IWeb 08 making all photos dark!!!

Has anyone else noticed this? I am a professional photographer, and I'm TRYING to make a living from how awesome my images look. Ever since I upgraded to iLife '08 I've had problems with the photos on all the pages looking horrible! When you click on it and see the "larger view" they look better, but still not the same as they did. If anyone can help I'd be appreciative!

Hi,
there is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery looooooooooooooooooooong thread about this issue here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1078666&tstart=25
I didn't read it all... So I don't know what's the bottom line, sorry... I think there are other threads too... You can read only the 7th page of that thread... The 'essentials'...
When you import photos to iWeb I think you should uncheck the "Optimize images on import" in the preferences and then it gets better... At least that worked for me...
Regards,
Cédric

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IWeb Making my photos too dark! What the heck?!

Im using iWeb 08 for the first time on a new site.
I've processed all my shots in Adobe Lightroom and exported them as Jpegs in sRGB color space.
The jpegs look fine and are retaining the levels adjustments I've made on the original RAW files.
Then I add those Jpegs to iWeb and the photos seem to lose all the adjustments I dialed in to them and revert to what they looked like in the original RAW files!
How in the world could this be happening?
It's as if iWeb is stripping all my adjustments off of the Jpeg exports.
I dont see how this could be physically possible.
Any ideas?

In the upper right of this forum's main page is a Search Forum bar. Enter the word "dark" and you'll see many threads related to this issue. The following six-page thread may or may not explain/resolve your problem.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1078666&start=0&tstart=0

IPhoto makes photos darker when importing

Has anyone else noticed this?
I have files that appear darker when imported to iPhoto than they do when opened in Preview... what setting can I change to stop it doing this?

Thanks- they are not RAW, just JPEGS. I will check on the Color Profile setting when I get home- out of interest what does it do and what will happen if I change the setting (other than it not making the photos darker)?

All photos displayed in Lightroom are very dark

This has just started in the last few days. Now all my imports into Lightroom 1.4.1 appear very dark compared to shots on camera display or same photo displayed outside Lightroom. This applies to dng, raw, or jpeg. Old libraries now all appear dark. If you adjust in Lightroom to look right they appear washed out in every image viewer outside Lightroom. Import a jpeg that was previously exported from Lightroom and looked fine now looks very dark when imported back into Lightroom. I have reinstalled program and tried every setting I could think of and all photos still look very dark.

Hope this fixes it. Deleting the default profile will make windows (and therefore Lightroom) assume your display is exactly sRGB. This is a good first approximation, but to get correct color you need to actually calibrate. Note that after calibration, Lightroom and unmanaged apps will not exactly correspond to each other, but they should be close. Most importantly, the contrast should be the same as long as you calibrate to the standard gamma of 2.2. You should see tiny differences in color saturation and in shadow colors - this is normal.

Making a Photo Hyperlinkable in the main "Photos" page

In this shot, I want to make the Sunset picture hyperlinkable. That is, you click on it and it takes you to this page below, which shows all my photos under "Sunset".
I know about making the text "Sunset" hyperlinkable. But I want to make the photo linkable, not the text. I've tried dragging the sunset album to the Sunset photo to make it hyperlink but that didn't work. It just sat on top of the photo.
I tried pasting a picture over the sunset pic and then making that picture a link (this works), but that's time-consuming and the edges don't line up exactly.
If I make a new "Photos" page, and remove all photos plus the "containers" that hold them. Then add my photos. This would allow me to link the main page to another page.
Only thing is that I want to put those nice picture frames with shadows (which iWeb offers on the "Photos" page) around my photos and doing the above step doesn't allow me to do that.

You can't make a thumbnail on a Photo page into a hyperlink. What you want to do has been covered many times already in this forum (searching for 'nesting', for instance gives 24 results). Basically, the top page, from which you want to link to several category pages, should not itself be a Photo page, and the actual Photo pages you link to should have 'Include page in navigation menu' unchecked in the Page Inspector. Start with a Welcome or About Me page, for instance. Drag representative images for each category onto this page, arrange them as you like, and make each image a hyperlink to the appropriate Photo page. That's it in a nutshell.
Have a look at this page in my iWeb blog about iWeb to see the technique in action:
http://web.mac.com/curlytool/iWeb/iWebTryout/Photos.html

IWeb making 100 kb pic 600+

i have unchecked the optimize photo option in preferences, but iWeb is still making all the photos on page 5-6 times larger.
i have made the graphics small (<100k) on purpose so the page loads faster.
after publishing i load the site and check properties of the pics and they are all 500kb or larger. makes for a wonderful slow loading page.

You're absolutely right. It's been a long day. I publish to a folder and run WebSite Maestro on my sites before uploading with WSM. It optimizes all image files and converts png files to jpgs. It often reduces the total file size of some of my sites by up to 48%. When running the tests just now I did it automatically without thinking.
Those holders do change the files to pngs and increase their file size.
Just ran a test and deleted the place holder before adding an pre optimized file and it was not converted to a png and remained the same size, 111 Kb. So if you were to delete the place holder and add the photo directly to the page in the header but below the navbar (as I said you'll need to put an empty text box in the header and drag it down to increase the header's size. Or just increase the header in the Inspector/Page/Layout pane. (the text box was quicker for the text).
This should allow you to use the small photos and greatly increase the page loading.

Do all photo's need to be processed?

Do all photo's need to be processed? How do you know if it needs it or not? I mean other than if you want to be artsy with your pictures like making HDR effects, etc. Or is it subjective?

Do all photo's need to be processed? How do you know if it needs it or not? I mean other than if you want to be artsy with your pictures like making HDR effects, etc. Or is it subjective?
Actually all photographs are processed. There is no such thing as an unprocessed photograph. Whether you do it consciously using a raw editor, or let the camera make decisions for you doesn't matter really as you apply an interpretation of the raw data. With film the same thing applies. There the choice of film stick, the filters you use, and the printing technology and dark room decisions are unavoidable "processing" steps. In digital, a scene rendered physically correct as captured by the sensor is very boring and looks nothing like the jpeg out of camera nor like the default Lightroom rendering. This is why SOOC is such silly nonsense. Jpegs are cooked files. The default raw rendering in Lightroom is only one possible interpretation and not necessarily a neutral or unprocessed one (far from). Photography as we know it is always subjective. Mainly because human vision is subjective and very different from how a camera sensor works. There is always a degree of toning, contrast enhancement, etc. going on. The raw editor and tools such as Photoshop just gives you more control over it than having the camera do it for you based on decisions the engineering team for the camera made. You can definitely do extremely good photography by never touching a post processing tool and just using jpegs out of camera. Just don't call it unprocessed. You are however leaving some major creative tools unused that could improve your images substantially. In the end however this is all a creative decision and there is no right answer for everybody.

WebGallery or iWeb to post photos?

Hi,
I know that I can use either WebGallery or iWeb to post photos and albums for friends & family to see on the Internet.
Can someone please briefly outline what are the specific advantages and disadvantages of either option. Is one superior to the other?
Thank you very much

Dimitrois:
IMO using iPhoto and creating a Web Gallery is a much easier and quicker way to get your photos published and viewed. You have the option of uploading full sized image files so the viewers can download them for printing. There's also an option to let others add photos to the gallery by emailing them. The display options are better with iPhoto. There's the grid, all thumbnails in a grid, mosiac, the thumbnails down the right side the the currently selected photo one the right in viewing size, the carousel, somewhat like iTunes' album viewing method and the slideshow.
iWeb lets you present any number of themes, add comments and lots of bells and whistles to a page. Viewing is limited to a grid of thumbnails, which when clicked will display the 800 x 600 image, and the slideshow, similar to the one in a web gallery. But you can add other pages with discussions, links to other sites, etc.
It's your call as to which to use.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto 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 written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), 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 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

I need to know how to download all photos AND videos from 2 "libraries" within Adobe Revel. Please help.

I was quite angered last night when I posted the first time, so lets try this again:
Here is my setup: I have adobe Revel on my Mac and iOS devices and it has worked quite well to be honest until I recently realized my photos and videos are basically trapped within the software. There is no way (that I am aware) to export all photos/videos or any kind of tool to pull the raw data out of the app and put it into say iPhoto or Lightroom.
Since I am not a fan of this sort of lock-in, (something I despise and encourage companies never to do), I am sadly going to cancel my Revel account once I get this sorted and store my photos elsewhere. This is a huge missed opportunity for Adobe, as the money is not an issue - its simply that the quality of service I need just doesn't seem to be there for this product.
So here is what I am trying to achieve: I simply want every one of my photos and videos to store on my hard drive like the old days. I don't care about folders or hirarcy or any kind of organization - I can do that with the metadata later. I simply want all of my things.
My hang up is in that I have already tried methods like "Show package contents" in the photos/adobe revel route and that works to an extent, but is incredibly cumbersome as I have to sift through all of the many folders. If that were the worst of it, I might be ok. But what is truly alarming and making this difficult is that I don't know where on earth the videos in Revel are actually stored. They show up in the application and I could export them one by one but I literally have hundreds. I can't find the actual files on my Mac anywhere.
Is there anyone at all who can help with this? The goal is to make this transition fairly easy and I feel that Adobe has very intentionally made it very difficult to consider leaving. I spend >$50/month on Adobe services and I am a little in shock this application seems so poorly designed for anything other than just dropping your photos into it. Please, please help if you can. I would be so grateful as Adobe customer service doesn't seem to know or care much about supporting this product.

Hi KDT
Yeah. I agree, if you are used to a situation where "it's on the cloud AND synced down to your hard disk where you can get it" Revel is not exactly that. There were legacy decisions behind that - most not as sinister as you might think but I won't bore you with those details. AND yes you are correct. We currently don't have any way for you to wholesale download everything at once. So you aren't missing anything. Until we provide that mechanism I can provide some guidance.
I'm going to assume you have the current version of Revel on your Mac which is 2.0.
The easiest thing for you to do will be to export your files manually. You can actually select a range of files and export. So it's not a one by one thing.
You'll have to decide how best to perform the selection based on your photography habits. If you tend to take batches of files surrounding specific dates. You could do it by date. In the date view (In the applications upper right "Showing: Dates"). If you look at the end of a date row you'll see a small grid. If you click that grid you are taking into a grid view of just that date. If you select all and file>export you'll export the contents of that date.
The other option is remaining in Grid view (In the applications upper right "Showing:Grid") and perform a shift+selection where you select your first file, move down the desired range and while holding shift you select a second file (standard multi-select stuff).
One thing to keep in mind as you do this. You'll notice when you export you can export original or 'current version'. Export original does just that. Exports unedited original versions of your images as they were uploaded to us. When you export the current version of an image we'll export a rendition of the edited image. This "current version" image is not the original and in most cases will be a rendition that is not the same size as the original. So keep that in mind as you proceed.
Not ideal, I fully realize, but I do hope it gets you closer to having your images back on your hard disk as you desire.
As for your subscription. Assure you have checked your iOS Appstore subscription settings and set Revel to not auto-renew. Unfortunately for a pro-rated refund on the subscription balance you no longer desire you'll need to work with Apple as they hold the purse strings for Appstore purchases. Refunds haven't been a problem in the past so you should have no issue.
Hope this helps.
Jason

How do I set all photos in a project to the same date (rather than simply time-shifting)?

I have a bunch of old scanned photos in Aperture (current version - 3.5.1), and am trying to tidy up the metadata, especially the dates.
This is turning out to be quite a task, as the date gaps between scans are all over the place. For example, in one project I might have photos scanned between 2004 and 2007 that all took place on one day in 1999.
This means the native "adjust date and time" function in the metadata menu doesn't work, as it is a little too clever in its timeshifting. If I highliht the whole project and change it all to 1 June 1999, the 2004 shots get changed to that date but the 2007 scans are dated 2002, with Aperture "cleverly" preserving the inaccurate three year gap in the original scans' metadata.
This is making the process of fixing my data far more arduous than it needs to be.
I feel like my situation can't be that unusual, and their must be a way to override this behaviour. I'm not fussy about preserving logical time gaps between shots but I'd like them to have the right year and month (so a "dumb" solution that gave them all idntical date and times would be fine).
Can anayone help? Thanks in advance!

What is your Aperture version?
If it is compatible with iPhoto, open the Aperture library in iPhoto and use iPhoto's Batch Change to adjust the date of your scans: (File > Open Library in iPhoto)
In iPhoto select the photos in the event and go to the main menu bar:
Photos > Batch Change > Set Date:
Select the initial date and time of your photos and a very small gap, e.g. 1 second. All photos will set to the same date, stepped by one second to preserve their time order.
Afterwards switch back to Aperture using "File > Open Library in Aperture).
this works very well with Aperture 3.5.1 and iPhoto 9.5.1.
-- Léonie

How to explain. OK 1st all photos are visible in my iPhoto library; however, some are stored on hard drive and some are stored on external. All can be viewed in itunes, but none on the external will sync to my iPad. What's up with that.

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What really cheeses me off here is that Apple isn't allowing users enough customization. With each update of iTunes (and the OS and iOS) we're forced to give up something that worked well for the way we want to use the app and make do with fewer (and lamer) options. If Apple keeps this up, they're going to start losing customers fast. I mean if this isn't fixed soon, I'm pretty sure I'm going to give up on iTunes, and then I'll probably go ahead and get a Galaxy when I need to replace my iPhone.
What I don't understand about how they won't let users delete the list of available podcasts now is why? How is this making it a better program? I can understand that not all users are capable enough to right-click on a feed and select "Show all available episodes", so I can see why they want the complete list to be the default (and, surprise, it already was). But to not give users the option to delete that list? It's inconsiderate because it makes navigating feeds with a large back catalogue really frustrating. I'm flabbergasted that no one at Apple considered all the podcast feeds that keep hundreds of episodes available when they removed this feature. It smacks of rank incompetence.
What improvement were they trying to make here anyway? There was nothing wrong to my mind about how podcasts were managed in previous versions. Whatever improvement they were trying to make here, they should have realized that many users would at least want the option to keep things the way they were.
And reverting to a previous version is no solution. I can't sync my iPhone with the new iOS without this update, and (while I do have some issues--specifically how you can't play podcasts in the Music app anymore) I do like the new iOS.

IPhoto '08 shows all photos, but can't locate images in Finder

I just bought a MacBook and did an "Import to Library" from my backup external drive. All photos now appear in iPhoto including some that I just imported last night from my camera. The only problem is, I can't find the folder that actually contains all of the pictures. When I click on "Pictures" in my home folder then the iPhoto icon, iPhoto opens. Where is the folder with the actual images?

dave-m:
The photos are in the iPhoto LIbrary package in the Pictures file. SeeTD's treatis on file access. It describes three ways to access the image files.
Do you Twango?
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How can I remove all photos and directories from iPhoto?

How can I remove all photos and directories from iPhoto as if it was a brand new install?
I am new to iPhoto and was unaware of how it works, honestly I still am a little confused as to when pics I am using 1/2 the time, some from iPhoto and some from MyPics.
Anyhow, I am looking to remove all photos from iPhoto because during the migration of all my photos from PC to MAC, somehow my timeline became messed up and all my photos that have been logged my dates since 1998 are now all messed up.
Although all my year folders are still in tact, IE 1998-2006, the subfolders and like pics are all intertwined somehow.
And when I search iPhoto for a given year, photos from 2,4, 8 yrs back show up in 2006.
Anyhow, I have selected and deleted all photos and folders within iPhoto, and then import the desired photos from MyPics, only to have the photos double up in the library. ( The old ones that should be deleted and the new imports)
I simply don't get it, they fill the trash and disappear when it's emptied, then reappear when iPhoto re-opens!
Can someone help????
I have completely reworked all my photos so that they are all in the correct folders outside of iPhoto, and now I want to import those and only those pics with that file structure.
IE Structure = YEAR > MONTH > DAY ( or if needed) > DAY/EVENT

Do you want to remove the existing full sized image files also? If so then just drag the iPhoto Library folder from the Pictures folder to the Trash and empty it. But be warned you'll lose all of your image files.
You are dragging the files to the iPhoto Trash bin and then using the iPhoto->Empty Trash menu, right?
In copying your photos to myspace and then back the original capture date may not be retained and then either the created date or modified date will be used by iPhoto. If the files in the current library are the originals from your camera then those have the best chance of retaining the correct Captured Date. You can check that out by dragging the Originals folder from your iPhoto Library folder to the desktop and then trash what remains of the iPhoto Library folder. Then launch iPhoto and it will ask you to create an new library. Then import that Originals folder and it's subfolders by dragging it into iPhoto's open window. You'll keep the same rolls that was. The roll dates may change but you can check the captured date of the files by using the calendar in the Source pane.
You won't be able to keep your folder structure within iPhoto. Each outside folder will result in a roll with the same title as the folder. You'll be able to create folders in the Source pane to put albums inside. You can create a smart album to include all photos in a certain date range, line one month.
Do you Twango?
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Ann
Welcome ot the Apple suer to user assistance forums
look in the lower right hand corner of your iPhoto library and slide the slider to the left until the desired number of photos are displayed
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Iweb 08 removing photos from photo page upon save

I am running into a peculiar bug in iweb. I have a working iweb site with mostly photo or movie pages. Was in updating the iweb site on my new MBP late 2008 adding in a new photo page.
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Thought this to be very strange as something like this happened two weeks ago and I thought it was an errant mouse click or something I did.
But again - why? I went back and added more photos to the page to fix. Moved over 3 groups and then clicked save. Again the photos disappeared. Getting frustrated at this time.
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Has anyone else had this issue?
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After you ran the updates to iWeb on your new Mac, did you do a restart? Although you are not instructed to do this, do it anyway!
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Don't forget to reset your preferences after deleting the .plist.

IWeb 08 making all photos dark!!!

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