Deleting groups of photos on iPad

I want to delete 500 photos that I have on my iPad, and can't find any way to do it other than one by one... I thought I'd be able to access them from iTunes, but cant

mudhog wrote:
I have the same issue. I use my iPad and camera kit to check several trail cameras and I now have 1000s of photos I want to delete. Anyway except to click on each one?
Yes, there's a shortcut which works. Tap&hold on the first one you want to delete, then just start sweeping your finger back and forth in an S-pattern over the rest of the icons, without raising your finger. You can select bunches at a time this way.

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Thanks to all who responded to my query re deleting photos from iPhoto in iPad.
Consequential question is:
Most of those to be deleted were synced in from my computer. How do I set about
deleting these?

If photos were synced from your computer then they can't be deleted directly on the iPad, you will need to remove/de-select them from where you synced it from on your computer and re-sync.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

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To prevent having import all photos into iPhoto and deleting from there, launch the Image Capture application.
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Iif the photos were synced to the iPad they can only be removed by connecting to iTunes on your computer, unselecting the photos folder that you synced to the iPad and then follow that with a sync.
IF the photos are in the camera roll, open the camera roll album, tap the as select button in the upper right corner, tap on each photo that you want to delete in order to select them and then tap the trash can icon.

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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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1.) How do I organized my photo album on my ipad? 2.) How do I remove an album on my ipad? 3.) i have taken over 1,000 photos on ipad, now it won't sync stuff to the ipad because it said there is not enough space. I want to delete some past synced p

1.) How do I organized my photo album on my ipad?
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1, you can't at the moment, though with iOS 5 in the Autumn, from http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#photos :
Even organize your photos in albums — right on your device
2, by removing it from you synced from and re-syncing. Only photos taken with the iPad, copied to it via the camera connection kit, or saved from emails/websites etc can be deleted directly on the iPad (either via the trashcan icon in the top right corner if viewing the photo in full screen, or via the icon of the box with the arrow coming out of it in thumbnail view)
3, the location of the photos that you synced to the iPad should be listed on the iPad's Photos tab when connected to your computer's iTunes.
4, you can copy the photos from your iPad to your computer : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083 . You should also be able to delete them from the iPad as part of the transfer process to your computer, and it's then your choice whether to add them to your sync photo list so as to copy them back to the iPad. Copying them to your computer would allow you to organise them into folders and therefore be able to sync them back into separate albums.
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