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. Organise 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
Unlocking the ideas
Written by BR from Plymouth
Feb 20, 2009
iLife delivers with excellent added functionality in iPhoto, Garage Band and iMovie. It has kept me busy for hours and fired up lo…Read moreads of new ideas. iMovie especially has that ideal mix of ease of use and sophisticated results. I tried Final Cut and just got bogged down, thinking a just can't do it. With this upgrade, I feel I can and I do and so can the kids !
Excellent product and well worth the money.(3 of 3 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
Very good upgrade, can't wait for next one
Written by DR from LOWESTOFT
Feb 19, 2009
iLife 09 is a very good upgrade. I bought it mainly for my use of iPhoto.
When you want to enhance your photos, not only can y…Read moreou use the enhance feature which can sometimes over-cook the results you are looking for but you can adjust & fine-tune exactly how you need them to look even after using the enhance feature. But, almost all photos really come to life and have that quality feel about them.
One thing I must say is I think Mac hurried iPhoto to be ready in time for their launch - a common problem I found was that iPhoto is a little unstable or slow to respond; it may be due to me having over 8,000 photos in iPhoto but I never had an unstable or slow problem with 08. The face detection feature is quite good for people but when it come to animals (and animals have faces too, regular shapes and colours) it just can't recognise any animal faces, of cats at least.
I've yet to become familiar with other iLife features but I'm sure it will be up to the usual Mac standard. Well done Macintosh!!(1 of 1 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
OK but not quite there yet
Written by GE from TENBY
Feb 9, 2009
Cards on the table I'm an iMovie 06 fan. 09 has some great transitions and effects and I've experimented with the audio field. My …Read morecomplaint would be that you can't fade this music in and out with (if at all?) with the ease of use of 06. If you could do that I'd probably be sold on it. However it's early days I will give it a good go until I can get my head around FC HD
(1 of 3 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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iLife ’09
Some great new features but iweb fails
Written by RK from Penrith
Feb 4, 2009
iphoto 09- The big hitter is faces which is great fun. A superb idea which works very well occasionally producing some funny resul…Read morets. An excellent upgrade.
imovie 09- Works just like imovie 08 but contains all the features that you wished you had in 08 but were missing. Speed up, slow down, reverse, more transitions and fancy text. I've easily jazzed up a few of my old movies and I'm looking forward to trying the green screen. Another excellent upgrade.
iweb09- Beware iweb 08 users. After installing iweb 09 my much loved and worked on 08 web site went caput. Something which I have not been able to recover from yet. All comments were lost, archives wont work, movies wont upload. If you have an iweb 08 site which is up and running smoothly in my experience, avoid iweb 09 until glitches have been fixed or avoid installing this part of the prog. If you are planning on starting a new site from scratch it may be OK. A huge regret that I upgraded iweb and the reason for the low star count.
(72 of 81 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
Very impressive, indeed exciting
Written by PK from Ashtead
Feb 5, 2009
iLife '08's major advance was the very nice Final Cut-like editing capability in iMovie. For me, the most impressive enhancements …Read morefor iLife '09 are with iPhoto. The face recognition feature proved to be a very effective way of grouping images, and is a step on a very exciting journey from searching databases with tags or keywords, to image-based search of multi-media databases. It worked very well for me, with only a small amount of training needed to pull out all the photos of a given person in my library.
The Places feature also works well. The only problem here is that I will need to add in locations for most of the photos I already have. I probably wont have the time to do that, but all new images are going in with locations.
One warning - you will need one of the more up to date machines to benefit, as iMovie especially is very demanding of processing power and memory.(62 of 65 people found this review useful)
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iLife ’09
It just gets better and better
Written by PC from Northampton
Feb 5, 2009
If you were happy with 08 then 09 will continue to please !! Faces and Places are just amazing. Faces has become a family spectacl…Read moree. Even visitors are amazed at the facial recognition technology and the speed of the product.
Well done Apple.(50 of 57 people found this review useful)
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