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can't rename files

All those features but it can't rename files... Ojw 15:48, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

iPhoto name was brought from Ulead's iPhoto Express and iPhoto Plus

http://store.kopykake.com/cgi-bin/oldstore/KJSPE.html

I've been doing some research and it turns out that the iPhoto name was brought from Ulead. Anyone care to put up the history about this. Uleads iPhoto is now the ever popular Photo Impact after the Apple buyout. --Shrimpcrackers 08:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Macs are easy, silly

Sure it can. It can rename the file name itself ("dumbname_001.jpg"), or you can give it a title that will be used within iPhoto. To rename the file itself, just click the image, click the "info" button in the bottom left, and make the necessary adjustment. Of course, the file name is largely irrelevant in iPhoto. Title, keyword, date, and other meta-data is more useful for searching, sorting, etc. Just don't dig through the ~/Library/Pictures/iPhoto folder and try to find and edit the file name manually. That would be hard to do, because of how iPhoto internally organizes the photo library. Nothing on a Mac is hard to do, so it is clearly the wrong way to do things. If you ever find something hard on a Mac, take a step back and try a different approach or use the built-in help menu -- you'll often find an easier way.

For example, to import a photo from a website, you could control-click the photo and select "Save to desktop", close Safari, click on Go in the Finder menu bar, select Applications, double-click on iPhoto, click on File, click on Import, navigate to the deskop, select the photo, click open.

Or, you could click and drag the photo to the iPhoto icon in the dock.

It's up to you, really.

--Kwnd 17:41, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so it's the third icon in the status-bar, with the "i" symbol. Press it, and the filename list separates into a filename list and a picture-information list, which contains the filename, which is editable if you click on it.

I'll ignore that this is completely different to every other application on earth, and thank you for the tip. Thankyou. Ojw 20:45, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. :) Happy iPhotoing! --Kwnd 21:28, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re-written

I did a bit of a re-write. Hope everyone likes it. Basically, I just wanted to clean things up. Kudos to previous contributors; I didn't have to add much at all. I did add a few links, but mostly just reorganized things a bit. --Kwnd 22:00, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No iPhoto 3?

Did Apple skip a version number, or is this an omission on the page?

Ummm, I have iPhoto 3. It was bundled with many Macs, but never was downloadable or shipped as part of iLife. T3h 09:27, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the mention of iPhoto 3. If iPhoto 3 really existed, would you mind providing us with a source? AlistairMcMillan 21:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Ulead iPhoto Express 3. Remember Apple brought the name from Ulead.--Shrimpcrackers 08:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They jumped from 2 to 4 to keep the version numbers among all the iLife apps the same (presumably). This isn't true for Garageband, and later iWeb, so perhaps it's to distinguish the original apps from the later ones. Who knows, it's part of the Mac mystique ;) Kewpid 02:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to the MacRumors iPhoto guide, that is exactly what happened. There never was an iPhoto 3. http://guides.macrumors.com/iPhoto . Additionally, MacTidbits concurs that iPhoto 3 was never released outside Apple, but they mention the fact that there was a Help document included in iPhoto 4 entitled "What's New in iPhoto3" http://db.tidbits.com/article/07556 Curtis 00:42, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Slowness of large libraries

I reverted out the iPhoto is slow with large libraries, this refers to iPhoto 2, many of the slowness criticism does not apply to iPhoto 4-6. If this is rephrased it could stay. --vossman 05:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

iPhoto 6, with 3000 photos, takes 5 minutes to start up on G4 laptop. In my experience, it still applies.--Dbolton 01:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, my 800MHz iBook G4 with iPhoto 6 takes only 25 seconds to load 2000 images (time from click in Dock to editing an image). You might want to rebuild your database. My point is that version <= 2, have xml tables to lookup information, while versions >= 4 have databases to streamline this. This was the advertizing campaign for upgrading... "Now supports large libraries" --vossman 17:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This factor depends on image size, resolution, and type (TIFF or JPEG, etc). The larger images are, the longer they'll take to load up. Rebuilding the thumbnail cache improves the performance of iPhoto. Repairing disk permissions also helps. Problem is, everyone gets a different experience from it because everyone's camera saves images in different formats, resolutions and sizes, directly affecting iPhoto's performance. — Wackymacs 17:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not trying to start a flame war. But the size of the files shouldn't affect startup time, because it is all based on the thumbnail cache correct?

Either way this slow fact comes from original research which is not allowed and it was linked to a person's blog. --vossman 18:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:IPhoto Icon.png

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Fair use rationale for Image:IPhoto6.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

iLife 09

iLife 09 has not shipped yet. Although we can make a reasonable guess the final version will be 8.0, we do not have that in evidence. We also do not have a final build date. At a minimum, if these are going to be in the article we need references. I have been referred to the MOS on this, but I don't see where it says we should describe products not shipping as already released without references. --Steven Fisher (talk) 17:18, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you looked at my actual edit you would have discovered what my reference to the MOS about date linking was about, ie placing [[ ]] around months and years, not about anything you're saying above nor was it specifically aimed at you. Nja247 (talk • contribs) 20:34, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. I must have compared the wrong revisions. Thanks for the pointer. --Steven Fisher (talk) 02:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

iPhoto 8 : some errors

1. iphoto 8 runs on tiger also 2. the iphoto 8 in the list ("bundled with ilife 9","face recognition") is in fact iphoto 9. 85.179.19.67 (talk) 20:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comparisons

Is there any value at all in saying what programs iPhoto is most often compared to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.113.12 (talk) 15:59, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.189.100.62 (talk) 16:24, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Should this include criticism of the 'Faces' feature?

Hello.
Since Apple's 'Get a Mac' ads have been focused on iPhoto (more specifically, Faces) lately, I thought that people may come looking for more information. I've noticed that people have quite a bit (good and bad) to say about the new Faces feature.
For example, macworld (granted, perhaps not the most unbiased source in the world), had good things to say about the ability to recognize even blurry faces, and pictures taken of a child in different stages of her life, but also bad things about its tendency to identify "flowers, bottles, and other inanimate objects" as people, as well as making mistakes that even cross gender.
Is it worth mentioning any of this? The good and the bad? 209.90.134.252 (talk) 20:35, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ummm

Why does the first paragraph say that iPhoto was first released in 2002? In the Version History section, it says that iPhoto 1 was released in 2001. Harmelion (talk) 12:51, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]