Iphoto preferences and editing

I have been trying to edit some of my photos and as soon as the bar with all the editing options appears, it disappears and bring me back to my catalogue. Also when I try to click on preferences, it does not respond, but all the other functions do. What is happening? My library is 4.9GB at the moment.

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder. (Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
Regards
TD

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Photoshop and elements 13 Working in iPhoto Want to edit image using photoshop elements Did the following IPhoto Preferences Advanced Edit Photos: In drop down menu chose in Photoshop Elements Also control click and chose edit in external editor Drop

Photoshop and elements 13
Working in iPhoto
Want to edit image using photoshop elements
Did the following
IPhoto>Preferences>Advanced>Edit Photos: In drop down menu chose in Photoshop Elements
Also control click and chose edit in external editor
Drop down menu edit photos in external program>photoshop Elements
Go to to the image I'm working on --- selected the image, the clicked on edit. When nothing happened I double clicked the image. Still elements didn't open. Then I opened the Elements editor, went back to iphoto and tried the entire process again. the photo still didn't open on Elements 13 for editing.
I have 3 Elements 13 books as well as looked on line--all my references say the exact same thing ---- iPhoto>Preferences>advanced>edit in external program>photoshop Elements
I uninstalled and reinstalled both iPhoto as well as Elements.
I spoke with application technical support. There appears to be nothing wrong with my copy of iPhoto. However there is no support from Adobe. I waited for over 1.5 hours for chat support several days ago, and finally gave up.

You are probably choosing the obvious file rather than the correct file as the PSE editor. The actual editor is hidden away inside the Support Files folder. The PSE file at the top level of the PSE folder in Applications is just an alias for the welcome screen and what you're describing is exactly what happens when you choose that. You want this one:

Sharing photos by email from iPhoto 11 takes far too long. Easier to specify email via Mail in iPhoto Preferences and forget the fancy presentation in iPhoto.

Though there is an attractive range of photo presentation options in iPhoto email sharing, the time taken to send an image using these is inordinately long: 4-5 minutes for a single image. Added to this is all the confusion created by 'unrecognised username and password' error messages. All in all; though it's a pity given the sophistication of the new options, it is easier and much faster to set the email option to Mail in the iPhoto General Preferences. An unfortunate shot in the foot by Apple I think.

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback is the route to the Developers.
Also, remember that the Stationery feature in Mail has more templates - and you can download others too.
Regards
TD

How do I save a photo exported from iPhoto and edited in Photoshop Elements 6 back to iPhoto?

My photos are downloaded to my iMac iPhoto 09. I am able to export directly to Photoshop Elements '06 to edit but when I try to export the edited photo back to iPhoto it goes to Pictures, not to iPhoto where I want it to go. Any suggestions?

Did you really export it or did you set PSE as your external editor? If you used file>export in iphoto, then you must import the edited photo back to iphoto as a new file.
To avoid that you can set PSE as your external editor in the iphoto preferences, and iphoto will remember your last saved edits + original, but you must not change the name or format of the image when saving. If you see the save as window it won't work. You may need to go to the PSE preferences>saving files and set On First Save to save over existing to avoid seeing the save as window. It will not work with raw files.

IPhoto 6 and 8 Incompatibility

I have a few thousand photos in iPhoto 6.0.6 and will shortly buy a new Mac and get iPhoto 8. Meanwhile, my daughter has a new iMac and runs iPhoto 8. I recently sent some of my photos to her Mac so I could edit them using iPhoto 8's superior editing capability; my photos were underexposed and needed the special treatment that iPhoto 8 offers. I can't be bothered with fiddling around in Photoshop.
I made the photos look really pretty good, exported them to the desktop and then reimported them back to iPhoto 6 on my own Mac. To my dismay, the photos looked horrible; very dull and with overly strong colour. By increasing the exposure by 50% and reducing the saturation from 50 to 40 I could make them look more or less like the iPhoto 8 versions. Question: what is wrong with iPhoto 6 that I have to make these strong adjustments? If I view the exported files on the desktop in Preview or on a PC, they look look just like the iPhoto 8 versions, so the problem is definitely within iPhoto 6.
I have of course ensured that 'Add ColorSync Profile' is enable in both versions of iPhoto, and all the images throughout the process state that they carry the camera profile. I also went through the iPhoto rebuild process and dumped the preferences file, all to no avail. Having re-adjusted the photos in iPhoto 6 to make them look right again, I exported them to the desktop and opened them in Preview; lo and behold, they looked too washed out, so the problem shows itself both ways. Bizarrely, photos that I adjust in iPhoto, and then export, look perfect on a PC. There seems to be something incompatible between the two versions of iPhoto, but I can't work out the logic of it.

Hi Keith, if you mean System Preferences/Displays/Color/Calibrate..., then yes, I certainly did. This is mentioned in the second post above. My eMac is equipped with a very good quality ViewSonic LCD display that shows none of the brightness variations exhibited by the iMac and I calibrated both screens most painstakingly. As I also mentioned, both screens are set to a gamma of 2.2, as Apple now recommends.
I've just done another experiment. I exported a contrasty photo from iPhoto 6 with almost invisible detail in deep shadow and opened it in Preview on the same machine; it looked identical. I then imported it into iPhoto 8 on the iMac and immediately a lot of detail was visible in the shadows, due to the much brighter screen of the iMac. Without changing it, I re-exported it and looked at it in Preview and saw that it was identical to the one exported from iPhoto 6. In other words, iPhoto 8 had not changed it. I reimported it into iPhoto 6 and found that it was still (absolutely) the same as the photo I had started with, confirming that running it through iPhoto 8 had not caused any change.
I then went back to iPhoto 8 and edited the photo to reduce the highlights and lighten the shadows, thus bringing out significant detail from the latter. I then sent it back to iPhoto 6 and yes, the shadows showed more detail, but nothing like as much as on the iMac. Thus my conclusion is that iPhoto 6 and iPhoto 8 are not incompatible, but that photos viewed and edited on the iMac look very different from the same ones viewed on 'normal' monitors, whether CRT or LCD. I think people who produce nice images on their iMacs need to be aware that they may not look half as nice on other screens, even if they are properly calibrated. The problem is that Apple has completely overdone the screen brightness, hence postings referring to wearing sunglasses when viewing their iMacs.
Brian Smale

I want to open photos in my iphoto album and use them in Photoshop.

I tried to open photos in my iphoto album and edit them in Photoshop but cant. Nothing is showing.

Albums are strictly logical things and only exist in the iPhoto database
To edit photos in PS you need to set PS as the external editor for iPhoto in the iPhoto preferences - edit the photos and Save it (Not save as) so it will be returned to the iPhoto library and the iPhoto database files updates correctly
LN

Iphoto troubles, moving, editing, sorting, everything..

Hi everyone, I just spent 4 hrs reading through most of the articles in here to find a solution. I am pretty convinced that I am the first one in here with this problem, unless I missed out a few post. I apologize if you have answered this problem before and you would be repeating yourself. I would like to thank everyone who will be answering or even reading my post.
Like a lot of them, I am new to MAC. But with the help of a good friend of mine, I am pretty savvy with this machine, however, iphoto is this naughty little fella that I just cant crack.
A>>
I have in "advance", unchecked "copy files to library" so when I import photos from my folders, it will only create a link in iphoto library, so it will not take up extra space on my hdd. Is this a good move? There is a good explanation why I choose not to keep the files inside iphoto library, because when I do keep them inside iphoto library and edit the folders or the file name, these photos will be missing from iphoto because their file names have been changed (unlike itunes where you can change the location and rename it a million times, itunes will still know where it is). And even if I do not mind this, when I do import the files which I have renamed back to iphoto, it says "cannot import into library because the folder is already in iphoto library folder". Because of this, I have to relocate the folder from "original" to some other location and then import it into iphoto library. its so troublesome but I have since adopted this trouble as a routine. Question: how do I rename the photos without having to have to import them into iphoto again and without having to move them to another location? the videos too, because I use iphoto to sort my videos as well and I tend to rename my videos too.
B>>
I have been using iweb to update my photos on my server for months. One of the "photo" template has a fix frame where all I need to do is to drag photos from "media" into the frame and it will do the rest of the sizing for me. It has worked fine for me but just now when I wanted to add more pictures, I couldnt. Everytime I drag a photo from "media" it will just add on the page as the name of the photo like "dscn1000" as font instead of the photo. I tried dragging other photos and I notice only certain ones work and most of them doesnt work. I tried looking into iphoto to see if its because of the source file and I still cant figure it out. And while I was at that, I found out another very mysterious thing, see my next question.
C>>
Like I mentioned above, I have unchecked "copy files to library when importing" in iphoto's preferences. Hence, there are only links of the photos in iphoto library folder. If I am not wrong, every folder that I import into library, there will be a folder with the same name created in "original" and all the photos will have a little arrow stating that this is linked from another location. But when I was checking for my problem above (Problem B), I notice that out of the 10 albums I have imported into iphoto, only 6 of them have folders created in iphoto library "orignal" folder. The rest are not there and yet I see them in my iphoto.
Gosh, I really hope you guys understand what I am saying in here coz its not easy trying to put in words these problems. If you do not understand me, pls ask me questions so I can explain it further. Any help is appreciated.
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Listen to TD - he's usually right.
I'll add my 2¢, since you asked for opinions.
First, you can't crack iPhoto because you're fighting against the way it is designed to work. iPhoto is a stubborn fella, you need to play by his rules or he throws tantrums.
A>>
My advice to you is to check that option and let iPhoto keep the files in its library. Why? Because when you don't it is very easy to break the link between the files and the database. If you move or rename files iPhoto won't be able to find them, regardless of whether the files are in the iPhoto library. At least with them in the library, they are accessible (provided you play by the rules) and organized. In addition, this makes it possible and easy to move or back up your entire library simply by moving or copying the iPhoto library folder. The alias mode complicates things - keep it simple, see how it's intended to work, and consider the alias mode as an option for expert iPhoto users (like Old Toad).
As TD said, if disc space is an issue simply keep the whole iPhoto library on an external drive. Once you put it there and point iPhoto to it, it functions exactly the same as on the boot drive as long as the external is mounted.
Question: how do I rename the photos without having to have to import them into iphoto again and without having to move them to another location?>>>
Answer: You can't. Once a file is in iPhoto it stays there with the name it had upon import. Using Finder to rename files will break the link to the iPhoto database. Continue to do this your way and you may even see your entire database file become corrupt. In that case your photos would be safe but you would have to start over with a new library. (I suggest you do that now.)
TIP: Many users prefer to import from the camera via Image Capture. Create a folder anywhere NOT in the iPhoto library and upload to the hard drive. Then rename your files in Finder to your heart's content. Once you are happy with the file names, import that folder into iPhoto and you will get a Film Roll named after that folder containing your photos with their new file names. You can then either keep the original folder for backup purposes or trash it -- IF you let iPhoto store your photos in its library.
Check out this post by lori_diloreto: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=827283&tstart=0
In it she explains her method of uploading from the camera to Image Browser, then importing into iPhoto. She has a very organized way of storing files for backup until she has enough to burn a DVD.
B>>
I don't use iWeb, so can't answer specifically what is happening. I do suspect that the reasons most of your photos don't work is because your system for using iPhoto just dosen't work. It just doesn't do well with all the renaming, moving, in Finder, then reimporting to try to repair the damage. Clearly some of the damage hasn't been repaired.
C>>
This observation, combined with the way you describe your workflow in section A, suggests to me that you haven't re-established the links to some of your rolls. Let's say I rename a roll in Finder, and lose its link to iPhoto. I can't just reimport the roll. After moving it out of iPhoto I have to delete the broken images in the iPhoto window from within the application. When iPhoto has forgotten about them entirely, I can then import them back into iPhoto. Skip this step, and your second attempt to import the same files will fail.
iPhoto is a database application, not a file browser. Some people just want a file browser, and you may be one of them. But if you enjoy iPhoto's other capabilities, then why not give it a try the easy way? I suggest you begin with a fresh iPhoto library. Find your originals, import them in with the copy to library choice ON, and organize from within the application. TD has given you the ways to locate your photos once they are stored in the library. Look at this screen shot of how an iPhoto library is meant to be organized: http://homepage.mac.com/loridilo/.Public/iPhoto6.jpg [Again thanks to lori!] The application will work much more smoothly when you work with it and not against it.
If you have any questions specifically for me, I'll be happy to answer. Otherwise, I've used up my 2¢ worth.

IPhoto Preferences, This is WEIRD!

In iPhoto preferences>advanced>edit photos, you can choose to edit photos in iPhoto (dropdown menu), or (in my case) Photoshop Elements. I cant remember the exact order of events, but I'm pretty sure that, as always I was editing in PSE, but I wanted use iPhoto editing to make a quick change. So I change the option in pref>advanced to iPhoto.
This is the weired bit....When I went back in to revert to edit photos in PSE, the option had gone, and was replaced by the file number of the the photo I was working on!! Cant get rid of it!!
Is this a first? Does anyone have a clue?
Mr. Toad, Mr. Devlin are you there!! Please HELP!!!

In the advanced preferences window under edit photos what exactly happens when you select "in P1010515..."
as I said it should open a selection window so you can select PSE again
iPhoto has the capability to directly interface with any external editor - simply go to the iPhoto preferences (iPhoto menu ==> preferences ==> General and set the Edit photo option to in external editor - select the desired external editor (if you have a previously seleted external editor you must reselect it to the the window to select a new one) and you are set - now when you edit photos they are sent to the selected external editor and when you are finished editing you save (not save as) and the edited photo is returned to iPhoto, the original is maintained in iPhoto and the iPhoto database is correctly updated.
If you want the option of editing in either iPhoto or the external editor after selecting your external editor simply set the edit in back to main window - now when you right click (control Click) on a photo you will get a menu which allows you to select either.
LN

How can I edit photos in iPhoto in Photoshop Elements? I select PE in iPhoto preferences but they stay in iPhoto for editing.

How can I edit photos in iPhoto in Photoshop Elements? I select PE in iPhoto preferences but they stay in iPhoto for editing.

Here's something you can try with a copy of your current library.
1 - go to iPhoto's Events preference pane and set the auto split option to 1 day per even.
2 - go the the Events mode, select all Events.
3 - go to the Events menu and and select Autosplit Selected Events.
which will give you an event for each day.
4 - again select all events (although it might be better do to fewer at a time) and export them to your desired destination via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option with the following settings:
The workflow above will produce a folder for each days photos with the date as the folder's title.

Can I use iPhoto to view and edit images not stored in the iPhoto Library

Hi folks,
I'm a newbie to Mac after 20+ years on PC...just switched 2 weeks ago....wish I'd done it years ago. Everythings so easy and fast...e.g. setup wireless broadband in 25 mins with no probs....and I have never done anything like that.
Here's my Q.
I have a load of images, downloads and scans, of old manuscripts, authors etc. which I don't really want in my iPhoto library (which I would like to keep for actual photos. Is it possible to point iPhoto to another location (say in Documents) where it will let me view and edit these images without importing them into the library.
Alternatively can I view images as thumbnails in this other locations, and not as default file type icons.
Hope this is plain,
JP_MAC
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Hi jp-mac,
iPhoto 5 imports all images into it's own database. (this has changed with iPhoto 6 so you might want to check out iLife 6)
The other files you want to view but not have in the library...are they image files?
If so, you can view that folder as icons and then make the icons larger so you can see what they are.
To do this open the folder in question. click the first icon on top of View in the toolbar. This will make that folder contents view as icons
Now go all the way to the top of your screen and click on View>show view options.
Slide the icon size slider all the way to the right to view them larger. Also make sure you have the "show icon preview" checked.
This will work most of the time, but sometimes if you edit images in other applications they might not make icon previews, so check their preferences to make sure you have that checked.
There is also a little third party program that will do it for you.
One is called Pic2Icon
Pic2Icon
Another one is a contextual menu item called QuickImageCM.
QuickImageCM
check out that page because there are some other useful contextual menu items that I use all the time.

Using iphoto and editing multiple photos in photoshop

I set iphoto to edit my photos in photoshop. I tried to edit a group of photos at once, and it'll only open the first 4 pictures. Is there a reason I can't open more than the first 4 photos that I have selected? Is there a setting in photoshop I need to change that is preventing me from opening more photos?
Thanks!

As Larry said that's a "limitation" of iPhoto. Report that to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html. I think you can go back to iPhoto and select another 4 photos and open them in PS with the original 4 still open.
For what it's worth:
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) 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. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. 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.≤br>
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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Hi i have upodated to mavericks and updated my apps. now when i tried an edit a photo in iphoto it fires up pages and says cant open jpeg format in pages. help i need to edit my photos
Jon

Sounds like you've set Pages as an external editor.
iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced and set what you prefer as an editor.

Updated iPhoto 11 and cannot open Events with double click or any other way. I can only view those photos by creating an album from all of them, then I can open the album and edit or delete etc. Any one have that problem?

After upgrading to iPhoto 11 and the latest upgrade 9.4.1 (701 67) I cannot open any Event. The normal double click does not work, nor anything else I have tried. The only way I can view the photos in an Event is to make an Album of it, and then I can easily open it with a double click and edit and delete, arrange photos etc. Anyone have this problem. Any ideas about how to open an event?

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.

IPhoto is deleting my pictures after I upload and edit them

I uploaded a bunch of pictures to iPhoto and the program has continuously been deleting my photos or it has been saying that the files do not exist even though the pictures show up in the program as thumbnails.
Is there a reason the program deletes only photos that I edit?
I really need help with this one

1 - iPhoto does nto ever "delete" a photo unless you tell it to
2 - what is the exact error message you are getting? What exactly are you seeing?
3 - in the iPhoto preferences is the preference to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library checked (default) or have you unchecked it?
LN

Panasonic zs 7 and editing pictures in iphoto

can download photos to iphoto but when I click on edit the screen is black, when I slide the bottom to enlarge photo all I get is a small picture that says navigate on it but it is still not able to open..any ideas

There are several possible causes for the Black Screen issue
1. *Permissions in the Library* : 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. Include the option to check and repair permissions.
2. *Minor Database corruption*: 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.
3. *A Damaged Photo*: 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). Will the file open in Preview? If not then the file is damaged. Time to restore from your back up.
4. *A corrupted iPhoto Cache*: Trash the com.apple.iPhoto folder from HD/Users/Your Name/Library/ Caches...
5. *A corrupted preference file*: Trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder. (Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
*If none of these help*:
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Regards
TD

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