iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual Details
About the Author David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.Derrick Story has more than 25 years as a photojournalist, including serving as managing editor for O'Reilly Network. He speaks at technology conferences including Macworld, PMA, PhotoPlus, and Santa Fe Workshops. He is the author of Digital Photography Hacks, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed., The Digital Photography Companion, and his latest, The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers. He coauthored iPhoto: The Missing Manual with David Pogue.Derrick likes to keep his shooting skills sharp by running his photography business, Story Photography. You can listen to his photo podcasts and read his tips at The Digital Story (thedigitalstory.com) and follow him on Twitter. Aperture fans might want to check out his co-authored video training on Lynda.com: Aperture 2 Essential Training. Read more
Reviews
As a technical writer myself I am not a huge fan of the current style of most of the "How To..." books on the market. iPhoto 6 by Derrick Story therefore comes as a breath of fresh air in an arena so full of carbon dioxide as to leave one gasping.Clearly written, entertainingly framed, wonderfully efficient in telling you what you need to know, when you need to know it. Better yet this wonderful manual is tightly organized around the nearly forgotten technique of creating a context for technique rather than simply spewing forth a breathless recitation of "Push this button, tweak this dial, buy this product."This extremely well written inside look at iPhoto 6 is all you will ever need to get up and running. If ole Steve Jobs was smart he'd kidnap this guy and put him to work advising the techies responsible for fine tuning future versions of iPhoto.Well done Mr. Story and please keep up the good work.And Mr. Pogue, you are forgiven for the mess you made of my life with the Missing Manual for Appleworks6!