JASON C.  i don't understand how can people use this software. in my home i have several macs, and a central file server that holds all the family photos, this enables us all to share them over the network. iphoto does not allow you to do that. i cant believe that apple did not handle this as part of the capsule or something...  
(Version 8.1.1)

PIK80  iPhoto has a long ways to go before becoming a great organizer. Events seemed like a great idea when they were released in iPhoto 08 but the trouble with them is that you can't put events inside of other events. The reason this is such a problem is that after you load so many thousands of photographs there becomes to many events and it becomes cumbersome to sludge through them all.

Their solution to this problem in 08 was the add the ability to merge events together. When this happens everything becomes one large event, it doesn't maintain the groups of the events you merge together. I guess I can forgive them not totally thinking this feature though in iPhoto 08 but nearly a year and a half later they should have got this right by now. Adding events inside of events is a lot more important than even features like faces and places.

Doing a search is also limiting from the search box. You can't set multiple search criteria at a time like in the Finder or Adobe Bridge. In other words I can't say show me the files with these keywords that were taken during this time period and have this rating. I can only do one at a time. Yes I can do this with a smart folder but I would like to have option not to since I don't always want to come back to the search later.

Posting to Facebook and Flickr only gives you access to some of the features on those sites. You can't enter in all the information about the pictures from directly with in iPhoto (captions for photos, who can see the pictures, what should be the key photograph for an album etc.) Also iPhoto doesn't pull the previous albums you created back in to iPhoto so you can only view some of your albums not all of them.

If you ever have to move your information to a new hard drive down the road all the work you did to put together slide shows won't come across with the rest of the photos. I found this out the hard way as a spent a lot of time setting up manual Ken Burns effects so that they would pan from one particular area of a photograph to another. Now the only way a can access them is to boot back and forth between my old hard drive. It is a good thing I happen to have two drives in my machine or I would have to recreate them. I imagine this is what you would have to do if you had a laptop.

The recent area on the sidebar only shows the last event you look at. This is ok but I would like to see a history of the last several events I viewed. The last 12 months area doesn't organize those photos by events so you just gets this massive number of photos which isn't very convenient.

Keep in mind that these features I am talking about are not even pro features they are all basic features that should be available for everyone.   
(Version 8.1.1)

ISCREAM  Photo syncing with iPhone no longer works...  
(Version 8.1.1)

THEOPH  After updating to iPhoto 8.1, I can no longer sync my iPhone and Apple TV through iTunes. One must deselect Photo syncing in ITunes to resume the syncing function. Of course you don't sync your Photos anymore.   
(Version 8.1)

SAVO33BRAVO THE LIAR  AWESOME !!! LOVE IT !!! FANTASTIC ADDITION TO APERTURE .... ++++  
(Version 8.1)

STEVE R  I updated to the latest 8.0.3 today, midway through working on a slideshow project. Prior to updating I had successfully exported several versions of my project using the same non-DRM-protected mp3 file. After updating, my slideshow has no exported sound. None. I tried AAC, still no sound. Restarted the computer, no sound. Even tried the built in themes, no sound on the exported file. Deleted the ~.plist, restarted the computer, iPhoto opens like new (all libraries intact) but once again, no sound on the exported slideshow.

Frustrating. Tomorrow I pull out my disks and reinstall software, not letting iPhoto update to see if there is any joy in mudville.

iMac 24" 2.8GHz/4GB RAM

10.5.7  
(Version 8.0.3)

EGINZBURG  NO METRIC SIZES WHEN PRINTING PHOTOS! IPHOTO IS NOT COMPLIANT WITH EU MARKET AND NOT SUITABLE FOR EUROPEAN CUSTOMERS AT ALL!!!

I tried using custom sizes but there is a bug that causes improper orientation of photos.

I think EU should come up with regulation that all software is compatible with metric system before any product is allowed to the market.  
(Version 8.0.3)

ANDY HEWITT  As much as I've always liked iPhoto, and have used it for may generations now, the '09 version isn't working well for me.

For the cost of iLife, it's undoubtedly a very good value media manager, and is still far better than either Picasa or Expressions. It's also worth remembering that this is a 'consumer' level application, not a Pro app, so in the right context it is one of the best image managers there is. (I also think it's unfair to knock down iPhoto for poor Raw format support - this is part of the OS, and affects anything that uses Apple Raw support, including Aperture).

However, there are some niggles for me. My biggest is very poor editing performance with Raw images. I use Olympus E510 pics, at about 10MB each, and editing them in iPhoto is actually pretty painful. If I do some quick adjustments, and move to the next image, iPhoto will eventually pause, sometimes for as much as two minutes. I can alleviate this by watching my iStat menu for processor usage, and waiting until it drops before moving on - this still takes a good 20 seconds per image though.

Fortunately I'm not a Pro, so it isn't critical.

As others have mentioned, the 'Faces' feature isn't quite there yet, and it seems to work less well as more faces are added. I'd like a function to disable the features altogether.  
(Version 8.0.3)

ODYSSEUS  Beware of the update to iPhoto 8.0.3. After launch, it deleted all of my MobileMe photo galleries!  
(Version 8.0.3)

JBSSM  Although I cannot abide to praise the ease of use of iPhoto, the truth is that Apple doesn't seem to care for some clients at all.

This software is out for almost 6 months, and so is the Panasonic Lumix 3 camera which is a fairly popular camera, still, after all this time and after 2 updates, still no support for RAW mode in this camera.

I mean, is it that difficult to add a library to the program that is already made and that gives the desired functionality?

Adobe did it in a bit more than 1 month in their software ... Apple is making us wait for more than 6 months.

Also, as interesting and innovative as the face recognition may seem, the truth is that is practically always wrong. All the faces need manual checking and tagging.  
(Version 8.0.2)