The Photo Book section is slightly more interesting as it lets you design, tweak and order a photo book to deliver to your door. Left using the Repair brush, lightened the trouser colour using the Lighten brush and In this photo we’ve cropped, cloned out the plastic tub on the Online web albums and slideshows feel like a rather anachronistic way to share photos in the age of Facebook, Twitter and Flickr (hell, the latter one feels a bit old hat), so it’s hard to feel excited about these features. It’s a needles pain point for novice users.Įlsewhere, the Projects section is something of an oddity.
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It ought to be clearer that all changes can be reverted in full and edited photos can be saved as separate photos, but you’re left to work this out for yourself. iPhoto is still infuriatingly unclear about how changes are saved and stored, too. Instead the option is tucked away inside another drop down, which is less intuitive and disconcerting for novice users. For example, while the iPad version of iPhoto has a dedicated ‘Undo/Redo’ button, the iPhone one does not. There’s still room for improvement, however. SEE ALSO: iPad mini 2 vs Google Nexus 7 2
The number of effects is comprehensive, while the ‘Brushes’ option makes it easy to clone out blemishes and adjust specific parts of the photo without affecting the rest of the shot. The crop tool is particularly good as it makes it easy to adjust poorly lined up landscape shots, or create ‘jaunty’ angles just by tweaking the dial. Once you’re up to speed you can produce some excellent results. Naturally it’s optimised for the iPhone 5S and its 64-bit processor, and there’s no doubt it’s blisteringly fast. It took us around 30 minutes of experimentation to feel comfortable with all the controls, with liberal use of the help toggle that overlays directions and labels on-screen helping. The tools are, for the most part, easy to use and offer a great range of tweaks. Gone, also, are the dreadfully fussy ‘real life’ animations, which were clunky, ugly and slow. This makes it so much easier to identify them at a glance, rather than having to decipher them based on the icon. Vitally, and this is a small but also huge improvement on iPhoto 1.0, each tool is actually labelled rather than being nameless icons. The basic tools haven’t changed much, comprising Crop, Exposure, Colour (it’s even spelled correctly) Brushes and Effects. You have to hit the tools button, however, to get to the real editing tools. By default there’s a ‘filmstrip’ of your other photos along the bottom so you can switch quickly, and basic options like auto enhance and tags. Tap on any photo and you’re transported to the editing screen. The third section, Projects, is where you go to create Web Albums, shareable Slideshows and Photo Books – we’ll return to these a bit later. Photos and Albums are straightforward enough, with the Albums section including an album for images edited in iPhoto. This starts with the opening screen, which splits things into three categories: Photos, Albums and Projects. It looks and feels fresh, modern and uncluttered. The iOS 7 style is in strong effect here and, visually at least, it’s a vast improvement on the iPhoto of old. But has Apple mended the mistakes of the Forstall-era?
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It’s a free download for any new iPad or iPhone, so it’s a risk-free acquisition. The old iPhoto app was dreadful: ugly, over elaborate and downright confusing. It’s seen a big redesign and retune for iOS 7, and damn was it needed. IPhoto is Apple’s step up from the standard Photos app, a photo editing app that adds a lot more options to add effects, tweak photos and create slideshows and photo books.
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