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What's new in iPhoto 8.0.2

by Dave Caolo Mar 30th 2009 at 9:00AM

Last week, Apple released iLife updates with typically terse descriptions. Dissatisfied with "...overall application stability improvements," I explored iPhoto 8.0.2 for obvious changes. Here's what I found.

First, Faces offers Address Book contacts as potential matches for unrecognized faces (based on initial letter), each labeled with an Address Book icon. Formerly, you'd be presented with the names of previously identified faces only.

Also, the label that identifies an unknown face has been changed from "unknown face" to "unidentified."

This one could be just in my head, but zooming in on the Places map with a double-click seems a lot faster now.

They're minor changes, but definitely welcome. Many people dismiss iPhoto, but as a snapshot professional, I love it.

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François Bonzon

If you have a third-party mouse with a scroll wheel, it will now zoom in and out in Places. Just like it behaves in Google Maps.

April 01 2009 at 8:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter Koritschan

I am upset with iPhoto 9 not being able to look up faces that i have assigned in photos with facebook contacts when I upload facebook albums... instead i have to decide whether to tag in iPhoto or in facebook.... anyone know how to solve that?

March 31 2009 at 10:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bartff

Hi All,

The link between iPhoto and Adressbook is superb. Although I have some difficulties that I hope one of you can help me with:

In the previous version I've tagged several persons, and just wrote down their name in the faces part of iPhoto. With the new version, I must be able to convert these tagged people to the ones (with the same name) in my AddressBook. But how do I do this ?

I tried this thing:
person x was tagged 8 times (with previous version of iPhoto)
I tagged him in this new version but as the AddressBook contact
Then I tried to merge these 2 persons to 1 (right click on both faces albums) but it has been merged to the 'old' tagged name that is not linked to the AdressBook..

March 31 2009 at 5:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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kaslings

Bartff, try dragging the previously tagged person onto the newly tagged AddressBook Person instead of clicking merge.

March 31 2009 at 11:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Trane

Bartff -
There's an easier way to do what you are trying. I think I read it on another post in this thread, just to give props where they are due. Just go into your Faces view, click the person's name so it becomes an editable field, start typing the name and then select the address-book version of that name rather than the other and bingo, you have what you want and I think the old name might just disappear from the program.

The one thing I noticed, and I swear I'm not crazy, is that on a couple occasions I think it changed the key photo after I switched to the address-book name this way. Maybe I just saw a blip and fooled myself. I don't have anything to prove this as I didn't record the key photo setting before changing each one. But I couldn't shake the feeling that a few were changed.

March 31 2009 at 2:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kenc29

The recognition algorithm seems relaxed, as iPhoto 8.0.2 recognizes more faces than before, with far more suggestions that are wrong.

Also, there seemed to be a limit of 1000 images or so for one face, as I had one nephew with over 1500 images. The software stopped suggesting possibilities after about 1000. With 8.0.2, it recognized the other 500 or so.

Also, when there are no more suggestions, it says so, where before it didn't.

March 30 2009 at 10:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
PsychoClown

I suspect this is a precursor to the rumored facial-recognition feature on iPhone OS 3. Just breaking it in right now.

March 30 2009 at 4:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
me3head

I found the address book integration to be halfassed. It will find a name and email address from address book, but only one email address (which you better make sure is the one the person uses for Facebook), and when you change the email address in AB, it doesnt change in iPhoto.


March 30 2009 at 1:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Sterling

Another thing is that the face recognition is better. It just recognised my dog, something I have always had to do manually!

March 30 2009 at 10:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karsten

iPhoto may support address book in one way, but the other way is still not supported. If I want to assign a photo to an address book contact, why can't i browse the iphoto library by faces yet? That problem actually isn't limited to the address book, but it extents to any application where you have the open-file-dialog.

lets hope this is added soon :-)

March 30 2009 at 9:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jesse David Hollington

I suspect that would be more of an OS-level issue... Although there's an iLife Media Browser component, this only affects apps that are designed to browse for media (like dragging photos into iWeb, for instance).

Support inside an app like Address Book would likely require an update to that app itself, which is bundled with Mac OS X. Perhaps we'll see this in the OS X 10.5.7 update or in Snow Leopard.

March 30 2009 at 12:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karsten

right, but there's an iLife support package that was updated as well and i sort of expect this to contain exactly that kind of OS updates.

March 30 2009 at 12:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nbidgood

using Address Book contacts with Faces is a great addition. Of course, I had already added names to Faces for most people in my iPhoto Library before the update. The best way I found to realign these names with their Address Book entries was to selected a unassigned picture of someone, and assign their Address Book entry (rather than their existing Faces entry). Then, from the Faces browser, drag the old entry in the the one that came from Address Book. This will get their full name and email associated with all the previously tagged photos.

March 30 2009 at 9:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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gg

Even easier way, just go to Faces and click on any name and you can type in the new name jus as you do when assigning a name to a photo in the first place.

March 30 2009 at 3:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
THX1227

They seemed to have fixed the Flickr upload as well -- I ran two batches of photos and it placed them on Flickr sequentially both times.

March 30 2009 at 9:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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antiorario

I was trying exactly the same thing. So far, so good. (Happier now.)

March 30 2009 at 10:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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