iPhoto

I was never keen on iPhoto since it was pretty basic. It imported your pictures and then started to make duplicates. It failed several times on friends of mine (and believe me, you don't want your pictures to be totally gone..)
It still copies files (though you can change that in your preferences), and on top of that you don't have much to say about the name of your files (which for me is yyyy_mm_dd_hh_ssmls_country_keyword_ID.filetype)
But there were certainly some major changes, which are pretty neat for RAW adaptation.
WHen you don't need to do a lot of photoshop, but just want to set the colors and the sharpness right, iPhoto can be very fast and preferred above other programs.

To me it looks they implemented some neat features from Aperture, you can play with the cool sliders to set everything right, all from within one panel.
It is not only cool, it is even very handy.
Click done and then export.
Fabulous. Really.
Nver fixed my pics so fast.
And they are raw (ok ok this probably also has to do with the fact this new MacBookPro is so much faster than my former pBook.)

I get to try Aperture in the near future. Which will probably be exactly what I need, adding those extra functionalities I want/need.
More on that later...

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