Search extended photo info?

I have years of photos organized in iPhoto '09, and have been trying to find a way to do searches using the data included in the "extended photo data" with no luck. I need to separate photos by camera used, and can't figure this out. Any ideas, or would an upgrade to Aperture be in order?

Hi thomtom: I use iPhoto '08, so it may be slightly different, but try this. From the File menu > New Smart Album > From the resultant menu select "Camera Model" and then select the particular model of camera you wish. The pictures will then sort by the specific camera model.
Hope this helps
Stedman

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I just migrated my iPhoto library to my new Mac running OSX 10.6.2 from a Mac running OSX 10.3 I did this by copying the "Pictures/iPhoto Library" folder to an external drive. Today I tried to use "Show Extended Photo Info", and information appears to be lost? There is no Camera or Exposure information. I re-imported a photo from an old e-mail, and it does have the information! Do the Event/Location/Face features cause this to be deleted from my photos? I used these feature a lot before noticing anything was wrong.
Any ideas? Can I somehow check to see if the JPEG file still has the information? It is not too late to re-do the library import. I cannot live without the exposure information, as I like to play with my camera settings.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. After copying the library to the external HD did you open it directly with iPhoto? When iPhoto 09 converted that library to the latest version it would not have done anything to lose the EXIF data which is stored in the library's database files.
You didn't import that library into a new library did you? If you didn't then try rebuilding the library using iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be untouched for further attempts at fixing or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.

GPS Altitude Not in Extended Photo Info or EXIF Dat ahwne exported

Hi,
I have my own website that uses a Goggle Maps plugin to read and show GPS info for photos I upload. When I use Places to capture that info the Altitude info is not stored either in iPhoto's database or in the EXIF info for the photo when exported. Is there anyway get this info stored in the database and phot when exported?
The Google Maps plugin on my site makes use of the Altitude details to show a more close up image depending on the altitude chosen. Without this info the site just shows a extremely high level world map with a pin showing in the country where the picture was taken. Not particularly useful. So I have to go and edit each file on my website and manually add this info. Which is very time consuming.

Jennec
iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
There is no provision in iPhoto to add altitude at this time - iPhoto should maintain the EXIF data that is imported - if it is not then I certainly would report that as a bug
When I show extended photo info in iPhoto for photos it shows the altitude - I presume it exports - will test later
LN

IPhoto 11 "Show Extended Photo Info" item under "Photos"

In my iPhoto 11, under Photos in the menu bar, the first item is "Adjust Date and Time".
I do NOT see "Show Extended Photo Info".
How do I make this menu item appear?

You should post in -> Forum : Installing and using iPhoto '11.
How do I make this menu item appear?
You don't.
Click the little white i at the lower right of the photo to see the photo info.

IPhoto editing GPS 'Extended Photo Info'/ 'Location'

iPhoto 09 V8
Photos in the library without the GPS Data in the 'Extended Photo Info'/ 'Location' wish to manually update.
Also edit the GPS field.
How can I get access to this field?
Also, when importing 'new' photos is there a process to add the GPS Data at this time?

True, but I am a new Mac user, just had the machine a week. Just wanted to get going....new toy and all that
I plan to spend a few weeks using it, finding software etc, adding /installing apps etc and then when the new HDD's (3x 1TB WD Blacks) arrive, do a complete fresh install of OS and software I need.
What with different video/audio/Vinyl ripping/GPS and system apps, I have probably installed/uninstalled about 30 apps in the last few days. A fair bit of crap seems to be left in User Libraries when apps are removed. I though I had left software that leaves bits of itself all over the system when it is removed behind with Windows, but obviously not So once I find my way around a bit, I will be doing a clean OS re install once i find software I am happy with.
Was planning to create the iPhoto library, back it up re install Leopard and drag it back.
If I gotta do it again , then so be it....now to find some geotagging software that I like.
Photoshop Elements....that can edit metadata/EXIF tags in Windows at leastmaybe it will be the same in Mac?
Aperture? I have bought that, have not looked at it yet though.
Was expecting a much easier job of it. All the hype I have been hearing about Macs from mates made me thing theywere real easy to use, did not crash/freeze up etc. Mine has hung 4 times already, twice on shutdown, and also randomly when using iPhoto.
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Brightness in Extended Photo info menu

Does anyone know what the numbers refer to in the Brightness line of the Extended Photo Info window?

Google is your friend
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1020&message=28766813
LN

Searching iPhoto Photo Info

I can't get Spotlight to find photo info - specifically "metering mode." If I create a new smart folder and then select "other" at the bottom of the "Kind" button I can pick "Metering mode" from the list.
So I end up with this search: metering mode is spot (or pattern, multispot, etc.) I can't get any hits at all. I've looked at the info for certain photos so I know I have photos shot with spot metering but spotlight will not find them.
I get results when I use this method to search for iso speed but can't get the metering mode search to work. Any ideas?

Brad,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I believe your camera takes digital photos at 5 MP (megapixels), not MB (megabytes). If the pixel info is correct, and when you multiply width by height you get about 5 million, then everything is fine. When I set my camera to the least amount of compression my 7.1 megapixel images range in size from 2.6 MB to 3.2 MB. Previously when I used slightly more compression in the camera, my images were sized from 1.4 MB to 2.5 MB. I think your numbers sound reasonable. Check your camera settings to see that you are using the "finest" compression setting it offers.
iPhoto does not compress your photos. One of its core philosophies is to preserve the image in the same condition as when you imported it.
How you archive your photos depends on how you wish to use the archive. If you want to preserve the iPhoto metadata, then use Share> Burn from inside iPhoto to save a version that can be read by iPhoto. If all you want archived is a list of image files, to be used on any computer, (no iPhoto metadata) then you select your pictures and Export to a desktop folder, which you then burn in the Finder. You will have options in the export dialog; you can have the full-sized images or downsize them during the export process.

Extended photo info

The extended photo information suddenly only appears in abbreviated form. The exposure information no longer appears.

There is a +very subtle+ disclosure triangle to the left of each of those headings.
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
Very, very subtle.
Regards
TD

IPhoto 11 "Show Extended Photo Info"

This selection, under "Photos" in the menu bar, is NOT THERE in my iPhoto 11.
My first selection is "Adjust Date and Time".
What is happening here?

All of that information is now in the Info Window. Click on the 'i' lower right.
Regards
TD

About Extended Photo Info.

When I select a photo and and to look at the info it's all there EXCEPT under Exposure (what I'm really interested in) there's nothing. And that's so too with photos that have been on iPhoto for years and used to have that info. What's going on, please?

Sorry folks --- the answer is indicated in the More Like This list to the right. When one goes to Exposure there is actually an almost invisible triangle to the left of the word that one has to click. Duh.

Extended photo information

I am using a new camera. A Canon Powershot SX20 IS. I am using the iphoto application to bring photos from the camera to my computer. ( Not the Canon software)
After I have imported a photo, when I go to Extended Photo information, I get very limited information. For example I do not get ISO readings.
I was watching a presentation by another person today on Iphoto. She got much more information from the Extended Photo Information drop down menu? the information is useful in improving your photo shooting. It just wasn't there on my computer. It was there in my camera, but I erased the images after uploading them. Is there a way to access this information in iphoto? Or, do I have to use the Canon application to upload the information?
I usually transfer photos from Iphoto to Photo shop for editing.
Thank you.

with no information it is hard to say
just to be sure that you have done it correctly since you do not tell what you have done - select a photo and under the photos menu ==>show extended photo info - make sure that the sections you want are open - there is a VERY light open close triangle just to the left of the section name
LN

Change/edit/modify "Photo Info"?

First of all, I apologize if this has been answered more than once. I am new to these forums and after being frustrated for about 30 minutes because I could not find a search facility for the forums, I eventually found this post telling me it was temporarily turned off (!):
http://discussions.apple.com/ann.jspa?annID=639
Anyway, back to my question...
I have some photos that I have copied to my MacBook, edited and published into a me.com gallery, but I don't seem to have found a way to change the "photo info" for any photograph. Perhaps I am just missing something obvious somewhere, but I would like to add entries for Camera: Maker, Model, Software, etc. but have not found a way of doing this...
Any suggestions appreciated.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. That information is already in the file. Check the file with Reveal and you'll see that the the camera model is already listed. The items that can be edited or changed are: the capture date/time, description and the various exposure elements. However, iPhoto doesn't read all of those items upon import and display them. So you won't be able to increase what is viewed in the web gallery's info pane.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Trying to create a book and have sorted 900 photos in manual order...the book application resorts my photos and i have to search 900 photos each time. how can i set the sorting

trying to create an Aperture book and have sorted 900 photos in manual order...the book application resorts my photos and i have to search 900 photos each time to place a photo. how can i set the sorting to stay in my manual setup?

1. If you manually sort Images in a Project, and then create a new Book w. "Include selected Images" checked, your manual sort order will be preserved.
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3. At the risk of stating the obvious, you could create the Book, import the Images, and then sort them. The Book -- it is, to Aperture, just a special kind of Album -- retains its own manual sort order. I recommend using Albums this way. Use Projects to cull and develop Images, and use Albums for output. Sorting for a Book (or any output) is better done in the container devoted to that output (and not in the Project, which is more general).
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger -- added #3.

Print Module: Auto-Rotate to fit and Photo Info Text

When in the print module with "Auto-Rotate to fit" selected, A landscape images correctly rotates to fit the page, but the text that is selected in the "Photo Info" setting does not rotate. Thus, the text appears along the left side of the image .
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