IPhoto ´11 retouch issues

Long time since I have been up here but for once I have to blow out some steam regarding my trustworty macs.... I have many..
The one I'm currently working on is a alomst brand spanking new 10.8.2 Retina Power book 15" - my 5th laptop in additon to my Power macs.
Anyway - I have basically been using Photoshop for all of my pics but now with the new PB Pro I thought I should try out iPhoto ( which has been for me a program which is like iTunes- it keeps record of my pics but thats it).
Now, my wife is keen on getting a new iMac for pic and movie editing and I thougth I should try out the "i" products before I shell out the $ for a new machine and claim that she "only need whats comes with the machine"....
Diving in to "iPhoto" - after scanning a B&W pic on a scanner I experience the following :
1.-Import file by drag and dropping in to iPhoto from original scan location.
2.-Edit the file using "retouch" - A LOT. A lot of noise in the pic from a normal scan (not from my negative scanner - normal desctop).
3.-Done a lot of work.
4.-Hitting "edit" in between to make sure the program keeps track.
5.-More editing
6.-More editing
7.-Then exclamation mark ! when trying to "save"...
Going back to 1 and trying to do "going back" more often - return to 7.
I have now done this MANY times and I for the first time in long- feels that this post is needed and say THIS $UCKS !
Yes - I have "command+option" clicked iPhoto and tried every "solution" - no difference at all... The only thing I can do is
drop my file from my scan location and back in to iPhoto and start all over again...
If iPhoto is ment as a "editing program" then for Gods sake make it work like one - if not leave the editing options AWAY...
For the record - files was scanned in 1200's resolution and saved as Jpg2000.
There is nothing like having a brand spanking new machine, latest OS, latest "iPackage" and it don't work as supposed to. I guess I have to
add a PS package to the bundle and show here how this works to make here edit here pics:-(
Boy I'm frustrated after spending X hours on trying to get this work...
N

To convert your grayscale photos to color RGB download the Automator workflow script, Convert to JPG and Embed sRGB profile, from Toad's Cellar and unzip it. Drag a copy of your grayscale photos onto the application. After they have been converted import them into iPhoto. Try it on just one at first to confirm that it will work for you.
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Stanley Horwitz wrote:
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One the chance that it might be a preference file in your account that is the culprit first start with this:
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
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
or with Lion and Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE 1: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
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.
If that doesn't do the job it could be a preference file other than iPhoto's. Here's how to test that:
Trouble Shooting Preferences
NOTE: 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.
1 - close all applications.
2 - open your Home/Library folder and Option-drag (copy) the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
3 - select the contents of your Home/Library/Preferences folder and drag them into the Trash bin in the Dock. You will be asked to provide your Admin password.
4 - reboot.
5 - run the application again and determine if the problems is fixed
6 - If the problem is fixed:
A - open the working Home/Library/Preferences folder.
B - Open the Preferences folder on the Desktop, select all of the contents and drag them into the working Home/Library/Preferences folder.
C - When the Copy window pops up check the "Apply to All" check box and then click on the Don't Replace or Skip button.
D - reboot.
7 - If the problem is NOT fixed, drag the contents of the Preference folder on the Desktop into the Home/Library/Preference folder and replace the entire contents that were created by clicking on Replace.
8 - reboot.

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I have a migration issue with iPhoto 11 due to a boot drive crash.
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10. I then did an option-click, and chose to open the main library. I did that, but nothing changed.
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I have imported my library database file and all of my 25,000 photos into a clean install of iPhoto 11. All of the events are imported, but all of the photos appear in the very first event. All of the other events are populated with the correct number of photos, but none of the actual photos have been linked.
You can not "Import" an old iPhoto library into another iPhoto library - it is not the way it works - if your old iPhoto library is available you simply place it in the pictures folder and launch iPhoto - no importing involved
you can not piece together an iPhoto library - which is why having a backup up is critical to avoid lost data
If your iPhoto library is not available as a single entity then you will have to start over and create a new library and import the photos into it losing all edits, metadata changes, etc
And if the future remember to always backup soon and often -it is the only way to avoid data loss due to failures - hardware, software and/or human
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Regarding the locations see my post HERE.
Can't help you with faces as I don't use that feature.
Happy Holidays

Aperture & iPhoto referenced library issues

Hi,
For the last couple of days I've been busy trying to get my Aperture library to work properly. I recently started using a referenced library because of lack of space on my internal ssd. I've generated previews on all of my 40000 photos. I can see all of my Projects, thumbnails, metadata etc. when my external drive is disconnected. However, there are two major issues:
1) Most of the video thumbnails are broken, both in Aperture and iPhoto. By double clicking a thumbnail of a video (.mov, .avi etc.) it sometimes starts playing, sometimes it doesn't, totally inconsistent. I can export the video and it works just fine.
2) While using iPhoto with the external drive disconnected, all Events are there, the thumbnails are there, everything looks ok, but I can only view some of the previews/photos after double clicking the thumbnails. A dialogue opens up saying "The volume for [imagefilename] cannot be found. Insert the disk or connect to the server volume..", but I can actually see the full size preview behind this dialogue. By clicking "Cancel" the photo dissapears and is replaced by a black screen with a grey exclamation mark. This does not occur while using Aperture, I can see all of my previews in full glory when the external drive is disconnected. However, with the external drive connected everything works in iPhoto (except above mentioned issue with videos).
Please boys and girls, help me out with this!
System information
OS: Maverick 10.9.1
Aperture: 3.5.1
iPhoto: 9.5.1
Thanks!
//Michel

I don;t use iPhoto much so I'm no expert but looking at other posts asking a similar question sems to indicate iPhoto is not capable of doing this.
See Can iPhoto view pictures on a disconnected external drive in a unified photo library? for one example.
Again if Aperture is working correctly on the referenced images on the disconnect drive and iPhoto is not you will need to ask the iPhoto folks.
regards

IPhoto 6 - Import issue, hangs at end

Folks, any help with this would be much appreciated.
I installed iLife 06 and all went well, other than the "recovered photos" issue which others have mentioned - no biggie as there were only 3.
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The import will hang for ages (hours, not seconds), and I can't stop it using the stop import button, nor can I quit iPhoto (hoping it will tidy up).
After 30mins+ of waiting, a couple of times, I've force-quit iPhoto. When opening again, the pics aren't in the library - but looking with the finder they do all exist in the originals folder, and the data folder.
A total rebuild of the library fails to include the pics.
Anyone else had this? I'm a pretty vanilla user - I haven't mucked about in my old iPhoto 5 library at all etc...
One related question - the following files are in my iPhoto Library - judging by their dates (I installed iLife on Jan 24) and names, are some old iPhoto 5 files?
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Feb 5 22:17 Library6.iPhoto
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Feb 5 22:20 Thumb64Segment.data
Feb 5 22:20 ThumbJPGSegment.data
Feb 5 22:17 iPhoto.ipspot
Jan 24 21:15 iPhotoLock.data
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Jonathan:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The albums folder is a carryover from the V4 days and is no longer useful. You can trash it. Albums are now identified and linked within the AlbumData.xml file with no aliases being used any more.
The Library6.temp is not normally in a library folder. It's probably left over from one of your forced quits and can be deleted.
How much free space do you have on your HD? Have you tried rebuilding the library? Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. I'd select the first three options.

File management advice for iphoto avoiding space issues

I've just returned form a full OS crash and want to rethink my workflow approach.
I have about 50Gb of RAW & Jpeg files to re import. This will not rise more than 20% over the year. Before switching from PC to MBP I used Adobe Bridge/CS for file mgt & editing. But on switching to Macs last yr I got soon sucked in by the simplicity of iphoto. Sure, it's toy like but it's **** food at what it does and if you're just intermediate dslr snapper like me with limited time, it's okay.
BUT before I go back to it, and quickly run out of space - can someone advise on best workflow/storage option considering I don't want to invest in Aperture or others.
So what shall I do?
1) Keep my entire collection on on an external drive (with additional DVD backup for safety) and keep another smaller library of recent stuff on the MBPro (thus using 2 libraries with Library Mgr http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/). Is this safe? Any issues or guidance?
OR
2) Use Adobe Bridge to manage raw files and only import the final jpegs into iphoto for browsing showcasing etc. This would help keep the duplicates down in iphoto
Any ideas welcome.

James
I would go for option one - multiple libraries managed with iPhoto Library Manager. IPLM will also help you move files between libraries. I see no safety issues. I can see no advantage to using iPhoto for one set up and Bridge for the other. I always think you should keep things simple.
Regards
TD

IPhoto/Photoshop/RAW issues

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a solution to this.
I've started shooting raw with my Canon 450D. iPhoto seems to be able to import these files without any issues.
I want to be able to edit these files in Photoshop as editing them in iPhoto defeats the purpose of shooting raw.
What I'm doing is control clicking on a raw photo in iPhoto and choosing "edit in external editor". This brings the photo into Photoshop opening the raw editing dialog box. Perfect.
Then the trouble starts - where to from here? If I make adjustments in the Photoshop raw editor and click "done", the image is not updated in iPhoto. If I do a "save as" and try and import a jpeg or tiff or so on into iPhoto, it won't allow this because there is already an image with that filename in there. I can save a jpeg to the desktop and rename the file, import this into iPhoto but then I would have to delete the raw file because I don't want two of the same image in there. I also notice if I save my raw file out from Photoshop as a tiff or psd and put it in iPhoto, iPhoto will change the date and time to a random date and time which is neither the time the photo was shot or the time I saved it out in Photoshop.
Anyway all of these things are incredibly cumbersome, there must be an easier way, right?
Cheers, Darren

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Terence mentioned Expression Media. I use it as my primary DAM (digital asset application) and iPhoto to create special projects, MMe galleries, books, calendars, etc.
EM is considered one of the top DAM apps. You can learn about it and other applications at The DAM Forum - Index. EM lets you manage your folders as you want, edit and write ITPC metadata to the files, has version control in editing if so desired, both with EM's editing tools or a 3rd party like Photoshop. It will be a supported on Macs.
If you want to the RAW photo in iPhoto it's best to use a 3rd party editor that is designed for raw. The downside to that is you will have to save the edited version outside of the iPhoto library and import as a new, separate file.
For what it's worth here are some tips on using PS with iPhoto:
Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements 6 the Saving File preferences should be configured: "On First Save: Save Over Current File". Also I suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always.
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: The new rebuild option in iPhoto 09 (v. 8.0.2), Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" makes this tip obsolete.

Ap3 - iPhoto: Metadata + Organizational issues

I was hoping for improved cross-app integration with the advent of Aperture 3, but apparently not. Nevertheless, I'm still curious if SOMEONE who uses both programs has figured out a way to do the following:
I want to be able to drag MULTIPLE Aperture Projects from an Aperture 3 Library (via iPhoto's "Show Aperture Library" browser window) into iPhoto, and have them then appear in iPhoto as SEPARATE Events, rather than being all lumped together into a single iPhoto Event.
ALSO, would like the name of each project to automatically become the name of each respective iPhoto Event, rather than those Events all suddenly becoming "Untitled".
AND -- in an ideal world -- would love to have the Caption information I'd entered for each image in Aperture appear in the relevant Description field in iPhoto.
Is there ANY way to do this? For now, I'm limited to dragging in one Aperture Project at a time (in order to keep each one as a separate Event in iPhoto). And if I'm lucky, SOME of the Aperture Keywords I've assigned transfer over (though curiously, some don't), but I'm out of luck as far as Project->Event names, as well as Caption->Description info for each image.
Other than my sending in more feature requests to both apps, can anyone suggest any paths to better metadata integration between Aperture 3 and IPhoto '09?
(BTW, the reason I'm having to do this is so my wife can use iPhoto -- whose interface she prefers -- to view our domestic image library. To do this, I maintain a backup copy of my full Aperture Library on her iMac, and then import the previews it contains into her iPhoto Library, with iPhoto's "copy" option turned off. This in effect allows her to use iPhoto simply as an image viewer, which is all she wants to do.)
Thanks,
John Bertram,
Toronto
(If this question would be more appropriate for the iPhoto forum, please let me know and I'll switch it over.)

Alan Williams wrote:
IPhoto lacks the more comprehensive Metadata options that are present in Aperture. Presumably iPhoto is aimed at family use rather than as an outright professional toolbox. This is what I think limits your metadata from carrying over. Where it does carry over, could that be because the Keyword is present in both metadata dictionaries? Just a thought.
You could be right on the Keyword question -- I'll check that one later.
Part of my Ap3<->iPhoto frustration is that the kind of metadata I'm talking about -- things like Project/Event names and Caption/Description text -- is stuff I've entered using the Apple interface, as opposed to the very detailed kind of camera metadata which Aperture ingests when importing.
It seems like this kind of user-defined, user-entered, and user-editable info -- what I'll call "soft" metadata -- should be tranferrable from one Apple image program to another Apple image program, their different (though certainly overlapping) target audiences notwithstanding.
And I seem to recall that when I first set up my Aperture Library in the Fall of 2008, I had the same issue going the other way -- Aperture, for all its sophistication, seemed incapable of automatically naming Projects the same as the Event names it was importing, and couldn't seem to transfer the iPhoto Description info I'd entered for specific images (some of it fairly detailed) into the appropriate Caption field in Aperture.
Automator might have offered you a solution to Event building if you had used albums in your Aperture Projects. Since you use folders I cannot see an option that will import those into iPhoto. The drawback with using such a method is the export processing time involved.
Another hitch with my particular situation is that my Aperture Library is referenced to a Master Images folder on my Mac, whereas my wife's machine has a backup copy of the Ap Library only. So while the image Previews which that copy offers are plenty big enough for her viewing purposes, the Library itself doesn't have access to the Master Images folder, and therefore cannot do its own Exporting.
Since your good lady is only intending to view, I would be inclined to create desktop folders to match your Project contents and drag out the previews into those (Browser/Select All.) Then manually drop the folders into iPhoto thus automatically creating an Event named the same as the desktop folder. This means just a few moments work on each folder.
And the problem here is my very narrowly-focussed, chronological Project structure (with folders for each year, sub-folders for each month, and then individual Projects by date) makes for a Library with over 1200 Projects -- each of which needs to be seen in iPhoto as a separate Event.
Also, I can't seem to find a way to export and/or drag previews from Aperture's Browser (either in groups of Projects or even just one Project at a time) into the Finder in such a way that folders are automatically created whose names match those of the Projects. And if I would have to manually create -- and name -- each of those Finder folders before dragging previews into them from Aperture, and THEN drop those folders into iPhoto, I'm not sure what's been gained vs. manually renaming "Untitled" Events inside iPhoto itself.
But maybe I'm not completely understanding the workflow you were suggesting.
In any case, thanks for taking the time to write.
I cant think of a faster method.
Needless to say -- if you do, don't keep it a secret!
Cheers,
jb

IPhoto and iTunes issues.

Good Afternoon Everyone,
I am having some problems with my iPhoto at the moment. I have over 15,000 images in the library, and they all appear in thumbnail format under their respective dates, however when I double click on any image between roughly image 6942 and 12428 to enlarge it and look at it on full screen, a blank window is all I see, there isn't even a thumbnail of it where it should appear in full size.
Can anyone suggest what I could do to rectify this problem?
I have archive and installed the original OS X discs, as suggested by an apple store rep and it hasnt fixed the problem.
Also now iTunes gives me an error msg when I try to run it saying that it will not run with this version of OS after the reinstall. Previously, iTunes would not connect to the apple store either, and would not find the CCDB info when importing a new CD, and he also told me that an arch and inst would fix this.
Maybe a couple of probs here, but the iPhoto is the most pressing I guess.
I would appreciate any suggestions or knowledge!
Cheers Trent.

Trent
Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and right click on it. From the resulting menu select 'Show File (or 'Show Original File' if that's available). A Finder Window should open with the file selected. Does it?
As to the iTunes issue, best to pop that one over to the iTunes forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=789
Regards
TD

IPhoto 5 library issues

Hi all,
For the past three weeks, every time I try to fire up iPhoto5 I get a message that reads "The photo library was created with an unreleased version of iPhoto. Please quit and upgrade this library by opening it in iPhoto 2 or iPhoto 4."
At that point, the only option seems to be to quit out of the program. Any ideas on how to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Bill,
So far I have not seen any solution for that error message in these discussions. If you have a recent backup of your iPhoto Library folder then take the old library out of the Pictures folder and put your backup library in there (I suggest you backup the backup before you do this) Launch iPhoto and hopefully everything will be back to normal. If you don't have a backup then...
The only thing I can tell you to do right now is to create a new library and import/add to the library to reimport your images.
these are the steps:
Close iPhoto
Drag the iPhoto Library folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto
In the next window that opens choose to create a new library.
When the new empty library opens go to File/add to library
In the next window navigate to the library on your desktop and choose it.
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
You will have to redo your albums, keywords, etc.
Good luck!

IPhoto 5 Upgrade Issues

I had one issue but I thought I was smarter than the software - now I have more than 1! Any help is appreciated:
a. I upgraded to iPhoto 5.04. iPhoto went through the process to upgrade my files for reading in 5.0. This went smooth until the end when iPhoto unexpectedly quit.
b. I went through the process a couple of times with no success and iPhoto would not open because it wanted to update the formats.
c. I called support and they toldme to do a manual backup.
d. I moved my iPhoto Library, instead of copied my iPhoto Library for a backup.
e. I moved it back and made a copy.
f. iPhoto now opens because it does not see any photos in my Library even though the iPhoto library is in the picture folder.
g. The iPhoto library is in the right place now but I can't do any imports to iPhoto because the photos in 4.0 format.
Suggestions are appreciated.
IMAC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
IMAC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi DOggy Dog!
So, right now you have iPhoto working, you can open and close with no issues. It just does not see the images.
You can see the images, I am assuming through finder? If so, why don't you open an image in Preview > do a save as to desktop with a Different name > and import into iPhoto by dragging into or dropping onto iPhoto icon in your dock. If this works you can consider doing your photos this way...
Rick
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