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Computer Tips: For Artists, Designers, and Desktop Publishers
Computer Tips: For Artists, Designers, and Desktop Publishers
Scott Wills A collection of techniques, shortcuts, work-arounds, and good advice for anyone who prepares desktop publications. The newest reference in the practical TIPS series, Computer Tips focuses on specific computer-aided design and production tasks and issues for those who work on either the Macintosh or the PC platform for print or electronic publication. Among the topics covered are electronic file types and uses, workspace organization, font management, data compression and storage, working with Postscript, special effects, scanning and resolution, prepress, color calibration, modems, multimedia, and web site design, with emphasis on how to adapt traditional techniques and materials to digital use and use low-tech equipment for high-tech results. A glossary of essential terms and list of resources is included.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Classroom in a Book
Adobe Creative Team Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for you to master all the new features in Adobe's top-rated consumer-targeted photo-editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. You will learn the basics of editing your images with Photoshop Elements and learn how best to use the program's many new features.

In this new version of the book you will receive complete coverage of all the new features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10. Enhance specific photo areas with dozens of new Smart Brush effects and patterns. Find specific things in your photos with Object Search and tag faces in photos faster using your Facebook® Friends list. Get step-by-step assistance with the new Guided Edits that help you create a dreamlike Orton Effect or depth-of-field and picture collage effects. Add text that curves or flows in any direction. Save your photo creations as JPEGs or PDFs for greater flexibility and view photos virtually anywhere you are.
The Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
The Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
Scott Kelby/ Matt Kloskowski This book (for Windows and Mac) breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done—it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why. If you’re looking for one of those “tell-me-everything-about-the-Unsharp-Maskfilter” books, this isn’t it. You can grab any other Elements book on the shelf, because they all do that. Instead, this book gives you the inside tips and tricks of the trade for organizing, correcting, editing, sharpening, retouching, and presenting your photos like a pro. You’ll be absolutely amazed at how easy and effective these techniques are—once you know the secrets.

You’ll learn:
The real secrets of how the pros retouch portraitsHow to color correct any photo without breaking a sweat (you’ll be amazed at how they do it!)How to use Camera Raw for processing not only RAW photos, but JPEGs and TIFFs, too! (And you’ll learn why so many pros like it best— because it’s faster and easier)The sharpening techniques the pros really use (there’s an entire chapter just on this!)How to deal with common digital camera image problems, including removing noise and avoiding halosThe most requested photographic special effects,  and much more!The Book's Secret Weapon
Although Elements 8 offers some digital photography features that Photoshop CS4 doesn’t offer, there are plenty of features that Photoshop CS4 has that Elements 8 still doesn’t have (things like paths, Channel Mixer, etc.). But in this book, you’ll learn some slick workarounds, cheats, and some fairly ingenious ways to replicate many of those Photoshop features from right within Elements. Plus, since this book is designed for photographers, it doesn’t waste your time talking about how to frame a shot, setting your exposure, etc., and there’s no talk about which camera or printer to buy. It’s all Elements, step-by-step, cover-to-cover, in the only book of its kind!
The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers
The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers
Scott Kelby/ Matt Kloskowski Best-selling author Scott Kelby pairs up with Matt Kloskowski to deliver the definitive book on using Photoshop Elements 6 to create the best possible images. With this newest release of Photoshop Elements, Scott and Matt show readers how to work with their images like a pro, from importing to organization to correction to output. Readers will learn all they need to know about the digital photography workflow, as well as the latest secrets of the pros to help them create the best special effects, apply the most useful sharpening techniques, and avoid many of the hassles and problems that are encountered in digital photography (such as digital noise and color halos).
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
Martin Evening While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool. That’s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows first-hand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book contains 624 pages of comprehensive and detailed coverage of all aspects of Lightroom. In this book you’ll learn how to:

• Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
• Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
• Create and manage a personal image library
• Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
• Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
• Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal
portfolios

The book structure has been organized to match a typical Lightroom workflow. The introductory chapter provides an overview of all the main Lightroom features, showing how Lightroom 2 was used on a studio photo shoot that was specially shot to illustrate the book. The following chapters cover all the essentials, such as importing photos, working with the Library module, and managing the catalog database. The biggest section of the book is devoted to working with the Develop module and provides some unique insights into working with new features such as the localized adjustment tools. There is also a whole chapter devoted to image sharpening and another on integrating Lightroom and Photoshop, where you will learn how to devise the best workflow methods for working between these two programs. This is followed by a chapter on printing and a presentation chapter on the Slideshow and Web modules. Lastly, there are two appendix chapters. One offers a complete overview of the Lightroom 2 preference settings, while the other provides some in-depth explanations and background reading on how the Lightroom program works.

The book is richly illustrated, mostly using the author’s own photographs, and one of the nice features of this book is the way enlarged panel views are used throughout, making it easier for readers to follow the settings used in the various step-by-step examples. There are also lots of tips that will help you take your Lightroom techniques to an advanced level.

If you are looking for the most comprehensive coverage of Lightroom, written by an author who is closely involved with the development of the program, this is the book to get.

About the Author
Martin Evening is a London-based advertising and fashion photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. In addition to being a bestselling author, Martin is sought after for speaking and lecturing. He also works with the Photoshop and Lightroom engineering teams, consulting on new feature development and alpha and beta testing. He is one of the founding members of PixelGenius, a software design company producing automated production and creative plug-ins for Photoshop.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
Martin Evening While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool. That’s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book was also written with photographers in mind. Best-selling author Martin Evening describes Photoshop Lightroom’s features in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, martin knows firsthand what photographers need for  an efficient workflow. He’s also been working with Photoshop Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management. In this book you’ll learn how to:
Work efficiently with images shot in the raw formatn  import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflowCreate and manage a personal image libraryApply tonal corrections to multiple images quicklyIntegrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe PhotoshopExport images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfoliosPhotographers will find Adobe Photoshop Lightroom—and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book—indispensable tools in their digital darkroom.

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Understanding Adobe Photoshop: Digital Imaging Concepts and Techniques
Understanding Adobe Photoshop: Digital Imaging Concepts and Techniques
Richard Harrington If you're exploring a career in digital imaging or design, then you're likely to encounter Photoshop along the way—you probably already have. But how well do you know it? Understanding Adobe Photoshop: Digital Image Concepts and Techniques goes beyond the school newspaper or internship and teaches you the fundamental digital imaging techniques in Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements that you'll need to succeed both in the classroom and the workforce. While many Photoshop books focus on features, tools, or techniques, this book covers both the basics and delves into specific skills, tricks, and uses in multimedia. With a friendly style and interactive DVD-ROM, Richard Harrington covers digital imaging basics (correcting, editing, sharpening, retouching, and presenting photos) and shows you real-world projects and exercises, including: digital painting; designing a CD/DVD label, magazine cover, and advertisements; creating Web sites/animations; and more!
How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 4 (How to Wow)
How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 4 (How to Wow)
Jack Davis/ Mike McHugh/ Wayne Rankin Wouldn't it be great if you could have three of the world's most accomplished and sought after Photoshop teachers sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate the infinite possibilities of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4?

How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 4 is the next best thing. Three Photoshop powerhouses—Jack Davis, Mike McHugh, and Wayne Rankin—all renowned authors, graphic designers, and trainers, have developed an effective way to help you reach your full creative potential.

Jack, Mike, and Wayne guide you step-by-step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed! You'll learn tips and techniques on everything from common workflow problems and exciting photo enhancing techniques to custom projects and presentations using Photoshop Elements 4. Whether it's optimizing the color and tone of your image, retouching cosmetic undesirables, or creating custom presentations, you’re given the tools at every stage of the creative process in order to learn How to Wow!

This book begins with the essentials of workflow (including Sizing Images, Working with Layers, and Color Management) and then moves on to photo organizing and optimizing and retouching and enhancing. Next comes the fun with creative projects such as texturing your images and turning them into works of art, applying a virtual tattoo, creating custom wrapping paper, producing a multimedia presentation, making a Web photo gallery, and more. The How to Wow! companion CD makes it a snap and is packed with everything you need to work through the projects in the book and start creating your own graphics that wow!

This book is for Windows users only.
The Adobe Photoshop Elements Crafts Book
The Adobe Photoshop Elements Crafts Book
Elizabeth Bulger * * * * * "Elizabeth Bulger has taken Photoshop Elements to a whole new level with this unique book of projects. She shows you how to use Photoshop Elements to create all sorts of cool things: holiday gifts, book covers, coasters, postcards, and a zillion other nifty 'I didn't know you could do that!' crafts."—Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Millions of people own digital cameras, yet most of us just store our digital photos on a hard drive or email them to friends. But what if you want to get a little more creative with your images? Armed with little more than a copy of Photoshop Elements, a computer, an inkjet printer, and a handful of basic tools, you can transform your digital photos into beautiful, custom-made crafts. Written by designer and Photoshop guru Elizabeth Bulger, The Adobe Photoshop Elements Crafts Book will motivate you to get creative with your own images while learning basic Photoshop Elements skills along the way. Each project begins with a list of the tools and materials you’ll need to get started. From there, full-color photographs, clear instructions, and numbered steps walk you through every step of the project. You’ll learn how to create unique crafts out of a variety of materials, including paper, ceramic, metal, glass, fabric, and polymer clay. Whether you’re a longtime D.I.Y. devotee or completely new to crafting, this book will show you everything you need to create attractive, unique keepsakes for you or your family and friends to cherish.

Elizabeth Bulger shows you how to
Get your photos ready for projects: Learn how to import, edit, crop, and apply quick fixes to your imagesCreate custom brushes in Photoshop Elements and make unique gift-wrapping paper with your own imagesCustomize a notebook by creating a new cover with decorative borders, text, and your own photosUse custom shape and type tools to create unique ceramic tilesLearn how to transfer your images to fabric to create custom throw pillows, aprons, and moreDesign and create your own canning labels, CD covers, beverage coasters, and gift boxes.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3: 50 Ways to Create Cool Pictures
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3: 50 Ways to Create Cool Pictures
Dave Huss Adobe Photoshop Elements 3: 50 Cool Ways to Create Cool Pictures covers all the new tools that Photoshop Elements 3 has to offer users of all levels who want to edit, store, share, and archive their digital images. Photoshop Elements 3 includes new edge tools, easier organization and layout tools, and better tools for red-eye reduction. With a focus on what the average photographer really wants to learn, author Dave Huss covers all of these tools in this practical, fun guide to learning Photoshop Elements 3. This book covers both the Macintosh and Windows versions of Photoshop Elements 3.
The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers
The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers
Scott Kelby Scott Kelby offers full-color, graphically rich, linear, tutorial- and project-based examples of every key step in the digital photography process. From experimenting with camera settings, through capturing and manipulating the image, through editing, output and organization, this book is designed for the digital photographer who knows aesthetics but who wants a concise guide to "grip it and rip it" usage of digital technology. Photoshop Elements is a very powerful and affordable image editing software. It carries many of the same features Photoshop does without the complicated graphs and tools. It also carries it all at a much less expensive price tag - only $99, compared Photoshop's $600. Anyone making the transition from film to digital photography will learn the stuff that is critical for Photoshop Elements — no theory, no challenging the readers to come up with their own settings. This book shows the readers exactly "how to do it."

Scott Kelby is President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), and is Editor-in-chief of both Photoshop User and Mac Design magazines. Throughout the year, Scott serves as Training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is technical chair of the largest Photoshop gathering, Photoshop World. Scott is one of the leading Photoshop trainers in the country today and trains thousands of Photoshop users across the country each year, and is featured in a series of Photoshop training videos. He has written 6 best-selling books on Photoshop and on digital photography.
Digital Shoebox: How to Organize, Find, and Share Your Photos, The
Sarah Bay Williams Most people are awash in digital photos—some taken, some received—stuffed here and there in random folders and albums across a hard drive. In The Digital Shoebox, Sarah Bay Williams, creator of the image archiving system used by the Academy Awards®, shares her foolproof method for effectively organizing, finding, and sharing photos so you never lose track of your most precious memories.

Unlike many books on digital photography that are driven by software, The Digital Shoebox teaches readers an easy-to-remember and easy-to-repeat system that doesn’t feel like homework or require learning lots of complicated software applications. Part 1 of the book guides readers through the seven most important steps for organizing photos; Part 2 is packed with tips on ways to enjoy and share those photos. Each chapter closes with some slightly more advanced information, should readers want to get "technical."

Based on the author’s experience as photography coordinator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as someone who simply loves taking photos, The Digital Shoebox is the first concise and user-centered guide solely dedicated to organizing a personal digital photography collection.
Takes a fun and easy-to-implement approach to asset management, featuring a friendly writing style and charming illustrationsTeaches the seven key steps needed to help users keep photos organized, available, and safeIncludes a "Beyond the Box" section at the end of each chapter for more advanced readers who want to move beyond the basics
Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Craig Hoeschen Photoshop Elements 3, Adobe’s more accessible version of its flagship product, Photoshop, opens the door for amateur photographers, business users, students, and home users who want professional-looking images for their print and Web projects.

Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses task-based lessons to show readers how to capture photos from traditional or digital cameras, reduce red eye, correct color, work with layers, erase backgrounds, create photo-illustrations and Web graphics, simulate painting and drawing techniques, apply artistic effects, and more. Longtime graphic designer and digital imaging expert Craig Hoeschen provides concise, step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to help users look up just what they need to know, while an eight-page color gallery shows off sample filters, effects, and plenty of retouching and compositing examples for additional inspiration.
Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches
Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches
David Schloss When it comes to learning a new skill, you want to be taught by the best—someone who truly specializes in what you want to learn. In these pages you'll find just that: a team of professional photographers ready to coach you in every aspect of digital photography—from what you need to know about your digital camera to how to capture a great image and how to use your computer to output an even better one. Interested in travel photography? Who better than an ex-National Geographic photographer to show you the ropes? Want to take lasting portraits of family and friends? Let an official White House photographer give you some hard-won tips. Need to document you daughter's soccer team in action? Get the inside skinny on capturing motion from a successful sports photographer. David Schloss and the team of pro shutterbugs at Blue Pixel pool their knowledge here to provide everything you need to know to create compelling digital photographs — regardless of what camera or software you're using.
Photographer's Guide to the Digital Lifecycle: Real-life workflow scenarios for managing still and motion photography assets
Ben Greisler Photographers, videographers, and other creative content makers are dealing with a new world of media that presents the challenge of managing all their raw and prepared data produced in the creative process. The framework for managing this data must go beyond Digital Asset Management (DAM) to the holistic data lifecycle perspective.

Enter Photographer's Guide to the Digital Lifecycle. Offering much more than a DAM book—this is a comprehensive guide to modern, real-world digital asset storage practices. It goes beyond things like metadata and how to use DAM applications and looks at the whole process, from ingest to archive. In addition to the usual DAM concerns of metadata and tagging, Photographer's Guide to the Digital Lifecycle brings to light the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of the digital storage mediums we choose and the best techniques for applying them. It looks beyond DAM software to real-life examples for keeping your data safe and managed, from the moment of production to its status as historical artifact.
Real World Digital Photography, Second Edition
Real World Digital Photography, Second Edition
Katrin Eismann/ Sean Duggan/ Tim Grey Whether you're just making the transition from a lifetime of traditional photography or are looking to bring your digital photography skills in line with today¿s market, if you're serious about digital photography, you need this book. In the four years since the first edition was published, just about every aspect of digital photography has changed (often radically) — and it's all covered in these pages. Organized in four major sections¿Digital Processing Essentials, Digital Processing Techniques, The Digital Darkroom, and Output and Presentation — the focus here is on getting great pictures and spectacular printed output through a combination of smart techniques and the right equipment. As with all of the titles in the Real World series, the authors here realize that this entails learning not just techniques but the concepts behind them. For a professional-level understanding of the digital photography process — from how a digital camera works to advice on buying cameras and accessories, choosing hardware and software, downloading and outputting images, and more — this is the place to turn.
Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
John Cruise/ Kelly Kordes Anton Build your InDesign expertise,one technique at a time. In Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos, authors John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right to work in InDesign, the world’s most powerful page layout program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you’re most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique—complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace, that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you’ll master all these tools and techniques, and more:

• Customize the interface [Tip #6]
• Add metadata to documents [Tip #14]
• I nsert variable text [Tip #29]
• Add special effects to type [Tip #34]
• Format tables with styles [Tip #45]
• U se spot colors, process colors, and tints [Tip #74]
• Paginate a book [Tip #86]
• U se PDF presets for output [Tip #96].
Apple Training Series: iLife '11
Dion Scoppettuolo, Mary Plummer The Apple Certified Way to Learn

In the only Apple certified guide to iLife, the authors have you working wonders with iLife ’11 within the first few pages. Featuring compelling footage and images, this book/DVD combo uses real-life material and practical lessons that you can apply immediately to enhance your own projects. Focused lessons take you step by step through all aspects of iLife—everything from organizing and editing your photo library to creating polished movies and soundtracks. Along the way, you’ll produce movie trailers, photo books, soundtracks, and music and learn to publish and share your projects.

Master the iLife suite of tools quickly through fun, real-world projectsFix, rate, and share your photos with friends and family
Turn your photos into keepsake books and slideshows
Create professional looking sports highlights from your home videos
Learn to make a “Hollywood-style” movie trailer
Play and record music with expert guidance
Fix, arrange,and mix music like a pro
Publish and share your projects with iWeb and iDVDThe 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.

About the Authors:
DionScoppettuolo is an Apple Certified Trainer, marketing consultant, and avid travel photographer who has taught classes on Apple products worldwide. Before starting his own company, he was at Apple, Inc., for over seven years, where he worked as Senior Product Manager on iMovie and Final Cut Studio. Dion is also the author of Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 3. Mary Plummer is a professional musician, composer,and video editor.She is an Apple Final Cut Studio MasterTrainer and the co-owner of InVisionDigital and Media Arts Inc.,an Apple Authorized Training Center located at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. She has written numerous books including Apple Training Series:iLife’09 and Apple Training Series:GarageBand’09.
iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide) #36
iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Jeff Carlson Need to learn iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 fast? Try a Visual QuickStart!

This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with these great iLife applications in no time. Best-selling author and iLife expert Jeff Carlson uses crystal-clear instructions, full-color illustrations,  and friendly prose to introduce you to everything from using themes, tools, and effects to timeline editing to video podcasts and blogs. You’ll also learn about everything new in iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6, including motion-graphics themes, real-time effects, audio enhancements, sharing options, and more!
iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
Jeff Carlson Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!

This full-color, amply illustrated, accessible book teaches readers the essential skills necessary for creating compelling movies with iMovie '09 and iDVD, Apple's consumer-friendly digital movie and DVD-burning software applications. Readers can follow the step-by-step instructions from the beginning to get a tour of the applications or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. Longtime Macintosh and technology writer Jeff Carlson takes extra steps to ensure that readers understand all of the key aspects of digital movie making.

Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through iMovie '09 and iDVD (and how they interact with the other iLife ’09 applications) and show you what to do.Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.Page for page, the best content and value around.
The iMovie '11 Project Book
Jeff Carlson Sometimes its the best stuff that gets left out of books on consumer applications. Not with the iMovie Project Book! This book delivers the cool stuff in a fun and engaging format. It jumps over the manual part of what's covered in most books to get right to tips, projects, and how to be productive. The book starts off with a chapter on the essentials and then gets into the captivating cool stuff. To grab readers' attention and direct them to valuable information the book has many entry points for the reader on each page, such as tips and notes. Fun, engaging, lively, and information-rich, this project book is designed for a new generation of learners who want to move past boring text heavy documentation and build knowledge effortlessly.
iPhoto 5: Missing Manual
iPhoto 5: Missing Manual
David Pogue/ Derrick Story Our Missing Manual is hands-down the bestselling book on iPhoto. And now, updated to cover Apple's newest release, iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual comes fully loaded—and in full color—so you can exercise all the power, flexibility, and creativity of the stunning new iPhoto 5.

Some of iPhoto 5's fifty new features are tiny nips and tucks, such as menu rewordings, quiet refinements, and secret keystrokes that take most people days to stumble through. Others are big-ticket overhauls aimed at both power users (RAW-file import and editing, color correction sliders, real-time histogram) and everyday shutterbugs (nested file folders, individual-photo control in slideshows, and a completely rewritten book-layout kit). Additional improvements include a robust search feature (similar to that of iTunes) and the addition of "objects" for slideshow and book projects (using objects, you can manipulate images without affecting pictures in your master library).

iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual covers them all with the scrupulous objectivity, clever wit, and technical wisdom you count on from David Pogue along with the Mac and digital photography expertise of Derrick Story.

Their authoritative guide starts out with a crash course on digital photography, complete with tutorials on buying a digital camera, composing brilliant photos in various situations (including sports photography, portraits, nighttime photography—even kid photography!) and making digital movies. iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual then launches into every detail of iPhoto, from camera-meets-Mac basics to storing, searching, and editing; from sharing your digital photography with the world (via customized slideshows—complete with iTunes soundtrack, if you like—prints, photo books, email, the Web, and even your network) to exporting to QuickTime and iDVD. And don't forget iPhoto "stunts," such as building custom screen savers and desktop backdrops; exporting pictures; making the most of plug-ins, add-ons, and beef-ups; using AppleScript; and managing files with backups, CDs, and photo libraries.

iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual gives you everything you need to become the digital photographer extraordinaire you want to be.
iPhoto 09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
iPhoto 09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
Adam Engst Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!

With iPhoto '09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the applications, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual guide uses step-by-step instructions and hundreds of full-color screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to make the most out of their digital photos with iPhoto '09. Perfect for anyone who needs to learn the program inside out, this guide covers everything from importing, tagging, editing, and perfecting images to creating slideshows and photo albums to easy online Web publishing. Readers will learn about everything new in iPhoto '09, including: Faces, which allows you to organize your photos based on who’s in them; Places, which uses data from GPS-enabled cameras or your iPhone's camera to categorize photos by location with easily recognizable names; themed slideshows; online sharing via Facebook and Flickr with one click; enhanced photo editing tools; and more.