iPhoto '11 updated, still not up to par

i have to agree with the many negative comments about the new iPhoto. It is a major mis-step... what in the world was Apple thinking? I have removed it (after considerable effort). I too have been a loyal Apple enthusiast since the 1980s and was very glad to see the new iLife release, and rushed out and bought and installed it immediately, only to be hosed.
And it's not just the bugs, which I might have been willing to overlook, as all software needs some breaking in time. But it's the many many awful design decisions and removal of features. The dumbed down features are best critiqued by the on-target comment above by Tristan... "Now, this might be fun when you are twelve - but it is absolute beacon of airheaded stupidity. "

iPhoto 9 worked. It was logical, friendly and generally did everything it said it would and was stable. It was a maturing, well evolved product.
iPhoto 11 however, is a HUGE step backwards! It is illogical, unfriendly and just a crock of the proverbial.

Who were the team of *geniuses* who took most of it's most logical features and either removed them - or just screwed them up? Did they have a combined age of 6?

I want to do some pretty basic things in iPhoto like:
1. Click on a description box on the event (when shown in Photos view)
Oops! Not allowed to do that anymore. Why take away simple logical features that work? Not clever.

2. I want to email a picture to.. say a client. Oops! Not allowed to do that - have to have some revolting cutesy-pie lollypop postcard, corkboard or other lame manufactured 'image' to send your emails. Now, this might be fun when you are twelve - but it is absolute beacon of airheaded stupidity. At least let me choose 'no lame manufactured brain-dead non-feature'. ie go back to keep it simple, stupid.

Congrats for turning iPhoto from a very good program into something that I genuinely hate, and would uninstall in a flash if I didn't think it would totally screw up my 11,500 photos.

This must go down as the worst *upgrade* of 2011.
Yep, Apple you have 'out Microsofted' Microsoft by a huge margin.
You can just hear the whoosh of all that goodwill disappearing.

Get me out of here! And I have been a loyal Mac personal and business purchaser since 1986!

I have iPhoto 9 on my iMac and iPhoto 10 on my macbook air.
I use both and find the 9 a much much better version. Things have been changed and removed and I am disappointed in 10...soooo glad I didnt upgrade my iMac.

I'm a heavy iPhoto user. Everything was going great until I updated to 9.1. Now my library is corrupted, it won't rebuild. I've tried everything I've read on the posts and other places online. Fix it Apple!

Does anyone else have serious problems when attempting to sync photos to Flickr? (i.e., iPhoto has uploaded them once, but then, if you make changes in your library, instead of reflecting those changes on to Flickr, it downloads the entire Set as new photos, and the whole concept of synchronization is lost)

And don't even get me started on Faces. When I imported my old iPhoto 09 library, it rescanned for faces, and ended up duplicating (and yes, it even triplicated) the faces in some photos. So I went into the iPhoto library through finder and deleted the BigBlobs.apdb and Faces.db from the database folder, which should have initiated a new face scan. Instead, it crashed iPhoto every time it tried to open, with no useful explaination. It took me hours to figure out that there was one photo with corrupt data that was crashing iPhoto.

And dear god, why is it so difficult to edit in iPhoto now??? If you are in full screen you can't right click onto Edit and choose edit in iPhoto! I don't need to fire up Photoshop CS4 Extended to adjust levels! And like someone else said, you can't zoom without being in an edit mode! And Also, there is no "extended info" dialogue box with the nitty gritty details stored in the metadata like there was in '09. GAHHH. The only feature in this new iPhoto that I actually think is smart is the new info pane--it is much easier to add keywords to pictures this way, in my opinion. I don't know why, but it seems like keywording photos is now much less of an afterthought.

I think that is all of my rant for the day.

Try having to support the product and explain all of the above to unsuspecting customers...especially the new ones switching over to Mac from Windows...it's NOT fun and there are a lot more unhappy customers out there than you realize.

So good features added...some taken away. A lot of customers complaining about the way iPhoto sends mail too. At least they have added calendars back in for the holiday season!

Can Apple seriously not afford a few more developers and QA people for the the iLife product line? It shows their commitment if they're more willing to continue to play release-patch-release-patch roulette in hopes that it'll eventually be good enough for the general masses.

I heavily use Aperture, therefore I didn't upgrade iLife yet. Aperture 3.0 was a bug parade in itself (for example, the vault didn't work). With upgrade to 3.1 many problems got better but the pictures of one of my projects are lost. I already told Apple, let's if and when something happens.

Seems the pace of innovation at Apple is faster than the company's resources can provide. They have to be really careful about that, if product quality declines Apple looses it's unique selling proposition.

I still have problems with slideshows. Whenever i play a slideshow it plays in one of the old themes of iphoto '09 and when i try to change the theme to any other it simply beach balls me and crashes. it was the same with 9, 9.0.1 and 9.1. Really what the f*** did apple fix with 9.1?

@wow: a small number of users. Have you ever taken a look at the apple discussion boards? In just a couple of days there were approximately 20.000 posts on iphoto 11, while iphoto 9 acquired 70.000 over its full life time....

I had two corrupted libraries on two different machines... If I hadn't had a time capsule, I would have lost two libraries with more than 60 GB each.... no fun.....