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iPhoto

iPhoto is a software application made by Apple Inc. for the Mac OS X operating system and iLife software suite. iPhoto is designed to help manage the digital photos of the user. iPhoto does not run in Mac OS 9, however.

iPhoto aims to replace the photo shoebox, allowing users to organise, view and share their digital photos with friends and family at home and over the web. Photos can be organised into "albums" by the user, for easy referencing. The program has some basic editing capabilities including red eye reduction, brightness and contrast adjustments, cropping, resizing, and conversion to black and white, among others. It will also present an "album" of pictures as a slideshow, adding selected music and transitional effects.

iPhoto provides the following services:

Professional prints of photos by Kodak
Hardcover books; 29.95 USD for ten pages
Integration with .Mac: web publishing

The services are available in the United States, Japan, and a few European countries.

iPhoto 4.0 has the following capabilities:

Support for up to 25,000 photos
Rendezvous photo sharing; allows Macintosh users to view photos on other computers on their LAN with no set up
Photo rating by stars
Smart Albums; similar to iTunes smart playlists, creates an album based on criteria such as date taken, rating, etc.
Supports most digital cameras with no drivers required
Editing capabilities (listed above)
Slideshows; music from iTunes can be played in slideshows; four transitions including the famous "cube" transition
Screensaver maker for .Mac members; can be published to iDisk for other Mac OS X users to set as screensaver
Back up photo libraries to CD or DVD