Apple releases iPhoto 5.0.4 update

Apple releases iPhoto 5.0.4 update

iPhoto is a software application made by Apple Computer exclusively for their Mac OS X operating system. It is part of the iLife suite of applications and comes bundled with every new Macintosh computer. iPhoto can import, organize, edit, print, and share digital photos. It is often compared to Google’s Picasa and Adobe’s Photoshop Album.

iPhoto allows easy importing from digital cameras, scanners, picture CDs and the Internet. Almost all digital cameras work without additional software, as do many scanners. iPhoto supports most common image file formats. Once photos are imported, they can be optionally titled, labeled, sorted, and organized in to groups (known as “albums”).

Individual photos can be edited with basic image manipulation tools, such as a red-eye filter, contrast and brightness adjustments, crop and resize and other basic functions. iPhoto does not, however, provide the comprehensive editing functionality of programs such as GIMP or Adobe’s Photoshop (not to be confused with Photoshop Elements or Album).

Numerous options then exist to share photos. Photo albums can be made in to dynamic slideshows, and optionally set to music imported from iTunes. These slideshows can be exported to QuickTime movie files, further edited in iMovie or burned directly to DVD-video discs using iDVD. Both slideshows and static photos can shared to other Macs on a local network by using Bonjour “zero configuration” technology.

Apple computers just updated this utility to release the latest iPhoto 5.0.4 update. This release addresses an issue with browsing photos that have been auto-rotated by a camera. iPhoto 5.0.4 is available through Software Update, or as a 39.2 MB standalone download.