Today I’ve learned about the new features offered in the recently launched version of iLife’09 from Apple. I am astonished to see how Apple is always able to innovate in their consumer products. This time they are revolutionizing the way we organize and search pictures on desktop computers. The most traditional way of organizing the pictures in a computer is to group the pictures into folders that somehow make sense as albums. The user had to do this tedious work, and as expected very often the result is that many of us have very good intentions but very bad results and experiences with organizing (and thus searching in) our large collections of pictures. Apple did a great job in the earlier versions of iPhoto (part of iLife) by automatically grouping pictures by date resulting in folders called events. That was simple, but elegant and useful. But today, they are changing the world, again. iPhoto will recognize faces in your pictures, without any effort, with very insignificant manual intervention. Here you can find out a video that explains very well how this process works.
But, not only this. iPhoto will automatically tag your pictures with the place in which they were taken (if you use a GPS camera, like the iPhone).
In summary, iPhoto is capable of automatically organizing your picture by events, faces, and places. In my opinion this is a revolution that empowers the user that can just now focus on the interesting tasks such as making slide-shows, printing albums, or simply browsing through his great memories!
Organizing and Searching Pictures with Apple
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