Product Features
- iLife '09 lets you get the most out of your photos, movies, and music on
your Mac with new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb and iDVD
- Organize and search your photos by faces and places with iPhoto '09;
Create a movie in minutes or edit your masterpiece with iMovie '09
- Learn to play, start a jam session, or record and mix your own song with
GarageBand '09
- Design, publish, and update your own websites just the way you want them
with iWeb '09
- Turn your home movies and photos into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs with
iDVD
Product DescriptioniLife '09 makes it easier than ever to get the most
out of the photos, movies, and music on your Mac. Organize and search your
photos by faces and places in iPhoto. Make a great-looking movie in minutes and
edit with precision in iMovie. Learn to play piano and guitar, or compose and
record your own songs with the new guitar amps and stompboxes in GarageBand.
iPhoto '09. Major photo opportunity.
iPhoto makes managing your
photos as easy as taking them. It helps you organize your photos so you can find
them fast. Edit them so they look their best. And share them with your friends
and family.
Organize by who, where, and when.
It's so easy to take digital
photos that before you know it, you have thousands. iPhoto gives you more ways
to keep track of your photos by organizing them according to who's in your
pictures, where you took them, and when you took them.
Faces to see.
iPhoto '09 introduces Faces: a new feature that
automatically detects and even recognizes faces in your photos. iPhoto uses face
detection to identify faces of people in your photos and face recognition to
match faces that look like the same person. That makes it easy for you to add
names to your photos. And it helps you find the people you're looking for.
Clicking the Faces view shows you a corkboard featuring a snapshot for each
person you've named. iPhoto suggests a set of possible matches you can confirm
with a click.
Make some improvements.
Turn so-so snapshots into great photos.
iPhoto gives you everything
you need to fix your photos. Remove red-eye with a click. Adjust exposure,
brightness, and contrast. Crop to frame your subject. If you don't know where to
begin, click the Enhance tool and watch iPhoto automatically fix bright or dull
photos. Then try a few new tricks.
If you want to make the colors in your photos pop without affecting skin
tones, use the Saturation slider and click "Avoid saturating skin tones." To
improve clarity and enhance detail, experiment with the Definition slider. Or
retouch over solid edges with the Retouch brush. Its new Detect Edges setting
prevents blurring of detail as you paint out spots and blemishes.
Experiment with effects.
iPhoto also features fun, one-click photo
effects. Open the Effects pane and click a thumbnail image to convert color
photos to black and white, give them a classic sepia tone, add a vignette
border, and more. Experiment without fear: A click of the center thumbnail
removes effects and returns your photo to its original state. In fact, any edit
you make in iPhoto is reversible, so you don't have to worry about losing your
originals.
Enjoy a few choice memories.
Looking for a fun way to share and
enjoy your photos? Try creating a slideshow using new slideshow themes. Each
theme includes professionally designed layouts, titles, and transitions that
make a perfect backdrop for your photos. Click a theme to play a full-screen
slideshow--accompanied by any song from your iTunes library. Fast-forward or
rewind your slideshow using the new filmstrip. If you like, customize your
slideshow even further by saving it as a project. Then you can reorder photos,
set the length of time individual photos remain onscreen, or, with some themes,
choose different transitions. And when you're happy with your slideshow, send it
to iTunes and sync it to your iPhone or iPod to enjoy anywhere.
Click to share.
The easiest way to share your photos is to share
them online. And the easiest way to share online is with iPhoto.
Have a MobileMe Gallery showing.
MobileMe--the Apple subscription
service that keeps all your devices up to date, wherever you are--lets you
create an online Gallery to share photos from your iPhoto library.* Simply
select the photos you want to share and click the MobileMe button. That's all it
takes to publish to your MobileMe Gallery. Keep your Gallery private, make it
public, or share it with select people. Visitors can download and print photos,
subscribe to your Gallery via RSS, even contribute their own photos.
Send and share.
Prefer to share your photos via email? Click the
Mail button and choose a size to send: small, medium, large, or actual size.
iPhoto also shares seamlessly with iMovie, iWeb, iDVD, the applications in
iWork, and other Mac OS X applications.
Take some photos to go.
Want to keep your photos with you? Use
iTunes to sync them to your iPod or iPhone to enjoy and share on the go. Or view
your photos in your living room: Sync them to Apple TV and they appear on your
widescreen TV in full HD quality.
Get face time on Facebook.
To publish photos to your Facebook
account, just select the photos you want to share and click the Facebook button.
iPhoto even converts names you added using Faces to Facebook name tags. Flickr
icon.
Flickr with a click.
Sharing on Flickr is just as easy: Click the
Flickr button. When you share your photos on Flickr, the locations you added
using Places appear on Flickr photo maps.
Make it, print it, share it, give it.
It's one thing to see your
photos online. It's entirely different to see them on your wall or in a
beautiful book. iPhoto makes it drag-and-drop easy to design your own softcover
book, wire-bound book, or hardcover book--complete with a photo-wrapped cover
and matching dust jacket. Make your travel books even more special with custom
maps that use location data from your photos to illustrate your journey. Create
a personalized photo calendar to hang on your wall. Send photo greeting cards
and postcards featuring your friends and family. Or order professional prints in
a variety of sizes and have them shipped directly to your door.
Record and mix like a pro.
Sing, play, and loop.
GarageBand turns your Mac into a
full-featured recording studio. Build a beat with the included loops, then plug
in a guitar, bass, or microphone. You can even play (or sing) into the mic on
your Mac. GarageBand captures the audio and turns it into digital files you can
manipulate using a host of recording and mixing tools. It also includes the
expertise of a built-in recording engineer, so you always sound your best.
Record your best take.
Record a part as many times as you like.
GarageBand keeps track of every take and saves it to a multi-take region. Play
your song back while switching between different takes to choose the one that
sounds best. Keep the takes you love, delete the ones you don't. And when you're
ready for backup, invite your friends over for some multitrack recording. Record
more than 100 tracks and up to eight real instruments simultaneously: GarageBand
supports any Mac OS X-compatible audio I/O device.
Make some arrangements.
As you record, GarageBand helps you add
structure to your song. Most songs are arranged in distinct sections:
introduction, verse, and chorus. With the sections clearly defined, you can
rearrange your song at any time. Want to repeat a verse? Copy and paste. Move
the chorus? Click and drag. All the tracks that belong to a section go along
with it.
Master your mix.
Once you've laid down a few tracks, it's time to
mix. Just like a professional recording engineer, GarageBand helps you create a
sound all your own. Bring out the best in your performance by enhancing timing
and tuning. Add some basic effects such as compression, reverb, or EQ. Make your
song sound truly unique by adding fun effects such as Track Echo, Chorus, and
Automatic Filter. Then tweak your mix by adjusting the volume of each track or
panning between speakers.
iWeb '09. Web design for the rest of us.
Designing a website may
seem difficult, but with iWeb, it's easily within your reach. Create your site
using themes. Customize it with photos, movies, text, and widgets. Then publish
to MobileMe or any other hosting service. iWeb even notifies Facebook when your
site changes and adds a link to your profile so your friends stay up to date.
Design the website you've always wanted.
A Mac and iWeb '09.*
That's all you need to design and publish your own personal website. Start by
picking an Apple-designed theme. Each theme comes with coordinated fonts,
backgrounds, and colors to give your site a consistent look throughout.
Next choose a page template. iWeb features ready-made templates for welcome,
about me, photo album, movie, blog, and podcast pages. Create as many pages as
you like.
Then it's time to customize your layout with easy-to-use iWeb tools. Drag in
photos or movies or type text into placeholders. Resize and rotate photos.
Create overlays. There's no coding required. No complicated design programs to
buy. No obstacles between you and a great-looking website.
Add your photos, movies, and more.
You keep photos in iPhoto. You
edit movies in iMovie. You create songs in GarageBand. iWeb '09 gives you great
ways to share those photos, movies, and songs on your own website.
Just click the Media button to open the iLife Media Browser: a list of all
the audio, photos, and video on your Mac. Find what you want to share and drag
it right into your web page, photo album, blog, or podcast.
If you share lots of photos and movies on your website, iWeb also includes My
Albums pages that collect all your media albums on a single page--so they're
easy to share and to browse.
Give your website some widgets.
Create a site that's fun to visit
by adding a few interactive widgets. iWeb '09 makes it drag-and-drop easy to add
RSS feeds, iSight photos and videos, a countdown timer, YouTube videos, HTML
snippets, and other dynamic features. The iWeb Widget Browser puts every widget
within reach. All you do is drop the widget you want anywhere on your page.
Manage and publish your way.
Publish your website the way you want,
wherever you want, directly from your Mac. iWeb '09 makes it easy. It takes just
a few clicks to publish your site to MobileMe or any other hosting service via
FTP.
iWeb uses your MobileMe account information from System Preferences to
publish the site. Rather use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to publish to a
different hosting service? With the built-in FTP support in iWeb, you can do
that, too.
Manage multiple websites in iWeb with ease. Use the iWeb site organizer to
reorganize, rename, or delete individual pages or entire websites. iWeb creates
navigation menus for each site. And you can publish one site at a time--either
to MobileMe or to another hosting service via FTP.
Keep Facebook friends in the loop.
iWeb '09 uploads only your
changes when you publish, so you'll enjoy quick site updates. iWeb will even
notify your Facebook friends when you update your site. Simply link any iWeb
site to your Facebook account. Following an update, iWeb adds the changes to
your profile, alerting your friends and providing them with a handy
link.
iDVD. DVDs made easy.
Create your own DVD in less time than it
takes to watch one. With iDVD, you can premiere your movies and photo slideshows
on a professional-quality DVD with animated menus, buttons, scene selection, and
more. All customizable to suit whatever you're sharing.
Create a DVD in minutes.
When you're eager to share your movies and
photo slideshows, you don't want to spend hours and hours creating a DVD. With
iDVD, you don't have to.
Work some DVD magic.
Take Magic iDVD, for example. Open iDVD and
choose Magic iDVD. Then pick a theme and select the movies and photos you want
to feature from the iLife Media Browser. Magic iDVD automatically creates a
complete project--including main menu, buttons, scene selection menus, and
slideshow menus--from start to finish. All you do is burn your DVD.
The theme's the thing.
iDVD also lets you customize your DVDs by
starting with themes. Choose from more than 150 Apple-designed themes in
widescreen and standard format, each providing a family of coordinated screens
including main menu, chapters menu, and extras menu for content like slideshows.
Many themes feature attractive animations, and every theme offers drop zones
that make it easy to personalize your menus by dragging in photos and movie
clips from the iLife Media Browser.
Go from camera to DVD in OneStep.
Have footage in your video camera
that you can't wait to see or share? Create your own "digital dailies" with
OneStep DVD. Plug in your camcorder and iDVD opens, offering you the option of
creating a OneStep DVD. Click the OneStep button, and iDVD takes all the footage
on your camcorder and burns it to DVD. As you burn your disc, iDVD informs you
of its progress, providing stage-by-stage indicators with detailed progress
bars--even live video thumbnails.
Customize your DVD.
If you're more the hands-on type, iDVD gives
you lots of options for further customizing your DVD.
Make a scene.
Choose an iMovie project as your next iDVD project
and you can add a scene selection menu. iDVD automatically imports iMovie
chapter markers and uses them to create your scene selections. For each chapter
marker on the timeline, iMovie adds a thumbnail of the scene and an editable
chapter title (such as "Blowing out the Candles" or "You May Kiss the Bride").
Edit the chapter title in iMovie and you'll have less work to do later, as
iDVD picks up the chapter titles for its scene selection buttons.
Show off slideshows.
You can also use iDVD to show off your photos.
Choose an iDVD theme and add photos one at a time or select albums, custom
iPhoto books, slideshows--maybe even a video clip or two--from the iLife Media
Browser. Then use the iDVD slideshow editor to rearrange photos, delete slides,
or add more images from iPhoto. The slideshow editor includes tools for setting
the slide duration, assigning transitions, and adding a soundtrack using songs
from your iTunes library.
System Requirements:
- Operating System: Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard or later
- Processor: Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4
(867MHz or faster) processor.; iMovie requires an Intel-based Mac, Power Mac
G5 (dual 2.0GHz or faster), or iMac G5 (1.9GHz or faster); GarageBand Learn to
Play requires an Intel-based Mac with a dual-core processor or better; AVCHD
video requires a Mac with an Intel-based Core Duo processor or better
- Memory: 512MB of RAM; 1GB recommended. High-definition video
requires at least 1GB of RAM
- Storage: Approximately 4GB of available disk space
- Optical Drive: DVD drive required for installation (Burning DVDs
requires an Apple SuperDrive or compatible third-party DVD burner)
- Quicktime: QuickTime 7.5.5 or later (included)
- Audio: 24-bit recording in GarageBand requires a Mac OS X
compatible audio interface with support for 24-bit audio
- Internet Connection: Some features require Internet access and/or
MobileMe; additional fees and terms apply
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