Adds Brightness & Contrast Control, Mac OS X Mail Integration and Desktop Image Controls

CUPERTINO, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® (Nasdaq: AAPL - news) today announced iPhoto(TM) 1.1, a free update to the application that has revolutionized the way consumers save, organize and share their digital photos. iPhoto 1.1 makes using digital photos even easier, including new brightness and contrast controls, integration with Mac® OS X's Mail application for simple emailing of photos to family and friends, and controls for setting favorite photos as desktop backgrounds and screen saver slide shows.

"iPhoto is a true breakthrough for consumers who want to get more out of their digital cameras," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Now with iPhoto 1.1, we're bringing our customers their most requested new features, making importing, editing, organizing and sharing photos easier and more powerful than ever before."

Importing, editing, saving, organizing, printing and sharing digital photos is a snap with iPhoto. Simply plug a digital camera into a Mac via USB or FireWire® and iPhoto automatically imports, catalogs, stores and displays the photos on screen. Users can view individual shots for precise cropping, or see hundreds of photos on the screen at once and quickly scroll through thousands to find the one they're looking for. iPhoto makes it easy to organize photos into digital albums-for birthdays, vacations, weddings or other occasions-for easy retrieval; as well as add names, comments or keywords to favorite photos. iPhoto brings a new level of simplicity and creativity to sharing digital photos with family and friends via the Web, email, slide shows, Kodak prints or custom-printed, linen-covered hardbound books.*

In addition, with iPhoto 1.1 users can now:

• perform quick and simple touch ups using new brightness and contrast controls;
• automatically place selected photos into outgoing Mac OS X Mail messages, with a choice of compression options;
• automatically place a favorite iPhoto image as the desktop background;
• choose an iPhoto album to play as the Mac OS X screen saver slideshow;
• create a self-contained QuickTime(R) slideshow that includes background music and elegant, cross-dissolved slide transitions;
• easily add their QuickTime slide show to a DVD using iDVD(TM);
• search the photo library by the text information in a photo's comment field;
• view all EXIF metadata associated with a photo JPEG file, such as creation date, shutter speed and f-stop;
• preserve file names as photo titles when importing images from the Mac OS X Finder(TM); and
• make more efficient use of printer paper with improved print templates.

• Ordering services available in U.S. and Canada; requires English-language version of iPhoto.