Bacon Lettuce Photo

by Damian

Using the Command Key #2 from iLovePhotos on Vimeo.

How to use the command key to share photos faster at iLovePhotos

by Damian

Usting the Command Key from iLovePhotos on Vimeo.

by Damian

The team here has been working hard the past few weeks to bring you a better iLovePhotos. We’re so grateful for all of the feedback that you’ve provided via our forum, the support tickets and crash reports you’ve submitted, and feedback we’ve received at feedback@ilovephotos.com. We’re dedicated to improving your photo experience, and nothing helps us do that more than hearing from you.

The greatest improvement you’ll discover in our latest release is increased stability during sharing. We spent quite a bit of time analyzing the various problems users like you have discovered with sharing, and we’re sure that these improvements will give you a much better experience sharing photos with your friends and family.

Here is a quick run-down of the new features and improvements in this release:

• Numerous performance improvements including faster iPhoto syncing and auto-saving
• The type-to-tag tagging user interface has been redesigned — start typing a person’s name while a face is selected, and hit enter to tag them
• A progress bar when exporting a slideshow movie has been added, so you know what iLovePhotos is doing and when it’s finished
• A guided walk-through of core features for first-time users

What you can look forward to in the near future:

• Face recognition! We’re working around the clock to bring you facial recognition to truly make tagging your friends and family a snap
• You’ll soon have the ability to export and share your photos on 3rd party services such as Facebook and Flickr

Support and feedback:

• You can greatly influence future features and help us make iLovePhotos better! Just fill out this short survey
• There is a growing community of photo lovers on the iLovePhotos forum
• Open a support ticket to get help from one of our staff members
• Follow us on Twitter
• Check out Bacon Lettuce Photo - The iLovePhotos Blog

Mahalo for your support! We look forward to helping you fall in love with your photos again.

–The iLovePhotos Team

iLovePhotos is Mac software created by Blue Lava Technologies, a Hawaii-based venture developing technology to fundamentally change the way you interact with digital photos.

The Photo Lovers

We are passionate Photo Lovers.  We take photos.  We take too many photos.  We have way too many photos and no time to organize them, much less enjoy them.

It didn’t take us long to figure out that we were not the only ones, so we decided to do something about it. Our initial frustration has turned into a deep passion to bring digital photos out of the shoebox and back into people’s lives.

Instead of spending hours organizing your photos, with iLovePhotos you’ll spend hours enjoying them. We’re dedicated to improving your photo experience with what is most important to you.

We’re the Photo Lovers, nice to meet you!

by Damian

Our iLovePhotos Twitter account (@ilovephotos) allows us to meet awesome people who are interested in photography both at a professional and amateur level.  A couple of weeks ago, I met this really cool guy from Coimbra, Portugal called Felix (@F3lixP) who shoots amazing photos and loves everything about lomography.

Today he created this cool tryptich that gives out a powerful message:

You can see more of his photos here.

by Damian

My sister, Denisse, recently took a trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina and she had a great time.  I was not able to join my family during these December holidays and I was pretty bummed out about it.  However, my sister had an idea to cheer me up.  Earlier on October 2008 I mailed my family a couple of iLovePhotos T-shirts, so she thought “how about I take some of them to Argentina, wear them around the different places I visit, take some photos, and then share these photos with my brother using iLovePhotos?”

Here are some of the photo she shared with me:

The streets of Buenos Aires are filled with music. You can find it in the streets...

...at restaurants...

...outside of football stadiums..

...and even on the walls!

You cannot hide from it.

So you just have to dance!

Hope you liked this set of photos from my sister’s trip to Buenos Aires.  If you would like to see more pictures from contemporary Argentina try this photoblog: Filling the Frame.

by Damian

Hello Photo Lovers,

After months of hard work fixing bugs and cleaning up code, we are releasing an important update today! We have fixed a few bugs that were reported by our users (that’s you!) and made a couple improvements.  We’ve improved the stability tenfold thanks to those who have submitted their crash reports to us. We really hope that the improvements will give everyone a better overall experience.

Here is a more detailed list of our new features and improvements, so please enjoy!

• Progress bar while exporting a slideshow movie.
• Performance gains while syncing with iPhoto.
• Performance gains while auto-saving.
• Fixes for library saving and dequeuing face detection.
• Getting started overlay the first time you launch ILP.
• New log-in screen in the iLovePhotos.com preferences.
• Fade transitions for entering and existing fullscreen and slideshow views.
• You can now import photos by dragging them from a finder window to iLovePhotos.
• After importing new photos into iPhoto, iLovePhotos will automatically import them.
• Export all of your tags to iPhoto.

What you can look forward to:

• Face recognition.
• Ability to export/share your photos on 3rd party sharing services such as Facebook & Flickr.
• Bug fixes.
• Usability improvements.
• Performance improvements.
• That missing feature you’ve always wanted.

Support and feedback:

• You can greatly influence future features and help us make iLovePhotos better! Just fill out this short survey.
• There is a growing community of photo lovers on the iLovePhotos forum.
• Open a support ticket to get help from one of our staff members.

Again, mahalo for your support and we look forward to helping you fall in love with your photos.