Organizing Your Photos with iLovePhotos
Too many photos, too little time.
According to Royal Pingdom, in 2010 there were:
5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010)
3,000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr
3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
A lot of these photos go into these virtual “shoeboxes” and never get to be shared around. To meet the challenge of bringing these photos back in your live, Honolulu-based startup Blue Lava Technologies created iLovephotos.
According to Blue Lava Technologies, iLovePhotos is free software for your Mac that helps you organize, share, and enjoy your photos based on the people who are in them.
iLovePhotos developed a patent-pending process that enables people to use facial detection and visual tags (image data from the photos themselves) to organize a photo collection. Users create visual tags in a fast and intuitive desktop application interface in the Mac environment to organize their photos.
iLovePhotos fully integrates with your Mac address book and each tag can be associated with an email address. As you visually organize your pictures they are automatically uploaded to iLovePhotos.com and the person in each photo is notified via email.
To get a better understanding of how this Mac photo software works, check out a video explanation at http://ilovephotos.com/help/videos/gettingstarted/.
The Honolulu-based startup, Blue Lava Technologies was co-founded by Henk Rogers, who’s well known as the man who discovered Alexy Pajitnov and brought his game, “Tetris,” to the West in the 1980s.
Download iLovePhotos for Mac OS X for free at http://ilovephotos.com.
This looks really cool software. Unfortunately I’m using Window platform, so I would have to wait till they will launch window version of this software. Wondering if they have iLovePhotos app for iPhone?
yaa,this will be great.I had a great number of photos in facebook
@John Unfortunately it is only available on Mac OS X. No news on a Windows release.
Pretty cool tool! This is what I love about Macs. They love making things easier for the users.
This looks like a great idea. I have photos everywhere, facebook, myspace, my computer, everywhere and lots of them. It’s nice to see a mac program too. As always thanks for the post
Cool looking software! Nowadays all of us need to organize our digital pictures so I can see the use of this software.
@Extreme John, Linda & Andrew
Thank you for your feedback and glad that you liked this article. If you have any questions feel free to let me know.
Aloha from Hawaii,
Damian
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I use ImageShack.But I am considering using Flickr, though I am happy with the service provided by ImageShack.
Hello there,
I love photography! I remember buying my first digital camera back in 2000, almost eleven years ago and taking thousands of photos! I agree with you that ilovephotos is unique in organizing. Thank you for sharing with us!
John
@PHP Books
Sorry, this software doesn’t do face recognition, just face detection. The whole photo organization is done around faces instead of tags. However, it is also possible to add tags to photos.
@John Mak
Glad that you enjoyed the article. Let me know once you try out the software.
If you have any further questions about iLovePhotos, let me know.
@John Glad you liked the approach for photo organizing of iLovePhotos, did you have a chance to try it out with your photo collection?