Features and Options:  

iPhoto offers a variety of high caliber tools and applications for editing and improving photos.

This software program runs seamlessly with iLife, allowing you to upload photos, select their placement within the book, while providing the option to include text captions.

Each hardbound photo book includes a suede-like cover with a foil-printed title on the cover of a customizable dust jacket, giving your photo book that professional touch that makes it the perfect addition to any coffee table or bookshelf.

Softbound photo books come with graphic or photo covers. iLife photo books may also be published with wire binding, which allows you to completely rotate pages under the book for better page presentation.

iLife photo books also make ideal gifts for friends and family. With gift card and gift wrapping options available, sending a photo book or sharing the joy of making a photo book is easier than ever.

Ease of Use:  

iPhoto provides intuitive and user-friendly applications for the editing, modification, improvement and placement of photos. Tasks such as cropping and red-eye reduction can be done quickly and easily, while the typically time consuming tasks of gray-scale and light adjustment can be done with automated settings.

Photo book construction uses a simple step-by-step process, allowing you to change the order of photos without upsetting the entire order of the photo book. Best of all, iPhoto provides seamless access to iLife, meaning that photos retain their size and quality throughout the upload process.

Quality:  

iLife photo books are in a class of their own in terms of quality. Though iLife might not be the best option for commercial or large quantity photo book publishing, it brings a caliber of professionalism to personal photo books that is rarely seen.

Help/Support:  

Apple offers in-depth help and support, offering assistance through telephone, email, online chat, as well as through the FAQs pages and search menus it hosts.

iLife photo books offer a degree of professionalism that eludes many photo book publishers. Though Mac users are likely to be attracted to the seamless uploading and design, PC users might want to look elsewhere for better software compatibility. Programs such as Viovio, Shutterfly and Polaroid My Memories Suite are fully compatible with mulitple Windows platforms.