Organizing images for a photo album (to be printed) not working as expected

Question

I am trying to create a group of selects from a vacation from which I will print 40 non-snorkeling photos to put in a physical photo album. Here’s what I’m doing:
Created project Hawaii, imported about 400 images.
Created keywords "Hawaii", “Snorkeling Trip” and “Everything Else”
Created Smart Album “Land and Air” with keywords “Hawaii” and “Everything Else”
Created Smart Album “Snorkeling Trip” with keywords “Hawaii” and “Snorkeling Trip”
Created empty Album “Photo Album”
At this point I have about 400 images in the project Hawaii, 350 in Smart Album “Land and Air” and 50 in Smart Album “Snorkeling Trip”. So far everything is working as expected.
Next I selected the Smart Album “Land and Air”, switched to the Ratings & Keywords view, walked through all images and found 40 to rate 5-stars. I also cropped and made some adjustments.
Next I re-arranged these 40 selects to an order that better depicts a story. Note: At this point the sort field indicates “Custom” as expected.
Next I dragged these 40 selects into empty Album “Photo Album”. This is where the problems begin:
In the Album "Photo Album", the sort order changed to “Image Date” and “Custom” is now grayed out. I can not change the order of the images.
All of these images are “- version 2”. If I click on the Smart Album “Land and Air” these 40 “- version 2” images appear there, too, in addition to the ones that are already there. I.E. There are 40 more images in “Land and Air”, 40 of the original images and 40 of “- version 2”. Interestingly, the originals and “- version 2” images are identical – they are both cropped and adjusted.
I’m confused as to why there are “- version 2” images when they are the same (with crops and adjustments) as version "1”. What I expected was to just have the 40 images I selected out and arranged in the Album “Photo Album” and the original 40 in Smart Album “Land and Air” not duplicated and would (or perhaps would not?) reflect the crops and adjustments, and keywording.
How should I be doing this? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Beardheart wrote:
The problem is that when I open a new project and try to use that loop, the loop doesn't appear in the loop browser.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#missingloops ?
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I assumed a loop added to the library would be available for all users
no, only the user that created it
and all projects,
see the first link
if I could just export this loop as a wav file
GB only exports AIFF, AAC, and mp3, however you can convert them to a wav if you need to:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#converttowav
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to the desktop or something and then pull it into the new project, but I can't find any way to do that.
export the part you want:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportsections
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and import that:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#importaudio
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I looked under /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for Garageband {...} and that folder is full of loops, but not the one I have created.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#myloopsstored
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