How to delete photos from your HD using iPhoto?

Terence Devlin wrote:

Why would you do a 'Save As'? When you set up the External Editor, and opt to edit in it, iPhoto creates a copy of the Original and sends it to Photoshop. Make your edits and Save (not Save As). The Edited version is saved back to iPhoto and the thumbnail is updated.

Thanks for that. All adding to the iPhoto knowledge base.

Are you saying that PS and iPhoto can see each others edits like LR and PS?

Yes. Though I'm not entirely sure you've grasped LR 😉 You can't "see" LR's edits on the original either, can you?

Oh, I've grasped LR. I've been using it in earnest for 5 years now. I didn't say anything about seing the edits on the original, I was referring to the fact that any changes made to the photo in LR can be seen in PS and vice versa. I was wondering if the same thing applied to iPhoto and PS, but obviously the answer is yes.

Because, if I make one change to a photo, Time Machine will back up that small xmp file, but I assumed (rightly or wrongly) that it would backup the entire iPhoto library file

You assumed wrongly 😉

Thanks for that. That's a relief!

I was under the impression that with a Managed library, a copy of the files was made to iPhoto library and the original files wre left untouched in their original locations.

Yes, and then the user would trash the original files as they are a waste of space.

If, in fact, the user wanted to trash the original. They are not a waste of space if one uses Lightroom or other external apps.

Thanks again for your input here.

They are not a waste of space if one uses Lightroom or other external apps

Well this does bring us to another key area.

iPhoto and Lightroom perform the same basic task. They are designed to manage the output of a shoot losslessly, to catalogue and index the collection of photos, to manage the resulting Library.

(Now, I know LR is a whole lot more powerful than iPhoto, as it should be at the cost, but the basic task is the same.)

So why would you use both apps? Would you write your novel in Word and Pages at the same time? My best advice in that circumstance would be to pick one horse and ride it.

Regards

TD

Terence. As I said earlier I only use iPhoto very lightly for the face recognition aspect to show relatives, etc. I am committed to LR, but I was interested in finding out a bit more about iPhoto.

So, thanks for your help in that.