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While the last version of iMovie gave moviemakers the ability to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of camcorders, iMovie 6 is all about the ease of moviemaking itself. iMovie 6 includes five professionall
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Apple has taken iPhoto 08 to a whole new level. Now, in addition to handling upwards of 250,000 images, the program lets you easily categorize and navigate through those photos with a feature called “Events”. Plus, new editing tools let you copy and
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For personal computer users of every stripe, Mac OS X is a whole new ballgame. It combines Apple’s trademark visual elegance with the underlying stability of UNIX, which adds up to a rock-solid, gorgeous operating system. Unfortunately, learning
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From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines. Famed for its similarity to English and its ease of integration with other programs, AppleScript is the perfect programming language for t
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What serious fans need to take full advantage of iPhotoPart of the incredibly popular iLife suite that comes loaded on every Mac, iPhoto is the standard for digital photo management and editing programs. This smart and clever guide gives iPhoto users
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The popularity of digital cameras continues to grow exponentially. They are now more powerful, feature rich, and affordable–turning digital photography into a mainstream interest. And with Photoshop Elements, Adobe has created the most popular phot
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Facebook’s spreading about as far and fast as the Web itself: 500 million members and counting. But there’s a world of fun packed into the site that most folks miss. With this bestselling guide, learn how to unlock Facebook’s talents as personal webs
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Whether you consider yourself a pro or a hobbyist, you have to admit that Apple’s iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 are amazing right out of the box. Unfortunately, the box doesn’t include much of a user’s guide, so learning about these applications is another m
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While the last version of iMovie gave moviemakers the ability to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of camcorders, iMovie 6 is all about the ease of moviemaking itself. iMovie 6 includes five professionall
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Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. If you want to create an engaging web site, this thoroughly revised, completely updated edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and pro
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With iMovie ’11, Apple upped the bar for fast, effortless, versatile video editing. Packed with new features, iMovie ’11 lets you create your own movie trailers, apply one-step effects like Instant Replay, edit audio tracks with intuitive tools, use
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With better ways to get your photos online and new options for creating printed projects, iPhoto ’11 makes it easier than ever to transfer photos from a digital camera, organize them, and publish, print, or share them in maps — but there’s still n
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When you have a Lightroom question, where do you look?
Do you trawl through thousands of web pages looking for the information you need?
Perhaps post on a forum and wait hours for anyone to reply?
Maybe try to figure out the Help
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With Leopard, Apple has unleashed the greatest version of Mac OS X yet, and David Pogue is back with another meticulous Missing Manual to cover the operating system with a wealth of detail. The new Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, is faster th
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In this Apple-authorized guide, director and filmmaker Michael Wohl teaches the advanced skills that editing professionals need to know most. Using professional broadcast, documentary, and dramatic footage, Wohl delivers a comprehensive course in vid
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Review by M. A. Filippelli for Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
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Pogues’ books on Mac keep getting better and better. This book covers all of the features in Leopard in detail. For those that have used Tiger the missing manual will not be disappointed at all by this book.
For the new Mac user this book covers all of the essentials to get started. It also gives you the tools to go in depth with Leopard. For the experienced Mac users there is still so much valuable information here to make it well worth the purchase. All of the applications that come with Tiger are covered in good detail. Dash board, Spotlight, Apple remote desktop, Sherlock, iTunes, iSync, iChat .Mac, Safari RSS for internet feeds, iDVD, iChat, iPhoto, iCal, iMic, iMovie, iDisk, iSync and iTunes, Apple Script and Image Capture to name a few.
Also covered in detail is converting from Windows to Mac for the new Mac user.
Creating user accounts is covered along with file and directory permissions, configuring the user environment and user preferences, passwords and other elements of security.
The Intel chip set is covered in detail.
There are a myriad of new features and features that have been changed or have been enhanced. There are so many new features that are not intuitive in Leopard. This book helps you through these with ease. Throughout the book there are There are lots of well placed screen shots to guide you.
The book is methodically laid out in an order that makes sense. It is filled with tips and how to’s. For the user coming from Windows to Mac this book will be a tremendous help. It will really simplify things that could be fairly daunting. Even for the veteran Mac user this book will be very handy.
There are several informational snippets:
Power user’s guide: Explains the more technical details of the subject being described.
Frequently asked questions: This is pretty self explanatory.
Work around workshop: These sections detail why you can’t do something but then gives you a work around.
Gem in the rough: Shows you how to share with other Mac and non Mac machines.
Up to speed: These sections walk you through speeding up your machine and various applications.
Not quite as much humor in this book as with other books in the Missing manual series perhaps because of the depth and breadth of the material covered. As with all Pogue press books this is very easy read. It is detailed but not cumbersome. There are so many new features in Leopard that this book is a must. Pogue press consistently produces the best Mac books and this is no exception. 5 Stars for the Beginner to intermediate user 4 stars for the advanced user.
Review by Christopher Ireland for Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
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As a new iMac owner and a refugee from the Windows world, I’ve found this book to be invaluable for figuring out the inner workings of my new machine. I originally thought that I wouldn’t need a book, that everything would be intuitive and easy to understand. But there are some things that you just need a book for, learning the keyboard shortcuts, what each application does, what the file structure looks like, etc.
This book is very entertaining and fun to read. Pogue has a good sense of humor and does a great job pointing out the features of this OS. I’ve found countless “Oh, that’s how you do it!” tips so far, from the mundane “How do you right-click?” to the expert “How do I share the network with my Windows XP, Vista, and various Linux machines?” He covers it all–and I mean ALL.
I can’t recommend this book highly enough, especially for new computer users and those of us switching from Windows machines. I’m Windows, Unix, and Linux certified up the wazoo, and even I needed this book to get me going. There are so very many tips and tricks that you will learn–things that make sense and which enhance your experience with this well-crafted OS. Every penny spent on this book will have been well worth it.
Review by John A. Suda for Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
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The preeminent general reference source for Mac OS 10 has always been the “Missing Manual Series” written by David Pogue. The latest iteration in the series is its Mac OS 10 Leopard Edition, completely revised, and it is the biggest, most comprehensive, and most useful of all the editions in the series. It covers the OS X desktop and file system, the free applications included with the OS X installation, the system components and technologies, networking and online features and components, and includes welcome appendices on installation, troubleshooting, Windows/Mac comparisons, and a “Master Keystroke” list.
Every one of the editions has been exceedingly well-designed and written combining serious treatment of subject content with style, wit, and humor, as well as honest evaluation and critique of features of the Mac operating system. All of the OS X Missing Manuals have addressed issues for a broad range of users, from the lightly experienced, the intermediate, and for power users. For the most part, however, the primary focus of each edition has been on the less experienced users. This has changed with the Leopard edition.
There seems to have been a deliberate effort to make the book more appealing and useful to upper-end users without losing any utility at all for others. There seems to be more material for power users- -there are more “Power Users Guides” providing advanced information and techniques, more UNIX references for those willing and able to take avail of the UNIX kernel underlying the operating system, more identifications of keyboard shortcuts, and more disclosure of undocumented and advanced features than in previous editions.
For example, Pogue itemizes and describes at least 20 UNIX utilities that only power users would want to use, explains how to configure preferences for the Terminal application, explains how to deal with the file and folder permissions system using UNIX commands, and even notes the existence of the venerable “Eliza” therapist emulator program hidden in a part of the emacs text editor. At each juncture of describing operating system features, Pogue explains from the perspective of different levels of users, including the power user, like himself. Unlike in many other books purporting to cover a broad range of users, this one does not short on the higher-end.
This is all well and good as casual users are still widely well-taken care of by the thorough and well-organized explanations of nearly every feature of OS 10.5. The book is illustrated profusely with screenshots of system features, configuration processes, comparison of the Mac OS X versions, comparisons of Mac OS X to Windows features, and more. Nearly every page is loaded with “Tips,” “Notes,” FAQ’s, lists, tables, and sidebars. Throughout, there are nuggets of insight and technical arcana that even Mac veterans will be surprised to learn about. I learned, for example, that the one-button Apple Mighty Mouse has a secret 2-button feature. Also there is a similar way to operate a laptop with a two finger trackpad technique. There are a lot of tips and tricks like that in the book. Even beyond description and explanation, Pogue provides useful recommendations for configurations of the Dock, recovery from common errors, and using Automator to design practical workflows for common tasks.
The subject content builds upon that of previous editions and updates it with material relating to the 300-plus new features of Leopard. Much of the new material covers the Leopard update highlights – the backup program called Time Machine, a desktop switching application called Spaces, the Stacks organizing feature, the file previewer, QuickLook, and the feature enhancements in iChat, Mail, and especially Spotlight, the search tool.
Spotlight is much more than a mere search tool although it is a great one. A whole chapter is devoted to it alone. Pogue explains how to use it not just for casual and advanced searching (using over 125 types of data and metadata) but as a quick launcher of files, folders, and applications; as a calculator; and as a dictionary. Sophisticated query languages can be used and Pogue lists a series of power user keyboard shortcuts for Spotlight use.
I see the book as especially useful for those Windows users of all levels gravitating to the Mac platform. Not only is the treatment of the Mac OS done well, but at nearly every juncture, Pogue takes the perspective of a Windows user and provides practical comparisons and contrasts of operating systems.
Weaving all of these perspectives into a harmonious, readable manual is a fine achievement. The content discussions and explanations are never abstract but written from the viewpoint of the thoughtful and practical user and no one is better at this than David Pogue who has been cited before as one of the world’s best (technical) communicators. The denseness of the treatment of the subject content diminishes somewhat from the readability of the book compared to prior editions and there is a bit less wit, humor and style. That is the trade-off, I presume, for the increased breadth and depth of the content treatment but this Missing Manual is still as well written as a computer manual can be expected to be.
Review by Anthony Lawrence for Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
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David Pogue writes well, but what’s special about this is that it covers details that most authors wouldn’t bother with. I’ve been a Mac OS X user since 2003, and upgraded to Leopard the moment it was available and yet I was absolutely astonished by how much I learned – this is just packed with tips!
As an old Unix hand, I was happy to see that David included an excellent chapter on Terminal and Unix in general; too many Mac books ignore the Unix underpinnings or gloss over it.
Definitely recommended for anyone using Leopard.
Review by paul grandmaison for Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
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I have to agree with LifeFX’s review below. There is no doubt a lot of information here, but some of it I found somewhat lacking or misleading, and for me, this was made worse by what I considered to be a distracting hyperactive writing syle.
As an example in the section on FileVault, I got the impression from reading a few pages about it that it was something I should start using as soon as possible if I was going to have any security on my Mac! The Mac OS Leopard Bible on the other hand had half a page on it that I found much more factual and descriptive of what FileVault actually does, from which I concluded that I don’t really need to use it.
Some examples of where I found the book a little lacking was in how little other security issues were discussed. I found no discussion of viruses other than regarding security issues if you are running Windows with FMWare Fusion or a similar program. On the other hand the Mac OS Leopard Bible discussed viruses in much more depth and even recommended a few relevant antivirus programs. The Special Edition: Using Mac OS X Leopard by Brad Miser does as well. I know a lot of people would like to think that viruses are not relevant to them since they now have a Mac, but it’s really not true, as at this point although there are fewer viruses that directly affect the Mac there still are some and others that do not affect the Mac can still pass them on to others if they are imbedded in a Word doc for example.
Another example where I felt the “Bible” went in to more depth in regards to security issues was in it’s discussion of how to monitor open ports which are available to outside hackers, and how the port monitor that comes with Leopard is less effective than a recommended alternative.
I am sure that many people will find the writing style to be entertaining. I can see how they would. The author is no doubt an entertaining writer. The author is also to be commended for presenting such a wealth of information in what for many may be a more accessible style. Although all that is true, I think there are other sources of information that may be better in some ways, but then maybe not in others. In any case, I would certainly not say this is the only Mac OS Leopard book you need, nor necessarily the best, but it is certainly worth having for the tips and information it does provide.
Review by jay for Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Editing
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“Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Editing”
By Michael Wohl
A Review by: Jay Miracle
I’m constantly having to relearn the concept that you cannot always tell a book by its cover.
When I took a look at the cover of this “Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Editing” book, part of the Apple Pro Training Series, I always thought it would be a bit dry and geeky for me. It had that classic appearance of one of my lovely high school textbooks – and I often struggled to keep awake perusing those.
But I recently read and worked through this excellent Final Cut Advanced Editing manual, and was extremely pleased at the new and fundamental knowledge I acquired by following the program and the accompanying DVD.
The Apple Pro Training series is much more accessible to an Editor than I had imagined.
Although I have been editing in Final Cut for over six years, I never took a formal training course, and this book really helped to sharpen a lot of my skills as well as re-educate me to some basics I must have learned incorrectly along the way.
Each section addresses important segments for a skilled-editor’s toolbox: from basic Editing Techniques, to Workflow, Mastering Video Filters and Effects, Understanding Nesting Sequences (I’ve stumbled through this countless times), to the essentials of Working with Speed Changes, Finishing Techniques, and the ever-growing RED tsunami.
I’ve had a lot of misconceptions and misunderstanding regarding almost all these areas, but what really helped me was the great DVD of projects and exercises that accompanies each chapter. And a really fun part of the book that I sorely missed in high school was the Answers to all the Lesson Review Questions at the end of each chapter.
I worked through this slowly and methodically, and I got a tremendous amount of new information as well as some new editing chops.
Some day I’m hoping I might draw somewhat closer to the 15 year skill-set my shiny new Assistant has had ingrained in his brain since he was 5 years old.
For the rest of us, this book is a blessing.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a published image that hasn’t spent some quality time in Adobe Photoshop. With new features such as Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp, Photoshop CS5 is more amazing — and perhaps more bewildering — than ever. That’s w
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Review by Hartley J. Jackson for Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
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Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual is the book you should buy first and will refer to most often.
It is well and clearly written so that you don’t need to read some other book to understand this one. Excellent and complete tutorials teach you how to use the most important tools. It is well organized and referenced so you can find what you need to know when you need it, It is also interesting and pleasant reading.
You will refer to Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual the most because it covers all the Photoshop concepts and information you need, and because it is so well organized. There is a special listing for photographers of the material they will need.
Part one, The Basics, begins with the information you need for working with workspaces, panels, and documents, and then moves into the basic photoshop concepts of layers, selections, and color channels. All are covered simply and clearly.
The chapter on Selections begins with selection by color using the Quick Selection Tool with a tutorial including the new Refine Edge so that you not only understand it, you can do it. Then it describes how you can use selections by shape and add and subtract selected areas.
Part two, Editing Images, covers editing images; cropping, combining, changing color, Photoshopping people, and sharpening. Part three, The Artistic Side of Photoshop, covers painting, drawing, typography, and filters. Part four is Printing and the Web. Part five, Photoshop Power, covers working with actions and plug-ins. There is is a five part appendix and the usual fine Missing Manual index.
Review by Daniel McKinnon for Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
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‘Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual’ is a 750+ page book that will show you ALL the ins and outs of using Photoshop CS5. Tailored towards the newbie Photoshop user, the content here is anything but newbie! With 19 chapters of content and in FULL FULL FULL color, this is a great learning tool to getting through all the ABCs of Photoshop!
McKinnon Overview
01. The Basics
02. Opening, Viewing, Saving Files
03. Layers
04. Selections
05. Channels
06. Cropping, Resizing, Rotating
07. Joining Images
08. Draining, Changing, Adding Color
09. Correcting Color and Lighting
10. Photoshopping People
11. Sharpening Images
12. Painting in Photshop
13. Drawing with Vector tools
14. Creating Artistic Text
15. Filters
16. Photoshop and Print
17. Photoshop and the Web
18. Actions
19. Plug-Ins
This is an easy book to put a stamp of approval on and it’s another gem in the Missing Manual line of books, one of the greatest technical publishing lines out there today!!
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Review by R. Baker for Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
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I have been teaching Photoshop for five years. I’ve read over 5000 pages of various manuals and books and finally there is a clear, comprehensive, and, most of all, complete book for Photoshop CS5. It’s all there: how to do it, where to find it, and why to use it. There are more than enough clear color illustrations and links to additional on-line information. Ms. Snider presents it all with a sense of comfortable knowledge and a sense of humor. All the information is thoughtfully laid out with step-by-step instructions on how to use each command. This Missing Manual goes beyond just photography and clearly presents Photoshop CS5′s illustration and web applications. This is the new “buy-this-one-book” for all my students. Roger Baker, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Review by John Buono for Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
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The first thing I noticed that about lesa’s book on “photoshop cs5 the missing manual” is that in the very beginning she talks about it being dedicated to the god of wine bacchus, which kind of sets the whole tone for the book. She has a very light style, but the book is extremely informative and for those of you more familiar with Photoshop CS4 already the first chapter talks about the differences between the two versions and is must start place. This section is very concise and well written. It guides you to exactly where you need to go and hyperlinks take you right there. This feature along almost makes price-to-book worthwhile.
One of the pleasurable aspects of this book is watching the document names used throughout the examples. I won’t spoil the surprise but make sure when you read the book you watch for them. They really show off leas’s sense of humor and her Texas twang comes throughout even in her writing.
From the technical point she is right now. Adding on to her already excellent missing manual cs4 book cs5 is well integrated and the differences are highlighted so that the experienced user transitioning to cs5 can quickly find the differences, but the new user to photoshop is given very easy to follow instructions. There are more Then an ample number of examples with the files readily available for you to follow along.
My only real criticism of this book and it really is not a criticism but more of a wish, is that the book is designed as a reference manual and as that it is wonderful. What lesa needs to develop is a companion book that is tutorial in nature so that it could be used in the classroom, or for home training. While there are excellent example photos provided on the web site, i think that formal lessons with this as the reference manual would make this a killer combination.
If you only can have one photoshop book in your electronic library or even the hard back edition, this is the one to get.
Review by Arizona Guy for Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
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This is one of the most difficult to follow manuals I have ever read, on any subject. I do not question Lesa’s knowledge of her subject, but her style of writing leaves me frustrated. I am not new to PS; CS5 is only my latest after CS2, CS4 and a couple editions of Elements. What I find frustrating is her constant need to refer the reader back and forth to other sections and/or pages in the book. It is common to be referred backward and forward several times in a single paragraph. How helpful is it to be referred to page 388 when you are reading on page 133 and then in the same paragraph be referred back to page 58. This happens over and over and I finally laid the book aside and ordered another version, different author. I also found it heavy on illustrations, documents, text and art work, and light on digital image post-processing. This is OK for those who do this, but the book should be presented as such.
With iPhoto ’09, Apple’s popular photo organizer and editing program is better than ever. Unfortunately, intuitive as it may be, iPhoto still has the power to confuse anyone who uses it. That’s why more people rely on our Missing Manual than any othe
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Review by nealeorama for iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual
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When I traded in my PC for a new IMAC earlier this year, over 15.000 photos moved into the Iphoto library. I had my own organizing system based on folders and subfolders and subsub folders and was also using Photoshop organizer. IPhoto 2009 at first glance does not match the way my mind works did not seem to sync well with this system, and I could not understand where and how my pictures were organized. This book is helping me figure out how to cope, how not to lose hours and hours of work, and how to make the program fit the way I want to work. Its target audience seems to be people using earlier versions of Iphoto or those just getting started. It would be nice if it also addressed those coming from pc programs such as Photoshop organizer or Picassa
Review by Michael McKee for iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual
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I look forward to David Pogue’s Missing Manuals. He has the gift for explaining technical subjects in a clear and straightforward fashion. This book continues his success. His co-author, Jude Biersdorfer must be good, too because I find this book excellent.
I’ve been told that iPhoto is supposed to be so easy to use that you don’t need a guide. It kinda-sorta is, but not totally. With more features comes more complexity. And the latest version of iPhoto does have some nice features like Faces and Places. In some cases it’s not even that the features are difficult to work as that people don’t even know that they are there. iPhoto comes with a new Mac and isn’t something that people research.
Explanations are clear and straightforward. If you haven’t considered geotagging your photos or don’t know why you should bother, this book serves as a good nudge to try that out.
As for the killer new feature of face recognition, if you take people photos, get ready to streamline your iPhoto album. The book makes the process simple and approachable, as it does for most of iPhoto’s features.
Review by Mariane Matera for iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual
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I have never used iPhoto before, despite always having it preinstalled on all of my recent Macs, and now I could kick myself. It’s a great program and does so many of the things I always wish the Mac could do with photos. This book made me get into the program and finally figure it out, and it’s not that hard. I’m excited about making photo album books for gifts in the future, and now I use iPhoto to routinely crop and fix my photos, even though I do have Photoshop. Thanks Dave, for helping me get over my fear of iPhoto! Hope your iMovie book works, too, because that program really scares me.
Review by Cardiff Q for iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual
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David Pogue has done it again, this time with the very able assistance of J. D. Biersdorfer. This latest book in the “Missing Manual” series, iPhoto ’09 The Missing Manual, published by O’Reilly Media, is an equally valuable resource for those new to the Mac and/or iPhoto as well as for those who have used iPhoto for many years.
Part One, iPhoto Basics, covers everything from getting photos from the camera into iPhoto to organizing, and editing them once they are there. Particularly helpful is the chapter on the newest organizing features, introduced in iPhoto ’09, Faces and Places. Using the face recognition method is fairly straightforward, while manually geotagging photos is more challenging. Pogue’s step-by-step guidance makes it easy. The section on editing photos is so thorough and revealing that even novices can produce professional-looking results with ease. Those who shoot in RAW will find the advice in that section particularly helpful.
Part Two, Meet Your Public, guides the reader in the making of prints, web galleries, DVD slideshows and more, including publishing to Flickr and Facebook. Detailed instructions for using iPhoto to make and order books, calendars and cards is included. Using the information provided saves not only precious time but also can save money while assuring good results that will wow family and friends.
Part Three, Photo Stunts, is devoted to designing and building Screen Savers; finding prewritten AppleScripts, and developing Automator Actions that add new and timesaving features to iPhoto. Methods for managing the thousands of photos that eventually populate iPhoto by burning them to disc or backing them up to an external disk is explained. iPhoto ’09 The Missing Manual explains how to create, swap, and merge iPhoto Libraries and the pitfalls to avoid.
Part Four, Appendixes, though brief, is packed with very important and helpful information. The first section, on Troubleshooting, can save the day when things go awry. How to retrieve photos using Time Machine is worth memorizing. iPhoto ’09 Menu by Menu explains in useful detail every one of the menu items included in the program.
Although those coming from using other photo management programs (e.g., Picasa) might wish for more in this book to ease their transition to iPhoto, the information in this book will shorten their learning curve while providing a series of confidence-building successes.
As Pogue himself says, the Missing Manual books are “entertaining [and] unafraid to state when a feature is useless or doesn’t work right.” The indispensible information contained in this book is delivered in an easy-to-understand, witty, and engaging way. Even those with years of experience with previous versions of iPhoto will learn new tricks. And everyone will benefit from keeping iPhoto ’09 The Missing Manual as a handy reference book and valuable resource.
Review by Hydro Guy for iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual
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I have several of David Pogue’s Missing Manuals and consider every one an essential accessory to effective and efficient use of their subject Apple software. Each book is chock full of “the-light-goes-on” moments. His informal writing style keeps otherwise geeky material very readable. And, he often goes tangentially off topic to introduce or remind his readers of other very important concepts, shortcuts, or insights.
In short, try it – you’ll like it.
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Review by PxlFxr for Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ – Real Answers to Real Questions asked by Lightroom Users
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Anyone who has spent any time on the major Lightroom forums knows about Victoria Bampton. She is so generous and patient with her time and her answers are always to the point, well-organized, accurate, and thorough. This is the second LR FAQ book of hers that I’ve purchased. I find myself using it as a reference manual as well as for troubleshooting. I used to buy other types of books that gave windy recipes for how to use the program. While they may have their place, none give you the quick answers you’ll find here. Don’t miss the exhaustive list of keyboard shortcuts in the back! I like having the PDF version so I can quickly do a search with the hyperlinked table of contents and index for the issue I’m having, as well as knowing that I’ll receive updates. I can’t recommend it enough!
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Review by Don JJ Carroll for Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ – Real Answers to Real Questions asked by Lightroom Users
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I have been a Lightroom user ever since Beta1 and although Lightroom is a great photo software package, I found that I still had to rely on additional resources to “get me up-to-speed”. In the past, I have purchased excellent Lightroom hardcopy books, subscribed to online tutorials and downloaded videos, all with the intention of becoming more informed about Lightroom’s capabilities. Recently on one pro photographer’s website, I saw a notice and recommendation for Lightroom users to take a look at a product called Adobe Lightroom 3….the missing FAQ by Victoria Bampton, I’m glad I did. Unlike my previous Lightroom resource aid purchases, the missing FAQ was totally different in it’s delivery style. Instead of “instructional based, how to do” type of content, Victoria’s product, in my opinion, is quite unique. Adobe Lightroom 3….the missing FAQ, a 400+ page document, available in both hardcopy and PDF formats, is written in a style based on Questions and Answers. The questions are specific and the answers are detailed and well explained. I was extremely surprised at what I did not know about Lightroom that I found out in Victoria’s new release. I also have to say that I found it quite refreshing to use a Lightroom resource aid that was not following the mainstream presentation modes. I have purchased both the hardcopy book and the PDF documents, the latter a joy to read on my IPad. The PDF product’s hyperlinked “Table of Contents” and “Index” are quite useful. For Lightroom 3 users, I highly recommend you check out Adobe Lightroom 3….the missing FAQ by Victoria Bampton. … Don J J C
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Review by Thomas Husband for Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ – Real Answers to Real Questions asked by Lightroom Users
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I have a couple of Lightroom books but this is the one I continually go back to time and again. I’ve yet to come across a question that wasn’t answered. Real clear and concise and organized in a way that makes locating the question easy.
Nathaniel Coalson 10:24 am on October 30, 2010 Permalink
Review by Nathaniel Coalson for Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ – Real Answers to Real Questions asked by Lightroom Users
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I first found out about the Lightroom Queen when I was researching Lightroom keyboard shortcuts for my book on Lightroom 2. Victoria Bampton provided the most up-to-date, complete lists of keyboard shortcuts available… and for free! I soon found out she was prepared to go much further. Since then, her two editions of Missing FAQ have provided Lightroom users an invaluable resource for solving problems and finding answers to important questions.
Victoria has a knack for identifying key sticking points in common Lightroom workflows; she knows where people get into trouble and offers expert advice that helps you get back on track. In her books, she addresses real problems and provides practical solutions. The format is easy to read and understand: the book is organized logically, by key topic, so you can quickly find exactly what you’re looking for.
This new version for Lightroom 3 is more complete, yet also more concise, more comprehensive yet more polished, and was clearly produced with utmost care and concern for accuracy, timeliness and accessibility. The Missing FAQ is an essential addition to the library for anyone seeking to master Lightroom.
Steve Murez 10:50 am on October 30, 2010 Permalink
Review by Steve Murez for Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ – Real Answers to Real Questions asked by Lightroom Users
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What’s especially great about this book is its attitude. In a friendly and professional manner, it provides the information that should have been provided with the program from the outset, but just isn’t. Even though it rarely is, not only with this program, but with so many, it’s nevertheless satisfying to have it for once. The solutions work, the explanations make sense. And on the one occasion when I had a really obscure question of how to retrieve the hidden parts of raw images cropped square with the new Olympus Pen 2, Victoria came up with the answer, in response to my email — and we both learned something new in the process (especially me). So if you’ll be treating a lot of photos, this is the book to get.