouTube. Then use iDVD to burn your project to a DVD, complete ...

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