Creating Photo Books


Something special happens to photos when they're pasted into the pages of a book. Arranged in a specific order and accompanied by captions, photos form a narrative: they tell a story.

Put away your paste. With iPhoto's book mode, you can create beautiful, full-color books in several sizes and styles. Arrange your photos in the order you want, adding captions and descriptive text if you like. Choose from a gallery of design themes to spice up your pages with layouts that complement your subject.

When you're done, iPhoto connects to the Internet and transfers your book to Apple's printing service, where the book is printed on a four-color digital printing press (a Hewlett-Packard Indigo, if you're curious), and then bound and shipped to you.

iPhoto books are great for commemorating a vacation, wedding, or other special event. They're also open for business: architects, artists, photographers, and designers use iPhoto to create spectacular portfolios, proposals, and brochures.

So don't just print those extra-special shots. Publish them.

Creating a Book: The Big Picture

The most efficient way to create a book is to first add photos to an album, and then tell iPhoto to create a book based on that album. Here's an overview of the process.

Step 1.

Create a new album containing the photos you want to publish (page 130). Arrange the photos in approximately the same order that you want them to appear in the book. (You can always change their order later.)

Step 2.

Select the album in the Source list, then choose New Book from the File menu (or click the Book button or the Add button ).

Step 3.

Choose a book type and a theme, then click Choose Theme. For a summary of the types of books you can order, see the sidebar at right.

Step 4.

Lay out the book.

You can have iPhoto place the photos for you (the autoflow mode), or you can manually place each photo yourself (see the following pages).

Step 5.

Click and pay up using your Apple ID (page 15).

Four Types of Books

Large Hardcover. The classiest book option, and the priciest. The front-cover photo is attached to the linen hardcover.

Base book: $29.99 Each extra page: $.991.49 (See page 187 for details.)

Large Softcover. A big book on a budget. The white cover contains a cutout revealing the book's first page.

20 pages: $19.99 Each extra page: $.69

Medium Softcover. Smaller page sizes and a much smaller price. The color-coordinated cover has its own photo.

20 pages: $9.99 Each extra page: $.49

Small Softcover. Photos to go: up to 100 pages of pictures in your pocket. Small softcover books are sold in packs of three.

20 pages: $3.99 Each extra page: $.29




The Macintosh iLife '06
The Macintosh iLife 06
ISBN: 0321426541
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 229
Authors: Jim Heid

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