Reverting to iPhoto '09?

Question

Anyone know the smoothest way to go back to '09?
TimeMachine back-up?
There are just too many bugs and too many missing features in '11.
It really is next to useless.
I hope these are short term problems & that Apple will bring it back to being a useful (and useable ap') if not '11 marks the death of a otherwise great ap' that had until now been evolving well.
Seems they have concentrated too much on the 'cute' factor & forgotten that people do actually need iPhoto to do stuff.

Answer 1

Sparkstack wrote:
Please expand on what features you have noticed are missing, and what is dumbed down
I would be the first to agree that there are dramatic improvements but they have come at too great a price.
Full-screen is great & the new editing tools buttons are too but there are just way too many bugs and poor changes.
Many of the changes are what I would describe as form over function - i.e. - look great but don't work as efficiently.
*Missing -*
*There is no longer a zoom slider when viewing an individual image.*
When you combine this with the bug that stops the keyboard shortcut from zooming it means you have a serious ommission. In my case this inability to zoom renders iPhoto useless until fixed.
*The right-click menu has had most of its useful options removed.*
Those options are now up in the menu bar or are keyboard shortcuts, a step backwards from a productivity perspective.
*Merge and split buttons are gone.*
I don't think this needs any further explanation.
*Dumbed down/dumb changes -*
*No option to export images to anything other than Apples 'share' choices when in full-screen view.*
This means you can't export to desktop or a thumb-drive or an external disc without backing out of fullscreen. That's just dumb when they are pushing the full-screen feature.
From a productivity perspective this makes full-screen less useful which is a shame as the full-screen improvements are otherwise fantastic. It's an odd omission or oversight in my view.
*Editing tools are now fixed in place, not floating.*
When you have a lot of editing to do on a wider screen (27") it is difficult to make tiny incremental adjustments to a slider on the far right of the screen while you watch the changes in the centre of the screen.
*Right-click menu* (see missing)
*Keywords are now over in the far right panel.*
Sorry, that is just seriously dumb.
You need them under your images or at least there in a way that can be revealed. It means that to see a keyword you have to highlight/select the individual image and then look to the extreme right to find its keywords. No longer can you just look at an entire event and see all of the images to which you have applied keywords or the RAWs in with the JPEGs. You have to hunt them all out one-by-one.
I know it looks nice and neat and cool to have them in that panel but again not very useful.
*Bugs -*
*Zoom keyboard shortcut not working.*
I don't think this needs any further explanation.
*View/compare more than one image at once not working* (so you can't open two or more images at a time to compare).
This seems variable.
For me it didn't work using the standard shortcut of holding command, selecting images & double-clicking to open (or any other way I tried).
These two bugs alone make iPhoto useless for me until they are fixed.
And a couple of minor things that really would have been nice to have seen;
When you turn things 'off' they should be OFF.
For example in full-screen Locations still shows as a panel when it's turned off. I would imagine that it is quite logical to think that if someone wants something off they don't want or need to see it.
Faces - there really should be an option to switch Faces off.
On our family machine we use it all the time & it is great.
On my home-office machine I don't need or want it but when I load images it runs & runs & runs slowing the machine down doing something I don't want or need.
Would it be so hard to have it as something you can turn off?
These are my 'only' issues with '11.
I didn't find any more as I have now gone back to '09.
Two of these issues are 'mission critical' to me and rendered iPhoto '11 useless.
Others decreased its usefulness and were steps backwards from a productivity perspective.
Just my observations & opinions.
Message was edited by: Adam Woodhams
Message was edited by: Adam Woodhams
Message was edited by: Adam Woodhams