Should Apple have used Cover Flow in iPhoto '08?

just think about having to scan a deck of cards: it takes forever to find the one your looking for - compared to having the complete deck in front of you. i really don't see cover flow being used in a photo editing environment because i can see only one image at once, the others are hidden and i have thus to generate the missing areas by remembering what they might look like until i scrolled them to sho up 100%. so i have to scroll more. the good olde showall-scrollthroug skimming interface lets me see smaller images but many of them at full scrolling speed which will get me to my image or information much faster.
but i do support the idea of cover flow being used to generate a flash-file, an xml-file and the images in a separate folder for the web - because its a nice consumer effect. however it is only "nice" to present a limited amount of covers. i just remembered the character of Winston Smith in "1984" sitting at his desk rewriting historical documents. cover flow would have made his job much easier....

I absolutely agree BUT... clearly everyone does not,
so I think it should be an option like in iTunes. I found this post while googling "coverflow iphoto" because I had hoped to see that in the future.
Coverflow may be a novelty that some are sick of, but I love it and can't get enough of it.

Why does Coverflow work on the iphone? Touch interface/ gyroscope. Why does skimming work on the mac? The mouse. Coverflow doesn't interact with the user naturally on a computer because of the awkward clicks. Take it from someone who works with new computer users, for lots of people it's alot easier to drag the cursor over a photo than 1. find a slider 2. click on it and 3. precisely drag that object to reveal photos. To alot of new users the gratification is not worth the effort. And who do you want to impress when you walk into the store and try out a computer? Not the hardened computer user but the person who's on the fence and not already sold.

I've never found Cover Flow to be useable as a navigation tool, looks good, but that's it.

Implement a cover flow/carousel in iPhoto as they've done in the web gallery, but leave skimming as it looks amazing, also, skimming in Finder if you please!!

No way. Cover flow is totally just for album covers. I want to be able to look at all my pictures on a flat axis. Its way harder to look at a lot of pictures at once when they're all skewed weird and only one is oriented normally. Besides if i can't flick around cover flow except on my iPhone, then cover flow loses a lot of its pizazz.

Ok, quick way to do something even better than coverflow.

Go into Preferences>Events> click "Double-Click MAGNIFIES PHOTO"

Now you can skim, or double-click to 'quick-view'/make the picture large. hit -> the arrows to go back or forward. When done just click on the photo. Remember as steve told us, a double click is a 'quick-vew' magnification not an edit screen which takes longer...

I agree they could make this functionality a little more sophisticated (i.e. use skimming in quick-view), but its pretty nice for now.

I'm so sick of coverflow. I've never once found it useful.

Coverflow anywhere in the OS is useless *until* Apple release a hardware add on that has the multitouch pad from the iPhone. I'm guessing the next touchpads on laptops will incorporate Multitouch properly, and a new mini tablet for desktops.

Using Cover Flow for that purpose is *such* a wrong place to use it. The idea with the skimming UI is that you can skim through *any* event without the need to click anything. In order to use the big ass Cover Flow UI, you'd have to click an event, then move the mouse back up and drag the scrollbar while holding the mouse button down. If you didn't find the picture you were looking for, move the mouse again and target the next event, if you can remember where you left off after you moved your focus up to the big ass Cover Flow area.

See? That'd be dumb.

From what I've seen, I haven't bought/installed iLife 08 yet coz I'm planning on a new Mac when Leopard comes out but the skimming feature seems to work just fine. I don't use cover flow that much in iTunes anyway as some have pointed out I find it a bit slow and can't imagine how long it will take for it to move through all my pictures. That said even though say I wouldn't use it much I can't believe that Apple did not include it since they seem to be including cover flow in just about everything in the upcoming 10.5. Maybe they drop us an iPhoto update to include it when 10.5 is released you think?