Do I use iPhoto 08 for Calendars, books, et al?

Hi guys,
I just now (talk about late to the party) realized that Apple offers services to make calendars, photo books, b-day invites and other stuff.
My question is, do I use iPhoto 08 (don't have it yet) to make these items? If so, are there templates?
I bought iWork08 thinking Pages was the program to do the stuff, but guess I'm wrong.
Thanks for the help.

Thanks guys!
Looks like I'll be buying iLife08 this week.
Can't wait.

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However I don't like the crop feature in ACR... And I'm thinking of using iPhoto for cropping.
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2. Open and edit in ACR but do not crop
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I’m not sure you’ll need this step as iPhoto will work with almost all PSDs. A little trial and error will confirm.
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It’s a lot of effort to get a crop. Can’t you crop in Elements? Or - if not in Elements - there are lots of little editors out there with no database element that will crop. Even Preview will do this.
Regards
TD

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Hi all,
I want to be able to show photos of art work from my iPhoto in a presentation. People tell me I need to buy Power Point but do I really need to? I want to use my computer to plug into what ever type of projection system is available and manually move from one photo to another. No music, no fancy Ken Burns type effects. I'm not even sure what type of projection connection is standard in the industry. Would I need Power Point to connect to most US University projection systems or can I just sent up a folder in iPhoto and manually move from photo to photo. Just what the ehck will I be plugging into that gets me from my computer to a projection screen in a lecture hall anyway?
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ANOTHER ROTTEN APPLE EXPERIENCE
( I still love my mac... but i am just ****** off and need to vent)

DAKNYC
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Sorry to hear of your difficulties. Perhaps if you gave us details of your set up and what you did we might be able to help you understand what's gone wrong, or perhaps help you solve the problem. That's what this is, a User-To-User technical help forum. Not a place to vent.
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