New iLife offers photo, music improvements

[Mac Reporter]

Apple Computer introduced substantial new updates to its iLife package of multimedia software on Tuesday, including powerful tools for manipulating digital photos and recording music.

The new version of iPhoto, contained inside the iLife suite, gives people the ability to edit pictures in ways resembling the basic features of the high-end Photoshop software from Adobe Systems. New video editing software will support high-definition video cameras, and the GarageBand music recording software contains new tools for recording multiple members of a band.

The software suite, announced at this week's Macworld Expo, will be included with all new Macintosh computers, or available separately for $79.

"iLife '05 is far beyond anything available on a PC and is a must-have upgrade for every Mac user," Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said in a statement. "If you have a digital camera, digital camcorder or create music, iLife '05 is built for you."

Read more at CNET News.com.

[mgd]

Woohoo! Heirarchal folders finally! I stopped using iPhoto a few months ago primarily for this reason. It was getting to be a pain to organize my photos and scroll through a loooong list of albums. At least now, I can collapse these into sets and upload easily to .mac.

[Edited on 1-12-2005 by mgd]

[cyberprince]

yep. yep. i was having that same problem. too bad that I don't qualify for the $19.95 upgrade.

[CooLes]

And support for RAW formats directly thats part of my iPhoto wishlist. Also, nice to hear that Garageband now supports pitch shifting

[mgd]

Pwede na pang karaoke! :P

Originally posted by CooLes
Also, nice to hear that Garageband now supports pitch shifting