Apple’s photo management application, with about as many detractors as supporters.
Hints:
- You can enable map zooming via multi-touch by using @defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YES
@ - Holding
Altupon launching iPhoto will prompt you to create/select a new library. - Holding
Alt + Shiftupon launching will rebuild a damaged library. - According to this piece, pressing
Ctrl-Caps Lock-9will let you useTabto switch between extra editing features:
Resources:
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 22 | iphotoexport | ”...preserves both the original and modified image, your event and album organization, and applies your iPhoto titles, descriptions, keywords, and face tags to the IPTC/EXIF metadata of your images”. I’m sold. |
| Mar 20 | Speeding up library databases: for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase “vacuum;”; done |
Taken from this hint |
| Older | iPhotoToGoogleEarth | Deprecated -generates KML files for Google/Earth from geotagged images. |
| Script Export | a plug-in that allows you to process iPhoto libraries for export using (any kind of) shell scripting. | |
| Keyword Assistant | a decent interface for inputting keywords, with auto-completion | |
| iPhoto Buddy Buddy | multiple library management for older versions of iPhoto | |
| iPhoto Extractor | library recovery for older versions |