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Post your comments for iPhoto ?09: What you need to know here

[dwd3885]

i use iphoto for one reason: the calendar and book creation is really cool.
Everything else is Lightroom. Obviously it's a pro level app, but iPhoto really pales in comparison to that, and even Picasa and Live Gallery on the Windows side.

[dpruett]

There has been no indication how Faces will work identifying the same person as they age. I have pictures of my children from birth to 18years old. How will that work?

[heyjp]

DWD,
Have you used Aperture? How does it compare with Lightroom? Does Lightroom work seemlessly with iPhoto? Does Aperture?
Jim

[heyjp]

I have lots of pictures of my family, sister, parents, nieces since I went digital in 1999. My current project is scanning trays of my Dad's slides from the 50's, 60's, 70's when we were all 30-40 years younger. I'll be interested to see how to handle that.
Funny, I am 50 now and I use the nickname I've had since college as the keyword to ID pictures that I am in now. I had a hard mental time using that nickname to keyword pictures of me when I was 3 years old. It's like a different person. ;-)
Aaaah, technology presents so many oppotunities we never considered.
Jim

[Philip Michaels]

dpruett said:

There has been no indication how Faces will work identifying the same person as they age. I have pictures of my children from birth to 18years old. How will that work?

Believe you me, that's the first thing we plan to try out as soon as we get a shipping version of the software. As I type this, my desktop image is a photo of my nephews and niece from three years ago. The kids are now 10, 7, and 5 -- even in the relatively short period of three years they've grown up quite a bit. Will Faces recognize the four-year-old version of my nephew is the same person as the 7-year-old?

Stay tuned is all I can say.

[flybynight]

I really hope that they bring Faces to Aperture - how awesome would that be for editing and tagging wedding pictures??? Just identify a couple photos and BAM! the bride is tagged in all images! And, yes, I've already submitted that as a feature request and I suggest other Aperture users do the same. www.apple.com/feedback/.

[hmurchison]

Aperture and iPhoto work very well together. Check the Apple tutorials on Aperture and there's a video explaining some of the integration between the two. I'm no longer worried about duplication (needless) by utilizing Aperture and iPhoto on the same Mac.

[bgreinke]

Another thing you "need to know" about this: Um, doesn't iPhoto 2009 require 10.5?

[pgillan]

This may seem obvious, but since I didn't see it explicitly stated, I feel I need to ask: When you add a face in iPhoto, can you link that face to an entry in your address book?

[dwd3885]

jim, not sure how lightroom and iphoto work together. don't really use them together. like importing to lightroom or something? I basically have all my photos stored in iphoto library and lightroom recognizes those and they are cataloged in lightroom. but i don't do anything in iphoto except store my photos in anticipation for the next calendar or book. i use lightroom for everything else

[rab777hp]

I see no mention anywhere on this article, site, or anywhere else, of Google's picassa, which can do the same facial recognition. It would be great if there was a syncing option, like with facebook, with tagging faces in picasa.

[Kingteddybear]

Sorry but if iPhoto "09 still won't let share a single photo data base across 2-3 accounts a single computer without having to build separate libraries containing the same base photo's then it is still a fail to me.

[dasle]

Hi Kingteddybear, iPhoto lets you share the same Library across several users, you just have to create the library on a shared account and that's it.

In fact I've all our pictures in Aperture in order to get edited and then I import them from iPhoto and with that my wife and I can see them in iPhoto.

Try moving our library to the shared folder and then open iPhoto and rebuilt your library and select the file on the shared folder.