Understanding iPhoto?

I'm a new Mac user. Can someone tell me whats the difference between iPhoto and just having the photo’s in the pictures folder? I noticed you can perform some modifications to photos in iPhoto. I did import some of my photos into iPhoto but I noticed it created one (large) file for all my photos instead of individual files. How come it just doesn’t update the existing photos in the pictures folder? Once you import all photos into iPhoto can you just delete (scary) the imported photos? Its really different not seeing individual files when looking in my pictures folder. Any help would be appreciated. Scott

Can someone tell me whats the difference between iPhoto and just having the photo’s in the pictures folder?
iPhoto is a dedicated photo organiser. It allows you to arrange, edit, sort, share, print and publish your photos, make slideshows, and use your pics in just about every application on your Mac. You can make Albums, Smart Albums, keyword your pics, rate them and search them using any of these and more criteria.
Using the Pictures Folder allows you to put your photos into Folders and... well that's about that, really.
For more on iPhoto have a look here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iphoto
I did import some of my photos into iPhoto but I noticed it created one (large) file for all my photos instead of individual files.
No it didn't. With iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is now a Package File. This is simply a folder that looks like a file in the Finder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
Want to look inside: Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
To access your files:
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.
See what I mean about being available...?
How come it just doesn’t update the existing photos in the pictures folder?
Because it's not just a Photo Editor, it's a photo organiser. As part of that it preserves your original file at all times.
Once you import all photos into iPhoto can you just delete (scary) the imported photos?
Yes you can.
But don't do it today
My best advice for anyone starting up with iPhoto is to import maybe 100 pics and explore it. See what it does (and doesn't), see if you like the way it works. Then if you do, bring in the rest of your pics. Once you're happy and understand it, then get rid of your own pics.
Regards
TD

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    Dear Terence,
    thank you very much for your answer, although it reflects what I was hoping to be not true.
    It is very annoying that the import / export functions between iPhoto and Aperture are not mature enough to include relevant EXIF information. I do not know if you are an Apple employee - if not, you are not the right addressee, of course - but it would be fine if Apple considered closing that gap. I do not see any good reason why existing information is ignored and must be hard-written to the files or kept redundant. It neither makes any sense from the software architecture point of view nor keeping the user's requirements in mind.
    Considering your tips, I have a few additional questions:
    1. Is there any way to automate tagging of pictures using the information available in Faces? I have about 175 recognized faces (could be more than 500, if I was motivated enough) in my library and tagging manually would be very time consuming. As fas as I understand iPhoto, I have to select all pictures linked to a person, Cmd+A, tag - 175 times!?
    2. You say that I can export event by event or album by album - yes, I can do that manually. But what I do in the all pictures view is Cmd+A, Export, JPEG, Original Size, Original Filenames, write additional information to files, end of story. After 4-5 hours, I have all my pictures in one folder which Aperture imports to exactly one project. Well, maybe I missed something, but please tell me how I get iPhoto to export each event to one folder with just one click, making Aperture capable to interpret those folders as albums while importing.
    Thank you very much...! Well, if 1. and 2. are not possible, Apple's developers should really know what Aperture 2.5 or 3.0 should look like.
    Regards
    Steffen
    Message was edited by: SteffenKaiser

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