Q: Managing images on mac devices

Hi,

I never transferred any photos from my iPhone to any other device. I need room to upgrade to the new iOS so I transferred years worth of photos to iPhoto and deleted the images off my phones.

I regret doing this... I need access to the individual jpgs as stand alone files. For example, if I want to attach an image to an email, I used to use my phone. But now I can't. I found Ive had to manually export the image I'm interested in, then attach it in the email I'm writing.

I don't want to send the email directly from Photo Booth but from gmail.

Is there an efficient/clean way to manage the images without being stuck in iPhoto? Any suggestions on what I can do now?

iPhone 4S

Posted on Dec 30, 2014 1:50 PM

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Terence Devlin Dec 30, 2014 1:52 PM in response to Innertube
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Dec 30, 2014 1:52 PM in response to Innertube

Take a second and learn how to use iPhoto:

For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491
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Old Toad Dec 30, 2014 1:54 PM in response to Innertube
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Dec 30, 2014 1:54 PM in response to Innertube

Can you email from Mail with your Gmail account? If so then go to iPhoto's Advanced preference pane and set Mail as your email client for iPhoto.

Now you can select an photo, click on the Share button at the bottom of the window and select Mail from the options presented:
That will let you use Mail to send your photos.
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Innertube Dec 30, 2014 2:05 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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Dec 30, 2014 2:05 PM in response to Terence Devlin

Sounds like I need to optimize things.

I do not send email through the mail app. I always just sign in directly at gmail.com via safari and do all my emails from there. If I set it up with Mail, then things may get more streamlined.

And I imagine if I wanted to use my phone to text/email an image, I would need to have iCloud set up to access the images from my computer? I currently don't pay for additional storage and am pretty sure I would go over whatever the free allotment is...
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Old Toad Dec 30, 2014 2:31 PM in response to Innertube
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Dec 30, 2014 2:31 PM in response to Innertube

You can share selected photos from your Mac with your iPhone with My Photo Stream or Shared Photo Streams. Then access them from your phone and email from there. See these Apple documents:

My Photo Stream FAQ - Apple Support

iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ - Apple Support
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