Import to IPhoto size changes

When I import photos from my camera to IPHOTO do I loose the original size quality setting? Appears all my images are now JPGs. If I don't loose the original where do I find it?
Thanks-

When you import iPhoto makes a bit for bit copy of the photo and you lose nothing - to access the original select the photo in iPhoto and export (file menu ==> export) with kind = original
LN

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Auto import into iPhoto on change in folder contents!

Iive searched these discussions but am not sure ive found what I would like - I may have missed it so I apologise.
I would like to automatcially import photos into Iphoto. The scenario is this.
I take a lot of pictures on my Sony Erricsson Cybershot phone. I then Bluetooth them to the mac. I would like to be able to detect a change in the folder where the Bluetooth files are dropped and imprt them into iPhoto automatically with as few clicks as possible!
I see and AppleScript which monitors folders and sends and alert, and an Automator function to import files into Iphoto. Can I connect the two and accomplish my task?
THanks

Yes and no. It is my understanding that the most direct way will require attaching the script to each of the subfolders. However, the attaching of the script can be done using AppleScript. Those subfolders that are already in existence can have the scripts attached using the following script:
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">property WatchedFolderName : "Camera Phone Images"
property WatchedFolderPath : ((path to desktop) as text) & WatchedFolderName
property ScriptName : "Subfolder detection.scpt"
property ScriptPath : ((path to Folder Action scripts) as text) & ScriptName
tell application "Finder"
set target of window 1 to folder WatchedFolderPath
set theSubFolders to folders of entire contents of target of window 1
repeat with i from 1 to count of theSubFolders
tell application "System Events"
attach action to (item i of theSubFolders as string) using ScriptPath
end tell
end repeat
end tell</pre>
and subsequently added folders can be caught by adding a test for folders being added in the folder action script. I am working out the details on that one now.
PowerBook 12" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Import from iPhoto, all or selective?

When I first import into Aperture from iPhoto, is it better to do it progressively, event by event or import the total library and organise within Aperture? Also, if I have photos in the wrong folder, can I just drag and drop into the correct one?

The import of iPhoto Libraries changed considerably since Aperture 3.3 and iPhoto 9.3.
Now Aperture and iPhoto share a unified library format. Any iPhoto library (version 9.3 or later) is also an Aperture library. You can simply open your iPhoto library in Aperture and use it with Aperture or iPhoto as you like.
But you cannot any longer import single iPhoto events or albums; there is no longer an iPhoto Browser in Aperture. But you can import complete iPhoto libraries into an Aperture library, if you want to merge your libraries into one.
See these support articles:
Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
and
Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries
When you are viewing your iPhoto Library in Aperture, you will see all your organization - the events will be projects, you will see all your faces, places,keywords, albums. It is easier to group projects/events in Aperture, so any new arranging would better be done after the transit.
Regards
Léonie
Added: If you have any hidden photos in iPhoto, unhide them before you open the library in Aperture, for Aperture cannot unhide photos hidden in iPhoto.

All my photos have been imported to iPhoto library. Is it safe therefore to delete all photos in the Finder pictures folder? It seems crazy to have them duplicated (all are backed up externally). And are they full size images in iPhoto?

All my photos have been imported to iPhoto library. Is it safe therefore to delete all photos in the finder picture folder? It seems crazy to have them dupllcated ( all are backed up anyway). And are they the full sized images stored in iPhoto?

Assuming you have iPhoto set to the Default setting, then yes, your full sized photos are copied into the iPhoto Library and so you can delete your own stored in the Finder.
Easiest way to check: Select a photo in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder Window should open with the file selected. Is it stored within the iPhoto Library? You can tell easily in the Finder's column view.
As an FYI:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

Iphoto to aperture import doubles image size?

Hi All.
There is an option to either "keep the files in same place" or to "import to aperture folder" when I import my iPhoto Library.
If I select the latter as the video recommends does that mean I am doubling the amount of space on my HD my images are taking up?
Thanks.

Hi Jim.
Thanks. Can I please ask you to help me out a little more here?
I am a former PC user (somehow every time I say that I think I must qualify for a 12 step program somewhere). Anyway.
I am finding myself - pretty frequently - dragging images out of iPhoto and putting them on the desktop, and then sometimes uploading these to my Wordpress Blog or gathering them all up so I can see them in Cover Flow or Editing them in Photoshop which is in the XP side of my machine under Parallels (the version of Adobe Elements I have is like version 3 and does not work well...). Basically, I just can't seem to get around doing this.
When I upload to MobileMe or to Flickr I don't have to do this but other things I seem to do it pretty regularly for. This is a little messy but nothing compared to what it was like getting images out of my PC box and then into /some/ kind of order in iPhoto (which was really a nightmare).
Anyway, I am doing this again right now. I have to print up some 24 x 36 inch poster sized images of some of my work. I find the image in iPhoto, drag it to the desktop. Organize these into folders of varying size - and then open in Photoshop. If I find that this image for one reason or another has been reduced in size - and I know I must have a bigger image somewhere - I run a Spotlight search and it comes up as being in the iPhoto Library and I copy this out of the iPhoto Library, crop to fit and then upload to FTP.
I know this all sounds like a kludge and I would like to avoid creating problems for myself moving forward since the move to iPhoto was not so pretty.
Can I /please/ ask you to tell me what is involved in a referenced library and whether from what I am saying in the above this makes sense to you for me to do. I mean, you are saying that if I choose not to import into the Aperture Library then I will basically have a Referenced Library which references the data in the iPhoto Library?
Is there a third option?
Is there a good way to pickup the photos that are now in my hard drive that are also in the iPhoto library? Is there a good reason to pick these up...
Anyway, hoping to do some recovery work over here...
Thanks.
My Name in Jon and...

RAW JPEG PROBLEM I'm new to Aperture and neglected to mark RAW JPEG pairs when I imported (from iPhoto). Now I have two images for each photo. Help!! How can I change this?

I’m new to Aperture and neglected to mark RAW+JPEG pairs when I imported (from iPhoto). Now I have two images for each photo. Help!! How can I change this?

How did you import from iPhoto? If you saw the Import panel with raw -jpeg pairs, then you probably did not import your iPhoto library as library, but as files, and then you will see plenty of duplicates - previews, thumbnails, originls, edited versions. If that should be the case, it would be better to delete the import from iPhoto and to import your iPhoto library again, but this time using "File > Import > Library".
Only that would require compatible versions of iPhoto and Aperture. What are your Aperture and iPhoto version numbers?

Library more than doubles in size when importing form iPhoto

I imported my iPhoto Library into Aperture using the standard import setting, only to find that the size of the Aperture Library is about 90GB whereas the original iPhoto library was a mere 38GB. Is there anything I can do to keep the Aperture library at about the same size as my original iPhoto library? More than doubling in size is just too much!

Hi Léonie, thanks again for the detailed advise! I checked both my iPhoto Library and my Aperture Library and they are almost idendical as to the number of photos they show (22.424 photos in iPhoto, 22.884 photos in Aperture - and that's due to some new photos I have imported into Aperture since I imported my iPhoto Library to Aperture). Also, when following your advise to disply photos sorted by date, I only find very few duplicates in my Aperture Library (probably just a few dozen).
Searching for stray images, I only get 104 photos listed that seem to be not properly imported into iPhoto.
What's strange, though, I kept the folder-structure that I had created for my photos before I even started using iPhoto and where I had always put copies of the photos that I had imported into iPhoto Library (call it paranoia or whatever, but I neve fully trusted iPhoto that it would hold all my valuable photos safe ...). So there I have originals of all my photos and this folder is a full 70GB of data - as opposed to the 38GB of my iPhoto Library which has almost the exact number of photos as my folder-structure does.
So I essentially have the following:
- iPhoto Library with 22.424 photos and 38GB
- Aperture Library with 22.884 photos and 90GB
- A folder-structure where I hold duplicates of all my photos outside of iPhoto and Aperture (and NO, I don not use iPhoto nor Aperture as referenced databases) with 22.512 objects and a total of 69,44GB of data.
Anything else you could think of? I'm lost the more I dive into this ...
Rgds, Berthold

File names changed when imported into iphoto

I scanned thousands of photos and slides. I named them numerically with year and order it was taken (example for 102nd photo taken in 1984 is 84.102.jpg) I used Photoshop's file info to add a description on maybe 20% of the photos. Unfortunately, when I imported into iphoto, iphoto uses this information for the photo's file name. Is there a way to import photos into iphoto where it uses only the original files name and not embedded file info?

The ones that (on the originals) I entered descriptive things into Photoshop's XMP file info's document title line -- well that is what is shown as the name of the file rather than its real numerical name. Example: on a photo saved as 92
iPhoto uses the Exif and IPTC metadata for the photo information. When you typed "Big Snowstorm" in there you put it in the Title field. iPhoto is showing you the Title of the photo. It only shows you the Filename if there is no entry in the Title field. Had you put it in the Caption field you would not have this problem.
Try remove the title, see if that works.
Another commend: This format of filename
92.133.jpg
Is potentially very dangerous. Computers use the period to distinguish the filename from the suffix that tells your machine what the type of file it is. Currently, you're telling your machine that this is file 92, of the type 133 and also the type jpeg. Characters such as periods, slashes, dashes should eb avoided in filenames. Sooner or later your file naming convention is going to cause you problems.
Regards
TD

Importing to iPhoto via desktop

I had to follow the following advice from another thread to import into iPhoto:
"....if you placed these files from your windows computer into the iPhoto Library folder in the finder you will get that error. If that is what you did, then drag those images to the desktop, then open iPhoto and drag them into the iPhoto Library window to import them."
My question is, after doing this, can I now trash the ones on the desktop? Are the iPhoto versions copies, or simply pointers to the same files? (switcher here, btw). Thanks.

Hi Steve,
Yes, you can trash the ones on the desktop. iPhoto copies all images into its database.
More info for you...
--First thing to know and remember is this...Do not drag any images, folder of images into the iPhoto Library in the Finder. Images have to be imported into iPhoto within the application. Do not scan images and save them into the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder. Save them to another location such as the Pictures folder or even the desktop. You can then import them into iPhoto.
--You have a folder of images on your hard drive and want to import them into iPhoto. Drag the folder of images into an open iPhoto Library window and the folder of photos will be copied into the library, resulting in a new roll with the name of the folder. You now have two copies of those photos, the ones in iPhoto's database and the ones on your desktop. You can keep the ones on your desktop that you just imported as backup or you can delete that folder.
-- you scan a picture/pictures and save it in a folder. You cannot scan directly into iPhoto or the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder.
You want all your photos in iPhoto so you import them into iPhoto.
Now you have two copies of that picture/pictures, so you can delete the originals that were in the scanned folder and keep the one/ones that were imported into iPhoto.
-- You download pictures from your camera into iPhoto.
There is now one copy of each of the pictures.
You want to change something about a picture you imported, such as
cropping it or changing the size, or changing the orientation.
Once you do that to a picture, you now have two copies of the picture
in iPhoto, the original and the edited one. The edited one will be in the library organize view. The original is packed away in an Original folder in your iPhoto Library folder under the date of the roll. You can always revert to the original by control clicking on the photo and choose "revert to orginal" You will not have this choice if you used iPhoto Diet to get rid of the Originals.
(a quick note on cropping within iPhoto...when you are in edit mode, you automatically will be in the crop mode with cross hairs to highlight the crop area. To finish cropping you must click the crop button and then go back to library view and your cropped picture will be there.
3.You want to use Photoshop or another graphic program to edit a picture in your iPhoto library.
You can open up prefs for iPhoto and choose "when double clicking on
photo ..do" choose "other" and select Photoshop. Now you can edit all
pictures in your iPhoto library in PhotoShop by double clicking. If you save the photo with the same name and as a flattened file it will be saved right into iPhoto and you will see the changes. If you don't want to save it into iPhoto then do a "save as" and save to the desktop. You will then have the original photo still in iPhoto and your new edited photo on the desktop.
Or, with iPhoto open, you can drag a picture from the library window
to your desktop (you see a + sign on the pic you are dragging). You now
have two of the same picture, one in the iPhoto library and one on your desktop. You can open up the one on your desktop in any graphic program and work on it. The one in iPhoto stays the same. You can also share/export the picture/pictures to your desktop or folder to work on them or do batch processing, etc. You will still have the originals in your iPhoto Library.
Or, you can open up the ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/folders and option drag any
picture out of the folder to your desktop. Notice that you will see a plus sign while dragging the photo. This is copying the file to your desktop
I would advise anyone not to do this as they might forget to use the option key and drag the photo out. Next time you open iPhoto the photo will be missing.
Two Apple kbs for you to read
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=

IPhoto is changing resolution and image quality

I am currently and for the first time using iPhoto 6 to produce a book - a feature within the application. I have edited my images in Photoshop, some have not needed to be so they have simply been saved as either high-res JPGS or TIFFS. On importing them into iPhoto selected images are downsizing and stating that they are not big enough to print - this I know is not true as they are adequatley large enough for printing to A0 minimum at 300 dpi. There are also a select few that are changing in image quality - the colours are looking either bleached out or over-exposed and they have lost their original quality. When opening the exact files in Photoshop they are correctly exposed, perfect colours, sizes etc. If I am to try and 'retouch' them within iPhoto I can resume some of their quality but it seems through the transition into importing inot the application they are being corrupted.
Can anyone assist me as its driving me mad!!!
Thanks

What is the color space of the photos in photoshop?
In iPhoto Preferences, Advanced, do you have it set to add ColorSync Profile?
BTW, the 72 ppi (pixels per inch) is irrelevant. iPhoto defaults to reporting 72 ppi because that is a typical screen resolution. What's important is the total pixel dimensions of the image, and whether that size gives you an adequate dpi (dots per inch) when printed at the designated print size. So, while the image looks great on-screen in photoshop, that doesn't mean that it will be adequate for printing in a book. But you are right - you shouldn't see a significant shift in color when importing into iPhoto.
Regards.

Lion corrupting EXIF information when importing into iPhoto '09?

Hello,
I use DXO to process my RAW images and get them into iPhoto '09.
Since the upgrade from Snow Leopard, my JPG pictures that had perfectly valid EXIF headers before import into iPhoto
$ jhead <path_to_file_before_import>/IMG_0343_DxO.jpg
File name    : <path_to_file_before_import>/IMG_0343_DxO.jpg
File size    : 6900360 bytes
File date    : 2011:08:27 12:32:27
Camera make : Canon
Camera model : Canon EOS 600D
Date/Time    : 2011:08:14 12:58:24
Resolution   : 5184 x 3456
Flash used   : Yes (manual)
Focal length : 30.0mm (35mm equivalent: 47mm)
CCD width    : 22.99mm
Exposure time: 0.0050 s (1/200)
Aperture     : f/14.0
Focus dist. : 2.79m
ISO equiv.   : 400
Whitebalance : Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
end up with empty EXIF after the import:
$ jhead <path_to_file_after_import>/iPhoto\ Library/Originals/2011/100CANON/IMG_0343_DxO.jpg
File name    : /Users/Shared/iPhoto/iPhoto Library/Originals/2011/100CANON/IMG_0343_DxO.jpg
File size    : 6901712 bytes
File date    : 2011:08:27 18:30:39
Resolution   : 5184 x 3456
This was definitely not a problem with Snow Leopard (same iPhoto '09, I have not changed my workflow for years).
Looking at a picture I imported with Snow Leopard (different camera body, but I checked with both):
$ jhead <path_to_file_after_import>/iPhoto\ Library/Originals/2010/Oslo\ 17\ Mai/_MG_7938_DxO.jpg
File name    : /Users/Shared/iPhoto/iPhoto Library/Originals/2010/Oslo 17 Mai/_MG_7938_DxO.jpg
File size    : 10757229 bytes
File date    : 2010:05:24 15:59:41
Camera make : Canon
Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Date/Time    : 2010:05:17 09:47:17
Resolution   : 3456 x 2304
Flash used   : No
Focal length : 300.0mm (35mm equivalent: 486mm)
CCD width    : 22.20mm
Exposure time: 0.0031 s (1/320)
Aperture     : f/8.0
ISO equiv.   : 200
Whitebalance : Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure     : shutter priority (semi-auto)
Anybody noticing the same issue?

hi djiti,
DXO up to date,
Lion up to date,
iPhoto up to date (? I want to hear you say yes),
I am at a loss.
Some apps do not read the same info in the same place in the exif: iPhoto reads the "Creation Date" from "modification date" created in another app, for example; I use "A Better Attributes" app, to change the Exif in that case. But I have never seen that the Exif is "corrupted" by a photo app.
Lex (I use iPhoto, and Photoshop Lightroom, know about DxO and Aperture but only a little experience)

Where can I find my photos I've imported into iPhoto in Finder

Can anyone tell me where to find the physical location of my pictures that I've imported into iPhoto?

I've backed up my MacBook with Time Machine because I've just purchased a new MacBook Air. Since I have less hard drive space I wanted to transfer only some of the pictures.
Be very careful now.
Time Machine is a rolling back up. It's not an archive. If you restore only part of the Library then eventually the remainder of the Library will be deleted.
To do what you want you'll need an external Hard Drive not used for Time Machine.
Here's one way to do what you want:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
You can keep the Library on the external updated with new imports using iPhoto Library Manager
As to the location of the Photos:
By default, your photos are stored in the iPhoto Library in your Pictures Folder.
Since iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is a Package File. This is simply a folder that +looks+ like a file in the Finder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
Want to look inside? Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Standard Warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things,, deleting them or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
FYI:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

Importing into iPhoto 09

My photo folders are organized alphabetically, I prefer to have folders where I store my image folders and to link that folder to iPhoto. Is there a way to import into iPhoto where I can keep this arrangement? I believe every time I import into iPhoto it imports directly into the iPhoto library file. I also store all of my folders & library file on a Network Attached Storage device.
Thank you So much for any advice.

Simply go to iPhoto Menu -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck 'Copy Files to the iPhoto Library on Import'.
Now iPhoto will not copy the files, but rather simply reference them on your HD. To do this it will create an alias in the Originals Folder that points to your file. It will still create a thumbnail and, if you modify the pics, a Modified version within the iPhoto Library Folder.
However, you need to be aware of a number of potential pitfalls using this system.
1. Import and deleting pics are more complex procedures
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
Always allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers.
If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you're concerned about accessing the files, there are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
I also store all of my folders & library file on a Network Attached Storage device.
iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
Regards
TD

Photos do not import at correct size - help!!

I'm a long-time user of Keynote since v.1, now using 6.1 on Maveriacks (10.9.1).
I make custom size presentations to size natively on my 1400 x1050 projector.
I've created and sized a batch of jpgs in Photoshop to be 1050 x 1050 square in order for them to display at full height in the presentation (centered on the slide).
When I drag and drop the images into the Navigator, the photos show up on each slide resized to 240 x 240. If I import them remotely via Command-Shift-V, the same thing happens. Same if importing from iPhoto.
In previous versions, the photos would import at their native size. I can't figure out any way to make this happen in 6.1. Manually resizing 500 photos on each individual slide (and then centering them on each slide, as you can't resize from the center) would be a major PITA.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

That worked, Gary, thanks. I see no reason to make this a new requirement, but Photoshop actions at least make it do-able.
And Apple, if you make a change like this, at least put it somewhere in the documentation!
Thanks again.

Once my pictures are imported by iPhoto, where are they on my hard-drive?

Once my pictures are imported by iPhoto, where are they on my hard-drive?

You don't go that way.
iPhoto is a database, and you need to use the tools provided to access the data:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

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