[rufwork]

Interesting article, and it leaves me wanting to know more about the speed of the new version. My wife's clunking along on a G4 Mini, which the past version of iPhoto slows to a crawl with our thousands of pictures. I'd heard that the iPhoto 08 database was going to be updated to give much better performance. Any truth to that?

[icerabbit]

It is all about events, which are film rolls in disguise, sort of.
http://discussions.a...119031&#5119031

[pcharles]

You can make them work like film rolls in the way you describe. You just select the point you want to start a new even and tell it to split. At the moment, it is only the auto splitting that has the limits and they are fairly logical ones. Most people visit one place per day, or one place per half day, or you can choose week for an entire vacation.
I am soooo happy they brought out the Gallery because I did not like having to go through iWeb to make a simple picture gallery for the relatives once they dumped the original .Mac pictures in iPhoto6. I really like the idea of "one" click publishing over building a web page. Don't get me wrong, I like iWeb, I just did not want to use it for simple galleries.

[renato]

Quote:

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If you need to use Photoshop on an image, you can set an external editor in iPhoto's preferences. Or you can drag the images you need to edit out of iPhoto to the desktop (or any other folder) which copies the files[

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i didn't switch anything...i'm a Mac user since OS 6...and i don't want to use Photoshop on an image, but an image IN Photoshop or Painter, Illustrator or InDesign; better, i would like to have the opportunity to choose between MANY images at the same time...and i would like to do the same when i need a texture for Modo, Sketchup, Poser, Vue and so on...
i would like to try to make a nice presentation with Foto Magico or make something different with Graphyc Converter...
above all, i would like to have an easy access to my images when i use Apple apps: there isn't any iphoto library in the Motion's browser...FCP finds the library but (that's hilarious) it would import ALL its content...Shake doesn't find the library...and the same happens with Core Image FunHouse and Quartz Composers...
and, talking about Keywords...i love them, i love them so deeply that i got Keywords Manager, because its hierarchic system with keywords, sub-keywords and so on was fantastic to me...yes:it was; because now it doesn't work, and it won't work anymore, according to the developer...sigh!
i like iPhoto, and i've spent some hours reorganizing all the Events...i'm annoyed, just a little, because "sharing" has been one of the keyword of Steve Jobs' keynote. of course, the sharing inside an armoured i Word (Life, Pod, Phone, Work- btw THIS has been a splendid upgrade!!! -.Mac)...pardon, i'm wrong, because there isn't any "i" in .Mac.
i'm a .Mac user, and i have and iPod and i'm eagerly waiting for the European launch of the iPhone)...
i add this to avoid any misunderstanding...
and i beg for forgiveness for my "nice" use of the English language...
Renato

[flybynight]

If the web galleries are Flash-based, does that mean that they are not viewable on the iPhone? Seems like an interesting choice? Or another push to get a Flash plug-in on the iPhone...

[Schneb]

iPhoto is still not part of the family yet. Why in the world did Apple introduce us to Spotlight? After months of careful annotating of Spotlight Comments in my 13,000+ photos, all my efforts are for not because they will NOT import into iPhoto? This makes iPhoto useless to me.

[antonW]

What is the native size of the iPhoto 7 large preview thumbnails [in iPhoto 6 hitting "2" shows the preview at this size]. Is it the same or larger?

[OldToad]

One of the most important improvements, IMO, is the ability to change the EXIF Capture Date of a photo and change it in the original file as well. Also upon exporting, iPhoto will write the keywords, title and comments into the appropriate IPTC filed of the file being exported.

[Rick LePage]

Only the Carousel option uses Flash - the rest use AJAX.
When you visit a .Mac Gallery from your iPhone, the only option you have for viewing your photos is Grid mode.
Rick

[meta]

So what does the arrangement of files look like on disk now?
Does it have IPTC or XMP support yet?
My main objection to iPhoto previously was that it wanted to name all the files by date, and the lack of IPTC or XMP support meant there was no easy way to get my data out of iPhoto again. If iPhoto was iTunes for photos I'd use it.

[Uncommon]

I'm about to buy iLife 08, mainly because I'm getting an AVCHD camcorder, and I'm also looking forward to iPhoto's events feature. (Hopefully there will be a way to export AVCHD video to iMovie 06 so I can edit it with a timeline!)
One thing I really wish iPhoto had - and I'm crossing my fingers to see it in 08 - is better handling of RAW files. Anything taken in warm indoor light has to be run through Photoshop to correct for the light color. Even with Photoshop's default RAW import settings, I get vastly superior color over anything I can achieve by tweaking sliders in iPhoto. Photoshop gets the whites white, but in iPhoto they always remain tinted.

[mretondo]

Does anyone know if they fix the issue with Share->Burn command? Instead of only getting a disc with one copy of the photos you selected you also get photos like thumbnails and more. This makes this feature worthless since all you want to do is make a disc and have them printed at the local store. You don't want to get there and find out the disc has 3x the amount of photos you selected, which confuses the heck out of you.

[dudemac]

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Events are not like film rolls. Film rolls deal with when the photos were imported into iPhoto. Events deal with when the picture was taken. If you have a large memory card in your camera, it may contain a few weeks and several "events" worth of photos - why would you want to group them together?
The only part of film rolls I really used is "last film roll." And the new iPhoto still has "Last Import" so I'm happy.

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Actually Events are the same as Film Rolls with a nicer interface. The only real change is that Events now allow you split on import ie not import all photos into a single Film roll. You have always possessed the ability to change the Date of the film roll. You where also able to combined or split films rolls to better organize your pictures. I have used film rolls a lot and I see this a neat interface boost to an already cool feature. But it is not something completely new. The above mentioned features I pretty sure have been there since version 5. The nice thing I see about events is that Apple has made the feature easier to use and more discoverable. Just remember this is not "new".
thedude

[Uncommon]

Update on my previous post: I've just installed iLife 08, and iPhoto is a very nice improvement.
With the events feature, I have almost no need for albums anymore, since this is what I was using Albums for before.
RAW handling has indeed improved. I have to drag the color temperature slider all the way to the green side, but that does finally give the correct results. Yay!