When first used, Faces will analyze all of the photos in your iPhoto library to locate faces in each picture. If you expect Faces to be completely effortless, however, you're in for a bit of a shock.
Once you've tagged people in a handful of photos, iPhoto will attempt to find and identify them in existing photos and in any newly imported photos, allowing you to confirm or reject its guesses. First up is Faces, which uses facial recognition technology to identify people's faces and allows you to tag them. New features in iPhoto '09 continue the trend toward automating the organization of photos. The result: browsable groups of pictures and videos that can be identified with a title and description. IPhoto '08, released a year and a half ago as part of iLife '08, delivered an early attempt to help people organize photos automatically with Events - date-driven groupings that automatically organized photos taken or imported on a given day. As iPhoto has evolved, Apple has focused on finding ways to help users organize the huge digital libraries many are amassing with the help of digital cameras, cell phone cameras and online photo-sharing and social networking sites. I've been a fan of iPhoto since the first version was released in 2002.
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But after a few weeks of hands-on iLife '09 use since the latest version was unveiled, I can say that the mix of new features and tweaks make this a must-have update for almost all Mac users. In some cases, the updates add revolutionary new features in others, they're subtler additions that fill long-standing gaps. The only application that didn't gain any revolutionary new features was iDVD, Apple's tool for creating DVDs of movies and photos edited with the other iLife apps. In the latest version, iLife '09, the suite received major updates to almost all of its five applications. Apple's iLife suite has long been a cornerstone of the company's "digital hub" strategy for organizing, managing and creatively using the array of digital media available today.