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iPhoto 5

I installed the new iLife '05, mainly so I could check out the improvements in iPhoto. The biggest immediate for me is iPhoto now imports the sort movies I can take with my digital camera. I used to have to use iPhoto for the photos and Image Capture for the movies.

There are also a lot of nice UI tweaks, for example when you go into a close view of an image, there is now a row of thumbnails for the other images in the roll at the top of the window. Clicking 'Done' or clicking another roll brings you back to the catalog view. That's swell.

Another nice touch is the 'enhance' dialog, which is much sexier version of the 'adjust levels' (and brightness, and contrast) that you find in PhotoShop.

There's also some bad news - Export wasn't not working, perhaps becasue I've got a Flickr plugin. After I removed the plugin and restarted iPhoto all was well. I need that plugin though! I've got my fingers crossed that I can find a new Plugin on the Flicker website tomorrow.

Update: I downloaded a fresh version of the FlickrExport for iPhoto and it works swell.

Comments | 2005-02-14