First Look: iLife ‘09 Goes Faces, Music, Places.
Apple’s iLife ‘09 is on the streets and jam packed with delicious annual improvements and eye candy. Literally.
How does Apple manage to add features to iLife’s suite of apps without adding the extra weight and burden associated with feature creep? Focus, Grasshopper. It’s all about focus. Literally, in the case of iPhoto’s new face recognition technology.
Apple’s focus on delivering enough tasty newness with each iLife update is to be commended. But scratch the.... (excerpted).
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chandra said:
I found that iPhoto’s face recognition doesn’t work too well on pets and ugly people. If your faces are recognized then you’re probably attractive. If iPhoto can’t recognize some faces, it’s probably because the faces are ugly. Or pets. Or both.
What amazes me is how so many people don’t follow the instructions and expect recognition to work anyway. You have to train Faces, folks.
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John Wilson said:
My experience with “Faces” in iPhoto ‘09 has been much less satisfactory than this. To be blunt, iPhoto recognizes individual faces almost never on my Mac, despite the fact that my set-up is pretty powerful (MacPro Quad Dual 3GHz; 8GB Ram; latest OS - 10.5.6). I have manually identified some individuals in my photos 30 - 40 times but there is still no improvement in auto-recognition. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?