Easy iLife 09

The easiest, friendliest, most visual guide to Easy iLife '09, flagship software suite for the Macintosh- Reaches a huge and growing market of beginner Mac users, PC switchers to Mac, and those upgrading from earlier versions of iLife.- The perfect step-by-step, full-color visual complement to the graphical, intuitive interface.- Covers every application. Easy iLife '09 is the perfect companion for everyone who's bought a new Macintosh with this product pre-installed... every Mac user who's upgrading to ... and millions of new Mac users who've just switched from Windows and want to make the most of all their digital content. This full-color, utterly simple, step-by-step book has been carefully crafted to provide instant access to the tasks beginner-to-intermediate users need to master. This book covers every application in Apple's brand-new suite, including the new integration with Apple's MobileMe online service. Here's just some of what readers will learn how to do...- Use iPhoto to organize, edit, use, and share photos.- Create calendars, greeting cards, photo books, and much more- Transform any Mac into a movie production studio with iMovie- Create soundtracks, podcasts, and other audio content with GarageBand- Publish their own web sites with iWeb- Use iDVD to create sophisticated video and photo projects, complete with custom menus.- Easily keep track of all their digital content

Introduction IntroductionThe iLife suite might be one of the best things about having a Mac. It's called a suite because it includes the following applications: iPhoto iMovie iWeb iDVD GarageBandEach of these applications empowers you to do amazing and creative things with digital photos, movies, and sound, and then you can publish what you create online and on DVD.The iLife applications are great for several reasons. First, they are powerful and feature packed so that you have amazing toolkits available to you with almost no limits to what you can do. Second, they are well designed so that you can focus on your projects rather than the software. Third, they are designed to work together so that you can use the content in each application for projects in the other applications easily. For example, you can use photos in iPhoto or in iMovie projects or publish them in iWeb with just a couple of mouse clicks.This book is designed to make your entry to the iLife, well, easy. (It's not hard to figure where we got the book's title, is it?) This book is designed to be as visually appealing and intuitive as the iLife software itself. As you flip through its pages, you will see lots of graphics and just a little text to guide you on your way. You will accomplish the tasks with a minimum of reading; steps are linked to the graphics to make it easy to follow along.The book is organized into groups for each application. Within the groups, the chapters start at the beginning for that application and move toward the "end" in the same way you do projects. You can jump to any application's first chapter and get going without reading the chapters that came before (for example, move to Chapter 7 to get going with iMovie). You should definitely read Chapter 1 to get started because that chapter includes topics that apply to all the applications.The best way to learn how to be creative with iLife is to use its applications to create your own projects. The steps in this book will get you going and help you combine your content and creativity with the amazing iLife tools with great results. So, grab your Mac, open this book where you want to start, and enjoy! Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.