If you‚re a Mac user, every time you face a new program, you know you‚ll hardly need any instructions to use it. This is the case with iPhoto, whichever version you use. After all, the program described in this book is the one that Steve Jobs presented in January of 2002 as being Apple‚s answer to the panic ordinary people feel when they try to download, save, edit or share their digital pictures.
The problem that comes from this ease of use is that, in most cases, we don‚t use 100% of the resources of the program.
This book answers the need for a written manual that helps us learn with ease everything iPhoto can do for us. This explains its title: «iPhoto 5, The Missing Manual, The book that should have been in the box».
The first part contains general remarks on cameras and digital photography: resolution, battery life, size of photos composition tips, photos in movement, outdoor photos, photos with flash, etc.
The second part teaches us how to manage the program (installing from iLife, choosing different options in Preferences) and how to start editing our pictures using iPhoto‚s tools.
Once you‚ve edited and modified your photographs, you have to transfer them to a media that allows you to show them what the author calls "Meet Your Public". The book shows you how to create slideshows, print your photos, email them, export them to other formats (QuickTime, home DVD‚s using iDVD), etc.
A last chapter is devoted to management of your photo albums, backups and the use of Apple Script to automate some operations.
In conclusion, it actually would have been nice to find this manual in the iLife box, because even though many of the things it explains we end up finding out about with time, it‚s always better to optimize our photos from the very start.
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