Iweb and Aperture

Is there any way to access photos from inside iWeb that aren't in iPhoto. For instance, is it possible to access Aperture albums from inside iWeb?
Thanks very much.
All the best,
Tom

I'm not sure if that is possible. I am thinking since apature came out before iLife 06 and iWeb that it doesnt have the option, unless there is some sort of update for apature.
Could you move your Albums from Apature into iPhoto and try that?
You probaly asked this question because you didn't want to do the above.
Another thing you could try is to physically drag the album from apature and try to drop it into iweb or a iweb photo page.
I dont know for sure.

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Photo file issues with iWeb and Aperture....also too much duplicating!!

A little background, before I get into my iWeb issue.....
Years ago I tried iPhoto, but I didn't like how it duplicated all my photo files and I wasn't very fond of the file structure it created. Years later (last month) I got Aperture. Aperture (still has a long way to go) also duplicates all your files and places them in their own file structure. If I can get along with Aperture (and if it will get along with my other programs), I won't mind putting all my files into the file structure it creates. But for now, I still have my original files in the original file structure I have had for many years as a back up.
On to my issue with iWeb and Aperture....
To add photos to iWeb, you can either go into the iWeb media center or you can drag and drop photos from other locations.
1st: iWeb media center
To get my photos into the media center, I would have to load them into iPhoto (iP 6 does allow you to keep your original file structure, but it still creates .jpg files, which fills up your hard-drive. More duplicates I don't need or want). So that is out for me. iP6 will let you view and use your Raw files.
Another way is to drag and drop your file structure directly into the media center window. I don't think this duplicates any files (at least I haven't been able to find any), but it takes an awfully long time to thumbnail all your photos (several hours and still waiting for 22K + files). Also, it won't show any Raw files. Again, out for me.
Aperture won't let you drag and drop its library into the media center at all. So if I was to move all my files into the Aperture Library, I wouldn't be able to access them for iWeb at all.....Out for me.
2nd: Drag and Drop
I was able to drag and drop Raw files directly into iWeb from C1 Pro, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Lightroom.
As I said before, I am trying to move over to Aperture. However, Aperture won't let me drag and drop photos. What is the deal here??? These are both Apple programs and they won't play nice with each other. Very annoying.
Anyway, I put a link below to my iWeb test webpage I made. All the photos were Raw files that I did a drag and drop from C1 Pro, Adobe Bridge and Lightroom. There were no problems with the publishing.
http://web.mac.com/phil_navarro/iWeb/Site%202/Drag%20and%20Drop%20test.html
So, does anyone know if they can get photos from Aperture to work?? Thanks for any responses.
Phil
G5 Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Jedi,
Perhaps you are right.
I am not a web developer and I will never be. I don't feel like spending countless hours learning how to use Dreamweaver or some other Pro web app. iWeb looked like a way to start making websites of my photos for my friends and family (much easier and better than Home Page on .Mac). All I was asking was for a way to drag and drop my photos (especially Raw files) with Aperture. Which I can do with Lightroom, Adobe Bridge and C1 Pro, and without using iPhoto.
I am not a Pro photographer either, but I purchased Aperture based on what was advertised on the Apple website. From that ad, Aperture fit my photo needs almost to a tee. I am looking to adjust Raw files, Crop, Archive and keep my use of Hard Disk space down to a minimum. I can use Photoshop for the other 5% of things I do. However, Aperture has some issues (if you own it, then you already know. If you don't, you can read the Aperture Forum) This is one of the reasons I never went to iPhoto for archiving. I didn't like the way it duplicated all my files, taking up more disk space and its file structure. So even though Aperture won't play nice with other programs, I was surprised that it wouldn't play nice with any Apple programs.
After reading your post and based on what you are saying, everyone either needs to have/learn/use Pro apps only or have/learn/use iApps only. Don't Cross the Streams!!
I guess that means Apple will need to fix DVD Studio Pro. It uses photos that are in your iPhoto library and music from iTunes (iApps in a Pro app??....for shame...."it was never intended"). Also, DVD SP won't read the Aperture library. Does that mean there are 3 platforms? Pro, iApp and Mediocre??
Now I have 2 questions:
1. Can someone please tell me which apps are Pro and iApp, or if there is Mediocre? I don't want to mix them up and "Cross the Streams".
2. Again....is there anyway to use Aperture with iWeb?
TIA,
Narvon

IWeb and Aperture: any updates since October?

I've shared the difficulties that others have discussed in getting Aperture, iWeb and iPhoto to play nice together.
I use Aperature now because I have so many photos, and I was having to rebuild my iPhoto cache every day (to the tune of 15-30 minutes), plus I want versioning and better organizational stuff, etc. I distinctly remember hearing in the promo material that Aperture was going to be seamless with iWeb, and it was the main reason I decided to take the leap.
I'm wondering if anyone has made any progress of getting these two apps to talk better to each other? And does Aperture automatically update iPhoto with versions? How do you import additional iPhoto images into Aperture without having to re-import the entire library? Any word from Apple?
Thanks,
Kiki on the Big Island
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Aloha G,
Thanks, and since you asked, here's my usual workflow:
I am a digital painter, which means I use digital photos to provide the pixels that I paint with, using primarily Corel Painter.
I shoot photos and import them into iPhoto for cropping and minor color fixes. I then export the photos to Painter. That means I copy them to the desktop folder that I use to collect all the bits and pieces that will be part of the painting. (That might be a Projects Folder in Aperture).
I then proceed to produce between 5-15 versions of my painting, doing incremental saves. These are full sized files.
When I finish a painting, I export it back to iPhoto as a full sized JPG.
Then I export from iPhoto AGAIN to get a smaller, low-rez file to my project folder on the desktop. I have not figured out how to make a low-rez duplicate in iPhoto without exporting and importing.
I then re-import the smaller file back into iPhoto, and put it in an album with other low-rez paintings, ready to go into iWeb and onto my web site.
I may have to also generate other full size versions to print my paintings in standard sizes -- 5x7, 8x10, etc.
Average file sizes are in the 5-50MB range, though they can get larger.
In my dream world, here's what I'd like:
I'd like to be able to import into a photo handling program. I'd like to edit the photos in Painter directly from iPhoto (which I can do, but iterative save means I save the iterations...where?) Painter complains that Aperture's files are not in a format it can use. I don't see anywhere in Aperture's Preferences to change the way the files are exported for an outside editor.
I'd like the photo program to allow me to do versioning (which Aperture does nicely; iPhoto does not), so I can print whatever sizes I need. I also want the photos to be push-button connected to iWeb because I have already invested a lot of time in creating an iWeb site.
I'd like not to have to create full-size duplicates because of storage issues.
And, now, I have a new problem since the previous post. I currently have Aperture referencing my iPhoto library.
I'm thinking that I will just wait for Aperture to resolve what seem like fairly easy fixes. Meanwhile, I thought I would hand-split my iPhoto library into smaller individual libraries to reduce the cache load. BUT, when I tried to export my iPhotos into smaller libraries, I cannot do it. I cannot drag a photo to the desktop now.
Is that because Aperture is now managing the photos?
Thanks for all your help...
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IWeb and Aperture Galleries

I am wanting to use Aperture to create all my Web Photo Galleries. I currently have a fairly extensive iWeb site. Is there a way to export the Aperture gallery to iWeb? It would make sense right? What is the best way to intergrate the Web Gallery feature in Aperture with a pre-existing iWeb site?

I just finished putting a 38 page site together in iWeb. Most of it was a set of photos from a trip to the Amazon, Machu Picchu, and the Galapagos (http://web.mac.com/donoshea). All the the images on that site were imported into Aperture, adjusted and cropped there, and then exported to iWeb. The export method, however, was simply to drag the previews in the Aperture window, into the appropriate photo album window in iWeb.
I found while using this process, there are few precautions that should be taken. First, be sure that the preview size (bottom section of Preferences for Aperture) are large enough to display well on most monitors. I use "Fit within 1280 x 1280*). Second, update the previews and force a "Generate Previews" if any of the images were modified by an external editor, such as Photoshop.
So I built the site as I adjusted the image in Aperture. I tried the Aperture web galleries and found them too stolid for a personal and family web page.
One other advantage to using Aperture as a prep for iWeb is that after rating the images I thought I wanted on the web site, I grouped the logically or chronologically for display on the web pages, then stacked them for tidiness. If the stack was greater than 8 for a two-page spread, I either cut the number of images (just drop the rating below the selected one) or redistributed the images between stacks to tell the story.
I hope this may be of use to someone,
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IWeb and Aperture photos not looking that good?

hey guys can any of you tell me why
when i done edit my photos in aperture and loads them over in iweb they are not looking that good as in Aperture why is that?
can any help me here?

Opps. I thought I was in the iPhoto forum. Getting old(er).
Have you done this before and had better results?
Are you dragging them onto an iWeb page or into an iWeb album or photo page?
Do you have iWeb's preferences set to optimize photos upon import?
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IWeb and Aperture - Photo Descriptions - Help please?

When you drop photographs into a 'photo' page in iWeb it automatically places a title underneath the photo which is in fact the file name. I don't have Aperture (yet) but would using Aperture enable me to attach a "description to the file? If so, is it possible to include this description in the photo albums so that it appears when each image is presented in the browser? At the moment I am laboriously cutting and pasting 600 image descriptions from Lightroom and into iWeb. Surely there's a quicker way?
Thank you in advance.

Once you get your photos in to iWeb, you can highlight the thumbnail and the description under the photo which is the file name. Once the description is highlighted, type in what you want to say. If you click in between the thumbnails a control box will pop up and you can choose how many lines you want for your description. Once the the description is typed in, highlight what you just typed, then press the command key and "C" key. That will copy what you have highlighted. Press the Tab key and it will take you to the next thumbnail and the description will be highlighted. Next press the command key and then the "V" key. That will paste the new description on the photo. Once you do the copy (Command+C) you can go through a bunch of thumb nails fast by pressing the Tab key then the Command key and V key.
Hope this is the info you were looking for. You don't need Aperture to do this...it uses the file name too unless you change it in Aperture. You can change the photo description faster in iWeb.
Dakota Wind

IWeb 08 and Aperture 3.0.3

I have been building websites for my photo classes with iWeb 08 and accessing images from my Aperture library for some time. I am now using 10.6.3, and Aperture 3.0.3 and all I see in my media panel under photos is iphoto. Is this a bug, or do I have to upgrade iLife to make this happen? Is this also the case with Keynote, where I can no longer see the Aperture library.
Thanks,
Peter

Well, I solved my own problem. The last Aperture library I had opened was on an external hard drive that was not connected to my computer. Once I opened Aperture with the library on the internal drive, Aperture images appeared in both iWeb and Keynote.
Regards,
Peter

IWeb and Mobile Me gallery?

I am using iWeb to create my web site but publishing my photos from iPhoto to the mobile me gallery. In iWeb I am using the Black theme where it puts the main links to the different pages across the top. I would like to add a link there that goes to the gallery.me.com page. how do I do this??
Thanks for the help.

iWeb: you don't need to save anything from the iDisk - iWeb does not open html files. Your iWeb sites are held in (user)/Library/Application Support/iWeb in a file called Domain. So even after MobileMe terminates you will still be able to open iWeb and see your sites, you just won't be able to publish them to MobileMe. You can publish them to any other webspace - please see this page:
http://rfwilmut.net/migrate2
Gallery: if your albums arre synced with iPhoto or Aperture then the pictures are on your Mac anyway. If not, and you don't have local copies (which is always a risky procedure) you will have to download each picture separately. Alternatively there is an online photo gallery service called ZangZing which provides an easy import facility from various other services including MobileMe's Gallery. It's free until June 2012 after which the first 2GB is free with escalating price levels starting at $5 per month or $50 a year.

No pics appear in iphoto and aperture sidebar since iLife 11

With the update of iLife11 the pics disappeared from the sidebar under iPhoto and Aperture.
While the sidebar for Audio, Movies and Widgets runs well, only the running upload icon appears beside of iPhoto and Aperture.
Why does iWeb not find the pics?!
How to help iWeb to get access to the photo libraries?
Cheers,
Thomas

Since it works OK in your wife's account it could be a preference file that is causing the problem in your account. Here's how to determine if that's the problem:
Trouble Shooting Preferences in Leopard/Snow Leopard
1 - close all applications.
2 - open your Library folder, Home/Library, and drag the Preferences folder to the Desktop. A new Preference folder will be immediately created in the Library.
3 - run the application again and determine if the problems is fixed.
4 - If the problem is fixed:
A - open the working Preferences folder (HD/Users/your_name/Library/Preferences).
B - Open the Preferences folder on the Desktop, select all of the contents and drag them into the working Preferences folder.
C - When the Copy window pops up check the "Apply to All" check box and then click on the Don't Replace button.
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5 - If the problem is NOT fixed, drag the Preferencess folder on the Desktop into the Library to replace the new one that was created.

IWeb and photo corrections and importing photos

Yeah, another iWeb problem. I both love and hate the application. I hadn't had this problem before now. I imported many, many photos into albums (via Aperture...) before noticing that the photos in download mode on my website were showing up at half the pixel size that the originals were. The photo download option is checked as 'original' so that's not it. I did a little checking and couldn't figure out why iWeb is importing these photos from Aperture at half size... So, I did an end run around it and dragged and dropped directly from the folder to iWeb. Great, right? Nope... started noticing that the photos that I am dragging in are not holding their corrections (mainly brightness/contrast) that I had applied in Photoshop. They show up fine in the folder, they look fine as I am dragging them, but when I release in the iWeb folder/page they lose their corrections? HUH?!?
No matter what I do (dragging them from the folder or from the desktop is the same...) they lose the corrections in iWeb... They still hold their corrections if I drag them from the Aperture sidebar in iWeb, but then they are half sized...
And no, the optimize images on import button is NOT checked, thought for sure that that would be the problem. Any thoughts, ideas on either problem, the size issues or the corrections... What determines the size that iWeb chooses for display? I notice that there are three listings when I upload them in FileZilla...
And on a side note, the preview images in the main album page show low res images... What controls the resolution for them and could this be somehow related?
I also tried to export a photo from Aperture which shows the correct resolution of 1280 X 1280 to the Desktop and got a correct 1280 X 1280 image. Dragged it into iWeb and it kept the corrections as well, but when published, the website displays a half size image with a 640 X 640 download size... Sigh...

Did you reboot? That often clears out caches and corrects errant behavior in apps. That and deleting the preference file. Either that or offering the right sacrifice to the computer gods.
OT

IPhoto and Aperture... working together? Tips please?

Hi there, I'm a new Mac user. I moved over from the PC where I used Adobe Photoshop and ACDsee image viewer. I wanted to get the Aperture experience so I now have Aperture 2.
The 1st part of my problem is, a lot of my photos are already "in" iPhoto '08. I imported them before I got Aperture 2.
The 2nd part of my problem is that I don't really fully understand how iPhoto '08 works. I can't seem to wrap my brain around the notion that it's primarily a database. I have all my photos carried into my computer via iPhoto, but I immediately copy them over to my external hardrive, rename them, then import them BACK into iPhoto. Is that the scenic route, or what? But right now, it's the only way I can really get a grip on how the whole process will work to my benefit of understanding. After the pictures are back in iPhoto I then "understand" them to be existing in 2 separate places; one on my external hard drive, the other on my internal drive where iPhoto stores them (wherever the heck that is!).
This brings me to my ultimate problem. I don't, at all, understand how Aperture and iPhoto would collaborate together to allow me to edit the pictures in Aperture, while still allowing iPhoto to present them to me in a "photo viewer" type of way.
I don't know how to work with BOTH programs at the same time; Aperture AND iPhoto '08.
I want to use Aperture to edit my pictures but I still want to use iPhoto to view my pictures. I think iPhoto is a neat little program, and would really like to keep using it. I'm just recently exploring iWeb and the two really work well together.
Would anyone have any good tips for a beginner?
Thank you so much
YahYah

Hi and welcome to the Mac!
Alright. Before you do anything else, you need to stop, sit down and - as William said - watch the tutorial. In fact, you need to watch all the Aperture tutorials. Second, Aperture is database. Repeat after me: +Aperture IS a database. Aperture manages my pictures... I don't touch them, move them or copy them.+
If you're worried about that well, don't be. Although it appears like a monolithic file in the Finder, there is no weird compression going on that makes pictures unreadable. You can always get to a photo through the Finder if need be. But I've never had to.
With Aperture you've bought into the mother lode in terms of photo management. So please understand this: Aperture HAS to be the master here. Believe me, it'll make your life a lot easier further down the road. There are all sorts of ways to integrate Aperture in the iLife workflow. In fact a lot of iPhoto 08's (fun) functions have made it into big brother Aperture 2. My advice to you would be to use Aperture for ALL your importing, cataloging and editing and then use iPhoto on a per need basis. You can import select pictures from your AP library into iPhoto without duplicating the files by going into iPhoto's preferences/advanced and unchecking "Copy items in the iPhoto Library". This means you'll be able to drag photos from the Aperture library panel into iPhoto without duplicating anything. IPhoto will simply link to your AP library package. Things you need to be aware of:
• read up on Aperture previews. Any picture that has a preview can be shared amongst any iLife app (iWeb included). To create an iWeb photo page for instance, you simply open iWeb, choose your template and drag the pictures you want from the media browser. Not much more difficult than iPhoto.
• read up on import strategies. Your process as described is quite convoluted and will only lead to duplicate files all over the place. It could also generate serious problems eventually.
Using Aperture to only do editing is like buying a Ferrari to drive in a school zone. You absolutely need to grasp the concept of the application, how it integrates with the rest of your computer life and what it can do for you. I know it may seem daunting at first and you might be tempted to revert to your old ways of doing things. But don't. You'll be a lot happier in the long run AND you'll also be making the most of your recent purchases. Trust the Mac young jedi....

I am trying to move a picture that I brought over from iWeb and it is locked. I need to move it. Can anyone help?

I am trying to move a picture that I brought over from iWeb and it is locked. I need to move it. Can anyone help?

It is probaly just "inline" ie part of the text.
click on it > Inspector > Wrap > Floating
Peter

Print quality difference between iphoto and aperture...?

when ordering books, is there a print quality difference between using iPhoto and Aperture? or are they sent to the same lab?
it's possible i may have some setting wrong, but when i order a book using iphoto, i never really feel the quality is that great. it's good, i just feel it could be a lot better. the print quality sort of reminds me of newsprint, albeit high quality newsprint. similar sized prints made at home on my basic 3-in-1 printer look better.
thanks...

Previews are what you view on your display. When you import a photo into Aperture (and I'm pretty sure iPhoto as well), your computer automatically generates a preview for quick viewing. The original images are stored in your library, but it is the preview that you see.
In Aperture, you are able to set the size and quality of these previews. When sharing photos between Aperture and iPhoto, the process is as follows:
Let's say that your images are stored in Aperture, but you also want to be able to view them in iPhoto without taking up too much room on your hard drive. Essentially, if you were to import the originals into iPhoto as well, you would be storing two exact, yet separate copies of the same image on your hard drive. As you are aware, with large images (whether JPEG's, and especially RAW) this would put quite a tax on your storage capacity after not too long.
So, you have your images in one or the other (in this case Aperture), but you want to play around with them in iPhoto. What you can do, is open iPhoto, go to the File menu and then select, Show Aperture Library. This will open a window with all of the contents of your Aperture Library. You can then drag any images you want into iPhoto . The only thing is, you are not dragging the original JPEG's, but rather, the previews of those images. If you have those previews set to a lower quality (again for capacity concerns), you will only have lower quality and lower detailed images in iPhoto. These images might not be ideal, or even suitable for printing high quality prints. The previews that you generate in Aperture though can be adjusted to be extremely high quality with no size limits.
My thinking was that since you mentioned Aperture, it sounded like you had experience with working with it and with ordering a photo book through Aperture. I guess you were saying that you ordered via iPhoto, weren't happy with the quality and were wondering if Aperture created books were better.
Anyway, if this is the case, I cannot answer that for you. I have never ordered a book through Aperture. If the quality of your images is good, you should be able to get a decent product no matter where you order it from. There is not doubt that the materials used and the print shop that does the work makes a difference, but if your images are good, you should still get a decent product through iPhoto. Perhaps iPhoto isn't the way to go though if you have had poor experiences with them.
If you haven't used Aperture yet, I would highly recommend it though aside from the photo book aspect of this thread. It is a stellar product.
I hope this helps.
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I recently upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.2 and Aperture 2.1.4 will no longer open. I cannot access my photos and I don't want to pay for latest version of Aperture since this application is no longer going to be supported. How can I get my pictures?

I recently upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.2 and Aperture 2.1.4 will no longer open. I cannot access my photos and I don't want to pay for latest version of Aperture since this application is no longer going to be supported. How can I get my pictures?

If you want just the originals, then you can go into the Aperture library (right click on it and do "show package contents"). Inside is a directory called "Masters" and you can find the original files in a bunch of subfolders.
But... you'll lose all adjustments, keywords, and other information, and just have the files as they were imported originally from the cameras.
Easiest is probably to buy Aperture and update everything, and then migrate to the Photos application down the road if that's what you want. Aperture 3.0 came out in 2010 (five years ago!) so it's not like you've upgraded in a while

How do I access iWeb and iDVD on my new Macbook Air?

I just bought a new MacBook Air and read that I can load iPhoto 11, iMovie 11, and GarageBand from the app store, which I did. I don't see iWeb or iDVD anywhere, on the MacBook or in the app store.
I guess iWeb and iDVD are part of the iLife 11 package, which does not come with the MacBook Air (thought it did), but I wanted to check in case I am overlooking something.

If you have another Mac that you can connect to your Air with a local area network or int the Target Disk Mode, Transferring files between two computers using FireWire, you would be able to run the iLife 11 installer disk on the other Mac and select the Air as the location for the installation.
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