Iphoto 6 vast improvement

I have over 10,000 images in my photo library and iphoto 6 handles loading photos WAY better than iphoto 5 on my powerbook with 1gig of RAM. Load time is the way it should be now. It used to take five minutes to launch and quit. Sweet.

Hi,
Check out this site for an ongoing review about iPhoto 6
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1017&message=16671731
Milan

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IPhoto "Events" improvement suggestions

Events are an improvement over film rolls. But there are cases that don't work well with Events.
For example, if I take a birthday shoot during the day, then take a picture of my bedroom at night, that final photo doesn't belong to the event. Splitting it produces a pretty awkward event of one picture. This is actually a very common case -- my library if filled with odd pictures taken here and there that don't belong to any logical event.
It is frustrating to have every photo bound to an event. Often I take pictures just to record aspects of my life -- like what I had for dinner or a bunch of books that just arrived. The result is that the average import size is around 3 pictures. The problem is, these "events" have the same display prominence as wedding and birthday pictures. I would love to use the events viewer, but these pictures have no place. I can't hide them since they disappear in the regular photo viewing section too if I do. If I try to collapse them into one event, they soon begin to lose their temporal coherence. The right solution is to have them outside of events. But this is not possible. But the very existence of miscellaneous pictures completely undermine the utility of the events viewer.
I think the premise that events are around 50 photos is too simple an assumption. The fact is, everyone has different shooting habits, and it would be a mistake to make events out of every imported photo.
The novelty of events is in their viewing capability -- fast scrubbing, easy key photo selection and attractive thumbnails. This viewing ability should be extended to photo albums. It would be much more useful if I can view a folder of albums in this way. For example, I have a folder that lists all the European cities I've been to. Each city has its own album. The current way of viewing doesn't allow me to them in events mode. Instead, they are spilled into several pages. Having the events viewer for albums and nested folders would be highly useful.
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For example, if I take a birthday shoot during the day, then take a picture of my bedroom at night, that final photo doesn't belong to the event. Splitting it produces a pretty awkward event of one picture. This is actually a very common case -- my library if filled with odd pictures taken here and there that don't belong to any logical event.
This is very true. But don't get hung up on the Word, you can make events mean what you want it to mean. In v6 I had Rolls for every import, not every picture belonged to an event - sometimes they might be months apart. So, I managed my Rolls - The Birthday Pics were one roll, but then I created generic Rolls for unrelated pics - March - May 07 was one, for instance. You can do exactly the same with Events.
Remember, Events in the iPhoto Window correspond exactly with the Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library package file (Right click on it in the Pictures Folder -> Show Package Contents). So, a photo has to be in some folder somewhere.
And remember the ability to create and manage by Albums is not changed in v7
As to your comments about viewing Albums in the same way as Events, why not send Feedback using the command in the iPhoto menu.
Regards
TD

4.2 seems to have vastly improved memory management

This may not be something most uses will notice, but by using the 'MemoryFree' app I have noticed that the upgrade to 4.2 leaves much more software free memory on my iPhone4 than 4.1. I would guess that this would tend to boost performance as well, but I haven't noticed any perceptible change there.

sn4p2k wrote:
im not updating to 4.2 and i have no problems with performance on 4.1
I don't really think you read what I posted!
I didn't say I had issues with 4.1 and they went away after I upgraded to 4.2. I just pointed out that there were obviously major improvements made between 4.1 and 4.2 'under the hood', and that this was demonstrated in part by the clear improvement in the memory management. I stressed that i had not noticed any perceptible difference, but that the improvements were obviously there.

Battery life vastly improved by webOS 1.4

I just wanted to say thanks for how much battery life is improved in webOS 1.4.
The amount I use my phone, it's usually in the red by the time I go to bed (heavy use will wear it out in the afternoon, light use it's fine until nighttime, but average use, it just barely lasts as long as I want it to).
Until I upgraded to 1.4.
With 1.4, yesterday I was still at 83% battery after 12 hours away from the charger (with fairly light use, but still, that's an amazing improvement).
Today having used the phone heavily, after 14 hours away from the charger, the battery sits at 50%.
This is a huge improvement over before, and, if memory serves, also substantially better than the iPhone 3G.
If webOS 1.5 can make as huge an improvement in speed and snappiness, you might even get jwz back as a customer!

Hi there
I have found that since the update my battery has also been far worse. I didnt have any patches or anything like prior to the upgrade and for a week after it was still 'normal' but the battery was bad.
I then added a a percentrage battery patch from preware (it shows the percentage on the top bar on every screen) and have been keeping an eye on the it
i have found that even when on airplane mode with my alarm on at night , that its dropped by 5% - 10% where before 1.4 it was like 1 - 2 percent.
also no change in my usage - google reader and google talk really is what i use day to day.
I leave 3g and the actual signal is great.
i havent factory reset the phone or anything and will remove the patch / preware to ensure its not a memory leak
fyi - two other peeps in my team at work have pre's and they have have noticed same problem on their non patched phones
UK gsm phone

Going from iPhoto 4 to iPhoto 6 - caveats?...anyone?

I have iPhoto 4.0.3 and am seriously considering iLife06. Aside from the usual smartness of backing up all 1,500+ photos first, will it really be as simple as installing iLife06 or should I just as soon leave it all well enough alone ans stick with iPhoto4?

Hi,
I just did exactly that upgrade, 4->6, on Saturday. I've had no problems whatsoever. I have a huge iPhoto library, something like 17,000 photos and ~39 GB of data, so I was naturally worried, but I'm happy to say that so far, not a single problem, and vastly improved performance.
All I did beforehand was backup my entire library to an external hard drive (I keep rolling backups regularly as well, but I made a complete, new backup just to be extra cautious.) I also then dismounted and disconnected that external drive, just to further safeguard my data. I then did a general clean up & permissions repair of my system and photo drives. I use the tool called "Cocktail" to do the cache cleaning, permissions repair, and such, but the permissions repair could also be done 'manually' using disk utility. I further used disk utility to just do a 'verify disk', which showed no problems with my photo library drive.
I think this is pretty much ordinary prep work for any significant upgrade, and if you're confused about any of it, you can certainly find lots of other posts about exactly how to do any of these steps. I think the two significant ones, really, are "Verify Disc" (and repair, if indicated), and "Repair Permissions". Consensus seems to be those two are critical.
Anyway, after all that was done, I put the iLife DVD in and just ran the normal upgrade. Once it was done, I launched iPhoto and let it go. It churned for quite a while -- it reorganizes the photo storage into a different folder hierarchy, and creates new thumbnails, so that took a while. Once it was all over with, iPhoto is working great, with no problems detected so far at all.
As part of the process, it also found a few hundred "orphaned" photos, and it asked me what to do with them, so I had it put them in a new album, just so I could see what they were. It looks like they were mostly photos I had deleted; one theory I have is that they were somehow orphaned when iPhoto 4 crashed on me -- which it did multiple times over the years.
I'm not sure what the previous poster was referring to by "Messy." It does re-organize the photos from the old date-sorted folder structure to a new Original/Modified and segregated by Film Roll structure. I don't ever muck around within the iPhoto storage hierarchy, so this has all been totally transparent to me, although I did have a peek just to see how it is implemented. I think this is a part of a new option to have iPhoto leave your photos where they are rather than copying them into your library location (which in principle should allow photo libraries to span multple discs, but I haven't verified that part.) So while others are considering the re-org to be a disaster, I look at it as a good thing. All the film rolls and photo albums I had in iPhoto 4 transferred flawlessly to iPhoto 6, and that's all I really care about.
So far, I'm thrilled with the upgrade. iPhoto 4 had gotten frustratingly slow to use - I was so tired of watching the rainbow spinner! 6 is super quick and smooth, and the editing tools are greatly enhanced. I played with the book, calendar, and iWeb export, but haven't actually followed through with any purchases yet. I did export a few photos and upload them, with no problems.
Good luck!
G4 Dual 1 GHz MDD, PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

IPhoto 6 very sluggish with keywords

Just upgraded to iPhoto 6. The speed for importing images has improved greatly, unfortunately it seems the speed at which keywords are being assigned has degraded significantly.
Running iPhoto 6.0.2 under OSX 10.4.5 on 800MHz PowerMac G4 iMac w/512MB RAM and approx. 34GBs of free disc space.
12,000 photos spread over 192 smart albums with atleast 192 keywords.
Basically the best way to describe the change is, all that slowness usually associated with loading photos in iPhoto 5 has been passed on to the keyword assignment in iPhoto 6. Assigning keywords was a snap in iPhoto 5, but importing took a long time. Now that scenario has flipped.
Anyone know of something that might improve this? We've already rebuilt the cache, and done the usual system-type maintenance. Just don't know why keywording is killing iPhoto 6... it's just words being added to a database.

I, too, am having this problem. I installed iLife 06 three days ago specifically for the iPhoto speed improvements I read about. From the moment of installing it, the response time for doing ANYTHING with the assign keyword panel of the Photo Info box is horrendous. For example, what drove me to forums this morning are the following wait times:
* 27 seconds to scroll keyword panel
* 38 seconds to click one keyword box for one photo
* 81 seconds to assign one keyword to 31 photos
While the keywords could be slow in iPhoto 5, it was nothing like this. Because I use the keywords quite a lot, I need a workaround. I've got all the software upgrades, rebuilt everything I can think of, quit iPhoto numerous times, and restarted at least twice since installing this.
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Printing From IPHOTO 6 to an EPSON DX8450

I am trying to print photos from Iphoto 6 however the prints are not very clear with the 'striping effect'. When I the Epson Photo Print software the pictures are clear and impressive, what can I do in IPhoto to improve the quality ?

The stripes indicate printing at low quality.
When you get the iPhoto print dialogue window, select the format (5X7, 8X10 for example) then click on the ADVANCED button. This will open up the full printer menu for setting quality, paper etc.

IPhoto '09 Places

Hi,
I've a number of places set in my iPhoto '09 library, some manually and some though the iPhone location tracking on photos. I've noticed that a lot of my photos are being placed into the wrong place, or being very generic about their location. For example, on of the images I took on my iPhone shows as 'England' that's quite a large area! Fair enough this was out in the country side, so there may not be much information about the location, but it's still a poor description of the location.
The ability to see where my photos have been taken on a map is brilliant, however it just doesn't work how it should. I've taken numerous photos around my old home town of Sheffield and tagged some manually and others through the iPhone, the manual ones show the true location of where I took them, a certain street for example, however the iPhone and some I've tried with a geo-tagger just show as Sheffield, I was under the impression that Places was to allow you to pinpoint where photos were taken, but just saying its from a certain city really doesn't help.
Is there a way to refine the iPhoto places, like iMovies 'world locations' file, or is this just down to the google maps service iPhoto '09 is tied to. Does iPhoto '11 improve this situation at all?
Thanks

Jerry
welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
select a group of photos and right click (control click) on one and select the get info command - enter the "place" information and it will apply to all selected photos
Or
in event view click on the "i" in the lower right hand corner of an event - enter the "place" information and it will apply to all photos in the event
LN

Why hasn't Adobe navigation and user interface design improved as much as it could have over time?

I haven't tried CS6. I'm sure it's great based on what i've seen alone. But as a user of adobe products for a number of years, i have to noticed there are still a lot of stagnant,awkward, stiff, irriating, slowing down elements found in the navigation and user interface on cs3-cs5, that i'm sure could have been eliminated or improved on at least from 2005 or 2007 onwards. I find some of these things inexcusable and unprogressive from bad traits that defined 1980's and 1990's general computer navigation and so on.
CS5.5 has lessned this a bid bit and is more fluid in bits and pieces but for those using cs3-cs5 and in general, i find some things just horrid. As a graphic designer no one is supposed to admit the flaws or irrations of these programs. We must hail them as god, never critisize, and always adjust to new things which i think is a bit fascististic and silly
The way the tools, options are laid out can be improved to be quicker, and easier to find and use. Using your voice as a commanding system would be helpful as well.
A lot of cmds are too complex to remember, they can be simplier or resemble the name of the tool or option. Its makes a chore to follow this system and competition for the smart *** who memormized all the cmds.
The way in which you loose floating side boxes, and the amount of tools or names hidden in the bars sometimes seem random and its always a constant search to find them incase you forget where they are.
The inability to open cs4 or 5 files in cs3 is just beyond extremly annoying. Whey shouldn't you be able to open cs1 or 2 files or photoshop 9 files as well? Every five years work expires as well?
The layering system gets tricky and seems that a lot of things don't work when you normally move things. Its about going back, remembering and clicking on this or that, looking it up to make everything work. Sometimes which leaves you in a rut and wastes a good amount of time. You will always find this even after you've been using it for years.
The use of the fill paint/airbrushing, clone tool, lasso tool, pen tool, history being two steps back can be vastly improved to be much better to use
Masking and tools that have more complex features should find a way be automatically done or sampled. They can also have less complex steps and tha ability to be previewed, automatic or simpler ( in case you can't remember how to do something or aren't getting it)
A lot of the special effects, and blending modes are useless, outdated, super-ugly and don't resemble true darkroom effects ( such as polarization, and bas-relief for example) which they could much more vividly done. There also could be more options that are closer to repro cameras/CTP software for halftoning and more complex digital effects.
Having to press or get used to pressing muliple keys or clicks for the most basic things simultaneously can be reduced to be easier
Adjusting text, new documents, photos should have a smoother, quicker navigational experince where things a lot of room to be , clicked back, re-done, saved in the wrong place etc..
Indesign could use more shapes, include more features that illustrator has, and possibly even photoshop to save time.
There should be a way to remind you of features, complex things you've forgotten, other than history and daily usage/practice of the programs
The help should resemble more of "visual -learners" guide books with voice features.
There are a lot more
Regarding other things:
I think the price encorages more piracy and allows people to not have a concept of what is means to owning software.
The loss of a manual or lessening of them for certain programs is a loss because it's always useful to physical info you can flip through while looking at your program.
I think adobe should make entirely better products for professionals or people in the industry rather than spoonfeeding the same software to all.
They should also make less expensive add-ons like before for graphic software.
What do you adobe could have improved over time and if so what do you think they could have improved on?

You have this wishform to suggest improvements to Adobe products:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
and the Creative Suites forums are here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites
This specific forum is only for discussions on the forums themselves, so you are not very likely to get any change by posting your comments here.

Correcting faded 35 mm slides with iPhoto?

I have just scanned some old 35 mm slides to iPhoto and note that many are very faded. Is there a way in iPhoto to improve these images?

Your scanner has ICE4 which includes ROC which restores faded colors.
I found this info here
http://www.bythom.com/coolscanv.htm

Emailing pics from IPhoto with Mail

How can I get Iphoto mailed picture mails to appear in my 'Sent" box?

I'm with you on this. iPhoto has improved since iLife11 first came out, but this is still a weakness. When I think I have sent some pictures to someone, but they claim they didn't get them, I'd like to go to the Sent folder, confirm that they were sent, then resend if necessary.
If I sent the picture to myself, then forward to the intended addressee, when I try to clean up the mail getting rid of the forwarding info, I seem to lose any attached photos. I know that there was a .zip file attached to the original, but it doesn't seem to go along with the forwarded copy.

N79 Sound and Picture Quality should be improved l...

I just recently replaced my N82 to a new N79 because I really love the design and features.
One thing I noticed in the MUSIC PLAYER using the same modified equalizer in N82 is that the sound is too bad and horrible. Please do the same programing in N82 V.30 Music Player sound. We'll be expecting that on the new firmware.
Even the picture quality of N79 is not good. Do something about it because I don't want to be frustrated.
Thank you,
RJ
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PUT AN EQUALIZER IN N900

I agree that the bass is deep compared to the previous Nseries but I noticed that it balances the output of the sound when it reaches the highest peak. Tendency is to lower or balance the sound. I can't bear this. Compared to the my previous N82 music player, the sound is excellent Both bass and treble are clearly defined.
Try to adjust the 53Hz to the highest point which gives the bass sound, you'll notice the automatic adjusting of sound which is to me, very annoying.
Cheers!
25-Nov-2008 10:23 PM
korngear wrote:
Honestly speaking, the sound quality of N79 is vastly improved over the previous models of Nseries like N82, N95, N95 8GB etc. Of course personal opinions about SQ is different but the improvement on SQ of N79/N85 is obvious and significant, and the N96 is now the best of em and a worthy replacement of N91/8GB.
The bass is deep and rich in N79, N85, and N96 considereing all other S60 devices, I tweaked the 8 band equalizer in my N79 to my own preset, the volume is louder, and treble is much clearer.
Message Edited by korngear on 25-Nov-2008 08:24 PM
NOKIA N900
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Automatic photo improvement

Hello everybody,
I just bought my new MacBook Pro a few weeks ago, and I'm lovin' it.
I noticed iPhoto can improve most of my photos with just the automatic improvement feature.
Is there a way to make that improvement automatic? I mean, something like "improve all the selected photos" without the need to click one by one?
Maybe Automator can help?
If I say an heresy just excuse me, I'm still new =)
Thanks

Thanks, this seems exactly what I was looking for.
Just in case..is there a chance to find a similar software with a full-freeware license?

IPhoto is so slow that it is inoperable

Hello! I need your help! I have only less than 8000 photos (as counted in my iPhoto Library photographs) and 2 very short videos, added memory to 12 GB, got external HD (only less than 10% used; 906GB free), and still get color wheel spinning all the time, cannot even scroll the list of photo icons (in Library) more than a few rows in a minute.
I do not know what is wrong. I have no problem with other functions or applications, web surfing, mail viewing etc.
The following factors might have or might not have affected the above problems, but I do not know if they are of any significance:
*I had upgraded my iOS to Marverix several days before the symptoms apppeared.
*I have about 4 unfinished photo books I am working on, of which 2 have 170 photos and 270 photos each.
My iMac is 21.5" Late 2009 model, with OSX ver. 10.9.1, Intel processing 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo.
Macintosh HD has 499GB capacity while only 81GB used and 418GB available.
iPhoto version = 9.5.1 (Latest upgrade)
The situation is so bad that I am beginning to think that I should give up iPhoto and iMac as well.
Thank you for your help!
Message was edited by: Lakesoba404

Hello Terence:
Thank you for your quick response. Yes, I had forgotten to mention HD space: it has 418GB available out of 499GB capacity (used 81GB). External HD is portable drice attached to iMac by USB cable, manufactured by Seagate. The performance speed of iPhoto did improved a little bit right after it was installed about a week or so ago, but as soon as I started to work on my book project, it returned to where I was before adding External.
I really appreciate for your advice.
Thanks,

Printing Proofs in Lightroom

I'm using Lightroom for management of my digital images, and wish that Adobe would provide a way for additional output methods from the Print tab.
I recently had to output a large amount of proofs, and was able to successfully build the proofs in lightroom. I use the ColorBurst 7.5.1 RIP Server to run my Epson Pro 7800; have no problem with color printing from Photoshop on any of the media I use. Printing to this RIP works best when you are able to save an image file, such as TIF, and then drop the image in the Hot Folder; the RIP takes over from there.
I use an Xrite Colorimiter and the Colorbutst Spectral Vison Pro software to adjust my ink percentage and manage ICC printing profiles with great success.
I keep all my monitors calibrated, do so every two weeks, so basically, I don't have a problem with printing or color balance, except when printing from Lightroom.
Lightroom unfortunately won't allow me to output from the Print tab to a tiff file; I can choose PostScript or PDF, but then to preview the image using the ICC profile for the paper I'm using, I have to import into Photoshop, which is not that easy.
I tried printing the PDF files, and had a problem with the images rotating 90 degrees, and with the proofs being too dark.
Here's what I was able to work out, in order to print my proofs successfully.
After having my proofs set up in Lightroom, I selected the PPD for my printer, and hit the Print button. I then went to the PDF button, and saved the files as PDFs to iPhoto.
In iPhoto, I exported to TIF files, then opened the TIF files in Photoshop. I viewed the TIF files with the ICC profile for the paper I was using, then made necessay adjustments, and saved them as TIFs without any ICC profile.
After dropping these TIF files in the Hot Folder they printed correctly.
What would have saved me a LOT of time and ink and paper, would be to export directly from the Lightroom PRINT tab into Photoshop (like you can from Library or Develop), so I could create my output files directly from Lightroom.
If anyone wants to comment or offer suggestions on a different print workflow, I'd love to hear it.
--Mark Johnson

>What would have saved me a LOT of time and ink and paper, would be to export directly from the Lightroom PRINT tab into Photoshop (like you can from Library or Develop), so I could create my output files directly from Lightroom.
Check out the 2.0 beta. It allows for output from the print module directly to jpeg files in any printing profile or one of the three standard color spaces. The sharpening is also vastly improved there.

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