iPhoto question
First of all, being new to Macs, i'm REALLY impressed by iPhoto and i'm using it for all my pictures now. I love how it collects pics from all of my cameras without needing their software and arranges all the pics nicely and neatly.
Ok, that's my plug.
Now my question.
As i'm browsing through all my pics, how do i flag pics so that later i can easily grab all the flagged pics and put them in a separate folder? Sorry if these seems like a dumb question, but i've read the Help files and can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks for any help.
Ok, that's my plug.
Now my question.
As i'm browsing through all my pics, how do i flag pics so that later i can easily grab all the flagged pics and put them in a separate folder? Sorry if these seems like a dumb question, but i've read the Help files and can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks for any help.
Comments
1. Make sure you can view film rolls because everytime you import a "film roll" is created.
2. You cannot put pictures directly in a folder, but you can put them in albums. Instead of flagging them now and getting them later just create the albums you want and drag the pictures to the album(s) as you go. After you are done then you can drag the albums to the folders. Once you get the pictures in the albums you can rearrange them to your liking.
3. If you already have pictures grouped on another computer there is a way to get them better organized from the start. Delete the pictures in iPhoto that are also on your other computer. Select the pictures you want flagged together and import those only so they become their own film roll which you can then rename. Repeat this process until all your pictures are in iPhoto. This is what I did when moving pictures from my Windows 2000 to my iBook because I did not get a digital camera until after I got my iBook. Before my iBook I had the photo lab put my pictures on disk and then I manually put them in folders and viewed the pictures in IE.
4. Another way to get pictures into the same film roll is to select the pictures and create a film roll from the selection.
5. I think the best way to organized your iPhoto library is to use keywords, comments, and title names.
5a - Keywords for type of event (Christmas, vacation, Mother's Day, etc.)
5b - comments for event specifics (John's 18th at Hooters)
5c - title will list everyone's name separated by a comma and/or the location (Mark, Joe C., Joe M., Dover Downs Raceway)
Currently, iPhoto does not have an easy way to have/manage multiple libraries but there is a shareware program that does and you can find it at
http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster/iphotolibrarymanager.html
This opens a floating window where you can select "Keywords".
now, whenever you highlight any photo, you can go to that floating window and select any keyword (including a simple "checkmark") which can be used to sort them later.
In the lower left of the iPhoto window, you can click on a "key" icon, that brings up a selectable list of your keywords which you can use to sort/isolate photos.
The checkmark thing used to be much simpler... several version numbers ago, but that seems to be the best way to make it work now.
I selected several folders that had pictures within and dragged them to iPhoto thinking it would create albums from all of those folders. It had worked with a single folder, so I thought it should work with multiple.
Nope. It put all the pictures in a single album called "untitled" or something close to that.