Friday, March 30, 2012

iPhoto 9.2.3-Apple's software for viewing and managing your photos

*iPhoto* is Apple's flagship application for managing and viewing photos on
your Mac. The interface is very slick and iPhoto features tons of tools to
help you manage your library. In fact, the real strength of the program
resides in the organizing options such as organizing by events, create a
gallery, print out calendars and books etc. In particular, the unified search
function allows you to quickly find any photo based on all sorts of criteria
like date, name or keywords and now, even faces. One of my favorite features
of iPhoto are the photo montages which allow you to select a style of
presentation with accompanying music. These look great and are a nice way to
view your photos and reminisce on the past. However, I dislike the way iPhoto
has to build a library file of your photos. If you've already got several GB
of photos on your system, you don't want another huge iPhoto file taking up
space on your hard drive. Of course, iPhoto is also very well integrated into
other Apple apps such as iDVD so your iPhoto images can easily be used in
videos that you're editing. Displaying photos in full screen mode isn't as
simple as it should be however - it involved way too many clicks and its hard
to get rid of the toolbar. *Overall, iPhoto is an extremely elegant photo
application which makes viewing photos a pleasure.*Download *iPhoto 9.2.3* in
Softonic