iLife ’09
Upgrade to iLife ’09 and get the most out of the photos, movies, and music on your Mac with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD. Organize and search your photos by faces and places. Make a movie in minutes or edit with precision. Learn to play piano and guitar or record your own music. Create a stunning website and publish it anywhere.
Install the iLife ’09 Family Pack¹ on up to five Mac computers in your household.
Overview
iPhoto ’09
Organize and search your photos in new ways.
- Easily find photos of the people in your life using Faces.
- Explore your library based on where you took each photo using Places.
- Instantly create stunning slideshows with animated titles and multiphoto layouts.
- Publish photos directly to Facebook and Flickr™ with a click.
- Create travel-themed photo books complete with custom maps.
iMovie ’09
Create a movie in minutes or edit your masterpiece.
- Fine-tune your movies with the new Precision Editor.
- Use enhanced drag-and-drop to easily edit your projects in just a few clicks.
- Smooth shaky clips with automatic video stabilization.
- Apply themes to an entire project with matching titles and transitions.
- Add eye-catching animated maps to your travel videos with a few clicks.
- Choose animated titles, new transitions, and cinema-quality video effects.
GarageBand ’09
Learn to play. Start a jam session. Record and mix your own songs.
- Learn to play piano or guitar at your own pace, with interactive lessons that combine video instruction with animated notation and instrument views.
- Let leading artists - including Sting, Fall Out Boy, and Colbie Caillat - teach you how to play their hit songs, then practice along with the band.²
- Play and record with new guitar amps and stompbox effects.
- Jam with virtual instruments in Magic GarageBand using a new full-screen view that lets you mix, play along, and record.
iWeb ’09
Design, publish, and update your own websites - no HTML required.
- Easily add YouTube videos, RSS feeds, iSight videos, and other dynamic content to your web pages.
- Link your iWeb site to your Facebook account and automatically notify friends when you update your site.
- Use built-in FTP publishing with virtually any web-hosting service.
- Easily manage multiple websites and publish one site at a time using MobileMe or FTP.
iDVD
Turn your home movies and slideshows into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs.
- Get started quickly with Apple-designed themes featuring animated menus.
- Author customized DVDs with a range of options for customizing menu screens.
- Combine video and photos for stunning, high-quality slideshows.
Most Recent Reviews
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iLife ’09
Faces is a MAJOR disappointment
Written by LD from Short HIlls
24-Feb-2009
I've only used iPhoto, so I'll only discuss this product.
I'm sure the main reason an iPhoto user would consider upgrading is for…Read more the new Faces feature. While some have had success (a loose term), I think it's far from 'ready for prime time'.
I have >2000 images. Faces fails to recognize that there is a face in the image easily 95% of the time. There are images where the face takes up 3/4 of the screen, yet Faces still fails. To add insult to injury, in many cases, it recognizes an obscure small background image as a face (such as a lamp), yet the person in the foreground is not seen as having a face.
If you want to buy iPhoto for Faces....DON'T!
You will spend a lot of time manually tagging the photos.
Wait until a new and improved version is available, but this version is beta, at best.
The rest of iPhoto is great, but many will buy this version for Faces...which will be a mistake!(22 of 29 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
iPhoto Faces shortcomings
Written by LG from BRIDGETON
24-Feb-2009
After importing 40,000+ photos and having Faces indexing my library I found following shortcomings:
1.It is not possible to sea…Read morerch for all unrecognized faces.
2.When assigning new faces to a person, you cannot re-assign a wrongly detected face to a different person.
3.It is not possible to split a recognized face into more faces. It would be great if you could split your kids faces by age range (ie. 1-3, 3-5, 5-10,...).
4.There is no way to group or sort your faces – I have 72 recognized faces only sorted by description.
5.You cannot choose the images used to recognize people in your photos. It would be very handy if you exclude images (such as sunglasses, hats, ...)for the detection process!
Other than the above, faces is a really good addition to iPhoto.
(19 of 19 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
Worth while upgrade
Written by DK from Little Elm
21-Feb-2009
I purchased iLife 09 primarily for the iMovie upgrades and have been pleasantly surprised. One of my responsibilities at the scho…Read moreol where I teach is to coach a girls softball team. During practice/games I video both pitchers and hitters. The slow-motion mode has been excellent. Other things on iMovie are fun to work with as well. I also have enjoyed iPhoto and haven't had many issues with it. Finally my little boy is excited about the "possibility" about learning how to play the guitar; the jury still out on that one. Overall this product has been a good purchase.
(9 of 10 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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iLife ’09
Worth the upgrade
Written by MP from Naperville
3-Feb-2009
I'll admit that when I first read about iLife '09, I couldn't see the value in the upgrade. Now after spending some time with it, …Read moreI am able to say that this is REALLY worth the price.
iPhoto is simply amazing and better than ever. Faces and Places really add that "umpf" factor to the photo library. I've got over 1300 pictures, and Faces is so helpful and fun. Places is so unique as well. It's fun to see all the geotagged locations that I have been to in the world. Add that to the ability to instantly upload to Facebook and Flickr and this program is worth it alone.
iMovie? Two words ...green screen. It's a riot and so much fun. iMovie is so, so much better than iMovie '08. So much of an improvement that it's hard to not use or enjoy iMovie. This will bring out the Spielberg (or Michael Bay) in us all. Yes, the video stabilization actually works well!
GarageBand is simply key for any musician out there. The new lessons are fantastic for both beginners and experts. The artist lessons are alright...nothing to be amazed over. I'm not going to pay $5 for Patrick Stump to teach me Fall Out Boy, but artist lessons are still great for some people. I hope that more free lessons are made available to more than just guitar and piano. The new amps and stomp boxes for guitars (and bass!!) are just awesome. Its literally like having your rig digitally emulated, so recording is a lot more fun and easy.
Those upgrades right there make this a must have for any iLife and Mac user. Is it worth the $79? Very much so.(434 of 475 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
Trumps iLife 08 Ten Fold!
Written by PH from Tustin
5-Feb-2009
I got iLife 09 mainly because of the features in iMovie, or to be honest the lack of features in iMovie 08. But I was pleasantly s…Read moreurprised to see the great new UI on iWeb, the new features in iPhoto, and of course the changes made to iMovie, finally letting me go away from iMovie HD to a newer program. Thank you for the fix Apple!
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iLife ’09
Thanks Apple!!
Written by DN from Seattle
5-Feb-2009
The highlights from my vantage point so far... I love the site-specific publishing option in iWeb!! I have numerous sites and page…Read mores and previously had to switch users or computers to manage them all. I had opted to stick with iMovie HD vs iMovie '08 until now. With the latest improvements, iMovie '09 should meet most of my needs. The SHATTER slide show in iPhoto is really a lot of fun!! I am enjoying all of the features thus far and am looking forward to more time spent with Faces, Places, and Garage Band.
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