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iLife: your opinion
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I'm running an 800Mhz soccer-ball iMac with Tiger.
My iPhoto library has become unmanagabley big. 1300 high-res images populate my libarary, making opening iPhoto laggy. From what I can see, the new version of iPhoto breaks up the library more conveniently--and my wife would also like the new editing tools. Also, I make a lot of home-movie DVD's and have used up all my existing DVD themes, so I'd like more.
So, my question is, those of you who have the new version of iLife, especially on older machines like mine, do you think it's worth the $60 (educator) price tag?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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My expierience with iPhoto (even though vers. 5 is way better) is that it's impossibly slow when the individual files are more than 1.5 or 2 MB each. I wouldn't dream of trying to manage 50 MB tiffs with it. For your standard digi-cam jpegs, you should see a serious improvement, though.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
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it slows down on my 2GHz iMac G5 with 6mp JPEGs from my D70. Although, I also have 6000 pictures in the library. it's usable, but not great.
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ok, I guess "high-res" wasn't the term to use. They're all jpegs off a 5.0 Megapixel camera.
What I really need is a new machine. This poor old girl just isn't up to the task anymore.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: California
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My opinion is that it is excellent.
It is "consumer" level photo software. Your iMac probably needs RAM.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: California
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Originally Posted by Helmling
I'm running an 800Mhz soccer-ball iMac with Tiger.
My iPhoto library has become unmanagabley big. 1300 high-res images populate my libarary, making opening iPhoto laggy.
Same iMac and Tiger. I got iLife 05 for a similar reason you're asking about. I had too many photos in the library and couldn't scroll without beachballing.
Go now, run, don't walk, to your nearest retailer and get it. For me it's plenty fast on this "old" hardware and more importantly it is far, far faster than the original iPhoto. It's worth the $50, imho. I haven't used the other parts of iLife (except iTunes). You didn't mention your configuration. I have 1GB RAM.
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20" iMac C2D/2.4GHz 3GB RAM 10.6.8 (10H549)
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Springfield, MO
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I like the basic editing features of iPhoto, but I hate how it files images in a ton of nested folders by date (I don't remember when I took a lot of these pictures... haha). I already keep my images arranged by folder with names that make sense to me... like B&W Photography - Portraits - Whatever. Its much easier for me to browse my images this way.
There's a nifty little menu plugin called QuickImageCM that actually makes the Finder much more functional for managing images. From MacUpdate's description:
QuickImageCM is a contextual menu plugin that lets you view image file directly from Finder. It also has some other feature like add/remove thumbnail icons, copy image to clipboard, move image to trash, view size enlargement/reduction, etc...
Then if I need to edit the image I just open it in iPhoto... do my editing... and export it back to it's orginal location.
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