The problem you're having with iPhoto is that you're trying to use it like a Windows application. It sounds more like you bought a sports car with a standard transmission (which you don't know how to drive) thinking that it'd be fast car, and a few days later, you're complaining that it won't go very fast when the issue is you haven't learned how to shift it out of first gear yet. That way you only have one copy, and the edited copy you want to keep in the end, copied to the location you wanted to save it in. After you archived the copy you want (from dragging it out of iPhoto), then delete the copies within the iphoto application, as opposed to using the finder. One thing you can do is import your photos, edit them, and drag them out of the iPhoto application to a directory you want to save them. If you need a DB driven application look into Lightroom or something else from Adobe.įrom what I can tell, when you delete a photo from within iPhoto itself, it deletes all other iPhoto copies. If you can't handle iPhoto, use another program to view / preview photos that isn't database driven. It's not Apples or OS X's fault that you didn't take the time to learn how these applications work. If you had a larger disk, having multiple working copies of photos wouldn't be an issue. Sounds like the OP's main issue is disk space, and the fact that they are using iPhoto absolutely wrong. Just click on the appropriate viewing option and you'll get 128x128 thumbnails to look at. Incidentally, the Finder is perfectly capable of showing thumbnails. You can batch change the date and time on pictures too once they're in iPhoto and change them all from 2005 to the correct hour/minute in 2006. You can create new rolls to drag images into (and rename them), you can combine rolls, you can split rolls. ![]() If you're only doing a small part and don't want them in iPhoto, open the image in preview and take a screen grab of the part you want.įilm roll wise, you don't have to leave them in individual rolls. Just leave it open and hide it when you're not using it. And yes, you should use iPhoto to resize, crop, rotate etc. It's not saving the entire file in data and in original - one is the thumbnail (so you can zoom in and out of your library on the fly) and one is the full size although yes, if you modify it, it saves both - so that you can revert if you need to. ![]() ![]() Keyword and search for them that way and let it catalogue your images - don't fret about what's happening behind the scenes. It's designed so you do everything through iPhoto and not through the Finder. Spend some time playing with iPhoto or buy the Missing Manual book for it. You cant croping part of an image to cut or paste it.Ĭant wait for the new vista i'm getting. So that's my gripe about how my macbook aranges photos ![]() My old windows 2000 computer showed pics in thumbnail view (before XP and that means ancient) With vista, you tag a photo and it pulls it up quickly when you search for it.ĭont you hate how iPhoto creates a whole new roll everytime you want to add one photo at a time? you have to remember which roll its inĪnd when i add photos the camera has a date file on it (everyday is to my dad's camera because he always changes the batteries and he never sets the date) so when it adds photos with that date on them, it upts them in a 2005 folder regardless of when it was added to iPhotoĪnd dont you hate how when you are looking at the picture files, it cant show a thumbnail view, so you can see what all the files are before you click them So when you want to print or upload all of them you are jumping back and forth from modified to originals. If you enhance or otherwise edit a photo, the new version goes to "modified" folder, but if you dont enhance all of them (because iPhoto isn't the most sophisticate photo enhancement technology) the one you dont enhance stay in originals. (with Windows Vista, photos only get save once and they stay together) I have a 6 megapixel camera, so my pics huge pics get saved 3 times.Īnd dont think you can jsut delete them from originals because somehow that makes iPhoto extremely slow.ĭont delete them from data or they wont show up in the iPhoto window Then you enhance it and it saves it again. Why does iPhoto have to save the picture twice when you import it?
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