Apple’s iLife 09 was recently released on January 27th, 2009. I was very excited about 2 of the new iPhoto 09 features- Faces and Places. After starting iPhoto 09 for the first time, it scans through all your photos looking for faces. The scan can take quite a while depending on how may photos you have. I have already started selecting faces in my library and hopefully it will replace most of the key-wording/taging I am currently doing for people in my library.

My main iPhoto library is on my iMac. That is were I typically dump all my photos (unless I am traveling), and then I copy them to my MacBook Pro and my Wife’s MacBook. The Geotagged photos (and keywords) will not copy over when you connect to shared photos from inside iPhoto. To keep the geotagged data and keywords, you have to export your photos, then import them into your other libraries. Use the Export option under the File Menu in iPhoto. Here are the export settings to keep your photo data:



Now when you import to another iPhoto Library, you will have your geotagged data and keywords. Get your copy of iLife 09.

More info on Geotaging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging