iPhoto question
isw
member of?
Isaac
sbt
<i...@witzend.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to discover all the albums a particular photo is a
> member of?
>
It should be fairly easy to write an AppleScript that does the check,
but I don't know of an easy way within the UI.
--
Spenser
isw
sbt <dogb...@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:
I'm not much of a 'scripter, but I have managed to bash out a few that I
find useful (although I agree with some friends who work at Apple who
claim that AppleScript is a perfect example of a "Read-Only Language").
Anyhow, I just took a look at iPhoto's dictionary, and I didn't see
anything that looked even remotely useful. What would you suggest?
Isaac
erilar
isw <i...@witzend.com> wrote:
> Anyhow, I just took a look at iPhoto's dictionary, and I didn't see
> anything that looked even remotely useful. What would you suggest?
My solution won't help you, but I had to insert it: I quit using iPhoto
less than a year after I met it. Its "organization" was an inchoate
mess, in my opinion.
--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov
Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
isw
erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <isw-D19CCE.21533726032009@[216.168.3.50]>,
> isw <i...@witzend.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyhow, I just took a look at iPhoto's dictionary, and I didn't see
> > anything that looked even remotely useful. What would you suggest?
>
> My solution won't help you, but I had to insert it: I quit using iPhoto
> less than a year after I met it. Its "organization" was an inchoate
> mess, in my opinion.
So what *do* you use?
Isaac
Empedocles
Erilar's experience resonates with me. I very much regret going with
iPhoto to organize my photos. It's too automatic, and I still cannot
understand its logic. Well, I do, but my photos are now buried in the
depths of iPhoto's file system. I just wish there were a way to
extract these photos from iPhoto and to be able to deal with them as
files on their own, without the intermediary file structure of iPhoto.
There's the associated problem of iPhoto getting upgraded, to the
point that altho I have OS 10.4.11, now, I created these files with OS
10.3.9.
The thing is, I want access to a file in iPhoto, but when I access my
iPhoto files, it's all incomprehensible to me. Like isw, how can I
extract those iPhoto files from iPhoto and establish them as files on
their own? Thanks, erilar, for sharing a frustration I've had with
iPhoto for some time.
John Varela
wrote:
> The thing is, I want access to a file in iPhoto, but when I access my
> iPhoto files, it's all incomprehensible to me. Like isw, how can I
> extract those iPhoto files from iPhoto and establish them as files on
> their own?
Open iPhoto. Click on a photo to select it. Right click. Click on
"Show File" or "Show Original File", whichever you want. A Finder
window opens with the desired file selected. The same trick works
in iTunes.
--
John Varela
Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for email
nospam
<2d98bc04-83e6-4e99...@z8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Empedocles <dwe...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> Erilar's experience resonates with me. I very much regret going with
> iPhoto to organize my photos. It's too automatic, and I still cannot
> understand its logic. Well, I do, but my photos are now buried in the
> depths of iPhoto's file system. I just wish there were a way to
> extract these photos from iPhoto and to be able to deal with them as
> files on their own, without the intermediary file structure of iPhoto.
> There's the associated problem of iPhoto getting upgraded, to the
> point that altho I have OS 10.4.11, now, I created these files with OS
> 10.3.9.
you do realize that you can disable iphoto from copying photos into its
own library system, so that they remain wherever you want, right?
> The thing is, I want access to a file in iPhoto, but when I access my
> iPhoto files, it's all incomprehensible to me. Like isw, how can I
> extract those iPhoto files from iPhoto and establish them as files on
> their own? Thanks, erilar, for sharing a frustration I've had with
> iPhoto for some time.
drag it out of the iphoto window.
Empedocles
Thanks, guys.
isw
<2d98bc04-83e6-4e99...@z8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Empedocles <dwe...@bresnan.net> wrote:
I think you misunderstood. I put my photos in a set of folders according
to *my* notion of how they should be organized, and then "told" iPhoto
about them. IOW *I* control where my image files live. All that works
just fine.
All I want to know is, "exactly which albums is *this* photo a member
of?"
BTW, if you're looking at any specific image in iPhoto, you can ask it
to show where the original file is.
Isaac
isw
"John Varela" <OLDl...@verizon.net> wrote:
If you have edited the photo *within iPhoto*, then "show file" will
reveal the edited version, while "show original file" will show the
unedited version.
Isaac
erilar
<2d98bc04-83e6-4e99...@z8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Empedocles <dwe...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> Erilar's experience resonates with me. I very much regret going with
> iPhoto to organize my photos. It's too automatic, and I still cannot
> understand its logic. Well, I do, but my photos are now buried in the
> depths of iPhoto's file system. I just wish there were a way to
> extract these photos from iPhoto and to be able to deal with them as
> files on their own, without the intermediary file structure of iPhoto.
Secret weapon: I opened Pictures in my Finder. Then I opened iPhoto
Library. I went in the back door and pulled fotos out manually and put
them into folders of my choice. They may not be cross-referenced, but I
know where they are. When the files are mine, I can find things in them.
erilar
nospam <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> you do realize that you can disable iphoto from copying photos into its
> own library system, so that they remain wherever you want, right?
I only learned that after swearing at the thing for a while 8-)
erilar
isw <i...@witzend.com> wrote:
> If you have edited the photo *within iPhoto*, then "show file" will
> reveal the edited version, while "show original file" will show the
> unedited version.
This works fine if you use its wimpy little edit program. I tried it
briefly and swore off.
John Varela
If you call an external editor from within iPhoto (I use Photoshop
Elements) then iPhoto will treat the edited photo the same way it
would treat one that had been edited using the iPhoto's internal
editor.
isw
erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <2d98bc04-83e6-4e99...@z8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> Empedocles <dwe...@bresnan.net> wrote:
>
> > Erilar's experience resonates with me. I very much regret going with
> > iPhoto to organize my photos. It's too automatic, and I still cannot
> > understand its logic. Well, I do, but my photos are now buried in the
> > depths of iPhoto's file system. I just wish there were a way to
> > extract these photos from iPhoto and to be able to deal with them as
> > files on their own, without the intermediary file structure of iPhoto.
>
> Secret weapon: I opened Pictures in my Finder. Then I opened iPhoto
> Library. I went in the back door and pulled fotos out manually and put
> them into folders of my choice. They may not be cross-referenced, but I
> know where they are. When the files are mine, I can find things in them.
And the other thing I'd really like to have is a tool that reads the
"iPhoto name" of an image, and applies it to the image file.
When you import photos, the filename also becomes the 'iPhoto name"; I
want something that works the other way around.
Isaac
Mike Lane
(in article <dxizd0mOwXzR-pn2-66dlRIrtDy4v@localhost>):
>> If you have edited the photo *within iPhoto*, then "show file" will
>> reveal the edited version, while "show original file" will show the
>> unedited version.
>
> If you call an external editor from within iPhoto (I use Photoshop
> Elements) then iPhoto will treat the edited photo the same way it
> would treat one that had been edited using the iPhoto's internal
> editor.
Yes. I use Pixelmator to edit photos and it stores the original file and the
edited one just as it would using the internal editor. You have to tell it
which external editor you are using in 'Preferences' though.
--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
Roger Darlington
That would work for one file. But if you had to do that 10,000 times
for 10,000 photos, you would get seriously pissed off...
Is there another way for hundreds of jpegs in iPhotos rampant
organisation?
>
--
Cheers
Roger
Is Morph a Pleistocene man?
Paul Sture
Roger Darlington <roge...@freeuk.com> wrote:
In Finder, navigate to your Pictures folder then control or right-click
on "iPhoto Library" and select "Show Package Contents".
Scroll down if necessary and you can find all your images in the
"Modified" and "Originals" directories.
Now you can select and copy those directories somewhere else.
--
Paul Sture
Steven Fisher
> Is there another way for hundreds of jpegs in iPhotos rampant
> organisation?
You could just export the photos you need to use directly, when you want
to use them.
Steve
David Empson
And the simplest way to export them is to select the photos in iPhoto,
then drag-and-drop to a folder in Finder.
Assuming you want the "modified" version. If you want the "original"
version, I don't know an easy way to get them en-masse without digging
into the iPhoto Library folder/package.
--
David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz