- iLife,,, gives you tools for photos, movies, and music
on your Mac
- Includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand,
iWeb, and iDVD.
- Organize and search your photos by faces and places.
- Make a movie in minutes or edit with precision.
- Learn to play piano and
guitar or record your own music.
- Create a stunning website and publish
it anywhere.
- Costs
- Private Lessons are custom tailored to your needs, equipment & desired skill level. $50 per hour.
- Save $50 by committing to 6 hours.
- Semi-Private Lessons are developed for 2 students with similar interests. $35 per hour per student.
- Group Lessons are 6 hrs over 2 days, general in nature for 4 or more students. $79
iPhoto
iPhoto is an application that allows users to easily store, view, edit,
and share their digital photos. Users can organize their photos in a
number of ways. Events automatically groups photos taken around the same
time. Faces uses facial recognition to identify
photos containing faces, which can then be tagged by users and sorted
according to who is in the photo. Places takes advantage of geotaggingmetadatared eye,
add effects such as sepia and black and white, and to adjust the exposure, saturation, contrast and black and white balance of
photos. In addition, users can have their photos printed by Kodak, create books (hard bound copies of which
can be ordered), calendars and greetings cards.
technology. Many cameras today embed containing information about the location where the photo was taken.
Places allows users to browse and see their photos on a map. iPhoto
includes tools to crop photos, reduce
iDVD
iDVD integrates with iMovie to allow the burning of movies onto a DVD, including
custom menus based on themes (many of which make use of the content of
the movies) and custom chapter points. It also contains the MPEG2
encoder functionality needed to produce DVD-compatible content. Each new
version adds more menu themes. There is no support for Blu-ray burning in the current version of iDVD.
In iLife '09, iDVD was not updated.[10
MobileMe Web Gallery
The Apple MobileMe Web Gallery is a feature designed for easy photo
sharing on the Mac platform. It allows users to create event or photo
albums using the Web Gallery of their MobileMe account, and allows them
to show their photos with visitors, who may also download the images and
upload their own. This feature is accessible directly through iLife
(iMovie, iPhoto, and iWeb) allowing users to upload without their web
browser. iMovie
iMovie is a digital video editor. The process of film
capture by a digital camera via FireWire is automated, with iMovie allowing
users to chop up their videos, add special effects, and reorganize them.
It is also compatible with flash MPEG 4 cameras, AVCHD
camcorders, HDV
cameras, and the Apple iSight. Photographs may also be used, and a
soundtrack may be added with tracks in the iTunes
music library. These can then be exported into a variety of viewable
formats, including Apple's QuickTime Player.[9]
Garage Band
GarageBand is a music-creation and podcasting application that includes
over 1,000 pre-recorded loops. The program also supports software instruments and
importation from real instruments, such as guitars and keyboards. In
iLife '09, GarageBand sells pre-recorded instrument lessons made by
famous artists.[11]
iWeb
iWeb is a product that was released at the Macworld Conference & Expo
on January 10, 2006. This product provides the ability to share content
from the other iLife applications using Apple templates, and with
one-click uploading to MobileMe (previously called .Mac). The application also allows users to
create links to their own podcasts and photocasts from the webage. This
is the latest application added to the iLife suite.[12]
