Importing photos plus edited versions

I have a bunch of photos in folders that I'd like to import into iPhoto '11. Many of the photos have already been non-destructively edited in another application. Hence, now there are many pairs of photos, e.g., foo.jpg and foo_edited.jpg.
If I import these into iPhoto, is there any way to tell it that foo_edited.jpg is the edited version of foo.jpg, i.e., associate them together such that, although foo.jpg is in iPhoto, when viewing photos, only foo_edited.jpg shows up?

No
That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.
LN

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Hello
I have had to reinstall PhotoShop Elements and re-import ALL my photos. In some cases I have 3 or 4 versions of the same photo appearing in the new catalogue, where I have edited the original.
Is there an easy way to re-build the version sets without manually deleting all of the old versions from the catalogue? I have about 1000 to get through!
Mark

Mark
Barb Olsen has posted this link before on how to manually make version sets. Its kind of sleight of hand and labor intensive http://photofanatic.com/topics/add_version.php
Also, if you are just trying to group the images together, you could use the stack command without having to do any editing. This would reduce the visual clutter (three photos would show as one). Might be one idea if you don't want to do any editing.

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I used my laptop to edit photos I took this week while on vacation. I'm looking for the most convenient way to import them from my laptop to my desktop including the edits. Basically don't want to re-edit the photos. Whats the best way? I'm running LR3 3.5 and OSX 10.7.1 (Lion) on both computers.
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Mike

Are the photos imported into both computers’ LR catalogs, yet, and/or is it your intent to make this a one-way transfer from laptop to desktop, or are you wanting to work with the photos in both places from here on out?
If it is a one-way transfer and they only exist in the laptop’s LR catalog, then select all the photos you want to transfer—perhaps use a collection so you can re-select them easier, later, use (on Windows it is) LR / File / Export as Catalog to create a small, temporary LR catalog with the settings and to a flash-drive/card-in-card-reader/other external drive or across the network to a temporarily location, containing just the edits/settings of the photos in question, and then copy that catalog and the photos to the desktop, then import that small catalog into the desktop’s catalog and use Locate Missing Photos from one of the thumbnails to re-hook-up the photos if the paths are different between the to computers.
A slightly less useful alternative because it doesn’t contain ALL the settings in LR, is to write XMP files for all the photso in question, then copy the photos and XMP files over to the desktiop, then import the photos into the desktop catalog, where it’ll pick up the current edits from the XMP files.
If you already have the current photos in both locations, then if you can keep track of what you’re doing well enough, either remove the exact set of photos from the desktop and import them, again, using one of the two procedures, above, or you can copy the XMP files over from the laptop and re-read all the metadata for the photos to get their edits up-to-date.
If the photos are supposed to be moved from the laptop to the desktop, then after you’re satisfied they are safely on the desktop, you should remove them from the laptop to avoid confusion. If all the photos on the laptop’s LR are moving, then just delete the catalog, but if only some are, then remove them from the catalog and hard-disk by deleting them using the same selection you used to export the photos or write the XMP files, earlier.
If the photos are supposed to be worked on in both places, then having the photos and LR catalog on an external drive is the only reasonable way to do this, so after consolidating all the photos into one LR catalog using the above prodedure, then copy all the photos to an external HD and copy the LR catalog as well, and tell LR to open the catalog on the external drive and re-find the missing photos because the path to the external drive isn’t the same as on the local drive, I wouldn’t think, although I’m a Windows guy so am not exactly sure. Once you are satisfied everything is working on the external drive, figure out a way to back up that external drive somewhere so if you drop it, you still have your work, and then you can remove the photos from the local drive on the desktop, unless you’ve decided that is where your backup will be.

Import photos previously edited in LR to LR on 2nd computer

I thought if I edited photos using Lightroom 2.5 on my laptop while traveling, that when I got home and imported those photos (on external HD) to my desktop Lightroom 2.6 catalog, the edits I had previously made would show up... but they did not. Shouldn't the LR editing changes be in the XMP sidecar, and travel with the import into LR on another computer? How do I work in Lightroom on two computers and not have to duplicate my workflow?

I recently finished doing just that while travelling. What I do is select all the new images in my notebook, use Export As Catalog from the File menu, and uncheck "Export negative files" as well as "Include available previews" so that I only get the .lrcat file which has all the image settings information. I then just copy the folder structure from the notebook to the workstation and use "Import from catalog" in my workstation, and presto.
I use this rather than include the images in the export so I get eveything in the original folders that may not be in the catalog without duplicating the catalogued images. Of course this works this simply only because I use the same drive and folder structure for my images both in my workstation and notebook.
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Importing into iPhoto, edited RAW photos from Photoshop CS3

I edit all my photos in Photoshop CS3. Sometimes I just batch edit many of them. But when I import these edited images, iPhoto only shows them in unedited form. How do I import these edited images into iPhoto, and yet maintain the edits.
I am a professional photographer, and the only reason I need to import these images into iPhoto, is that I use the web galleries as the viewing tool for my clients.
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coxpix:
When iPhoto imports a RAW file it creates a jpg version of it for display and editing with by iPhoto. Therefore, when you edit a RAW with CS3 you must import the new edited version, of whatever format you chose to save as, and use that one. It's the nature of the beast. All edits to RAW files when saved must be saved as a new file.
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5 - Click on the Create button.
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I just upgraded to Lion. When I import photos it imports the same photo over and over. Not even one of the photos selected!! Do you know how to fix this?

I just upgraded to Lion. I just installed iLife'11 last night. When I import photos into iMovie (version 9.0.4.) , it imports the same photo over and over as if it were the ones I selected. Not even one of the photos selected!! The thumbnais show that unselected photo, if I preview then I just see the preview screen all black.
I even tried making an iPhoto album and importing straight from there. Exact same thing. I have restarted the application, restarted the computer, and googled half-to-death. No answers.
Do any of you know how to fix this?
I am working on OS X Lion (10.7.1) , a 2009 15" MacBook Pro. 4GB Memory. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB Memory 1067 MHz DDR3.
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It is working now. I no longer get the message about the item not being available in the US and I can access the store.

Lately I've been importing photos from my iPhone and when I attempt to edit them they seem to disappear. Some reappper as a photo stream pic (some as the edited version and some not). But they no longer appear as a recent import. Lots more happens

Lately I've been importing photos from my iPhone to iPhoto and when I attempt to edit them they seem to disappear. Some reappper as a photo stream pic (some as the edited version and some not). But they no longer appear as a recent import. Lots more happens and I'm wondering if it's because I have a 5-year old Mac book or iPhoto is having issues. I'm not happy with disappearing photos especially after I've deleted them from my iphone after importing them to my macbook.
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- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can. For instance: 'iPhoto won't export' is best explained by describing how you are trying to export, and so on.
- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
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Iphoto won't quit, won't import photos, stalls while editing photos despite rebuilding the database

I have mountain lion and the newest version of iphoto. It won't quit unless I force quit it, it won't import photos, it won't let me edit photos without freezing up. I have tried rebuilding the database and repairing permissions without success

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1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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or with Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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In that case Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
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Fix #2
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3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
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5 - Click on the Create button.
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Combining original and edited versions of photos?

Is there some way to "combine" photos in iPhoto such that edits I've made outside of iPhoto register as modified versions of the original images? (I only started using iPhoto last year, but I have original and edited versions of photos from before then. The same happens if I take a photo on my iPhone and edit it via an app before importing it to iPhoto.)
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Well, I have gotten one thing to work: "edit" the original photo, save it without changes, open that file (under the Modified/ folder in my iPhoto Library), copy the modified file into that location, delete the "modified" photo and rename the actual modified file to that name, and then iPhoto sees it.
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How can i save my importing photos in iPhoto but edit in photoshop elements 11?

how can i save my importing photos in iPhoto but edit in photoshop elements 11?

You have two options:
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I purchased Lightroom 5, loaded it on my Mac, and updated to version 5.6. I then tried importing photos from my Sony DSC-RX100iii. Unfortunately it only imports JPEG files but no RAW files. What is the problem and how do I fix it?

I purchased Lightroom 5, loaded it on my Mac, and updated to version 5.6. I then tried importing photos from my Sony DSC-RX100iii. Unfortunately it only imports JPEG files but no RAW files. What is the problem and how do I fix it?

Than LR should have brought in the RAW files as well. ACR is the RAW
processing engine used by LR under the covers so anything not supported by
ACR would not be supported by Lightroom.
Are you shooting RAW plus JPEG? By default, Lightroom will stack then
unless you tell it not to. Check to see if there is a small badge on the
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Importing photos with Lightroom (5.3) edits into Photoshop CS5

I recently upgraded to Lightroom 5.3 from version 5.2. I now cannot import photos with Lightroom edits into Photosop CS5. This was not a problem in the previous version. Any advice would be appreciated.

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IPhoto 9.5.1 will not export edited versions of my photos.

I cannot export edited versions of my photos (specifically cropped photos) in iPhoto 9.5.1 using Mavericks. This is driving me nuts. I've tried duplicating the photos, saving them in different formats . . . no dice. This is very annoying. Without photo editing, iPhoto is pretty useless.

You can use 3rd party editors from within iPhoto. Here are some of those:
Some Image Editors That Support layers:
Photoshop Elements 11 for Mac - $79
Rainbow Painter - $30
Imagerie - $38
Acorn - $50
Pixelmator - $60
Seashore - Free
GIMP for Mac - Free
Xee 2.1 - free
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Note 1: screenshots are from PSE 10
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I have recently updated to iPhoto 9.2.1, more by accident I guess. In the older version of iPhoto when I imported photos and gave the event his own name (for exampample "110723 birthday son 2011"), this name was also used in the "masterfile", so I could find the file by his name ("110723 birthday son 2011") in the "masterfile" on my HD and copy and paste it from there to other computers.
In the new version the file gets stored under a seemingly random number, which does not give me any information about the content.
Is there a way to fix this? Would it be different in apperture?
Thanks
Harald

I have Iphoto '09, version 8.1.2 (424). I am having an identical problem. All my pictures are imported into Iphoto when I downloaded them from my camera. Until recently, I thought that the pictures were actually saved in the library. Since I need to crop my pictures for the web, and Iphoto doesn't do that, I purchased Photoshop Elements to do that. To my surprise, when I try to get a picture from Iphoto to Photoshop, it can't be done. That was when I realized, after wasting a lot of time, that the photos are not in the Iphoto library.
I started naming the pictures on Iphoto so I had a recognizable file name to open on Photoshop. Couldn't find it. I looked in the Backup folder and the Transfer software folder (I have a Nikon camera), and the names I entered in the Iphoto display, could not be found.
When I am trying to upload a photo to the web, I get the Finder folder showing with an active folder called "Photos" under "Media", which only displays Iphoto and PhotoBooth. This is a folder name that I cannot find in my HD anywhere when I look for it. If I edit a picture with Photoshop, I am not going to save it back to Iphoto (not sure whether it will work properly). How do I get my folder of edited photos to show when I want to upload a picture to the web?
Where (the name of the folder) do I find the pictures I see displayed on the Iphoto library, including any name changes, keywords added, and so on?

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