![]() What the heck is this?! It's surprising, confusing, and useless. Where did these keywords come from? I certainly didn't create them, and I don't want to look through them, much less use them. In the screen shots here, you can see the photo before and after the Info button is clicked, and how much the photo is reduced in size. The buttons in the Edit panel are way wider than they need to be, because the Info/Edit space is fixed size - but what a waste of space for labeled buttons that say things like "Crop" and "Adjust". This is maybe good for "ease of use", but bad for "usability". The biggest problem is that the tools in iPhoto '11 are inside the area used for the photo itself, so if you click on Info or Edit, the photo gets smaller to make room for the tools. There is much more UI, and a lot less Photo. This is the balance that is largely missing in iPhoto '11. ![]() The mantra for iPhoto 1.0 was essentially that the user interface should disappear - photos are something you look at, so you want a very visual interface, with more photo, less UI. It just isn't as good as previous versions, for the same level of functionality. It is pretty, and it is "easy to use", but it does not strike the right balance between power and ease of use. Overall, my impression of iPhoto '11 is that it has some interesting new features that I won't use, and some old ones that I wish would go away (Face Recognition), but worse, the user interface has gradually degraded. I mention this only because my perspective on iPhoto '11 is fresh, having just started using it. But I bought a new laptop, so I'm using all the new stuff, like it or not. I just now started using iPhoto '11 because I have resisted updating to Lion and Mountain Lion (I still like Snow Leopard better). For the record, I was responsible for iPhoto 1.0 through (I think) iPhoto 4.0, but I have not worked at Apple since the end of 2003. I still use iPhoto and I still love it, 12 years later. I led the original team that built iPhoto 1.0 (I have the custom-printed T-shirt and scars to prove it).
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