Teach Yourself VISUALLY iLife '04 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael E. Cohen, Dennis R. Cohen
Publisher: Visual
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1029044
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.9 x 1
ISBN: 0764544667
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780764544668
ASIN: 0764544667
Publication Date: May 10, 2004
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Product Description
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 iTunes, iPhoto?, iMovie, iDVD?, and GarageBand? tasks, from ripping songs and shopping at the iTunes music store to retouching photos, cropping video clips, building movie menu buttons, and creating real or software instrument tracks in GarageBand. "What fantastic teaching books you have produced! Congratulations to you and your staff."
- Bruno Tonon
(Melbourne, Australia) "Like a lot of other people, I understand things best when I see them visually. Your books really make learning easy and life more fun."
- John T. Frey
(Cadillac, MI)
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learn by doing March 20, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Michael and Dennis Cohen have done a great job in this book to help beginning to intermediate users with the iLife suite. I am often called upon to help friends with their Macs. When they have questions on the iLife programs, I find it much easier to refer them to this book than to try and talk them through the problem on the phone or via iChat. Thanks to the Cohens for making my iLife as a consultant a bit easier.
Finally, a manual "for the rest of us" July 7, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Apple has long said it makes computers for the rest of us, and now with its iLife suite of tools Apple appears to be making software for the rest of us as well. The Teach Yourself Visually series of computer books seems to follow the same philosophy, but where TYV's offerings for more complex programs like Photoshop serve as "scratch-the-surface" introductions, iLife '04 really does look deep under the surface of Apples' popular suite of tools. My favorite section, perhaps because I know the least about it, is on GarageBand, which is the most exciting piece of software I've seen in years.The Teach Yourself Visually books all benefit from strong integration of explanatory text with detailed graphics, but the text portion of this particular book benefits from clear, thorough, and often quite humorous writing. The author obviously knows the programs-more important, he knows how to communicate that knowledge to his readers (I believe he's the same Michael Cohen who writes the multimedia section of the famed Macintosh Bible). I highly recommend this title-for twenty bucks, it's a bargain.
Get this if you want to use iLife 04 May 27, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Teach Yourself Visually iLife 04 is the perfect book for someone who wants simple, easy to follow instructions for using each of Apple's iLife programs (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, Garage Band). What makes this book different from all the other iLife books are the clear step-by-step instructions, all accompanied by full color screen shots and illustrations, for using almost every iLife feature. The tips that accompany each task save time and effort in using the iLife programs and point out special features that aren't generally known. This is the book to get if you want to learn how to use iLife 04 without having to become a computer scientist, or read pages and pages of text. Get this and start using the software right away while you read.
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