Naming photos on Iphoto

i upload my photos to my Mac and use them for my screen saver. i would like them as they rotate, to state the description that i write on the import line when they're imported. in other words if i import them to read New York 2012, i'd like them to say that as they rotate. i have thousands of photos and i forget where they were taken.

This is a feature request for the screensaver people.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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Naming photos in iPhoto

Why don't the new names I give to photos in iphoto translate when emailing or otherwise moving the photos?

Export your photos (file menu ==> export) and use the name as the file name in the export options
LN

Naming Photos in iPhoto 5

I'll probably sound like an idiot asking this, but in iPhoto 4--when you had a photo selected--a field on the left would allow you to name your photo. This doesn't seem to appear in iPhoto 5. How do you name your photos in iPhoto 5? I see a Batch Change command when you right-click on a photo...is that how you're supposed to do it now?

Hi MyKidsDad,
Right, with the info panel open click on the title and add your text.
If you have an album, roll, group of images selected, then batch change works great for titling images. If you want to have unique names for each title, it has to be done on a one by one process.
If you are editing the titles for all your images in an album, row, etc. Use Command Right bracket to move on to the next image and the title field will be highlighted for you to add your title. Use Command left bracket to move backwards.

Exporting named photos from iPhoto to MY choice in Files?

I am completely confused about the changes from iPhoto 09 to iPhoto 11. I go through my photos after the RAW files are downloaded from my camera, cull the dreck, rename the ones to keep, then export them in TIFF with names to the folder of my choice. Or at least that's what I used to be able to do!
I have tens of thousands of photo files in my MAC. And I don't really relish a whole new learning curve just because I have purchased a new MAC with a new OS. I need to be able to pluck the files from the individual country, then the city, then the photoshoot and import them into Lightroom before they get exported again in a corrected form to upload to my agencies.
This newest version of iPhoto does not bring up the ability to scroll through the Finder and assign the named and exported photos to specific folders. Why? And is there a way to reset or fine-tune this so that I regain that function?
Assistance is appreciated because I edit hundreds of photos in each session and I am tearing my hair out with this nonsense of only being 'allowed' to export to Pictures (gosh -- that's helpful when there are thousands of items in Pictures!), or Desktop or Recently Used.
Suggestions???

You might be correct, Terrence.
I have only had this new Mac for a week and I simply followed my usual procedure. I'm now wondering if I should just let Lightroom import the RAW files from my camera, do all of the editing and discarding over there, and so forth.
It's funny, after I posted that I looked at my own question to the forum and realised that I was creating a redundancy that was unnecessary.
My previous MAC was manufactured in 2009, so my iPhoto in there was the 2009 version.
Ah well -- guess I got my answer in a sort of self-administered smack on the hand manner!
Thanks.

How do I import photos from iPhoto in to adobe lightroom?

I've read in several forums that to do this you must go into the finder right click on iPhoto. Click show package contents. This pulls up a file named contents. All of the forums say to either look for a masters file or a original file and copy and paste it to the desktop. This is supposed to then allow lightroom to see the packaged file. I can't seem to find either file. Im not sure if its because the forums I've been looking at is outdated or if they just completely changed the name of the file with a newer update. Either way I tried to do this with a couple of the files I thought might work i.e.. library, mac os. Nothing has worked. I am very new to using mac. I just literally bought this computer yesterday so I really don't want to try to much blindly but being able to edit images with professional software is the whole reason why I bought it. Pleases Help!!!!!!

Don't do any of that. Just export the photos from iPhoto
File -> Export
to folders in the Finder. That's the supported way and has the added advantage that you can use the names you've given to your Events or Albums as well.
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

How do I move the photos in iPhoto to Lightroom ?

How do I move the photos in iPhoto to Lightroom? Thanks, I am a novice to Lightroom.

To access your Mac iPhoto images for use in Photoshop and Lightroom
1. In the Finder, navigate to Users > [user name] > Pictures > iPhoto Library.
2. Control-click (Right-click) the iPhoto Library file and choose Show Package Contents.
3. A Finder window opens that shows the contents. The Masters folder (or called Originals folder) contains all of the photographs that are in iPhoto.
Photoshop cannot access this folder, but if you make a duplicate of the folder, the dupe will be accessible -- so:
4. Control-click (Right-click) the folder named Masters (or Originals) and choose Duplicate.
5. Drag the duplicate folder which is named "Masters copy" or “Originals copy” from the iPhoto Library Finder window to the Desktop.
6. Open images in Photoshop or Lightroom from the file on the desktop.
or
7. Rename the folder and move it elsewhere (probably to the Pictures folder), if desired.
Then access the files in the folder via Lightroom and Photoshop

Lost almost all my original photos in iPhoto. Have rebuilt the library to no avail.

I tried to share my events and photos from iPhoto in Flickr by copying the events and then clicking share button in iPhoto and choosing Flickr. After some events appeared in Flickr in new albums, I realized I had lost some of the events and photos in iPhoto. If I open iPhoto I see my events some with cover photos and some just a black box with original title but empty. When I click the ones with cover photo, many have only a few photos (originally they had many more) and worse when I click the thumbnails a black box appears with a gray triangle and an exclamation mark in the middle. I have followed the rebuilding option from iPhoto First Aid but got no where. The library shows that I have the original number of photos I had (over 38,000) and also the same number of events and album titles BUT the original photos are mostly missing, only a few thousand are showing in the original size! Most of thumbnails seem to be there though many are also missing. I just cannot locate the originals. In the Masters file in iPhoto Library I don't see many original photos either. It just seems all my photos are deleted! The subfolders in Masters are 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 (I suppose for the 4 years I have used this Mac). The sub-subfolders under each year are named with numbers, like under 2011 there is only one called 11, under 2012 there is 05 and 07 sub-sub folders, under 2013, 04 and 08, and there are more under 2014 from 02 to 08. When I click any of these sub-sub folders I get additional folders with numbers but no order. If I click these folders I get a long number folder which is generally empty except for some where I can see original photos. I even tried to see if I could find a backup of iPhoto Library through Time Machine (I use CCC to backup my Mac) but the Library files I found were all from the time AFTER I had tried to share my photos in Flickr. So I did not find additional originals. It seems Flickr has just literally deleted most of my originals by taking them away from my hard disk!! Unfortunately they don't show up in Flickr either!
What has happened to my original photos? Are they lost or deleted for ever? I tried to use recovery software to see on my hard disk whether there were any of my original photos but didn't see them. Can someone help/advise what to do? I use an I Mac with OSX 10.9.4?and iPhoto 9.5.1. Thank you.

Thank you Terence. Let me explain better. I wanted to have a copy of my photos in Flickr. So I tested with selecting one event in iPhoto and using the Share button to copy the photos it contained in an Album in Flickr. That worked ok. Then I selected all my events and clicked Share in iPhoto to copy them to Flickr. That is where things got probably messed up. As there were many original photos, this took a long time over few days and I tried to stop it. Whatever went wrong there isn't clear to me. When I went back to iPhoto next I saw the situation described above. Most original disappeared. Unfortunately, the back up I found in my external disk is from the same time I seem to have lost the files. I have copied into iPhoto Lib but it has the same problem with most originals missing. The funny thing is that when I noticed my photos were missing, I checked the size iPhoto Lib and it was about 25GB. Then I went and checked the 7 backups of Pictures in Time Machine and noticed two were around 100GB from Two weeks earlier just about the time I did the Flickr transfer. So I selected one of those and opened iPhoto using that bigger file. But it was still too short of the original 38,000 photos only a few thousands.

Newbie Question: Importing (from PC) and Organizing Photos in iPhoto

Hi everyone,
I am currently a PC user and am contemplating buying an iMac, and I'm trying to determine if iPhoto will meet my needs for photo importing and organization.
I currently have around 20-30 gigs of digital photos and am using Windows Photo Gallery (for Windows Vista) to view/organize/import them.
The directories are organized by the photo date taken in the format "yyyy-mm-dd" .
Some of these directories are appended with an event name if applicable, i.e. "2011-12-25_Christmas Party" while others will only have the date, i.e. "2011-12-20"
My photos are named according to date/time taken so that a file listing will display the photos in chronologic order. Again, some of these will be appended with an event name or other descriptive label. So, many photos will look like this: "yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss" while others will look like this: "yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss_event name"
A possible complicating factor in all of this is that some of the photos were taken with a camera where the time/date was not set properly, or with cameras whose date/times were set for a different time zone. I adjusted this within Windows Photo Gallery, but I am not sure if it permanently changed the date/time in the photo file's properties... I've seen some evidence that it may not have. I did make sure that the file name was named according to the correct date/time in every case, however.
Now, here are my questions about using iPhoto:
1) When I initially import my photos into iPhoto, will iPhoto recognize (or is there a way to make it recognize) each separate directory as a separate event based on the directory in which it is found?
2) If I copy photos into iPhoto library, will it respect and preserve my directory structure wherein photos are separated by date taken? If not, then is it practical to still use iPhoto without copying the files into its library (by keeping them organized as subdirectories in a directory elsewhere and having iPhoto setup to automatically display photos in that directory)?
3) If I use iPhoto to import pictures from a digital camera, can I control how it sorts those pictures into directories by making it name the directories in yyyy-mm-dd format? This is what Windows does and I find that format very convenient for organizing and viewing photo files, especially those that I have not yet tagged.
4) Again, if I use iPhoto to import pictures from a digital camera, can I control the naming convention so that photos are named according to date&time taken (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss ), or at least according to just date taken (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd) as well as appended with event names?
5) Will I be able to edit photo properties, such as date taken, within iPhoto if I discover that a photo is incorrectly organized?
Thanks in advance,
JB

Here's the thing: You've put a lot of time developing a system of managing files. iPhoto is all about Photos. So, frankly. forget your current system and use iPhoto. it has more powerful and more varied tools for managing your snaps.
There's a conceptual leap to be made with apps like iPhoto. The illustration I use is as follows: In my iTunes Library I have a file called 'Let_it_Be_The_Beatles.mp3'. So what is that, exactly? It's not the song. The Beatles never wrote an mp3. They wrote a tune and lyrics. They recorded it and a copy of that recording is stored in the mp3 file. So the file is just a container for the recording. That container is designed in a specific way attuned to the characteristics and requirements of the data. Hence, mp3.
Similarly, that Jpeg is not your photo, it's a container designed to hold that kind of data. iPhoto is all about the data and not about the container. So, regardless of where you choose to store the file, iPhoto will manage the photo, edit the photo, add metadata to the Photo but never touch the file. If you choose to export - unless you specifically choose to export the original - iPhoto will export the Photo into a new container - a new file containing the photo.
All of your queries are about files and filenames and file storage. They're all pretty much moot if you use iPhoto. If you use iPhoto it becomes the "go-to" app for all your photos. Everything you need to do with the photos can be done via iPhoto or with iPhoto.
When I initially import my photos into iPhoto, will iPhoto recognize (or is there a way to make it recognize) each separate directory as a separate event based on the directory in which it is found?
Yes, but... Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken. You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated.
Albums are a much more varied and powerful organising tool.
2) If I copy photos into iPhoto library, will it respect and preserve my directory structure wherein photos are separated by date taken?
Well forget about "directories", you're talking Events, Album and Folders now. But yes, you can define Events (or Albums) based on date. However, given that iPhoto can sort on date, can search on date and date ranges and can generate Smart Albums based on date (say, All the Photos from 2010, only the photos from June 2010 or just the photos fron June 10, 2010, or even the photos from May 12 2009 to July 11 2010) how the fies are organised on the disk is of little concern. You never access them via the HD anyway.
If not, then is it practical to still use iPhoto without copying the files into its library (by keeping them organized as subdirectories in a directory elsewhere and having iPhoto setup to automatically display photos in that directory)?
Yes you can do this. It's called a Referenced Library. I don't recommend it - especially for a new Mac user - and it adds nothing except complexity to the process. It has no extra capability. It's just dumb file storage. For more on this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3062728?tstart=0
3) If I use iPhoto to import pictures from a digital camera, can I control how it sorts those pictures into directories by making it name the directories in yyyy-mm-dd format?
No.
This is what Windows does and I find that format very convenient for organizing and viewing photo files, especially those that I have not yet tagged.
There are various tools in iPhoto that will allow you to find photos that you have not yet tagged or organised.
Again, if I use iPhoto to import pictures from a digital camera, can I control the naming convention so that photos are named according to date&time taken (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss ), or at least according to just date taken (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd) as well as appended with event names?
You can add titles to photos, yes. But as the date and time of the photo are already in the Exif, using those in the name of the photo is a bit redundant.
Will I be able to edit photo properties, such as date taken, within iPhoto if I discover that a photo is incorrectly organized?
Yes.
It's a bit to take in I know, and I always suggest to people that the best thing is to create a library on their Mac, import a couple of hndred pics and explore what it does (and doesn't), and see if it works for you.
iPhoto uses a lot of virtualisation. Photos are stored in the Library. (Events are just one of two possible views of the Library). Albums reference photos in the Library. So a shot can be in any number of albums and use no extra disk space. Keywording is also very powerful. Here’s a stock answer I use for folks when wondering what iPhoto can do:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 40k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.
Finally, all of this can be exported from iPhoto should you decide to migrate to a different app or different OS in a year or two.
Regards
TD

Photos in iPhoto are not mine??????

Hello,
I've been using iPhoto for a couple of months and am familiar with it's workings.
I have only loaded photos from a Spain trip my wife recently took. That's it. Nothing else.
Imagine my surprise then, when I started iPhoto today and found an album named "Eccentrik's Photos" with 12 sub albums containing 1200++ photos of people I've never seen in my life.
I haven't downloaded anything to iPhoto, and as stated previously, have only loaded my wife's Spain photos into iPhoto.
The only downloading I did recently was (during this same computer session, and previous to starting iPhoto), Firefox needed to do an automatic update/installation. That's it.
Lastly, I'm the only one who uses my computer and it is password protected, so nobody could've gotten on my computer or logged in remotely to put the pictures in my iPhoto.
Any suggestions as to what is going on, how this happened, how to prevent it from happening again and how to contact "Eccentrik" to get him (presumably) his photos back as these may be the only copies he has (or might think he has only to find HIS iPhoto empty next time he opens it)?
Please let me know as I'm a little confused and very displeased with the fact that this sort of thing can happen.
Thanks,
Justin
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Justin
Let me guess: you're on an unsecured wireless network, your iPhoto is set up to 'Look For Shared Libraries' You have a neighbour who is sharing his library, and guess what? You looked and found it.
Solution: password protect your network and / or disable 'Look For Shared Libraries'.
Regards
TD

Using Photos in iPhoto

Hi -
When I use photos in iPhoto (meaning I post them to a blog, develop them, send them, etc) - I currently drag them from iPhoto to the desktop, where I can then find them (when I click "load file," etc). Am I doing this in the designed way? How else do I upload a photo from within iPhoto? I am new to using a Mac, so I am used to navigating to folders to upload something. I feel I have created a work around, rather than actually found the way iPhoto is designed to work.
Thanks for your help!

kmwalsh1
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 Only*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and 10.5* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Regards
TD

Smart Album to show pics with no faces, & any photos that iPhoto no faceID

Hi, I've just started to use iPhoto 09, after a long long time getting to know my iMac, and organising my iTunes library...
I want a smart album to show photos which have no faces, but also to have photos which iPhoto has not picked up that a photo needs a "face ID" on, what I mean is, if a person is turned away to to the side, iPhoto might not pick up that it needs to be a "face" and so wont show up in the normal smart album Photo>is>unnamed
if anyone can help, would be great, I'm busy slowly importing my photos, and what to do this one step at a time
cheers

A smart album with the criteria "Face is unnamed" will find any photo with an unnamed face on it. It can be either one with a named face or two but at least one unnamed face or a photo with no faces named.
There is workaround to get what you want.
1 - add a keyword, face, to any photo you name a face in.
2 - create a smart album with the criteria "Keyword is not face".
This will identify any photo with no face at all. If you've not added any other keywords to photos you can create the smart album above and then sort by keyword. Those with both a face and unnamed face will have the keyword face and can be sorted to the top or bottom of the list.

Organizing photos on iphoto

Hi,
I am new to iPhoto. I have few questions on organizing my photos using iPhoto.
1. I would like to sort my photos using the date added (& if possible date modified) instead of date taken. How to do this?
2. When I import images, iPhoto copies them to the iPhoto library folder. Within it, every new set of images are stored in a new folder (named roll 9, roll 10 etc). I dont like the way it organizes them. Can I organize all the snaps in the iPhoto Library myself and then add import them to iPhoto?
Thanks.
Murali

I dont like the way it organizes them. Can I organize all the snaps in the iPhoto Library myself and then add import them to iPhoto?
No. Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder. IF you do then the application will not work. It sorts the photos the way it needs them to be. In truth there is no need to go near the folder anyway because anything you need to do with the pics can be (and should be) done through the iPhoto window.
Important: Do not modify the contents of the iPhoto Library folder from outside the iPhoto application.
Use iPhoto to delete, duplicate, or modify any photos in the iPhoto library. Modifying the contents of the iPhoto library from anywhere but the iPhoto application could result in a library that is unusable and may cause photos and albums to no longer appear in iPhoto.
That's from: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61262
Regards
TD

How can I import photos from iPhoto-library to edit in Photoshop CC? - and save it back to the iPhoto-library?

How can I import photos from iPhoto-library to edit in Photoshop CC? - and save it back to the iPhoto-library?

How to access iPhoto images for use in Photoshop
1. In the Finder, navigate to Users > [user name} > Pictures > iPhoto Library.
2. Control-click the iPhoto Library file and choose Show Package Contents.
3. A Finder window opens that shows the contents. The Masters folder (or called Originals folder) contains all of the photographs that are in iPhoto.
Photoshop cannot access this folder, but if you make a duplicate of the folder, the dupe will be accessible -- so:
4. Control-click the folder named Masters (or Originals) and choose Duplicate.
5, Drag the duplicate folder which is named "Masters copy" or “Originals copy” from the iPhoto Library Finder window to the Desktop.
6. Open images in Photoshop from file on desktop.
7 Rename the folder and move it elsewhere (probably to the Pictures folder), if desired.

How do I sync only 40 of my 500 photos in iPhoto to my iPhone?

Question: How do I sync only 40 of my 500 photos in iPhoto to my iPhone?
This is what I did:
1-Created a "New Album" in iPhoto
2-Named it "iPhone"
3-Dragged in the 40 photos (of the 500 photos in my iPhoto library) into the "New Album" named iPhone
4-Synced.
Result: Now when I go to the "Photo" widget on my iPhone I see:
"Camera Roll" "iPhoto (40)" and "iPhone (40)"
Why is it showing that I have the same 40 photos in under "iPhoto" and "IPhone"?
Shouldn't it say only "Camera Roll" and iPhone (40)"? Thanks!

You only have 40 photos on the phone, and there are not 40 duplicates.
What you're seeing is not unlike iTunes, where you have Library, and under it, playlists. Think of the album "iPhone" as a playlist, and "iPhoto" as the Library.
If you added another album called "iPhone2" and synched again, you would see "iPhoto", "iPhone", and "iPhone2". "iPhoto" would show all the photos from both "iPhone" and "iPhone2".
Make sense?

Contacts - how to get faces icon to appear so that I can select photos from iPhoto?

In Contacts when I try to edit and select a persons photo all I can select from is buttons labelled Defaults, Recents, and Camera. I have heard there should be a Faces button which would allow me to select photos from iPhoto. In iPhoto I have applied names to my photos. Any idea why this button does not display for me? I am on a Mac Pro.
Thanks

After posting my question found links to others who have reported the same issue. The fix for me was to do the following:
Closed out of both Contacts and iPhoto (may not have been necessary but I did)
Clicked on Finder application
Clicked on the GO button at the top of the screen
Held down the "alt-option" key so that the LIBRARY selection would appear. Clicked on LIBRARY.
Clicked on the FILE button at the top of the screen and selected NEW FOLDER.
Named the folder Images
Launched the Contacts application. Edited a contact and when I go to edit the photo I now have the FACES button.

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