PRESS RELEASE
May 8, 2002
Adds Brightness & Contrast Control, Mac OS X Mail Integration and Desktop Image Controls
Importing, editing, saving, organizing, printing and sharing digital photos is a snap with iPhoto. Simply plug a digital camera into a Mac via USB or FireWire® and iPhoto automatically imports, catalogs, stores and displays the photos on screen. Users can view individual shots for precise cropping, or see hundreds of photos on the screen at once and quickly scroll through thousands to find the one they’re looking for. iPhoto makes it easy to organize photos into digital albums—for birthdays, vacations, weddings or other occasions—for easy retrieval; as well as add names, comments or keywords to favorite photos. iPhoto brings a new level of simplicity and creativity to sharing digital photos with family and friends via the Web, email, slide shows, Kodak prints or custom-printed, linen-covered hardbound books.*
- perform quick and simple touch ups using new brightness and contrast controls;
- automatically place selected photos into outgoing Mac OS X Mail messages, with a choice of compression options;
- automatically place a favorite iPhoto image as the desktop background;
- choose an iPhoto album to play as the Mac OS X screen saver slideshow;
- create a self-contained QuickTime® slideshow that includes background music and elegant, cross-dissolved slide transitions;
- easily add their QuickTime slide show to a DVD using iDVD™;
- search the photo library by the text information in a photo’s comment field;
- view all EXIF metadata associated with a photo JPEG file, such as creation date, shutter speed and f-stop;
- preserve file names as photo titles when importing images from the Mac OS X Finder™; and
- make more efficient use of printer paper with improved print templates.