You can have the photos fit or fill a page, or choose standard sizes like 8x10, 5x7, or 4圆.
It's more businesslike now, with a full screen preview of the print layout. For starters, the print interface is now accessible from the Share button, where before you had to dig into menus to get to it. But all of these online sharing options beat the pants off Picasa, which offers no built-in way to share to Facebook, Flickr, or Twitter. A minor quibble was that when I told the tweeter to add a location for the photo, it used my current location rather than the photo's GPS data. This worked flawlessly, adding a photo viewable right in my Twitter stream. New is simple posting to Twitter, which gets a button on the Share panel. Flickr sharing, too, lets you specify a photo set, maintains the photo title and description you enter in the app, and lets you set the viewing privacy. The Facebook share option is still there, but I wish it let you post to a Friend's timeline or in a message instead of just to an album.
This iPhoto update dispenses with the Create button, now delegating all its functions to the Share button. One interesting option is to create a publicly viewable website, meaning you could use Apple as your photo site host, with the expected classy design values that implies. You don't create new Shared Streams from this iCloud section, but by using the Share button when in any Event, Album, or other photo view. Strangely, you don't get iPhoto for iOS's Journals feature, which lets you create clever Web-based albums, but you can actually publish a Photo Sharing Stream as a public Web page. When uploading either to a shared album, you can add a comment, to which your co-sharers can reply and even tap a smile to 'like' on any of their iDevices. You can add video clips as well as photos to a Sharing folder (but not to your main Photo Stream). The new iPhoto now has an iCloud entry under the new Shared section of the left panel where before, you got a Photo Stream entry under Recent. Normally Photo Stream is just a personal backup and access to your own photos. With this update, iPhoto adds support for another Photo Stream feature-Photo Sharing, which is simply a folder where multiple users can upload and view photos. In fact, unlike on a Windows PC, where you can just see your iCloud Photo Stream photos in a regular desktop folder, on the Mac you're required to use either iPhoto or Aperture to see your iCloud Photos. iPhoto already supported the most important iCloud photo feature-Photo Stream. But the search bar in the Info panel map makes finding locations easy, and I do like how a mini map of the photo's location appears in the Info panel. If a photo doesn't have GPS data, you'll have to assign a location in its Info panel-there's no ability to drag its thumbnail onto the main map. I only wish that smaller thumbnail views of the photos on the map would appear right on the map, as they do in Photoshop Elements. Clicking on one of the pushpins opens a gallery view of the photos shot at the map location. GPS-tagged photos appear on the spot they were shot in the map with pushpins, that, as you zoom in, separate into multiple pushpins. Maps.iPhoto's new maps look beautiful, and allow for fluid pinch and unpinch zooming on a trackpad.
I tested the new iPhoto on a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display and a 2.3GHz Core i7 CPU running OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Those looking for even more photo-editing power might consider moving up to Adobe Photoshop Elements or even Lightroom.
Though Picasa is free, it can't match iPhoto in interface design and support for online services.
The software comes with all new Macs, and as part of the bargain-priced $49 iLife suite, or is available standalone for $14.99 from the Mac App Store. The Mac version of iPhoto has not only been updated to support Mavericks (which it requires to run) with full 64-bit performance and iOS 7 features, but also adds new possibilities for sharing, printing, and new maps to locate your photos.Ī lot of what's good about iPhoto remains the same-an excellent full-screen mode, tight integration with Facebook and Flickr, and excellent output options such as cards and books. That's 12 updated apps in addition to all the big stuff the company announced in San Francisco.
Lacks some features of iOS version.Īpple's iPhoto is the go-to photo editor and organizer for Mac users, giving them the simplicity, image corrections, and output options they need.Īpple wasn't content just to introduce the astounding new iPad Air, cylindrical Mac Pro, and OS X Mavericks on the same day, but the tech titan also released new versions of its home media and office software, too-for both iOS and Mac OS. Histogram editing for exposure fine-tuning. Rich e-mail, printing and other output options.