Apple Keynote: “Faces” and “Places” Added To iPhoto

As  Phil Schiller revealed a few minutes ago in Apple’s keynote at Apple, there is a new feature added to iPhoto. “Faces” lets you tell your Mac the name of a person on one of your pictures and iPhoto will try to find all of the other photos with that person.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could organize photos by people? It’s beautiful, you get a great new interface — you wanna find their photos? Just go in and there’s their picture.” “It uses a technology called Face Detection.” New?

The detection automatically find faces and you can tag them, like in Facebook.

This is kind of cool. It can recognize the same person in different photos automatically. It asks you to confirm the guesses. That would be kind of handy.

Another smart feature is “Places.”

Places let you tag your photos so you can see on a map where they were taken. And looks like you don’t even need gps in your camera:

There’s a field that says ‘enter event location’ — iPhoto has a database of thousands of locations. It assigns a geotag to all the locations in that event.

iPhoto can also give you the location where a photo was taking by looking at the background and comparing it to thousands of other geotagged photos.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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