iPhoto revision coming...
So <a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/iphotoupdate.html" target="_blank">Think Secret</a> is reporting that a revision of iPhoto is coming this month. At the same time, <a href="http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16818" target="_blank">MacNN</a> is reporting that John Santoro has left Apple after 12 years to work on a project called PreClick, a sort of iPhoto for Windows. Given all that and the long time we've been using iPhoto 1.1, can we expect any major revisions to iPhoto in the near future? Will iPhoto show some change in direction now that the project manager has to be replaced?
My expectations are for some obvious stuff: get the Enhance button to work correctly (for now they simply exlude it from the edit toolbar), performance enhancements, editing of Homepage photo albums. I would like to see better exposure control/fixing like PS Elements' flash fill and backlighting adjustment features, more precise control for image compression and exporting, and more printing and book layout options.
Any news or pie-in-the-sky ideas for iPhoto?
My expectations are for some obvious stuff: get the Enhance button to work correctly (for now they simply exlude it from the edit toolbar), performance enhancements, editing of Homepage photo albums. I would like to see better exposure control/fixing like PS Elements' flash fill and backlighting adjustment features, more precise control for image compression and exporting, and more printing and book layout options.
Any news or pie-in-the-sky ideas for iPhoto?
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One would assume that creating an album of the photos you want in order would result in them being named in a sequential manner when you export, but oh no, Apple has to think frickin' different.
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I'm curios to see if they change the keyword/comment searching. A lot of people feel like the keyword option is limited, and I think people would like something along the lines of iTunes' search field to search by either keyword or comments. I suppose "smart" photo albums are possible too with this keyword and comment criteria, not to mention EXIF data.
I also wish that you could buy different bindings for your photo albums, like a metal spiral bind. But I suppose that's out of Apple's hands.
Since I'm thinking out loud, is there an alternate method of organizing the iPhoto library? iTunes 3 gives the user some choice about whether they want iTunes to organize their music, or whether they want to do it themselves. I think a lot of users who use Photoshop and such would prefer this choice.
Because I keep on closing it to get desktop space and then I have to go to Fireside Chat in the 25 minutes it takes to load again. Sometimes I don't want to.
iCal, too. Very annoying.
Scanner support would be nice but it's based on the scanner makers giving Apple drivers e.g. uMax. uMax is jerking everybody around and I don't expect them to ever get drivers out for their "older" scanners.
On the other hand, it's annoying hat Canon made a Photoshop plug-in for their OS X scanner driver rather than a TWAIN driver. So maybe there is something awry with TWAIN on OS X?
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Speed issues crop up when I resize in both iPhoto and iCal, and there is some delay when opening my library or a big album, simply because it has to pull up so many thumbnail files.
<strong>I hope it becomes fast enough to use properly, for a start, and that it gives you a pref option to quit the app or not when you close the window.
Because I keep on closing it to get desktop space and then I have to go to Fireside Chat in the 25 minutes it takes to load again. Sometimes I don't want to.
iCal, too. Very annoying.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Cmd-H is your friend.