Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2005

Yesterday I upgraded to iLife 05, mainly because I wanted to stay
current on iPhoto. To my chagrin, while the program functions, and has
some useful new features -- especially a much improved tool for removing
red eye, about which more later -- it's so slow it's almost unusable. My
machine is a 500MHz iMac DV, with 512M of RAM, running 10.3.7. Most
programs take a long time to launch but work fine once they're running.

When I say "so slow it's almost unusable," I mean I can count seconds
off between the time I click, hold, and drag the mouse and the time the
selection box appears. Same with any other operation. Virtually every
action results in a spinning beach ball.

Another thing: the red eye removal is slick as a brick: you enlarge the
photo, select the tool, click in the center of the pupil, and poof.
Unfortunately, though, it doesn't get saved when I close the edit window
for the photo. Other changes, like contrast or brightness or cropping,
remain; but the changes wrought by red eye removal disappear.

I never had problems like this with ANY of the previous versions of
iPhoto.