iPhoto Plugins News

iPhoto Integration With MyPublisher

One of the neatest features in iPhoto is the book publishing feature. For the past few years, our family has done annual "recaps" of the year and made copies available to any family member that wants one.

For some, the book publishing feature in iPhoto my be a bit too narrow of a selection in book size and the templates or themes that Apple offers.

Their Mac application called "MyPublisher" resides in your Applications folder. Once it's opened, it will walk you through the process of assembling and creating a book. The integration of iPhoto into the application is key to making this work (see screen shot). YOu can pick and choose the photos you want to use directly from the library, or create an album of the images you want to use for your book and then select them from that album. By creating the album, you can arrange them in the order you want ahead of time and then place them in sequence while assembling the pages.

You can download the MyPublisher.app application for free from MyPublisher.com

Placetagger in iPhone Syncs With iPhoto

Mel Martin of the Unofficial Apple Weblog has a nice article on an iPhone application that tags the location a photo was taken on your iPhone, then syncs the data to your iPhoto Library
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Manage Many Libraries in iPhoto 09

iPhoto Library Manger is avery useful application that allows you to conveniently organize and edit your digital photos in multiple iPhoto libraries. iPhoto Library Manager adds an additional level of control over your iPhoto collection by allowing you to keep your photos in multiple libraries and transfer them back and forth without losing your keywords, ratings, and all the other information you’ve worked to assign to your photos. Libraries can be split into smaller ones, or smaller libraries can be merged together into one large library. You can keep your photos on an external drive or another computer on your network, share them with other users on your machine, sync them all with your iPod, and use iPhoto Library Manager to keep track of it all. Check it our at Fatcat Software

GPS for iPhoto (Geotagging)

If you have a handheld GPS receiver, Geotagalog from Calf Trail Software will let you take full advantage of the Places feature in iPhoto '09 with any digital camera supported by OS X. Geotagalog uses our advanced geotagging technology to combine a tracklog file with the pictures on your camera, in a straightforward and intuitive workflow. The program features: Features:

• Geocoding and import into iPhoto with easy workflow
• Direct import from connected cameras and card readers
• Import from file folders also supported
• Live photo location preview, with mouseover thumbnails
• Lossless geotagging of JPEGs and many popular RAW formats
• Sophisticated, yet easy to use, geotagging algorithms
• Supports standard GPX files
• Supports NMEA 0183 logs
• Supports Garmin Training Center (.tcx) format
• Lots more!

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iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual

O'Reilly has just released iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual by David Pouge and J.D. Biersdorfer. LINK

myPhoto updated for iPhoto '09

myPhoto is a program that generates a photo album on your web site for you with your iPhoto images. How does it do it? Mac OS X comes with a web server pre-installed (called Apache) and myPhoto both configures and activates this server and generates a full featured PHP-based web site. This 'built-in" web site is always up-to-date and features all of the meaningful data from iPhoto you'd want on your web site--your albums, captions, a search engine, etc. It runs off of your Mac at home (iMac, G4, G5, Mini--whatever!) using your existing Internet connection and is online when you are. If you're worried that you don't have a web site yet, it's ok--install myPhoto and you will. All you have to do is plug in your digital camera, import your photos as you normally would into iPhoto, and your photos are on your web page! And what did you have to do to put them there? Simply install myPhoto. A one time thing. It's that easy. If you want to see a "live" site click here. The program developer, Michael Mulligan, has his site available for view.

Create an 'unnamed faces' Smart Album in iPhoto '09

Tip for cleaning up those un-named faces in iPhoto 09 at Mac OXS Hints

Enhance Images with iPhoto Batch Enhancer

iPhoto Batch Enhancer is designed to make your life with iPhoto even more comfortable. It helps you apply the built in iPhoto effects (enhance, black-white, sepia and more) with a few mouse clicks to a batch of photos. Additionally you can perform changes to the Adjust palette as well as scale or rotate your photos. LINK

iPhoto to JAlbum Exporter

For those who use the gallery creation application JAlbum, Developer Felix Fischer has created an export application for iPhoto that allows you to export one or more albums from iPhoto in a way that they can easily be processed by JAlbum. The software maintains all the necessary data and preserves the album hierarchy of iPhoto, preserves the album and image order of iPhoto, exports captions, comments and iPhoto ratings as well. See more and try out the application at LINK

Share Your iPhoto Library Over The Web

Globs.org has developed Web iPhoto Access, which allows you to share your iPhoto Libraries over the internet. As soon as you have uploaded pictures or movies from your camera to your library, you want these pictures to be available to your friends, family or whoever. WiPhA provides a powerful, beautiful and easy to use web interface to your libraries as well as automatic photocast of all your albums. Moreover, people can easily download a bunch of pictures and import them in their own iPhoto library with your captions and comments (for your lucky friends also using Mac). Link to website

NOTE: I tried to set this up on my Mac Pro, and seriously it was a hassle. I have to change this, and modify that, on and on. I deleted the entire file, which was placed in my user account's website folder. Not for the average user. I'd rather spend the $99 and upload images to MobileMe to share.