iLife

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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