iPhoto 4.0.1

[Dale Sorel]

I just updated a library with >750 pics with no problems 🙂

 

[stcanard]

My main dislike of iPhoto is its inability to organize photo's. Here is the situation I would like solved. Take a trip and go through several towns. Stay in some of them long enough to shoot hundreds of shots in various settings. Now using iPhoto organize those pictures. Trips/year/towns/individual groupings. So far I can not get iPhoto below the Trips.

[snip]

Lots of programs have enhancing photo features so what is the stand out feature(s) of iPhoto?

Oddly, the reason I use iPhoto is it's unique ability to organize photos.

If I want all the photos from that vacation to Hawaii in 2003 I create a smart album for all keyword "Hawaii" in 2003. It I only want the second roll of film I shot in Maui, same deal.

If I want an album of all the photos of my son, I create an smart album with his name as a keyword. It catches all the photos of him in Hawaii too, so now I don't have to worry about where to file those photos or about duplicating photos.

Using albums, titles, dates, and keywords it is farily easy to do what you want with the photos. Complaining you can't organize them is kind of like complaining that iTunes renames your songs and changes the directory structure -- in my opinion it's clinging to an outmoded method of organization -- the one offered is so much more flexible!

And yes, I know the smart albums in iPhoto is still sketchy -- but it is already good enough for daily use and I expect it to get better fast.

 

[JFreak]

iphoto can be made better - for example it could have sub-albums.

 

[Daveman Deluxe]

Sub-albums would be a pain in the butt, but I would like to create folders of albums.

Most of my photos in iPhoto are photos of houses for the real estate place I work at, but I've got a few for my dad's band, and a handful that I keep around for myself... would like to be able to separate them.

 

[Snowy_River]

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AFTER YOU RE-INSTALL iPhoto 4.0
to get rid of the generic icon in the dock...
first remove it from the dock.*POOF* then "get info" on your iPhoto Application (iPhoto.app). Next, click once on the icon in the get info window. press command+C (copy), then press "delete"(icon disappears), then command+p (paste). The icon should reappear. then close get info window. Finally.... re-add the iPhoto icon to the dock. FIXED..i hope🙂

I hope I didn't miss anything as I typed this by memory.
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If anyone wants a custom iPhoto icon with one of their own photos and their camera, let me know and I'll build it for them! See mine:

 

[simspa]

Apple released iPhoto 4.0.1 today in your Software Update:



Photo 4 was originally released with iLife '04 in January.

It's great that you can now order prints in the UK - just a shame that you have to upgrade to iPhoto4.

 

[aftk2]

Complaining you can't organize them is kind of like complaining that iTunes renames your songs and changes the directory structure -- in my opinion it's clinging to an outmoded method of organization -- the one offered is so much more flexible!

Man, you are so right. When iTunes for Windows shipped, a friend of mine, who's always really liked Macs but has used Windows for ages, downloaded iTunes and started using it as his MP3 player. Having used Winamp for a really long time, he was very much used to using the Windows filesystem as his method of mp3 organization. Once I showed him how you can use the live search field in the upper righthand corner his jaw dropped.

Slowly, however, these Windows folk - they learn. 😉 I was over a couple weeks ago and noticed he had finally tagged all of his MP3s correctly, and was utilizing smart playlists.

 

[IMAGJE]

It's great that you can now order prints in the UK - just a shame that you have to upgrade to iPhoto4.

😕

 

[karld]

iPhoto DOES keep originals

I got my first real tast of iPhoto this weeked and am bit put off by the fact that it doesn't keep an "original" copy of your picture.

Actually, iPhoto does a great job of keeping the originals, though it is not apparent at first. If you change a photo, a sub-directory named 'Originals' is created in the photo's directory, and the original is placed in there.

Under File, there is a "Revert to Original" menu item which will throw out the modified picture, and replace it with the original.

Note, however, that pictures which are thrown out are not saved.

-Karl

 

[Urdam]

I agree