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26 Dec 2007
iPhoto Events
The latest version of iPhoto (version 7.1.1) has a new organising principle for images: events. It took me a while to get my head around it, but I think I got it now. I like it, however I do not like the implementation.
So far, not much news. The innovation comes with a new view on the entire library: view on event basis (see image). This shows the library with a single image per event. This reduces the amount of pictures one has to scroll through from tens of thousands to a few hundred. And by moving the cursor over an image one can see its content scrolling by, thus creating a good impression of what is in it.A big advantage is the the amount of management a user has to do, is much smaller. In the Event View one can drag an event thumbnail and drop it on another one, thus merging the two events. Clicking on the event title allows one to change it. Thus one organises tens to hundreds of images in one go.
A drawback is that changing the contents of an event also changes the folder structure. I do not know why did not leave the folder structure (based on date) alone. Might be for speed. And what is one supposed to do with the miscellaneous images? Create a special event for these?
In any case events greatly reduce the amount of organisational burden for the user. And that is a great advantage in this time of exponential digital asset growth.