10.6. Phase 6: Send the Book to the Bindery When you think your book is ready for birth, click Buy Book. After several minutes of converting your screen design into an Internet-transmittable file, iPhoto offers you a screen like the one shown in Figure 10-14. That is, assuming you don't get any of iPhoto's pre-publication warnings firstnamely, that you haven't filled in all the default text boxes, like the title and subtitle ; that some of your text boxes or photos bear the yellow-triangle low-resolution warning (see the box in Section 10.4.2); that your book is "incomplete" (you didn't fill in all the gray placeholder rectangles with pictures); and so on. At this stage, your tasks are largely administrative. -
Choose a cover color (hardback books only) . Use the Cover Color pop-up menu to choose Black, Burgundy (red), Light Gray, or Navy (blue). The book in the illustration changes color to show you what you're getting. (If you're ordering more than one book, they must all be the same color.) -
Inspect the charges . If you've gone beyond the basic 10 or 20 pages, you'll see that you're about to be charged between $.30 and $1.50 per additional page, depending on the book type. -
Indicate the quantity . You can order additional copies of the same book. Indeed, after you've spent so much time on a gift book for someone else, you may well be tempted to order yourself a copy. 10.6.1. Your Apple ID and One-Click Ordering You can't actually order a book until you've signed up for an Apple account and turned on "1-Click Ordering." However, you may well already have an Apple account if, say, you've ever bought something from an online Apple store or the iTunes Music Store. Whether you have or not, ordering your first iPhoto book requires completing some electronic paperwork like this: -
In the Order Book dialog box (Figure 10-14), click Set Up Account . This button appears only if you've never ordered an iPhoto book before. In any case, an Apple Account Sign-In screen appears. If you already have an Apple account, type in your Apple ID and account password here by all means. (An Apple ID is your email address; it's your .Mac address, if you have that.) When you're finished, click Sign In. On the next screen, make sure 1-Click Ordering is turned on. Click Edit Shipping, if you like, to supply any addresses you plan to use repeatedly for shipping books and Kodak prints to. Finally, click Done. Skip to step 2. If you've never established an Apple account before, click Create Account, and enjoy your whirlwind tour through Apple's account- signup dialog boxes. You'll be asked to provide your contact info and credit-card number, make up a password, and indicate whether you want to receive Apple junk mail. You'll also be offered the chance to set up a number of addresses for people you may want books shipped to. You wind up right where you started: at the Order Book screen. This time, however, the controls at the bottom are "live" and operational. -
From the Ship To pop-up menu, choose the lucky recipient of this book . If it's you, choose Myself. If not, you can choose Add New Address from this pop-up menu.
Note: You can order books if you live in Europe, Japan, or North America, but Apple offers shipping only to people in your own region.
If you wind up at the 1-Click Account Summary screen following this detour , click Done. -
From the Ship Via pop-up menu, indicate how you want the finished book shipped . For U.S. orders, "Standard" shipping takes about four days and costs $8. "Express" means overnight or second-day shipping (depending on when you place the order) and costs $15. An additional book sent to the same address costs another $1 for Standard shipping, or $2 for Express. -
Indicate how many copies of the book you want, using the Quantity control . You'll see the Order Total updated. -
Click Buy Now . You've already stored your credit card information, so there's nothing to do now but wait for your Mac to upload the book itself. After a few minutes, you'll see a confirmation message. -
Go about your life for a few days, holding your breath until the book arrives . And when it does, you'll certainly be impressed. The photos are printed on Indigo digital presses (fancy, digital, four-color offset machines). The book itself is classy, it's handsome and it smells good! |
