Retreiving album organization

I reccently bought a new computer and the photos from Photoshop Elements 8 were transfered over, but not the albums. Is there any way to get the albums back with all my organization?

You could manually copy the preferences & application support from the old machine to the new.
Loactions are similar for mac & PC Phothsop or Elements
/Users/(YOURNAME)/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS5 Settings/
/Users/(YOURNAME)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS6/

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IPhoto '08 album organization while network sharing

I use iPhoto to store and organize (hopefully) a University's photo archive (which is shared on a network). Would anyone happen to know why my albums do not stay organized (in alphabetical order) when I access a shared iPhoto library remotely?
Also, when I create a new folder and place albums inside of it (for further organization purposes because there are many, many albums) then try to access that folder remotely from another mac, that folder is not 'recognized' as a true folder with albums in it, instead it is treated as one big album.
Another issue is that when i try to export my iPhoto library (under file>export) it won't keep the organization structure (the separate albums). Instead, it places the entire collection of photos into one location, thus losing all those albums and hours of organization.
I'm a bit shocked that Apple hasn't found these issues and fixed them 7 releases later.
Plus, for those people on campus that need access to the University photo archive, they have to find a Mac nearby. Is there any way to share this archive with PCs using iPhoto? Or is there an Adobe product or other other product I should be using that is better designed for these purposes (organization/file structure consistency when network sharing and cross-platform compatible)??
I hope I don't have to switch to a new application, everyone in my department (and other Mac departments) are completely comfortable with iPhoto and it would be a huge learning curve for them to try a new photo database/sharing/storing/editing/organizing/etc. application!
Please help!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I use iPhoto to store and organize (hopefully) a University's photo archive (which is shared on a network).
This is way, way beyond the intended use of iPhoto which is personal photo organiser.
Also, when I create a new folder and place albums inside of it (for further organization purposes because there are many, many albums) then try to access that folder remotely from another mac, that folder is not 'recognized' as a true folder with albums in it, instead it is treated as one big album.
Only Albums are shared. Not events. not folders. Only Albums.
Another issue is that when i try to export my iPhoto library (under file>export) it won't keep the organization structure (the separate albums). Instead, it places the entire collection of photos into one location, thus losing all those albums and hours of organization.
If you export your Library you get the photos from your Library. If you want to export albums, then export the albums. The same happens with iTunes. Export from the Library you get the lot. Want the organisation, export playlist by playlist.
Is there any way to share this archive with PCs using iPhoto?
No. iPhoto has no cross platform capability.
There are other cross platform apps. Microsoft's Expression (http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=web) is one but there are others. Search on MacUpdate
Bearing in mind the use you have I really don't think that iPhoto is the correct application for your needs. You need a more robust and scalable application - perhaps even a media server.
Regards
TD

Album Organization Advice (warning: I come from PC Land...)

OK. Trying to organize around 50K of images coming from a PC. I am almost positive that when I run a dupe delete routine I will be down to 25K or 20K.
Right now I am plunking through a "manual" import of all my PC folders with the attendant duplicates and the ridiculous dis-organization. This means that they come into iPhoto and the /individual/ photos need to be sorted. What I mean by this is that I am doing a TON of moving just to get the database in some kind of coherent order. This all needs to happen on some level before I can even think about naming the photos. Although I'm not sure I have wrapped my head around exactly why I should name the photos just yet. I know this is important so any advice is really welcome. I'll throw some questions out and I'm very much hoping someone can hit a couple back at me so I can get a little better over here.
1. Is there a way to create a new Album? Is there a way to move a group of photos to a new Album - say select a group of images right click and say "Move to New Album"?
2. Is there a way to "bulk name" or "bulk tag" a group of photos? Say if I want to "prepend" the prefix "Portfolio..." to a group of photos that are otherwise named "1234567.jpg" and I want them to say "Portfolio_1234567.jpg" so I can order them better.
Right now I have ten folders that have "Portfolio..._ at the beginning. Portfolio 1, Portfolio 2 etc, etc. I am currently putting all the photos that belong to each portfolio in the correct album. The problem is that in the Photos pane it is not showing my albums in alphabetical order so this organization is troublesome. If I find a group of photos and I want to move them to "Portfolio 3" I have to scroll through about forty or fifty Albums that are not in alphabetical order. I'm wondering if it makes more sense to drop all the photos into a "Portfolio" Album and to then name them - and somehow sort them - by the photo name...
Any help? Please and thanks...
- Jonathan

Hotwheels22 wrote:
OK. Trying to organize around 50K of images coming from a PC. I am almost positive that when I run a dupe delete routine I will be down to 25K or 20K.
Right now I am plunking through a "manual" import of all my PC folders with the attendant duplicates and the ridiculous dis-organization. This means that they come into iPhoto and the /individual/ photos need to be sorted. What I mean by this is that I am doing a TON of moving just to get the database in some kind of coherent order. This all needs to happen on some level before I can even think about naming the photos. Although I'm not sure I have wrapped my head around exactly why I should name the photos just yet. I know this is important so any advice is really welcome. I'll throw some questions out and I'm very much hoping someone can hit a couple back at me so I can get a little better over here.
1. Is there a way to create a new Album? Is there a way to move a group of photos to a new Album - say select a group of images right click and say "Move to New Album"?
File menu ==> new album
and
File menu ==> new album from selection
for existing albums you can simply select photos and drag them to the album
Or just drag a folder from the finder to the album section of the source pane - this will import the photos and create an album
2. Is there a way to "bulk name" or "bulk tag" a group of photos? Say if I want to "prepend" the prefix "Portfolio..." to a group of photos that are otherwise named "1234567.jpg" and I want them to say "Portfolio_1234567.jpg" so I can order them better.
Sort of - under the photos menu ==> batch change
It probably is easier to rename photos prior to importing - name mangler - http://manytricks.com/namemangler/ - is a good choice for this
Right now I have ten folders that have "Portfolio..._ at the beginning. Portfolio 1, Portfolio 2 etc, etc. I am currently putting all the photos that belong to each portfolio in the correct album. The problem is that in the Photos pane it is not showing my albums in alphabetical order so this organization is troublesome. If I find a group of photos and I want to move them to "Portfolio 3" I have to scroll through about forty or fifty Albums that are not in alphabetical order.
Right click on the Source pane and select sort albums (note that this can not be undone)
I'm wondering if it makes more sense to drop all the photos into a "Portfolio" Album and to then name them - and somehow sort them - by the photo name...
Any help? Please and thanks...
- Jonathan

IPhoto - Album organization

Hello!
I currently have about 30 folders inside the Album section of my iPhoto that I would like to alphabetize so there's some organization. I haven't been able to find anything of any use online. Does anyone know how to rearrange the folders so they are organized for ease of use?

Make sure you're Control (right) - clicking on the album icon so you get this contextual menu:

Chronological Album Organization

I like to file all my music alphabetically by artist. However, when I do that, itunes will then organize the albums of a given artist in alphabetical order. Is there a way I can continue to organize by artist, but have the albums of that given artist in order of release date?

I already have them sorted that way, but itunes took
a few random albums and threw them at the end of my
library. I found that unchecking " part of a
compolation" helped with some, and others I had to
use various Artists in the "artist Field", while on
or two, I'm still at a loss.
Keep experimenting. There's clearly a reason things are getting organized the way they are. You just need to figure out what field iTunes is using to sort things.
Alos, now that I have itunes the way I like it,
When I sync my ipod the albums are still listed
aphabetically under the artist heading. Any
thoughts?
It appears that the only way to do a non-standard sort on the iPod is by setting up a playlist. That will be sorted the way it is on iTunes - but of course playlists only include songs, no album or artist breakdown. As soon as the iPod does its own organization, e.g., by album or artist, it goes back to the default alphabetization.
Perhaps someday all those fancy new sort fields will be available on the iPod as well, but that doesn't seem to be the case today - at least on my Nano.
hanks; you've been a great help
You're welcome.

Album organization/source list question

I'm a new iPhoto user and can be somewhat 'precise' about the organization of some things. In iPhoto 4 help it tells me that I can create a new folder in the source list and that the option to do so is under the file menu. I don't see that option and would like to create folders to organize albums. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi, Jeff. It may be that you, like many other iPhoto 4 users including myself, have been inappropriately supplied (maybe by Apple's Software Update?) with the iPhoto Help file for iPhoto 5. Open iPhoto, then open iPhoto Help, and click on the "What's New in IPhoto" link. Is the blurb that appears entitled "What's new in iPhoto 5?" If so, your Help file refers to a number of features that you won't find in iPhoto 4, because they don't exist in it. One of those is the ability to organize your albums in folders. Forget it — you can't do that in iP4.
There have been quite a few posts here from people who have the wrong iPhoto Help file, and to the best of my knowledge, no one has yet figured out how it happened.

Photos are showing up in Places and not in my albums, organization.

I have the 3GS. I recently upgraded to the new software with the 4.0. It's really cool so far, except the fact that it took some of my photos out of already organized "albums" and put them into "places". I like the fact that they are recognized in the places section/tab. But I also would like to keep them in the album itself so I don't have to go searching for a specific picture that I know I have on the phone but can't find. It's just kinda a pain in the butt cause now my pictures are kinda all over my phone between "albums" and "places". And some of the places location are really off by saying some were taken in a different town when they weren't. Is there any way to reorganize them.

The photo streams are not available at the icloud.com site. The are only available on mobile devices or Macs with iCloud capatible iPhoto. If you create shared photo streams they will be online but at their specifie URL and not at icloud.com.
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Album Organization

This forum is great - looking over previous questions and their answers have been really helpful. I would just like to ask a question about something that still confuses me. I recently switched from a PC to a Mac. On the PC, I organized the photos in folders and labeled the folders with the date and title of an album. For instance "2001-08-11 Drew's Wedding."
When I imported the files to iPhoto, iPhoto sorted them by year, but has since mixed all of those albums together. This gets more confusing when a particular album straddles two years. Is there a way to automatically create albums based on the folder within which the orginal photo resides? Or is this a manual process?
Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

snowseff
at the bottom left hand corner of the window you'll see a little calendar icon. Click on it and you can select pics on a month by month basis. You can then create month by month albums very quickly.
Also check out using Keywords for making Smart albums - they really are very powerful.
All of this is done in the iPhoto Window, do not think of re-arranging folders in the iPhoto Library Folder. Remember: It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss.
Regards
TD

Mix Album Organization

I have imported some mp3's to create a mix album on iTunes. iTunes is organising the songs alphabetically by the name of the artist. How can i change this to organise alphabetically by the track name?

Boss Hogg,
Even tho you did not exactly ask, there is one more thing that you need to know. If you want to change the sequence of songs in a playlist, first follow MK's directions and click over the track number (to the left of Name). Then it will let you adjust the position of any track by dragging upward or downward. As a serious mixer surely you want to control the flow, and not be constrained to alphabetical by name.
Ed

Cant find albums in source pane

I thought I remembered that in the past when I created an album in iPhoto I could then find that album in the source pane. when I want to find a specific photo to upload (or attach or whatever) I need to find it by going through 2007 then the roll then one of the hundreds of pics in that roll. did apple get rid of the album organization in the source pane or am I totally overlooking something. Thanks for your help. andy

apf77
Check out my Post above detailing how to get pics from iPhoto.
You simply never need to get them via the Finder.
If you use Mail, Eudora, AOL or Entourage you can email from within iPhoto.
If you want to upload pics to somewhere - or use Web Mail - simply select the pics you require and go File -> Export and iPhoto will export copies. Want to export a whole album? Select the Album, then apple-a will select all the pics. Export to a folder on the Desktop. Upload from there - and that's much faster than rooting around in the Finder - for a start you're always attaching from the same place. Afterwards, when your upload is done, trash the pics on the desktop, they're only copies.
Regards
TD

Importing iPhoto `11 Library Lost Folders & Nested Albums

Been using iPhoto since its' inception. Currently at iPhoto `11. Had created many Albums and Smart Albums based on Keywords and had most of them organized into Folders in iPhoto.
Just bought Aperture 3 and, following the video tutorial provided by Apple, imported my 9,000+ iPhoto Library into it. However, only albums that resided at the top level in the sidebar of iPhoto made it into Aperture. All Folders and any Albums and Smart Albums that resided inside those Folders were not imported into Aperture.
I have verified that all photos contained within the missing Folders and Albums have made it into Aperture, just not the Folder and Album hierarchies I had created over the years.
Do I need to delete the Aperture Library and re-import the iPhoto Library again using other settings?

Thanks for the reply Terrence. I'm still a bit confused by some contradictory behavior of Aperture.
The Aperture Manual states (p.112):
+"The organization of your iPhoto images and albums is maintained as projects in the Projects panel."+
Well, not actually. Only EVENTS seem to be maintained as Projects when imported from iPhoto. My iPhoto library contains 1189 Events. Aperture now has 1185 Projects after the iPhoto import. But Projects does not contain any of the album organization that had been created in iPhoto.
The Aperture Manual further states (p.112):
"+You cannot import slideshows, books, and Smart Albums from your iPhoto Library."+
Well, actually, Aperture DID import 5 of my Smart Albums. But these were only the Smart Albums at the top level of iPhoto's sidebar. All other Smart Albums nested inside folders in iPhotos sidebar were not brought over.
So I'm confused.

Aperture fails to import albums from iPhoto

I have been using the combination iPhoto/Photoshop for many years. For some time I have considered either Aperture of Lightroom. With the chopped price and supposedly improved interface with the new version, I decided to buy it today. So far it looks like a big mistake! One major reason for choosing Aperture rather than Lightroom was Apertures's advertised smooth import of the iPhoto library, and to import albums in iPhoto. I have spent a lot of time over several years to find a good system of album organization in iPhoto. It was consequently a big disappointment to discover that Aperture failed to import most of my some 30 albums and my slideshows from iPhoto. I have searched both the manual and help to find out how I can get my album organization of some 20 000 pictures into Aperture, but so far without success. Can anyone give me a clue. Both regular albums as well as smart albums are missing. I cannot figure out how I so totally have misunderstood what Aperture is capable of.

There is always local issues involved. No two Macs are alike. Different files, temporary files, plug-ins etc. can and do cause problems. When software updates and upgrades are created, the developer, in this case Apple, need to test the software in different environments. Developers are pushed by steadily shorter deadlines, at the same time applications are also steadily becoming more complex. When I am critical to Apple, it is because there are only Apple applications involved in my case, on a brand new (2 weeks old newest version of MacBook Pro), and the very same issue has happened to too many others. Just take a look at Apple discussions. I have used iPhoto since it was launched the first time, and I have only experienced problems a couple of times before. I am not saying that the problem is iPhoto or Aperture alone, it is the two of them which do not handle the integration. Keep in mind also that most Aperture users are different than the average Mac user in that they work a lot with photo files. This is the environment that Apple has to take into account when launching upgrades and updates.

Import Photoshop Elements 9 Albums into iPhoto '11 Albums

Hi,
I have about 10,000 pictures organized into albums on Photoshop Elements on my PC, and I'd like to move them all into iPhoto on my iMac, and retain all the album organization.
I've tried this process several times, and I am able to transfer the photos, but I loose all of the album organization in the process. I followed the steps for Photoshop to iPhoto conversion at the bottom of this post (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080702225914AAmKVhU), but what I get in iPhoto is just an organization by the folder on the hard drive, no albums.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

Thanks Terence, but my Photoshop Elements Albums are organized by a combination of date and topic (e.g. "2006: Christmas") so using the Photoshop Elements Organizer I can't easily find the underlying folders that the photos in an album are from, to be able to drag them anywhere.
Also, I tried just dragging an Album directly from the PSE Organizer into iPhoto, but it doesn't work -- it won't allow me to drop it there and it doesn't create an iPhoto album.
I think what I'm going to try next is creating keywords in PSE that match my Album names then exporting those keywords into the JPEG files. I believe iPhoto can read those tags on import of the files and I can re-create the albums manually. Still this is alot of work, and might be easier to just purchase the Mac version of PSE 9.
Lastly, I just remembered that PSE Organizer saves information about edited photos for me -- i.e. when I edited a file I only see the latest rev in the Organizer and the original files are hidden from view (they call it a "stack"). I doubt that iPhoto is going to recognize this, so I think I'm going to end up with duplicates of any photos that I edited.
Any ideas on how to avoid this without having to manually find all the edited files and archive them somehow?

Organizing albums per year in my iPod

Friends,
I find that organizing albums per year is much more convenient than by alphabetical order.
And makes much more sense, to me.
Now this is no problem when you're in iTUnes, as you can visualize all your music both ways, per year, alphabetically (and many more, actually.
But when I'm listening through my iPod???
my iPod organizes albums alphabetically by default.
In order to have an artist's albums organizes by year, I see no way but adding the year in front of the title.
1961 - Bob Dylan
1962 - Freewheelin
1963 - The Times They Are a-Changin'
and so on.
Which works ok, but it's definitely ugly.
Let alone the fact that I cannot browse them alphabetically anymore and I find myself having an infinite lists of dates instead of a list of titles.
Is there a way to tell my iPod to organize my albums by year even if the *physical number* is not printed in the title?
(the way you do when you're in iTunes)
Hope I've been clear
Thanks a lot for any answer.
Beppe

I've been wanting to do that too.
I haven't tried this yet, but give it a whirl. Before the title of each album by an artist, put a letter in front. For instance, if you have ten albums under Dylan, put the letter "A" in front of the title of the earliest album, "B" in front of his second and so on.
Searching by album would not work, but I never do that anyway. I usually go to the artist first, then look for the album.

Clean up main album by hiding other albums (as in previous versions)

Had ALL versions
of photshop album the elements so I know the program well. Running this on vista...8.0 uninstalled.
8.0 allowed you to make albums with visible images in the album but invisible in the main thumbnail window. This sped up the thumbnail loading time. 9.0 seems to make the images invisible in both the new album as well as the main window. This doesn't make sense. Please allow for a cleaner main thumbnail view . If all the pics are always there it loads to slowly.

This is the Photoshop forum - we don't deal with Album/Organizer at all.

Retreiving album organization

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