Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Great idea - Facebook-like tagging in iPhoto


Not much to do with minimalism, more of just a good idea, but as a University student and recovering Facebook addict (I had a friend change my password so I couldn't even access my account), I think iPhoto should have a feature like photo-tagging on facebook. It make great use out of the search bar at the bottom right of iPhoto, as I wouldn't be surprised if I wasn't the only one not using it. So heres my idea,

1. When are browsing photos in iPhoto, there will be an option next to Play that says Tag
2. You click on tag, and click on someone's face in a photo
3. A textbox appears. As you started typing the person's name, names from your address book would show themselves, itunes & spotlight search style, and you could choose a name from this address book list, or type a name that isn't in the address book. If a new name is typed, it is added to the list of names that appear when typing a future tag, possibly with an option to add that name to Address book.

Now here's the cool part

4. When you go through address book, there would be a photo album of each person from all photos that they were tagged in, and automatic iphoto photo albums of the same person or of two or more people people (you and the kids, you and the wife, etc)

From there, Apple could even go on to set up options to send emails of pictures based on these tags, to the point where you could email someone every picture of you and the kids from the last week.

At times like these, I wish I knew how to use Photoshop so I could create a visual example of my idea. Or even better I wish I worked for Apple.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree, I think a tagging feature would be a great next natural step for iPhoto.

I use the comments field in the meantime. I "simply" hit SHIFT-APPLE-B and then type ", Firstname Lastname" into the comments field, and select "append to existing comment".

A bit of a hack, and I feel a bit silly using full-names of family members, but it then does allow you to use the search box to find people.

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Anonymous said...

I really wish Apple would add this ability. I don't care about having most of my pictures up on Facebook, but I put them up so that I can tag them.