I've decided iPhoto isn't great

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This programme drives me mad. It's so inconvenient to combine this with Photoshop and you can't even browse the library in finder because it's a package.

What's the easiest way to migrate your library to something like Picasa?

Cheers
 
Lightroom is the best Photo app i've used compared to Picasa/iPhoto and the very good Aperture.

However Lightroom + Aperture are not free or cheap by any stretch of the imagination!
 
Right-Click on the package > "Show Package Contents"

All your pictures are in the Originals folder. You can just move this out of the package, open up Picasa and point it to that folder.
 
scott212 said:
This programme drives me mad. It's so inconvenient to combine this with Photoshop and you can't even browse the library in finder because it's a package.

What's the easiest way to migrate your library to something like Picasa?

Cheers
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Go to iPhoto > Preferences

In 'General' change Edit in: to 'External Application', pick Photoshop

Now when you click Edit it'll just load Photoshop for you.

Then personally I go back and change the setting back to 'in main window', then edit will use iPhoto to edit, and right click gives you the option for edit in external application, which will take you to Photoshop.

Once you've got that done it's not inconvenient at all :)
 
as we are talking about iphoto maybe someone can answer this for me.

I'm new to the mac so still learning a lot, now if i have a load of photos and import them to iphoto do i then have two copies I.E the original and the files in iphoto ?

what I'm trying to find out is can i delete the files i have imported into iphoto ?
 
when you add an album to iphoto is there a way of stopping it from using the face detection for the given album ?
 
Fillado said:
Right-Click on the package > "Show Package Contents"

All your pictures are in the Originals folder. You can just move this out of the package, open up Picasa and point it to that folder.
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This, personlly I find iPhoto as an everyday means of storing lots of pictures pretty spot on, theirs a few things I would change, but overall I havent seen a better managment system for piccys.
 
cu3ed said:
This, personlly I find iPhoto as an everyday means of storing lots of pictures pretty spot on, theirs a few things I would change, but overall I havent seen a better managment system for piccys.
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How dare you! How is that possibly better than my amazing method? No one ever listens to me when I say it but it's 100% amazing.

So there.
 
cu3ed said:
This, personlly I find iPhoto as an everyday means of storing lots of pictures pretty spot on, theirs a few things I would change, but overall I havent seen a better managment system for piccys.
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The problem (for me personally) is that with iPhoto '09 they changed the way the Originals folder worked:

Let's say you have pictures taken from the same event stored on your camera and your mobile phone. You import them into iPhoto...

iPhoto '08

1. (For example) You call the first import from your camera "Holiday".

2. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday*.

3. You now import pictures from your mobile phone and call it "Holiday 2" on the import screen. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday 2 and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday 2*.

4. In iPhoto you drag the Holiday 2 Event onto the Holiday Event. This means all photos are now inside the "Holiday" Event in iPhoto. ALL photos are now stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday*

iPhoto '09

1. (For example) You call the first import from your camera "Holiday".

2. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday*.

3. You now import pictures from your mobile phone and call it "Holiday 2" on the import screen. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday 2 and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday 2*.

4. In iPhoto you drag the Holiday 2 Event onto the Holiday Event. This means all photos are now inside the "Holiday" Event in iPhoto. The photos are stored in the iPhoto Library as they were before.


For me this creates huge problems. I can have any combination of: photos from camera, photos from phone, multiple events on camera, multiple events on phone. Over the course of several years it can turn the iPhoto Library package into an organisational nightmare. Well, not if you keep using a Mac and iPhoto. But if you want to get those photos "out" you have a lot of manual reorganising ahead of you! For me I caught this (I have little reason normally to go into the iPhoto Library package) in June having used iPhoto '09 since release in January so it wasn't too bad. I now use Picasa. And yes that's all it took to make me not use an application I think is brilliant otherwise...
 
Fillado said:
The problem (for me personally) is that with iPhoto '09 they changed the way the Originals folder worked:

Let's say you have pictures taken from the same event stored on your camera and your mobile phone. You import them into iPhoto...

iPhoto '08

1. (For example) You call the first import from your camera "Holiday".

2. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday*.

3. You now import pictures from your mobile phone and call it "Holiday 2" on the import screen. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday 2 and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday 2*.

4. In iPhoto you drag the Holiday 2 Event onto the Holiday Event. This means all photos are now inside the "Holiday" Event in iPhoto. ALL photos are now stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday*

iPhoto '09

1. (For example) You call the first import from your camera "Holiday".

2. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday*.

3. You now import pictures from your mobile phone and call it "Holiday 2" on the import screen. This goes into iPhoto as the "Event" Holiday 2 and is stored in *iPhoto Library > Originals > 2009 > Holiday 2*.

4. In iPhoto you drag the Holiday 2 Event onto the Holiday Event. This means all photos are now inside the "Holiday" Event in iPhoto. The photos are stored in the iPhoto Library as they were before.


For me this creates huge problems. I can have any combination of: photos from camera, photos from phone, multiple events on camera, multiple events on phone. Over the course of several years it can turn the iPhoto Library package into an organisational nightmare. Well, not if you keep using a Mac and iPhoto. But if you want to get those photos "out" you have a lot of manual reorganising ahead of you! For me I caught this (I have little reason normally to go into the iPhoto Library package) in June having used iPhoto '09 since release in January so it wasn't too bad. I now use Picasa. And yes that's all it took to make me not use an application I think is brilliant otherwise...
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Was just goig through my thread subscriptions and was wondering about this last point, if you go into the iPhoto Library package contents and rearrange the files and folders, i.e. put the Holiday 2 files into the Holiday folder, does it affect the Events within the app at all??
 
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