iLife ‘08 redux
Posted on August 18, 2007
Filed Under All, Photos, Technology, Apple |
So, Linda and I are both just having a hard time with iLife ‘08, mainly beacause of the ‘Events’ paradigm it introduces, and the kind of random shuffle of all the existing tools and interfaces. The introduction of ‘events’ makes iLife 08 a kind of modal package: what it does depends on what mode you’re in - ‘events,’ photos or albums. Most software long ago went away from modes - which old, limited, console apps needed to function at all - because they are confusing and hard to deal with.
Good husband promised to spend the afternoon with the iLife tutorials and docs and try to figure it all out, preparatory to giving the spouse lessons. So I think I’ve worked through much of it, and can give LInda the ‘breadcrumb trail’ to import her photos, crop and tone, and send off to her blog (which is mostly what she does with photos). Along the way I will probably have to archive all our old photos and start a new database. I was able to find and edit the Jimmy Smits photo above, that was in a much smaller iPhoto database running on my photo-processing machine.
One big problem is that iPhoto ‘08 attempts to organize your existing photos into events: some bug or other issue has rendered our 30,0000+ photo iPhoto archive useless - all the albums (there are dozens and dozens) show up as ‘empty’ even though thumbnails will flash in and out of existence if you move the thumbnail slider, and the folder itsel reports the number of photos it once contained. We have lost a lot of organizing work, including things like John and Julie’s wedding. Not happy, Apple.
A real drag is that iLife attempts to organize your existing albums into events, basically by date, and for bloggers, who shoot different stuff every day, this is basically a disaster that will require hours with the ’split events’ tool to fix. This is classic ‘we know better than you do’ behavior by a developer… and Apple’s particularly bad at this IMHO….
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