Iphoto 11 descriptions

I use iphoto 11 at the moment. I often want to write the same description to a group of photos. Presently I write a description in one photo then select the description and copy and paste it into each photo one at a time. Is there a quicker or easier way of doing this, please?

Photos Menu -> Batch Change
Regards
TD

Similar Messages

IPhoto Event Description "Backup"

Is there a way to backup the Event Descriptions I've made in iPhoto to the appropriate folder's Spotlight folder comments?
I use a referenced library for a variety of reasons, and each Event is also a folder of the same name, so it would be a nice backup if things went south.
Note: I do regular backups through Time Machine and other external drives, but if something happened to corrupt the library or even if I decided to use another program (thus losing the descriptions from iPhoto)...

At this point, I'm just starting to make descriptions, so I could just do the copy-paste thing while I'm putting those together.
Thanks.

IPhoto image description

Recently my PB G4 hard drive crashed but fortunately I had a backup on an external drive. I have imported the iPhoto images (iPhoto 08) from the external drive to a new iMac running OS10.6.2 and iPhoto 09.
The images moved ok to the new iPhoto app however all the event titles, image titles, descriptions, keywords and input information for images and events did not transfer. How do I restore the photo descriptions and events to the new iPhoto 09 app?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You don't want to import an library into another library. You lose all of the metadata, albums, slideshows, etc. and gain duplicate files since each original, modified and thumbnail file is imported as it were an original file.
Do you have a backup of the iPhoto Library package? If so then copy it into your User/Pictures folder replacing any library there now and launch iPhoto.

IPhoto Titles & Descriptions revert while editing them.

So I've had this issue for a while, but it's only recently annoyed me enough to seek help for it.
When I'm in iPhoto, and have the 'info' tab open. Quite often when I go in and try to edit a Title or Description of a photo, half-way through editing it, it will suddenly revert back to being whatever the original version was. I find I have to type fast to make sure this doesn't happen.
Also, many times if I enter something, then click off elsewhere, it will immediately revert. Whereas keeping my cursor in the edit area, and just 'waiting' until it changes back to the non-edit widget, seems 'safer'.
Why is it doing this? Makes it very annoying to attempt to edit things.

No 3 would be my next step.
If that doesn't help:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

IPhoto 9.6 does not include photo description in export file

My system is current with OS X Yosemite 10.10.1, iPhoto 9.6, Preview 8.0
The caption/description does not export from iPhoto. I have not exported files from previous iPhoto versions expecting the file to contain the iPhoto Caption/Description. This is a s/w feature that I want to use starting today and forward.
The caption/description for my test file is "Test Description". I have carried out the steps required to export the file (see below). The actual result is that the file caption/description is "EPSON scanner image" and not the expected result of "Test Description".
Is this a known problem? Any suggestions or information is appreciated.

The title has been exported, as your screenshot is showing: It has been exported as the "Title" field:
For the "description" tag click the "Tiff" tab in Preview's Inspector.
You can also see the description in the "File > Get Info" panel.

Disbelief over iPhoto description support

Hello All,
I have been reading articles and looking through forums for an answer as to how I would include the descriptions entered into the iPhoto's "Description" field of a photo's "Info" space in the iWeb copy of the photo. To my disbelief all I can find are statements of regret that it can't be done and crazy work arounds like a script that batch copies the description to the photo's title field. That's actually a clever idea, but it's crazy it would have to be done and goes against the labels for those fields making it counter intuitive.
So that this isn't just a rambling complaint I'll ask again here, is there no way to include an iPhoto image description in iWeb? I notice doing this is a somewhat buried feature in MobileMe galleries, so it must be possible in iWeb. I've put a lot of work into telling the story of my pictures in the description fields, I'm really hoping this effort isn't actually pointless.

Currently that's the nature of the beast(s), iWeb and iPhoto. Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html. Also send one to iPhoto by replacing iweb.html with iphoto.html.
Since the photos do not actually contain the descriptions entered by iPhoto until they are exported out of iPhoto with the option to include the metadata, a fix will require some method for iWeb to read the iPhoto database file where the descriptions are stored.
The more feedback regarding that description field the better chance of seeing it implemented in some future update.
Another workaround would to be to use Jalbum with a skin/theme that includes the ITPC fields of your choice, description/caption being one of them, for the slideshow/presentation.
OT

IPhoto metadata field for description?

I'm looking for the name of the iptc metadata tag that iPhoto would recognize and import into the description field. I'm writing a script that will move the descriptions from an incompatibly named field from another program.
I initially commented some 20k pictures on my old windows machine in a piece of proprietary canon software called "Zoom Browser." When I imported these into iPhoto, the descriptions were missing. Using ExifTool, I discovered that they were placed in a field called "UserComment" in the JPEGs. I'm hoping that there exists a field that iPhoto would recognize and automatically import into the description field. I tested a file that I labeled with a description in iPhoto, and I couldn't find my test description in ExifTool, so this worries me somewhat.
Thanks in advance!

It's the Caption-Abstract field. I just exported/ writing the Description to the file, then re-imported. This is what Exif tool found on the Exported file:
Upon re-import this was read into the Description field.
Regards
TD

New folder in iphoto

I created a new folder in iphoto to transfer some photos from the iphoto library.
1. after transferring to the new folder why is the photo still in the library?
2. why is it that when i delete the photo in the library, the same photo in the new folder is deleted too?
3. how should i minimise the photos in the iphoto library then? because too many photos will slow down the start up of iphoto

First, you should these two Apple KB documents, particularly the second one:
iPhoto Library Description
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder
The folder you're creating (and showing up in the Source window) is called an album and is just an tool for organizing photos within iPhoto. It will only contain aliases to the real photos in the main library. Aliases take up very little disk space, about 4kb. You can delete a photo from an album without removing it from the library but, as you've found out, if you delete a photo from the main library all instances of that photo will be removed.
To help speed up the startup of iPhoto keep all the rolls closed except when your working in iPhoto. To open or close all at the same time just Command or Option click on one roll and the all will either open or close.
When you're working in iPhoto if your keep the size down, maybe no more that 5 per row, that will facilitate speedier operation. Also turn off the drop shadow option in iPhoto's preferences.
By minimizing the photos if you mean deleting some to save HD space, about the only thing you can do is to use iPhoto Diet to remove the original file of those you've edited. The danger to that, however, is if you've cropped a file to a smaller size for a particular reason and you remove the original, you can never regain the full size file for other purposes. If the edit is only for red eye or something that does not change the size and you're absolutely satisfied with that version then removing the original would not be limiting.
If you're looking to regain some real estate on your HD here's a couple of things you can do:
1 - run either Cache Out, OnyX or Mac Sweeper to clean out the various cache and archived log files.
2 - run DeLocalizer to remove the unneeded language modules. I saved 900+MB the first time I ran it. It will run under Panther.
Good luck.
OT

How do I get my iPhoto 4 images and albums into iPhoto5?

Thought for sure I would find a FAQ listing for this but can't find it anywhere. I copied all my albums and images from CD back up into iPhoto5. But when I log out and log in and open iPhoto5 none of my old images and albums are there. I do see imported libraries for 2002, 2003, 2004 but they are empty. Sorry if this question is redundant (which I'm sure it is) but since I can't find a FAQ file anywhere…
Also, I have a G5 iMac at home and a dual G5 at work. Any way to specify which is which in profile

Richard:
So you only have jpg files on those CDs, right? There are no other data files, album folder, etc. in there.
I copied all my albums and images from CD back up into iPhoto5.
By that do you mean you dragged them from the CDs into the open iPhoto window? If you dragged them into the iPhoto Library folder then that's the wrong way to do it. You must import the image files into iPhoto from outside the iPhoto Library folder. Along those lines here are two Apple KB documents that you should be aware of, particularly the second one:
iPhoto Library Description
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder
What happened to your original iPhoto 4 library folder? Do you still have it intact? If you do then you can place it in your Pictures folder, launch iPhoto 5 and it will find it and tell you it needs to convert the library to version 5. Once done you should have your library converted you'll have everything back up and running, including the albums, rolls, keywords, etc.

Geotagging with iPhoto and Flickr

Question in a quick and detailed version:
(quick version: )
What do you all think is the best way to geotag photos that are already stored in your iPhoto library? If you have a workflow involving iPhoto, geotagging, and possibly uploading to flickr or some sort of image sharing site like that, please post it!
(detailed version:)
I recently discovered geotagging, thanks to Flickr adding the new "map" function, whereby you can drag and drop your flickr photos onto a yahoo map. This is great and all, but it only affects the images I have on flickr. . . it does nothing for the EXIF data of my images I have stored in iPhoto.
Basically, my goal is to not have to do anything twice. I want to be able to geotag my photos once. . . write a caption/description for my photos once, apply iPhoto keywords to the photos once, then upload to flickr and have all the caption and tag (=flickr version of keyword) and geotag data already applied by the time the photo hits the web.
My current workflow:
-Import photos from camera directly into iPhoto
-Make subset album of best photos which I will later upload to flickr
-In iPhoto, write descriptions and apply keywords to each of those best photos
-Use the FlickrExport plugin to get those photos onto flickr.
-Once photos are in flickr, use flickr's "map" function to drag and drop photos to their location.
Pros of my workflow: Now I have keywords (= tags in flickr) and captions both in iPhoto AND on Flickr, and I only had to apply and write these once.
Cons: While my flickr photos are now geotagged on the web site, my photos in iPhoto remain locationless.
I have googled around and learned a bit about applications like Geotagger, which lets you assign lat/lon/altitude information to your photos (jpegs only, I think) using GoogleEarth BEFORE you import the photos into iPhoto. Basically this adds lat/lon/alt values to your photos EXIF data, but you have to do this before importing the photo into iPhoto, because iPhoto only reads the EXIF data into its cache once (when the photo is imported). Hence, if you imported your photos into iPhoto first, and then used Geotagger, the original photo's EXIF data WOULD be updated, but iPhoto would not DISPLAY (or possibly export) that EXIF data properly.
Ideally, I'd love to geotag my photos after they have already been imported into iPhoto. Geotagging before importing to iPhoto is obviously an option, but it means I have to look at a list of photos in the finder, open them one by one in Preview or something so I know which image it is and where it is, THEN use geotagger to geotag. . . THEN import them to iPhoto. It would be more convenient to do this geotagging after I've already imported the pics into iPhoto and used the nice gui to decide which pics I want to geotag in the first place.
Also, if I want to go back and geotag photos that I imported into my iPhoto library several years ago, there does not appear to be a way to do that at all without exporting the photo, geotagging, and re-importing it. If I do that, then the newly re-imported and geotagged photo will no longer have the description/caption or keywords that I spent all that time applying some time in the past, and I have extra work on my hands! Ugh. Why doesn't iPhoto support geotagging? This seems like something Apple should have thought of.

Mike G.:
Yes, iPhoto has had fields in its "show photo info" windows for lat/lon/alt for a while now. It gets all this photo info from the EXIF data that exists in the jpeg before you import it into iPhoto. This EXIF data is written to your photo file by your digital camera, usually. When you import the photo file into iPhoto, the program reads in the EXIF data (time photo was taken, exposure, f-stop, etc.) and populates the fields in iPhoto's "show photo info" windows.
Hence, if you already have lat/lon/alt data in the EXIF of your photo file BEFORE you import it into iPhoto, then iPhoto will populate those fields upon import.
The "bug" in iPhoto, however, is that the EXIF file is never again refreshed after the photo has been imported. That is, if you import a photo, then manually go and and change the EXIF data in that original photo file (not in iPhoto), then the EXIF data will have been changed, but iPhoto won't know about it. It will just show you the cached EXIF info that it grabbed when it first imported the file.
Hence, if you want iPhoto to show you the lat/lon/alt data, you have to geotag BEFORE you import. OR, if you've already imported a non-geotagged photo, you can export that file, geotag it outside of iPhoto, and then re-import. But then, of course, you have to re-apply all the keywords and caption information to the newly re-imported photo. (pain in the butt!)
Of course, this is all sort of nitpicky: my only complaint is that iPhoto doesn't SHOW you the lat/lon exif data if you geotag after iPhoto import. But that lat/lon data IS still in the photo file. You can see this by using the iPhoto Flickr plugin to upload your geotagged photo to Flickr: when it shows up in flickr, the photo will have its lat/lon info and be properly placed on the map.
I just think it would be nice if you could see your geotagged photos lat/lon info in iPhoto without having to go to so much trouble.

Hipstamatic lens/film/flash info in iPhoto '11?

I can create a smart album and match "any text" "contains" a certain Hipstamatic film/lens/flash and iPhoto '11 v.9.1.5 finds all photos taken with i.e. the John S Lens. But the only way to view that information is via File/Reveal in Finder/Original File (for which there is no keyboard short cut), open the photo in Preview, select Tool/Show Inspector and look under More Info/TIFF. All the information is listed there under "Software".
Unfortunately Apple doesn’t give access to the "Software" field of the meta data when creating a smart album so one has to use "any text", which doesn’t seem to allow to create a smart album for "Banko Film" that doen’t also contain all "Blanko Noir Film" photos since one can’t successfully use "does not contain" with the "any text" option nor can one use "Album" "is not" with an other smart album.
So this methode doesn’t bring me the full result.
If I copy the text from the "Software" meta data field to the "Discription" field of iPhoto '11 I can create a smart album for "Blanko Film" that doesn’t contain "Blanko Noir Film" photos. And even more importantly I can then easily see all that information for each photo in iPhoto’s Info pane.
But I can’t find a way to automate that copy process. Automator.app doesn’t seem to offer this feature.
Does anyone have any solution to get this to work in iPhoto? Either get the "Software" meta data information copied into iPhoto’s Description field or any other solution to show the lens/film/flash info from Hipstamatic in iPhoto?

Yeah I was looking into Lyn. I posted a similar thread under the Aperture forum as I am an Aperture user. I haven't used iPhoto in over 3 years. I just liked the organizing methods easier in Aperture. Anyway, that's for a different thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5213862
Lyn looks pretty good and does more than give you metadata. But $20 bucks is $20 bucks nowadays and seems to be overkill for what I needed. Old Toads recommendation and use of freeware EXIF VIEWER does the trick.
However, i still feel Aperture should be able to do this within it's own program!!!
Cheers....

IPhoto importing other databases

Hi,
I'm considering to switch to Apple once they release a G5 type of computer with Intel micros and I imagine there are very high chances that I will end up using iPhoto to organize my pictures.
At the moment I do not have any database to organize them and my pictures are getting out of hand so I thought I would need to get a picture organizer for my current Windows computer but before doing that I would like to check if iPhoto can import any database from another app so that I do not have to redo all keywords when I switch.
I've been looking in the forums and faqs with no luck and Apple does not have an online version of iPhoto's user manual. Could somebody help me with this question?
Thanks,
Alejandro

Alejandro:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. In addition to Sam's comments I'll add that any keywords or comments you might try to add to your photos on your PC will not be carried over to iPhoto. It copies the photos into it's own unique folder system and you have to add the keywords, etc. once it's in iPhoto.
Here are two Apple KB documents that you should be aware of, particularly the second one:
iPhoto Library Description
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
OT

Lost ? 2000 photo's in iphoto

Hallo
I've a big problem.
When I start iphoto, in the libary are 6500 photos.
But, normal there must be 8500 photos.
If I look in the system and than over picture, libary,year,date.....than i can see all the 8500 photos. But in the program only 6500 photos i kann see.
Where is my mistake.
Thank you for help me and sorry my english.

koala64:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
But, normal there must be 8500 photos.
Where are you seeing the 8500 image files that only show up as 6500 in iPhoto?
When did you first notice this discrepancy? Have you renamed or moved any of the image files or folder inside the iPhoto Library folder while in the Finder?
In that vein here are two Apple KB documents that you should be aware of, particularly the second one:
iPhoto Library Description
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder
Get back with those answers and any other info describing what's transpired and we'll see where to go from there.

Data lost when exporting from iPhoto?

When exporting photos from iPhoto, the descriptions of the photos (here bird and animal names) get lost. Is this true, or are we doing it incorrectly?
Thanks!
Ed

It depends on how you exported. To get the ITPC fileds written to the file it must be exported via File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option with Kind = JPEG and the two checkboxes checked:
That will embed the metadata into the exported file.
OT

IPhoto + Photoshop how to sort /use both (workflow needed)

Hello, I love IPhoto for viewing and Photoshop CS2 for editing. However it seems since Iphoto will only import photos into the IPhoto library I have a problem with control over the folders and files.
How are other people using the two together?
For example I like to keep my originals in one folder. Go there and make edits and save in another folder.
I would like to open IPhoto and point it to only all my edits for viewing and creating slideshow ect.
But then on another day open it and then point it to only my orginals so i can choose what pictures to edit again
Is there another program like Picasso that is just a good viewer that doesnt need to touch the folder structure I already have, or know a good workflow?

I use Photoshop exclusively for all my editing from within iPhoto. But you have to live with iPhoto's folder system: iPhoto Library Description. To use PS from within iPhoto go to iPhoto's preferences and in the General Pane under the Double-click photo section select "Opens photo in:" Then navigate to PS and select it.
Now when you double click on a photo PS will open and you can edit. The only caveat to that is if you create a layered or otherwise edited file that requires converting to ".psd" you must save it to the desktop and import it back into iPhoto. From then on you can edit and save all you want. To just save it into the folder where the original file was opened is tantamount to committing the cardinal sin of iPhoto: Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder.
If you want to use both PS and Apple and don't want to have to click on the Edit button go get into the iPhoto edit mode you can just reselect the Changes to edit view in the preferences and then Control-click on the photo and select "Edit in external editor". That way you can have the best of both worlds at your fingertips.
OT

Iphoto 11 descriptions

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for