How do you guys make iPhoto useful?
For example, I was listing some things on ebay today. I had imported the photos I took of the items into iPhoto but of course they retained the filename that my camera gave them: "DSCN####.jpg". When I clicked on "browse" in ebay's picture loader to find the file, I have to sort through all kinds of files with that same number to be able to find the picture. So what I did was open iPhoto (which is ridiculously slow) find the picture, copy the filename, and paste it into the little search box in the finder (opened in ebay.)
That is not right. Once I have imported my pictures into iPhoto I should be able to bring up a "renamer" window or something and go through the pictures and change what comes before the .jpg. This is a common sense use for a photo application. The "keywords" in iphoto do not turn into spotlight metadata, making them useless outside the program.
I don't get the point of iPhoto. It's like it takes ownership of my pictures once I import them and won't let me do anything useful with them outside of iPhoto.
So...straighten me out. What am I doing wrong?
That is not right. Once I have imported my pictures into iPhoto I should be able to bring up a "renamer" window or something and go through the pictures and change what comes before the .jpg. This is a common sense use for a photo application. The "keywords" in iphoto do not turn into spotlight metadata, making them useless outside the program.
I don't get the point of iPhoto. It's like it takes ownership of my pictures once I import them and won't let me do anything useful with them outside of iPhoto.
So...straighten me out. What am I doing wrong?
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1. Use it to show friends pictures of vacations or my car
2. Use it to sort photos so I can edit them in Photoshop
3. Import photos from Digital camera.
Honestly, if I didn't have spotlight or Photoshop, I probably wouldn't use iPhoto. Those three seem to work well together.
is there??
thanks!
darn, i was hoping i was just being clueless and missing some easy way to make iphoto really handy. oh well.
thanks!
Down in the bottom left you'll see a button with an 'i' in a circle. Click it to bring up the Information pane. Click on the Title. Edit.
When you export, make sure 'Use Title' is selected under 'Name'.
Once you place anything in iPhoto, iTunes, etc, trying to use the Finder to access, alter, change, or manipulate the files is pretty meaningless.
Select the photo.
Down in the bottom left you'll see a button with an 'i' in a circle. Click it to bring up the Information pane. Click on the Title. Edit.
When you export, make sure 'Use Title' is selected under 'Name'.
In addition, for a group of photos you can use the Batch Change feature in the Photos menu to change the title to something relevant, and append a number to each one. From there, export as above.