Now iPhoto automatically organizes your library by Events.

iPhoto. Your photos, like you've never seen them before.

Your Web Gallery visitors get an interactive experience, viewing your photos as they wish.

A whole palette of retouching tools and an array of effects to play with.

New in iPhoto '08.
Don't be daunted by all those digital photos you've been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse--so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.

Organize by Events.
You don't remember photos by time and date. You remember them by events, like "Karen's graduation" or "Nathan's first bike ride." And that's exactly how iPhoto '08 organizes your entire photo library. So it's more fun to browse, and much easier to find a specific photo.

MobileMe Web Gallery.
In iPhoto '08, it's easy to share photos with friends and family. With a couple of clicks, you can send an Event or photo album to your personal MobileMe Web Gallery, where visitors can enjoy your photos, download high-quality images, or even contribute photos of their own from a Mac or PC.

Powerful editing tools.
Your photographic talents are legendary. But even the pros take photos that need a little work. With iPhoto, improving photos is almost as easy as snapping them. You have a whole palette of retouching tools and an array of effects to play with. And all of your edits are nondestructive--so you can always go back to the "negative" if need be.

Unified search.
How do you find that one special photo when your library has thousands of photos? In iPhoto '08, the answer is: with ease. You have a number of ways to search your library and they're all in one place. Search by name, keyword, rating, or date and see your results in an instant--neatly organized by Event.

Theme-based home printing.
Print beautiful, frame-worthy photos based on Apple themes, directly from your home printer. Make them perfect--change layouts, add effects and borders, enhance photos--and just hit "print."

New calendars and books in iPhoto '08
Stunningly beautiful hardcover photo books. Bigger calendars. iPhoto raises the standard again with eye-opening new ways to enjoy and share your photos.

The most personal gifts and keepsakes are the ones you create with your own photos. Now iPhoto gives you even more ways to dazzle friends, family, and yourself with professionally printed memorabilia--from a new hardcover photo book complete with dust jacket and foil-printed cover to a larger 10.4-by-13-inch calendar.

Completely redesigned to help you make movies in minutes.

iMovie. Now showing: Your entire video library.

With iMovie, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop.

Have iMovie send your movie to iTunes and you can sync it with your iPod or iPhone.

New in iMovie '08.
iMovie '08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you've captured and movies you've created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies. And iMovie is built for sharing. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.

New video library.
iMovie makes it easy to view, explore, and enjoy your video. All of your video clips and movies are automatically organized in the iMovie library, where you can browse by Events or use simple search tools to find specific videos.

Skimming and playing.
With a central library organized by Events, you can quickly locate the Event you're looking for and browse the clips inside each Event. View in real time or quickly skim through a clip to find a favorite scene.

Superfast moviemaking.
Everyone's a director. Really. With iMovie, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop. Drag your best video clips to the project area. Drop in Apple-designed transitions, effects, titles, and your favorite iTunes soundtrack. Then schedule your opening night.

Quick ways to add polish.
iMovie is designed to make everything simple--including the professional touches that help your movie stand out even more.

View and share anywhere.
One of the great things about digital video is that it can be shared with friends, family, and the world. And iMovie lets you share in many different ways. Every online sharing option lets you "tell a friend" about your newest creation with an email announcement, complete with a link to the web page where your video can be viewed.

Make music, audition instruments, even create your own virtual band.

GarageBand. Take the stage.

With your arrangement set, you can quickly rethink the structure of your song.

GarageBand gives you a range of powerful-yet-intuitive tools to help you get the mix you want or experiment with your sound.

Assign the instruments and styles to your musicians. Then let Magic GarageBand generate a new project file based on your choices. view larger

New in GarageBand '08.
GarageBand '08 and a little inspiration are all you need to make incredible music, even if you've never played a note. The new Magic GarageBand turns your desktop into a virtual stage, where you can choose the band and instruments they play to easily create amazing songs. Then plug in and jam along. You can even add a singer to your song with the new Jam Pack: Voices. And accomplished musicians will appreciate other new features like multi-take recording and 24-bit quality.

Magic GarageBand.
Get the creative juices flowing. Bring the band together and let Magic GarageBand generate a new song. Create a virtual jam session or use the song project as a starting point to create your next hit.

Arrangements.
Most songs are arranged in distinct sections: introduction, verse and chorus. GarageBand brings this kind of structure to your song. With the different sections clearly defined, you can rearrange your song at any time.

Multi-take recording.

• Define a region.
  Mark off the section of the song where you want to add your part. GarageBand repeats that section as you play, so you can lay down as many takes as you like.
• Save every take.
  Every take you perform is recorded and saved. GarageBand displays that part of your song as a multi-take region.
• Pick your favorite take.
  After you've recorded all of your takes, GarageBand makes it easy to pick the best one. As you play back your multi-take region, you can switch between takes in real time. Simply select your favorite and move on.
• Change your mind, change your take.
  Even after you've picked a take, GarageBand saves them all. That way, if you're so inclined, you can select another take days or weeks later.

Visual EQ.
You don't need to be an expert to tweak the sound of your mix in GarageBand. Using the built-in Visual EQ, you can adjust a track's equalization simply by dragging the EQ bands until you get the sound you want.

Automation of tempo effects and instruments.
Record producers use dynamically changing effects to keep a song sounding fresh and exciting from start to finish. GarageBand makes it easy to do the same by automating effect changes within a composition--so you don't have to settle for one constant setting throughout.

Create websites that are more custom, more complete, more you.

iWeb. Your life: Now playing on the web.

New in iWeb '08.
iWeb makes it easy to create a website that's stunningly beautiful--and totally you. Start with an Apple-designed theme, then customize it with your own text, photos, movies, and podcasts until it's exactly what you want. And switch themes with a click anytime.

Web widgets.
With iWeb, it's easy to add live content from other websites--like videos, stock tickers, and news headlines--directly into your web pages. So you can create pages that are informative, interesting, or just plain fun.

iWeb makes it easy to incorporate some of Google's most useful features.

Google Maps and Google AdSense
iWeb makes it easy to incorporate some of Google's most useful features. With just a few clicks, you can add a fully interactive Google Map to your site. Or you can place Google AdSense ads on your pages and get Google credits every time a visitor clicks.

My Album pages.
It's so easy to create new photo and movie pages using iWeb that you'll probably create quite a few. But don't worry about your site's navigation growing too cluttered as a result. My Albums will keep things perfectly organized and easy to find.

Enhanced photo pages.
Dream big when you think about making photo pages with iWeb. With a click, you can turn iPhoto albums and Events with hundreds of images into beautifully designed, customizable photo pages.

Theme switching.
Apple-designed themes in iWeb make it easy to create a stunning website, page after page. It's also a snap to refresh your website at any time by switching themes. All it takes is a click.

Create Hollywood-style DVDs featuring your movies and slideshows.

iDVD. Hollywood-style DVDs made easy.

New button library, drop zone editor, and dynamic alignment guides provide total control.

Apple-designed themes with animated menus give you more choices in 16:9 and 4:3 formats.

New in iDVD '08.
Let your admiring audience enjoy those movies and slideshows in their living rooms. Quickly create a Hollywood-style disc with iDVD, using Apple-designed animated themes to give your DVD a gorgeous style from main screen to chapter selection. Ten new themes and snappier performance make iDVD more fun than ever.

Better performance.
iDVD is more responsive, so the creative process is faster and more fun. Rapidly switch among themes as you try out different looks for your menus. Quickly navigate between menus. Preview your completed project with smoother real-time playback.

Ten new animated themes.
iDVD lets you choose from more than 150 Apple-designed animated themes, including ten new theme families with coordinated designs for every screen in your DVD. Simply choose a theme, then drag your videos and photos into the drop zones to make them 100% yours.

Advanced menu customization.
Make every DVD uniquely yours. iDVD '08 gives you a range of options for customizing your menu screens. You can edit drop zones, choose from an expanded button library, and use built-in alignment guides to make your layout perfect.

Pro-quality encoding.
See movies and slideshows in superb quality. The new professional-quality option in iDVD uses advanced encoding technology to maintain the highest possible quality for DVDs that are near or at the disc's capacity.

Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.0

Rating - 5 Date: 2009-01-08
Content: I am new to the Mac World. iLife has been revolutionary in my computing experience. Specifically, I am now able to actually use and enjoy the hundreds of photos and movies I have on my computer. Once again, Apple has developed something that works the way REAL people do, rather than the way developers THINK people work (ahem, Windows-based photo programs).
Summary: Brilliant

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-12-28
Content: Good program for the price. My mac was disappointing until I bought this and iwork, Now I like my mac. If your a first time mac user it will suck until you figure out to hold down 2 fingers and click. Its like a right click on your PC.
Summary: Great value for the money.

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-12-02
Content: iLife is a terrific suite of products - iWeb is especially simple to use and creates a surprisingly elegant websites quickly and without requiring any particular experience in web design. The new templates are well considered, and offer sufficient variety. IPhoto is an extremely good way to organize your graphic images - if you already have everything stored and organized, you can import the image to iPhoto without actually copying it from your hard drive location, thus saving you memory, and enabling you to utilize the organizational power of iPhoto. Because iTunes is constantly updating, you may find, as I did, that this suite has a conflict with iTunes. I had to reinstall iTunes from the web. This was quick and did not disrupt my library in any way. It was, however, a surprise - so, now you know.
Summary: iLife '08 Review of iWeb, iPhoto, and the iTunes conflict

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-10-10
Content: Yeah, iMovie '06 provides features not found in iMovie '08 but Apple rethought the concept so there are benefits to both (and you can download iMovie '06 free anyways).

Like iWork, this is a great package for almost everyone. Professionals are going to go with the pro tools but where else can you get a family bundle for this price? iPhoto alone will make the purchase worth it for most people who use a digital camera (and, who doesn't?). I've never even used iWeb and I consider this a deal.

Summary: Another great companion to leopard and iWork

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-08-31
Content: I have to admit, I don't use iDVD or Garageband much yet, but I use iPhoto quite a bit. I have almost 20,000 photos to manage, and iPhoto does a good job. I hope to use Garageband at some point after I get a new music keyboard, although that isn't necessary.

I am disappointed with iMovie, though. They really dumbed-down its capabilities. For many people, it may be easier, if all you want to do is some minor processing and move your recorded video onto a DVD. However, they removed a lot of tools for actually creating a video presentation. To get a lot of what iMovie used to have, you either have to get the old version (can you still downgrade for free? not sure), or purchase the $300 Final Cut Express (which, of course, gives you a lot more than even old iMovie had).

Worth the $80, but there are things I would like to see Apple improve in iPhoto, as much as I like it. There are some things that are hard to manage using keyboard shortcuts, some of the interface has odd non-Mac-standard behavior, and I've had some issues with Smart Albums. I hope they continue to improve it, but it's definitely worth what it costs.
Summary: Great suite of software