Is your photo slight off kilter? The straighten feature will put it right. Besides the typical brightness and contrast, iPhoto now includes easy to use slide bars for exposure, saturation, sharpness, temperature, and tint. The new editing features of iPhoto 05 probably won’t make you sell your copy on eBay anytime soon, but it’s a vast improvement over what was offered before. If you were at all serious about photography, you had a copy of Adobe’s Photoshop or Photoshop Elements or some other full-featured image editor. Brightness, contrast, retouch, red-eye removal, crop, yawn. It’s editing functions were sub par at best however. It gave you a thumbnail view of each picture which made finding the exact one you wanted easy. Each download from your digital camera was in its own folder, easily found but year/month/day. I’ll take each in order and tell you what I like about it.Īs a photo archiver, iPhoto was pretty good. No review would be complete without talking about some of the new features of the packages that make up iLife 05. As with any installation of this type, back up your data in case of catastrophic failure. Corruption of photo or music libraries has made the rounds in some Mac forums, but I didn’t experience any problems myself. I’ve heard some complaints about installing iLife 05. Yes there are suites that offer many of iLife’s functions, but they are unusually clumsy, not as fully featured, and not all the pieces work with each other. At even twice the price if anything near exists. Oh you’re back? What did you find? My guess is nothing for the Mac or any other platform that does everything to what iLife 05 does. Try and find any other integrated multi-media software suite as fully featured as iLife at this price. Before that, the various pieces were free downloads (well except for iDVD). Yes, I hear the cries of multitudes wailing that iLife 04 was $49. With two kids and a mortgage, I don’t have lots of spare cash, so when a bargain comes along I try to take advantage of it. What it mostly means is that I have responsibilities and bills to pay. It means I can’t just drop everything and sip pina coladas on a tropical beach with a warm beach breeze shooting up my bathing suit watching scantily clad girls with very little on frolic and, well never mind all that. It means I can’t just hop on a private jet and go to a MacWorld Expo when they happen.
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