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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
Tech: Apple iLife '08
I got poked about Apple iLife '08 yesterday while working on the picture for the Angels game summary, and man, what a story. The improvements are really significant and look to fix a number of annoyances I've noticed with iPhoto (one of the iLife components) from the beginning:
- Rolls are not cast in stone. One of the big issues I have with iPhoto is that if you shoot two or more cards of images, you end up with multiple "rolls". (Rolls and albums are the only ways to categorize images in iPhoto; rolls are the collections of incoming raw images, while albums are manually organized pictures.) This is inconvenient, because you can't easily organize them except into an album, and once they're in an roll, you have to look at all the pictures at once. Once those pictures are in a roll, you can't get rid of them without deleting them completely. (I haven't looked, but I've never tried to delete pictures from iPhoto, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't allow it; I've only ever removed images from the "Originals" directories in Finder.) New features allow you to munge Events however you like, installing multiple rolls into a single album, providing a single image as the "index" for a particular album. It even provides a mouseover to scroll through the images by scrolling on top of the image. (To get a feel for how this works, you should really view the video.) This preview scrolling mode works for their website as well, no matter whose browser you're using. Very, very slick, especially if, as I often do, you find yourself with 200-500 shots at the end of the day and maybe 20-50 of them usable.
- Optional printing to high-quality book and calendar form. I've seen this done previously in the book format with companies like Blurb, which I first read about during spring training in a USA Today article, but Apple makes it ever-so-convenient for you to do this.
- Better integration with .Mac. Not a huge deal for most folks, but big enough that I might consider switching my primary slideshow mechanism from igal to .Mac.
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