Unwanted images in PhotoStream

What if I delete recent photos from my Mac or iPhone? Will they stay in PhotoStream then?

Yes I think that is your best option. Auto Import not normally selected anywhere.
I don't have a small iDevice. I think for an iPhone you don't have a choice the images get sent to Photo Stream automatically. What I would do would be to let that happen, forget about it, then at your recieving computer only lift out of PhotoStream those images you want to keep. Photostream does not use any of your storage, yes delete all or any images from your iPhone. Once you have recieved and selected the ones you want at your desktop, clear the Stream and re populate it with any images you may like *available* on the iPhone. You could keep a folder of images 'for the iPhone' .You don't have to import them to the iPhone to view them.
This is one of the advantages ot Photo Stream. It allows you to free up memory in iDevices or... buy iDevices with lower memory yet get still have more available storage.
Regarding DSLR I have tested with Nikon NEF (RAW) images and altough it's a bit slow uploading, I have sent NEF's home and they are good to read in Adobe Cs5 Photoshop as though they were just lifted off the card. Just for fun I tried uploading a 100Meg TIFF file. Photo Stream swallowed it without complaint.
I don't use iPhoto routinely, I normally use Lightroom and Photoshop, I have been using iPhoto for testing recently. I never allow any software to import straight from the card (or camera) I always simply lift the image files into a new dated folder in my Pictures folder. That way I have a clean, untouched version of every image which is backed up to Time Machine and elsewhere. I then ingest a copy of them to Lightroom (or iPhoto).
We are at the beginning of a very interesting journey and Photo Stream, the iCloud and Lion will evolve over the next few months to become a versatile tool.

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How would an Apple fan keep unwanted images out of Photostream in IOS 8?

So Apple decides that people don't need an uncluttered thumbnail view of all photos stored in their iPhone in IOS 8. And the UI geniuses also decide that the concept of cloud (aka "server side" in 90's terms) storage and local storage is just too much for the average iPhone user to grasp.
The UI design choices that sprung from this mindset have reduced usability, efficiency, but more importantly the family friendly reputation that Apple trades on in nearly all of their marketing material.
Finding images (particularly when you have thousands) in the Years/Collections/Moments(Maps too!) paradigm is ridiculously inefficient compared to a scrolling screen with rows upon rows of thumbnails touching each other in chronological order. Of course we can quibble about whether the chronology should be based on file creation dates or EXIF metadata but those are decisions that we don't get in the IOS world (yes, another complaint). My main point here is that they had no reason to get rid of Camera Roll. Why can't it exist alongside the YCMM world of dates/locations and useless search tools? Let's face it, the new Recently Added Album is just a silly smart folder as are all the other albums. Why can't I change the 30 day date range to one of my choosing? Or why can't I add what Apple would call a Smart Album into my Albums just as I can add Cro-Mag dumb albums that need constant updating? This would bring back that good old Camera Roll functionality so people not confused by cloud vs local and like to keep track of their original image files could be happy. And the people that need Simple would be happy too.
But back to my original query. I use my iPhone for many purposes including work. I also take iPhone screenshots for work. I also take a lot of pictures and not all of those images should be in my family and sharing oriented personal Photostream. After all Apple, you sold me an Apple TV which I can fire up and share my recent life experiences with others. Why the heck would I want product photography, conference room whiteboard pics, iPhone wallpaper, and all the different images that are not the "selects" but that I want to archive using Lightroom or iPhoto anyway showing up IN MY FAMILY SLIDESHOWS? One of the benefits of digital imaging is the cheap cost of creating and storing many images. I use my iPhone often as I would a DSLR and I frequently shoot many images that are very similar, sometimes using burst mode in the phone. Why would you force me to completely delete images that are not "favorites/selects" just so I can maintain a decent slideshow via Photostream? Why do you not want me to have pleasing wallpaper downloaded via the sundry App Store wallpaper apps? Any new wallpaper I add will now be in the Photostream. Yes, family dinner with the Apple TV slideshow showing images of cars, puppies, clouds, and abstract patterns interspersed with the trip to the pool last weekend sure makes for some great viewing!
This is because you also killed the Photostream album view and I can no longer delete unwanted Photostream images unless I also want to completely delete the image local to the iPhone. If you go to the YCMM (Years/Collections/Moments/Maps) Photo tab there is no way to treat the local image separately from the cloud based Photostream image. This is absurd. You can't pitch Photostream as a lifestyle feature since you now prevent editing and curating this very audience specific collection of images. It's as if you forgot that a huge number of iPhone users are creative professionals! And we use our iPhones for professional purposes as well as personal.
Not to mention that this design choice HUGELY increases the probability of "inappropriate" photos being uploaded to the cloud and lost control over through hacking or just user misunderstanding of how iCloud and Photostream works. Amazing that Apple would do this considering the recent scandal.
So now I'll answer my own original question with a lame "workaround" answer. And yes, it involves a lot more work as opposed to the couple of touches that I used frequently in IOS 7 and earlier to curate my Photostream right on my iPhone: You have to have another IOS device (pre IOS 8) and delete the images from Photostream from there. Or use iPhoto to do the same. So add yet another task to your Reminders app that is now much more of a hassle.
Apple, for the love of Pete, please don't take away control over my source image files and my ability to create collections of images for different purposes.
Thanks.

Excellently well put and accurate. The answer of course is that Apple want us to rent vast lumps of storage from them. Your point about appropriate images is well made. It's not just **** either but maybe legitimate images that you don't want shared out in the world, such as your wife and daughters caught on camera whilst sunbathing topless in the security of a private villa on holiday. That could prove embarrassing to them if they found their way out into the public domain, easily done by accident from a phone. The fact is that Apple have decided for pure commercial gain to take control of our means of controlling and storing our images. I shoot mainly portraits of my extended family and Landscapes. I don't want to share my images across mobiles etc, I want to sell them or give them to family members myself . Apple you are losing the plot here and alienating your core supporters.

Unwanted images

Unwanted images that happen to be downloaded from various sources are being saved in Iphoto. This started with the new ILife 11 download. Is there a setting to stop that from happening?

Yes, don't import them? But I suspect that's not quite the issue. Can you explain more?

Deleting Images from Photostream

How do you delete images from Photostream?? Can you??
Thanks
Sky

Seems from what I've read even the reset option in icloud.com doens't actually delete anything. another forum mentioned that what it would do is this:
Let's say you have an iPad with photostream off. and with your iPhone photostream on, you take a picture, it uploads to the cloud. Then if you do a reset to the cloud, then turn on your iPad, that photo you took on your phone won't download to the iPad. So it's not like the photo really is ever deleted on the cloud (until 30 days). It's more like it's resetting the old versus the new with devices that enable the cloud.
Another tip I saw was if you turn off wifi, then your photos won't auto upload to the photostream so gives you a chance to review before they go up so to speak. I think someone put it best that it's not intended to store your photos forever. It's intended to allow multiple devices to get to one photo and save it off.
my 2 cents!

How can I remove one unwanted image directory?

Hi experts,
due to privilige of anonymous to access XDB, I tried to use the script below to re-create a image:
-- connect to oracle and log sys as sysdba
@apex_epg_config c:\my_image_dir
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http://localhost/
Index of /
Name Last modified Size
OLAP_XDS/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:34:47 GMT -
home/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:19:32 GMT -
images/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:33:07 GMT -
images_200908131131/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:31:54 GMT -
olap_data_security/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:34:48 GMT -
public/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:21:50 GMT -
sys/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:19:31 GMT -
From the created on (time) in EM--> security --> resources --> , I can find the images_200908131131/ is the first image for APEX.
And now I configured anonymous OK. APEX works.
I think it still uses the images_200908131131/.
And I think I have created a unwanted images/.
How can I remove it?
And is there a way to prevent link to http://localhost/. Generally, we access http://localhost/apex/f?p:APP_ID:..
If I don't want user to link http://localhost/ to find the file catalog listed above, What can I do?
Thanks advance.
PPMonkey.
Edited by: PPMonkey on Aug 13, 2009 7:29 PM
Edited by: PPMonkey on Aug 13, 2009 7:30 PM

Hi,
I don't use thumbnails but I went ahead and turned them on.
Perhaps due to the position of the slideshow only a few thumbnails appeared.
I wasn't able to delete the image I wanted removed.
I tried to remove the image from my assets, and that deleted the whole slide show.
( didn't save the changes )
thanks,
christos

I seem to have lost my original images and unwanted images have moved into my library. I couldn't access lightroom 3 as usual and was provided a default option which I clicked. I ely heavily on lightroom and have spent countless hours fixing images, ple.

Hi, I seem to have lost my original images and unwanted images have moved into my library. I couldn't access lightroom as I would normally and was provided with a default option which I clicked. This all occured while I was trying to free up space on my computer while viewing saved images on my hard drive, which are linked up directly to a photoshop elements program. Please tell me this can be fixed.....

Hi there,
I don't believe I did move or delete my catalogue. Where can I look for my catalog file. Why does my Lightroon now contain more images and ones I don't want on it, without my physically importing them?
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Identifying images in Photostream Project as being elsewhere in the database?

my aperture database is stuck on 3.4.5 because my mac pro is stuck on lion and i cannot figure out how to SORT my library with respect to these Projects.
basically i have changed my PS settings over the last couple of years (including my import settings) and i can no longer figure out if images that are in PS project are /solely/ in these projects or if they also reside elsewhere in the database. this relates (in part) to a confusion i had about what photo stream was doing but also about what the settings were doing.
so i have a huge issue where i don't know if SOME of the images in these Projects are basically "originals" in my database (it is the only instance of them in the database) or if they represent basically copies of images that are stored in their correct place in a Project that "thematically" sorts my images.
i mean, ideally i want to get all my images sorted THEMATICALLY in a Project and not simply have SOME of them only in the PS Projects. i also don't want to have to drag out /all/ of the images, sort all of them into thematically named Projects and then have to delete the ones that came in twice. this will be a nightmare and represent possibly three weeks of work.
anyway, i am upgrading to a new laptop with a larger hard drive and i am wondering if i migrate my library onto this new computer with a newer OS (and presumably a newer version of Aperture) can i sort this out easier/easily?
right now under my current OS i do not believe there is a way to see if the images in my PhotoStream Projects are basically duplicates of other images that have already been sorted into thematically named Projects of if in fact i need to move some images out of these PS Projects in order to get them where they belong.
hopefully someone understands the predicament and if not can ask me to clarify as i am pretty much dead in the water with an unsorted database AFAIK.
THANKS

Yes you are right concerning iPhoto retaining the full size photo, in my earlier post I was incorrect to assume that PS pushed the lower quality photo to iPhoto, it doesn't, but it does push a lower quality image to your other idevices. This quoted from the FAQ....
On your Mac or PC, your photos are downloaded and stored in full resolution. On your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV, your Photo Stream photos are delivered in a device-optimized resolution that speeds downloads and saves storage space. While actual dimensions will vary, an optimized version of a photo taken by a standard point-and-shoot camera will have a 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution when pushed to your devices.
Your device holds two copies of the same photo, one in PS, the other in whatever album you save your photo to, or the camera roll. My point is that PS is supposed to be a temporary folder, holding the images for 30 days, allowing you time to save the ones you want. As it is now, it's duplicating every photo, and storing them on the same device twice. Not what I want, nor what it's intended to do. If you have an iPhone, you can check this by using Camera+ or an app which shows metadata. Take a photo, import it into Camera+ then click info, look at the file size, then load the same photo from PS, again click info and look at the file size. Two different sizes, meaning two copies of the same photo, one being lower quality.
I just want it to do the task it's supposed to, which is temporarily hold my images, letting me save the ones I want, and then clearing after a month.

Thousands of unwanted images in catalog

how can i rid my catalog from including unwanted icon images?

Simply delete them from Organizer.
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How to get IOS 5 iphoto images to photostream?

i am using an IPAD2 and am having trouble getting my edited IOS 5 iphoto images to upload to the photo stream.
To be more specific, here is what I am looking to do:
I am looking to upload my camera photos directly to my Ipad and then editing them with iphoto, and then having them backup to my photo stream. however, i cannot seem to get my edited photos to appear in photo stream.
This has prompted another question of mine: is icloud and photostream the same thing? or is photo stream separate of icloud? My Ipad backs up to iCloud every night and i'm not sure what is backing up, and then i also use PhotoStream (or trying to). Which is the true way to backup photos?
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Greetings,
To make an edited image go to Photo Stream you need to share that image to the camera roll as detailed here: http://help.apple.com/iphoto/ipad/1.0/#blnkee26bc1f. This can only be done 1 image at a time. If you would like to see the ability to send multiple images to the camera roll at the same time, let Apple know: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto_ios.html
Photo Stream is part of iCloud. Learn more about it here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
Learn about your iCloud backup and what it contains here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859
Note: Photo Stream is not a backup. It is a way to make the last 1000 images consistent across multiple devices (as detailed in article HT4486 above). Make sure you have Photo Stream setup on a computer so that your images and imported to that computer or import your images directly: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
Hope that information is helpful.

Camera Roll Images on Photostream?

i seem to be endlessly perplexed by photostream.
does anyone know if images i take on my iPhone that are stored in CAMERA ROLL supposed to be seen on my computers or on my iPhone in "Photostream"? do i have to check a setting on my phone somewhere for this to happen? also, does this happen by Wifi or perhaps via my Cellular signal or both?
i am running Mavericks on the MBP ML on the Mac Pro and Aperture on both.
thanks for any help.

hi randers.
thank you so much for the help.
i have been ignoring this issue for the better part of a year and i am finally sitting down to thrash through it so i can get this to work. in this case i think the issue is that i had to turn on Wifi.
i have been getting help with the Aperture Settings in the last couple of days and these are a real beast. i wish they would at least make a half attempt to document the settings, /name/ them in some consistent way and to minimize the number of places i can set something related to the cloud sync/storage functionality. it has been such a nightmare since the days of MobileMe.
for instance -irrespective of corruption issues in MobileMe in particular - not only can i set something in Aperture on my MBP and my Mac Pro and my iPhone but i can also set something related to Photos Sync in my iPhone (thanks for pointing this out) but i CANNOT set anything (apparently) related to photos in iCloud on the web. Also, even just the setting in APERTURE ITSELF has changed between ML and Mavericks with one saying "iCloud" and the other saying "Photos" or something or other. plus /none/ of the settings in Aperture have any documentation associated with them whatsoever (either within the UI or in an FAQ or online documentation).
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not to complain but i am guesing that there are half a dozen different names for the settings for Photostream sync between mountain lion and mavericks just between my computers and my iPhone.
and - actually - NOT having an option to check for photostream in iCloud actually makes it a lot easier to understand how to manage this sync. i can just turn it on or off for my various devices and leave it at that...
anyway, i spent about four days reading and troubleshooting related issues (non-photostream photos showing up in photostream on my iPhone and photostream photos on my iPhone not showing up elsewhere) so it is a BIG relief to get this more under control.
THANK YOU

Having problems Masking unwanted images

I am attempting to process video images of fish passing at a hydroelectric dam and extract the fish from turbulence and other debris in the water. The data was collected on digital video tape and sent to the computer using an NI-1409 card for processing using LabVIEW 6.1. Initial filtering of the data filters most unwanted particles out, but leaves some, and then using IVB ShapeMatch.VI with a fish image works pretty well to identify the actual fish images. However, when I output the data to a file particles from after the initial filtering and fish data are both written to file (data such as center X, center Y, # of pixels etc.). I have tried using Shape Mask FIlter.vi to mask images that don't meet the minimum value for the
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Mark
P.S. You may see this twice. I received an error the first time I sent it and sent it again
Attachments:
big_fish_works2.zip ‏83 KB

Mark,
Without images to process, it is difficult to see where the information is changing, but from the sounds of it, you are seeing information you thought was lost being saved in your report. If this is the case, you are most likely not saving the image buffer that you think you are, or there is a race condition where it is being saved before its processed. I know this sounds basic, but insert Windraw windows in your program so you can see you image as it is processed. It helps to use the Vision IMAQ Copy (White vi) so you can see the image at each stage, and it does not change its display as you proceed though the program. This will help so you can see exactly what particles are being sent to the file.
Best Regards,
Chris D

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