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Apple Releases iPhoto 9.1.1 With New Email Options

David29 said:
I agree. Those were serious steps BACKWARDS in usability to me.

That and the fact that in the earlier iPhoto, you could use the ESC key to back out of edit mode, or pic mode, to go back to seeing the album, then the entire library.

Whatever happened to Apple wanting to implement a non-modal interface? iPhoto radically alters is screen based on modes.

These new App designers at Apple need to go back and study MacDraw for a while.

Yes, that's what I said. MacDraw.
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THANK YOU. I've been going nuts about that (the Escape key to go back). I keep pressing it because that's how it has always worked. Why did they feel the need to remove things if they weren't going to be replaced with something more useful?

Also, the option to open photos with an external editor when double clicking (or even from the context menu) is still missing.
 
iPhoto 11 is still very sluggish for me. Creating a calendar is almost painful. And then switching back to the events from the calendar mode takes 15 seconds or so. Very unresponsive. I was hoping the update addressed that. And whats with face recognition....its horrible. Apple should steal some Google programmers. Picasa is just about perfect in facial recognition. About to switch back to 09 as it works/worked great or Picasa. Very disappointed.

Jason
 

Yeah, about that:

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iPhoto crashed about four times during the creation of my iPhoto book. It's definitely the most buggy Apple software in my experience.
 
Is it any faster?

I cannot imagine how they could have made it any slower...except maybe to make it unexpectedly crash while scrolling, or make it an Easter-egg hunt to locate formerly easy-to-find features. Or to jack up my library upon upgrade so that a restoration (14 hours!) via Time machine would allow me to simply view my photos. Or to make it more difficult to view via AppleTV. Or to be the first application in history to disable the Esc key.

With a "feature" list as long as this, I can hardly wait to see what comes next. Maybe vertical window buttons?

My opinion: iPhoto '11 = iPhoto 1.0
 
I'm still running iphoto '08 because of all the bad reviews when it first came out. Hopefully they fix the full screen issue and sorting thing asap. You know, with this version of iLife it makes me wonder if they had more than 2 people working on the project... :confused:
 
rorschach said:
Did they fix the full screen mode yet? How about the ability to compare photos?
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no, we have been fooled again. the email solution was bad, but at least you were able to send the photos via the "normal" email program by simply dragging the photos into an email.

the fullscreen / comparison problem is still there! especially when you have a 13" display (or smaller) one third is lost to a stupid editing panel, plus user interface on the top and on the bottom!

if you compare 3 photos at once, they look like stamps. not very professional, apple! maybe this program should be called iStamp?

seems like we can give up hope in this case. apple ruined that program for everone, who wanted to work in a propper way with photos. obviously some totally ignorant programmers at apple think that a fullscreen mode without borders is nothing for stupid amateur photographers like us.

the iphoto apple programmers seem to be so detached from reality that can't even think of someone NOT wanting their user interface in the way all the time!

however, can please someone post how to step back from iphoto 11 to iphoto 09? i have added many new photos and tagged them, so i can not simply go back with the timemachine.

PLEASE HELP, I CAN'T SEE THAT IDIOTIC IPHOTO 11 CRAP ANYMORE!!!
 
Jason Edwards said:
iPhoto 11 is still very sluggish for me. Creating a calendar is almost painful. And then switching back to the events from the calendar mode takes 15 seconds or so. Very unresponsive. I was hoping the update addressed that. And whats with face recognition....its horrible. Apple should steal some Google programmers. Picasa is just about perfect in facial recognition. About to switch back to 09 as it works/worked great or Picasa. Very disappointed.

Jason
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maybe the truth is that the programmers of iphoto are so detached from the real world, that they think people don't want all that crap. i'm sure they keep on using the photo slideshow-mode all the time with the photos hanging on the strings. instead of making the iphoto good (or usable) again, they keep on adoring their slideshow mode. they obviously forgot about EVERYTHING else.

this is the second update, and again nothing happened on the fullscreen front. i give it up. iphoto sucks, it's got WORSE AND UNUSABLE!
 
coryndiego said:
Why did they remove the ability to geo-tag photos with exact coordinates manually in places? I'm also missing the show in finder with the right click.... Two features that I heavily relied on and made iPhoto my #1 photo organization software. I guess i'm going to try out Picasa. I've written Apple a few time about these feature removals and hopefully we'll see a reappearance in a future update.
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you relly think someone is reading our emails? ha ha! that was a good joke!

many people complained about mssing the fullscreen photo mode, but nothing happened. they ignore us. they probably don't even read the emails. it is obviously more of a psycho trick from them: we think they listen and calm down instead of for example complaining in a forum or something like this. sad, sad!
 
Thank you all for posting what the big cluster frak that is iPhoto 9. I was considering getting iLife 11, but you have convinced me that would be a big mistake. I was mainly interested in iPhoto and iMovie.

Does iMovie 9 have similar issues?
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
The compare option has always been in iphoto '11. When viewing a picture, command (or shift) click another picture in the picture previews at the bottom. You can now compare as many pics as you want now (not just 2).
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it got a lot more difficult. you can not compare when in "normal" mode, you have to go to edit mode (illogical! is it editing to show two photos???) you can also not compare "as many pics as you want", apple is limiting it to EIGHT.
 
xStep said:
Thank you all for posting what the big cluster frak that is iPhoto 9. I was considering getting iLife 11, but you have convinced me that would be a big mistake. I was mainly interested in iPhoto and iMovie.

Does iMovie 9 have similar issues?
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iMovie actually got better! they have kept it quite the same, but added some interesting new features like audio effects or export of 1080p.

unfortunately they kept many of the old bugs as well. for example: if you set the lenght of a transition to 2 it is 2 seconds, if you set it to 12 it is 6.30 minutes long.

also i think that the equalizer is consuming too much space. the items on this window should be colapsable with triangles, then you could make the program a bit simpler.
 
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I'd love to know exactly how many people use these features! It's not very good really, a bit like the "stationary" part of mail, still can't believe there is no christmas template! So rubbish.
 
Agree Outlook Doesn't work and no fix for full screen zoom - P**s Poor job Apple!

btownguy said:
Doesn't work with Outlook 2011.
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I have sent feedback that firstly the email client shows up as half Outlook (big yellow O) but the text says Entourage. In other words another Apple c**k up. When you try to email a photo, you get a message in Finder "Microsoft Outlook got an error. Unable to make (image file name) into type properties of draft window." Given that Outlook is the current Office for Mac emailing program, you would have thought that Apple might have tried it but apparently not.

Wilson
 
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Performance still terrible

The performance of this app is so sluggish. I was talking with someone who suggested that maybe it was my machine. I pointed out that I use both a dual quad-core mac pro with 32gb of ram and a core i7 quad-core 27" imac with 16gb of ram. If those are below the minimum requirement for this application (aperture screams on these machines) then not sure how much horsepower apple expects.

The file count in the directory has also gone completely nuts, with my ~50,000 pics, there are almost 500,000 files in the iPhoto library.

Also every time I open iPhoto it rolls to the top of my library. This is annoying since I am unlikely to want to work on my photos from the 90's today, instead I have to sluggishly scroll down the 400+ events...:mad:
 
henryhbk said:
The performance of this app is so sluggish. I was talking with someone who suggested that maybe it was my machine. I pointed out that I use both a dual quad-core mac pro with 32gb of ram and a core i7 quad-core 27" imac with 16gb of ram. If those are below the minimum requirement for this application (aperture screams on these machines) then not sure how much horsepower apple expects.

The file count in the directory has also gone completely nuts, with my ~50,000 pics, there are almost 500,000 files in the iPhoto library.

Also every time I open iPhoto it rolls to the top of my library. This is annoying since I am unlikely to want to work on my photos from the 90's today, instead I have to sluggishly scroll down the 400+ events...:mad:
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iphoto 9.1 is slow.......... i painstakingly migrated all my important pix (170gigs) to aperture3..... seems lightning fast and is 64bit! i am trying out the free acdsee pro beta as an alternative to iphoto for my non important 30gigs of pix, picasa does not appeal to me

i personally cannot wait to find a suitable alternative for iphoto and scrap it soon
 
Victim of Own Success

Apple was always known for its outstanding engineering and everything truly did "just work". That was before the company became more focused on iGadgets.

Who do you get to work on the design teams for the new projects when the clock is ticking against potential competition and you want your iGadget to be as good as possible out of the gate?

You take your best people across all divisions to "make it happen". And due to the continued runaway success the "borrowed" people become permanent. This is dictated by financial reality.

So how do you plug the holes left behind? You hire. And where do you get experienced people from? You get them from other tech companies like Microsoft.

The Mac and all of its OS X applications are now considered the "back water" area and it is the area full of all the new hires who bring with them zero Apple experience but lots of Windows experience.

I don't work for Apple but I am an engineer and have worked for several large companies and this is just how it is.

Any questions?
 
Yeah, I'm not impressed with iPhoto '11 either... But if not that application, then what? I like the Apple software integration and I need a place to store all my photos... What does one do?

I lost a lot of photos in my albums when I upgraded to '11, still don't think I have them back to normal... It has been a nightmare and I wonder if I still have all my pictures on my HD! With over 10,000 I don't want to start from scratch, but if I have too!
 
3587 said:
Yeah, I'm not impressed with iPhoto '11 either... But if not that application, then what? I like the Apple software integration and I need a place to store all my photos... What does one do?

I lost a lot of photos in my albums when I upgraded to '11, still don't think I have them back to normal... It has been a nightmare and I wonder if I still have all my pictures on my HD! With over 10,000 I don't want to start from scratch, but if I have too!
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haha! i share your pain, frustration and sentiments, it took me weeks to migrate 170 000 pix away from iphoto... this seems like a perfect opportunity for some developers to get a great mac based photo management app going- for me i would like to be able/disable things like faces and places

i personally am not interested in a gimmicky ridden management app, just a basic clean look/feel photo viewer with basic editing- there are apps like photoshop etc. to do the rest

ps- remember always to back up on time machine! and to a separate hd as well? time machine backups have let me down
 
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