Moving photos within iPhoto library

What version of iPhoto are you running. The following is for iPhoto 9 or later.

Are those regular albums or smart albums?

These are smart albums:

These are regular albums:

This is a folder:

Folders can't hold photos. They only hold albums, other folders, books, slideshows, etc. But NO photos.

OT

Thanks. I'm running iPhoto 8, and it looks like my problem is solved.

Please bear with my ignorance. I am new to Apple terminology and recently received a Macbook Pro as a gift. Prior to this I have only used a PC and was very happy with the way it organized my photos. I don't understand IPhoto, although your explanation has been somewhat helpful; I now understand more than I did. Here is what I am trying to accomplish, please let me know if it' s possible with IPhoto:

As my pictures import into IPhoto, I am trying to organize them and when I make albums, which is what I am familiar with, I see that they also stay in the original place of "photos or events". This is confusing to me, how do you know if you have moved all the photos to an album if they still remain in the photo library? Is there an alternate or easier way to organize all your photos in the library? I don't like having photos in all these different places, it's way too confusing to me. I would appreciate your help. I have IPhoto 11 version 9.4.3

Thank you

1. Remember you don't have to use iPhoto. It's not compulsory. You can have your photos in folders on the HD like you always did. It's much more limited, doesn't offer non-destructive editing and so on, but it is what you're used to.

2. iPhoto works on a Library Principle. Like iTunes. Every song is in the Library. Each playlist contains links back to the Library. So a song can be in any number of playlists and use no extra disk space. Same with iPhoto. Every photo is in the Library. Each ALbum contains links back to the Library. So a photo can be in any number of Albums and use no extra disk space.

Consider the followng example: A snap of two kids and a dog on a beach. How do you file that? 'Summer 1999', or by Kid A or Kid B or Dog? Or even beach?

How about all of them. Just think, if it's a favourite photo you can have an album of those drawn from all over the Library - your 100 favourit photos, while they are still also in Albums for the people in them, the places, the event and so on.

How to find the photos not in an Album:

FIle -> New Smart Album

Album -> is not -> Any

Again, this shows my ignorance, I had no idea there was a "choice" I thought my pics had to go to IPhoto because that's what opened and imported them. At the risk of sounding exactly what I am, "uninformed" how do I save them somewhere other than IPhoto when I import? I do like some of the features of IPhoto, it is just so different than what I was used to. Thank you so much for your help, this part below worked perfect for me and answered my question!! How To Find The Photos Not In An Album: File -> New Smart Album Album -> Is Not -> Any

When you connect your camera does it show up on the desktop? It will have a disk icon. If so, just drag the photos whereever you want them

To get your current photos out of iPhoto: File -> Export

This User Tip

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921

has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

going forward in the iphoto preferences set the action when a camera is connected to yoru preference - do nothing - image capture - another program ???

LN

Yes I do have an icon....thank you so much this was a tremendous help!

Thank you for the additional information you have both been a great help to me!

I so agree with you. This guy is very atypical of Apple and he seems to be the only person who replies but is not at all clear with the concepts he is talking about and has a very negative attitude to the user community who are trying to fathom a very un-intuitive photo organising system.

If you want an answer you have to provide details including the version of iPhoto and what happens when you try as well as exactly what you are doing

An it is best to start a new thread since long threads tend to contain multiple different problems and are confusing to everyone including you and the volenteer iPhtoo users here you are trying to help you

LN

Hi Niku,

I had to facepalm several times after reading these replies. Simple answer is this:

- Go to View (top of your page)

- Hit "Show Sidebar"

That's it. It will display your albums in a list, like how it was before the update.

Hope this helps!

This is the iphoto for Mac forum and the question is about using iPhoto - there is no "show Sidebar" command in iPhoto -- you posting about Photos not about iPhoto - the Photos forum is un the OS X section not in the iLife section of these forums

LN

Helped me.