TUAW Tip: Speed up iPhoto

This is a simple little tip to speed up iPhoto a bit. Launch iPhoto and go to iPhoto's preferences. Choose 'Appearance' and you'll see something like the above pop open (this screen shot was taken with a copy of iPhoto 6, iPhoto 5 will look slightly different).

Uncheck both 'Outline' and 'Drop shadow.' Slide the 'Background' all the way to White, and you should notice that iPhoto will startup a little faster. This tip helps with iPhoto 5's performance mostly, but if you want a real performance gain upgrade to iPhoto 6. That puppy really zips along on my iMac G5.