Organizing photos in an album

I know this must be very simple. I'm using iPhoto '08 and just want to move photos around within one of my event of photo folders. I have done this in the past by just clicking and dragging the photo to where I want to place it....but this is not working. Please advise.
1 - you posted an iPhoto '08 question in the iPhoto 6 forum - I will request that the thread be moved to the correct forums
2 - iPhoto '08 has events, albums and folders - all are different - and using the correct terminology is critical:
-- Events are basic and you can not rearrange photos in events
-- albums are used to organize photos and you can change the order by dragging photos within the album
-- folders are also organization elements and hold albums or other folders
You are mixing them all up - I suspect that you want to create an album and then reorder the photos in that album
LN

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when you select any album , there will be a drop down present along with the Organize/Share/Create/Edit tab - "Album Order" - select that , there will Date (oldest/newest first).
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I'm finally moving my photos from my PC to my MacBook Pro. I have 8 years worth of photos organized into very specific albums. Can I import the album structure directly into iPhoto or am I going to have to recreate everything in iPhoto?

I'm finally moving my photos from my PC to my MacBook Pro. I have 8 years worth of photos organized into very specific albums. Can I import the album structure directly into iPhoto or am I going to have to recreate everything in iPhoto?

If you want to duplicate your Folder Tree in iPhoto:
Start at the bottom of the hierarchy and drag a folder of images to the Album Heading in iPhoto. The pics will be imported and an Album of the same name created.
You can then create the Enclosing Folders in the iPhoto Window (File -> New Folder) and drag the Album to it. Folders can contain other Folders (Nested Folders) and Albums.
However, is your folder system date based? Then this form of organisation is a bit pointless in iPhoto when Smart Albums or the Calendar tool (Click on the wee magnifying glass in the Search Box) mean you can find the photos taken on any day, month or year at a click. With Smart Albums it's easy to find photos from specific range - say, June 3 to August 25, 2009 etc.
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It should. So they aren't shown in the Last Import smart album, right? Try the following:
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2 - Run Option #4, Rebuild Database, followed by Option #1 if needed.
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Organizing Photos in Album

Recently upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard with Mac Box Set which included Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09. Created albums in iLife '09 iPhoto from albums in Tiger iPhoto. No issues until I tried to "organize" photos with each of 8 albums. I can't "Drag" a photo to the correct position within the album.

Events are a basic automatic organization based on dates - some people use only events - some do not use them and use only albums - I use both
I use and recommend leaving events pretty much as iPhoto creates them (sometimes I split one or combine a few but basically my library of events is a bunch of date arranges happenings)
Then I use faces to identify Who is in a photo and places to identify where the photos is taken - albums and folders (folders contain albums and/or other folders) for more detailed organization - like trips - so a vacations folder with folders for Italy, Spain, hawaii etc in it and then albums for different trips to each in those folders for example
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How do you move photos from one album to another?

I imported a few photos from my iphone 4 into my new ipad using Bump. The ipad put these photos into an album. I'd like to be able to organize some of these into different albums and also name the albums. I don't want to sync all my photos from my phone...there are way too many so I kept sync photos unchecked in itunes. Is there a way to do this on the ipad itself without any outside help?
Thank you

There is no way to do what you are asking.
Organizing photos takes place on your computer, not the iPad.

How do I delete a photo from an album? I don't want to ctrl delete b/c I don't want to delete it forever. It just landed in the wrong album (there is a copy in the correct album and the wrong album)

I've got photos organized into projects by year, folder by month and then broken into albums within the months (mom of young kids). When I was creating albums yesterday, I didn't notice a little box that says "do you want to put selected photos in album?" So every time I created a new album, it put the photo that I had been working on in that album. I want that photo (in the album in which it belongs), so I don't want to ctrl+delete. But I don't want that photo in 10 other albums. How can I get it out of the albums where I don't want it?

In addition to johngrussel's suggestion the delete key by itself will run the Remove from Album comand.
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i just started using iphoto and im sorting out all my photos and organizing them with the albums inside iphoto. thats all great but when trying to find photos to upload to my myspace they get lost inside date codes. my question is why do they not get saved in a folder under the name of the album they are located in iphoto?

iPhoto is a database application, and not a file browser. Simply, you are not meant to browse the iPhoto Library folder to access your photos. Any changes you might make while there will damage your library. See this from the iPhoto Help, under "About using the iPhoto Library":
+IMPORTANT: There is also an "iPhoto Library" folder located in the Pictures folder in your home folder, outside the iPhoto application. If you move, delete, rename, or otherwise touch files or folders within this folder, you may be unable to see your pictures in the iPhoto application.+
+The files within this folder should only be manipulated by a customer care representative. It is a good idea, however, to routinely back up this entire folder to a CD or external hard disk so you have a copy in case your photos become lost or corrupted for any reason.+
Albums are a collection of pointers telling iPhoto to display a group of photos together. They exist as code in the library's database file and have no real presence in the Finder. If they did, it would necessitate duplication of every photo that exists in more than one album. The benefit of using iPhoto is that you get the power of the albums with no duplication. The photo of you with your dog and your baby at the beach on vacation can be in an album for your dog, one for your baby, one for the beach, one for your vacation, etc. But the actual photo exists only once inside your Library. That's what makes iPhoto more powerful and efficient than a file browser.
To locate your photos, use iPhoto. (Not the Finder or other app.) To prepare photos for uploading to myspace or another website, select them in iPhoto, then do an Export to a Desktop folder. The Export dialog gives you the option to rename the new files or even resize for better uploading performance. Select the exports for uploading, then trash them when you're done. The files remain safe in your Library. You can also get photos out of iPhoto by simply dragging the thumbnail from the iPhoto window to your Desktop - a full-sized copy will be saved on your Desktop. Drag and drop works with some applications, as well.
Regards.

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I want my carefully organized photos in a iPhoto Album to remain in SAME order when sending the album to my iPad from my MacBook Pro via Photo Stream. How can I do this?
Are you asking about "My Photo Stream" or a "Shared Photo Stream"?
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Léonie

Organizing photos between devices in iPhoto

Hi guys,
I am greatly confused and really hope you can help me out! I have searched for hours now and I am still not sure of the answer, so even though it might be answered in other threads I still hope you will help me...
I have and iPhone and a Macbook. Between these two devices I want to share and organize my photos taken with the iPhone. First of all the photos are obviously saved in the camera roll - and since I have enabled photoStream they are saved here as well.
For a while ago I read that to organize the photos I should syncronize with iPhoto, organize into albums and syncronize back to the phone. That kinda works, however now the photos are takin up space 3 times! That is very confusing and a waste of space!
What I really want is actually to have the photos in the camera roll until I have organized them into albums and then I want to be able to delete them from the camera roll. That way I ensure that I have organized all photos.
I really appreciate any tips as this is really frustrating...

And what is the difference between events and albums in iPhoto? I get that one solution is to import all photos to iPhoto and then organize the photos into albums. However they still apear in events - and with all these events ordered by dates how will I ever ensure that I have organized all images into albums?
iPhoto does not store photos. It only references photos in your camera roll, in events synced to your iDevice from your Mac, uploaded using the camera connection kit, or imported by other apps.
See the iPhoto Help: http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/?handbuch#blnkbc26e276
iPhoto will not use additional space, if a photo is used in an album and also appears in an event or the camera roll.
What I really want is actually to have the photos in the camera roll until I have organized them into albums and then I want to be able to delete them from the camera roll. That way I ensure that I have organized all photos.
What kind of albums are you asking about? The albums that iPhoto creates by tagging, or the abums you create in the Camera Roll? Either way, these albums do not store the photos, they only group them differently for easy access. When you delete the photos from your camera roll, the photos will vanish from the albums as well, because they are one and the same image.
Anyway, it is no good idea to delete the photos from the Camera Roll. The Camera Roll is the central sharing place of your iPhone. Other apps can access your photos in the Camara Roll, the Camera Roll can be downloaded to your computer, the Camera Roll is backed up in your iCloud backup.
Should I rather organize only in events and not use albums?
Use the camera roll and events to store all your photos, and use albums to create selections for special purposes to easily access them and retrieve them.
First of all the photos are obviously saved in the camera roll - and since I have enabled photoStream they are saved here as well.
The camera roll stores the photos, but the Photo Stream is just a temporary buffer to share the photos. Don't rely on Photo Stream to keep the photos for ever. It will only keep the most recently added photos and no more than a thousand photos on your iPhone.
For a while ago I read that to organize the photos I should syncronize with iPhoto, organize into albums and syncronize back to the phone. That kinda works, however now the photos are takin up space 3 times! That is very confusing and a waste of space!
The general idea of that advice is to keep the photos off your phone:
Organize them on your mac, store all photos on your mac, and back them up regularly, so that you have them safe.
Then delete the photos from your phone to free space.
Now create albums on your mac with your most important photos that you want to have on your iPhone as well and regularly sync your current selection of favorite photos to your iPhone.
What may be confusing for you, is that you are trying to achieve something, that the two versions o iPhoto on your mac and your iPhone are not intended for and do not support well - two keep two photolibraries in sync. The apps support sharing of selected photos, but not syncing libraries. So have one well organized library on your mac, and share to your iPhone what you want on the phone as well, for example by setting up shared photostreams or syncing with iTunes.
Leonie

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Sunny:
Add your photos to an album that's set to sort by date. Then when you have all the photos you want select that album and click on the Slideshow button. It's either that or doing what you're doing.
Meanwhile send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html

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I use Smart Album to find photos not organized into albums. But some freshly imported photos don't show up in it. Do they get an album from the import from iPhone? It's weird, about half of the photos in any given import will be this way.

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Picture 4.jpg
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Unfortunately many have discovered thso problem with iPhoto. Provide feedback to Apple here
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Organizing photos on more than one computer

Hello,
I would like suggestions on organizing photos. I am a professor of architecture and have several thousands of photos of buildings and cities that I have visited and designed. I use some of these photos for lectures and other professional work, but many of them go unused. The total amount of space taken is about 100GB and is growing fast. My main computer is a 15" MBPro, but I have begun to use an 11" MBA for lecturing. The problem is that neither drive is able to hold my complete photo library.
My question is: How do I best organize my photo library so that I can keep the same "5 Star" photos on both computers, but still be able to see images on a back-up hard drive when connected? I have both Aperture and iPhoto.
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Matthew Jelacic

You are asking two questions in one. You'll get a more successful set-up if you address them separately. The question you stress is file management. Put simply, you want to be able to use an Aperture Library (or a subset of same) on two portable computers with insufficient built-in storage space. Secondarily, you are also asking about image management: how to structure your Library for best use providing source material for a professor of architecture.
The file management questions is more easily answered, esp. as you have specified that your top need to have 5-star (and presumably only 5-star) images on the second computer. First, read the User Manual chapter on Library files. That will almost certainly provide you the information you need to answer your question with more specificity than we can provide here. (Click heading for link.)
Working with Library Files
Aperture exports projects, albums, and folders as a library file. You can transfer the library file from one Aperture system to another and then merge the transferred library file into the library file on that system. All links between versions and their masters are maintained when library items are transferred. This is particularly useful if you use a portable computer when on location or away from your studio, and a workstation at your studio. Any work done in the field can be exported from your portable computer as a library file and then merged with the library file on the workstation at your studio.
When the library file becomes large and requires more disk space than is available in its current location, you can move it to a hard disk with greater storage capacity. To change the location of the library, you move the library file to a new location and then double-click it to open it in Aperture.
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Good Luck.
PS: Ditch iPhoto, or ditch Aperture. They are not practicably compatible.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

Organizing Photo's

I have over 10,000 photo's I jsut imported into Iphoto. Iphoto Proceeded to organize them by year which is great. But is there a way I can tell Iphoto to automatically organize them by Month / Year? I know of course I could do smart folders but this would be a time consuming process. Is there a easier way or organizing these photos.
Help Please

everts should be organized chronologically by date - depending on your preference settings and how you imported them you will have one or more (many more) events
In Events view how many events do you have? are they all titled "untitled event"?
Assuming that you don't have a lot of events but a few large ones, it is easy to split them (and I found it fun because I re-visited a lot of old photos I have not seen for a long time) by opening the bottom event (double click on it) and going to the bottom of it and working up until you find a natural break (new day/week/month/etc OR new "event) click on the top photo of that division and click on the split button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iPhoto window and continue up the event until you have broker it down as you want
Then you can go back to viewing all events and select each event and edit the information for it (lower left hand pane - you may have to click on the Blue "i" o display it)
Once you have this basic time based organization you may want to set up albums (and possibly folders - a folder holds one or more albums) to provide easier access to certain photos - create the album and drag photos from events to the album - this creates a link NOT a copy of the photo so there is no space penalty to having a photo in many albums
Hopefully this helps
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