Naming Photo's

Hi,
I have quite a few pictures in iPhoto imported from my digital camera. Now some I used in iMovie and it is very easy to pick which photo you want as you can just see them although smaller in the iPhoto option in iMovie.
However I wanted to use a specific picture for on my desktop and went to system preferences where I can change my desktop pictures. But now I just get the folders with for example 1239374.jpg for a picture and so I have no idea what picture that is.
Is there a way I can easily name all my pictures I import and so that when I wanna use a picture in other applications I can easily find it?
Cheers,
Tom

If you've already given the photos a new title in iPhoto, you can export them to the desktop, under name, choose "use title." So if 1239374.jpg had the title "sunset", the exported photo on the desktop will be sunset.jpg.
You can then re-import sunset.jpg and the filename of the re-imported photo in the iphoto library will be sunset.jpg.
Tedious and you end up with 3x the photos (original in iphoto library, exported to the desktop, and re-imported into iphoto library), but if you've already spent a lot of time renaming your photos in iphoto, it might be worth it.
Just make sure that if you want to delete 1239374.jpg you put in the trash while running iPhoto (ie in iPhoto, from the photo menu, command move to trash), not through the finder.
I wonder, is there an automater script to do this? Or maybe renaming the files through iPhoto should be a feature in the next upgrade?
Karen

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several things most of which have to do with what iPhoto is and how it works
iPhoto is a database program and you must not every make any changes to the contents or structure of the database (the files) except using iPhoto - never via the finder or other programs
as a database you never use the internal structure but use the database tools to access the photos
The only way to backup up the database is to copy it intact as a single entity to a different drive - you can not back it up in pieces
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when I drag them onto the hard drive to copy them I am of course getting the message pop up that says I already have a file of that name on the hard drive
So now that you understand how iPhoto works you see that there is a simple solution to this - simply export the photos and use the rename option in the export to assign sequential names to them
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This is using the finder to modify the contents of the iPhoto library and will corrupt your library and make it unusable - to use it you will have to restore it as it was - your backup is the easiest
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Alternative: Name the pics using a bulk file renamer like File List before importing them into iPhoto - same result.
As to keyword, do you want to write them as exif data? Have a look at this website
http://highearthorbit.com/289/
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Old Toad also has a tutorial on using iView Media Pro in conjunction with iPhoto.
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