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iLife 05 and iPhoto 5 Update PDF

As offered at Jim Heid's macilife.com, a free PDF describing the new features:

"At today's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveiled iLife '05, a new version of Apple's personal digital media studio. Available on January 21 for $79 (and, as always, bundled with new Macs), iLife '05 includes new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand. Each program is refined and enhanced, and all four programs -- along with iTunes -- work together better than ever."

"To whet your appetite, I've written a 16-page "first look" containing excerpts from the next edition of my book. Go here to recieve your free copy."

"The preview contains full details on iLife '05's greatest hits: iPhoto's spectacular new books, enhanced editing, and broader media support; iMovie HD's high-definition and widescreen enhancements; iDVD's beautiful new design themes and enhanced authoring features; and GarageBand's multitrack recording capability, improved loop features, and new sonic options."

New Apple iPhoto 5 will support RAW format

Make mine RAW....

Today, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced an updated version of Apple's photo editor, iPhoto 5.  Included in this version is the capability to support RAW format images.

"Whereas JPEG always compresses images, a growing number of digital cameras capture photos in RAW format to preserve maximum image quality. Professional photographers, eager to work with as much digital information as possible, have taken to RAW photos with unbridled enthusiasm. If you’re among them, iPhoto 5 lets you import the larger RAW images as quickly and easily as it does other images." (from Apple's  website)

Find more information here about this exiting enhancement...

iPhoto/RAW format Camera Compatibility chart
Here is a list of Canon cameras that can shoot in RAW format and whose files will be supported in iPhoto 5:

    * EOS-1D MARK II
    * 1DS
    * EOS 20D
    * EOS 10D
    * EOS D60
    * EOS Digital Rebel
    * PowerShot Pro 1
    * PowerShot G5
    * PowerShot G6

A little more about iPhoto and RAW format images from author Jim Heid

...."More and more cameras can shoot in raw mode, saving the exact information captured by the camera’s light sensor. Switch your camera into raw mode, and you enter a new world of image enhancement possibilities. Instead of having to live with the alterations made by the camera’s internal software, you get the original, unprocessed, uncompressed image data—the raw data captured by the camera’s sensor. Transfer this raw image to the Mac, and you can use iPhoto to obtain a degree of image quality that you can’t get when shooting in JPEG."

....."Best of all, working with raw files is almost identical to working with JPEG images. Some subtleties surround the use of raw images in iPhoto 5 and iLife ’05, but generally, iPhoto manages the technical complexities of the raw format for you.".....

"(And every one of those subtleties is covered in The Macintosh iLife ’05 book and its companion instructional DVD.) How do you get raw images into iMovie HD or iDVD? Easy: when you import a raw image, iPhoto also creates a JPEG version that’s ready to use in your DVDs and movies."

To learn more from Jim Heid in regards to using RAW format with the latest version of Apple's personal digital media studio, go here.