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iPhoto 2 is downloading as we speak.

You can now protect your memories by archiving hundreds - even thousands - of your photos to CD or DVD, directly from iPhoto.

This is a good thing.

Update: This is looking good.

1. The Enhance feature copes well with anything you can throw at it, working particularly well with slightly over- or under-exposed photos. I like the Duplicate option, allowing me to save an enhanced alongside it’s original, mainly because I’m learning to use my digital camera by trial and error, checking out the EXIF data against a photo to see where I’ve gone wrong.
2. Archiving to CD is akin to burning an audio disc in iTunes: You click the Burn button. That’s it. The burning process is also incredibly fast, although I’ve only tested it with Albums of around 50 s so far
3. The Retouch tool works just fine, but I can’t see myself using it much - the complete absence of any settings for the tool makes it a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none. Then again, it’s not as if Apple are gunning for Photoshop here.
4. Using Export to make web pages from Albums still sucks, with only the bare minimum of control over outputted files. Also, this option is hidden away in a drop-down menu, while an option to publish a page to your .Mac site is right there in the toolbar, complete with some pretty dreadful built in themes. Funny that.
5. I quite like the daft featurette that allows you to set the background on the desktop to cycle through an Album from withing the application.
6. When running the updated application for the first time, it makes some unspecified changes to your existing Libraries, making them unreadable by previous versions of iPhoto.

Posted at 3pm on 01/02/03 by Jack Mottram to the mac category.
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