HT204655: Updating from iPhoto to Photos for OS X
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Q: In Photos images do not show the camera image number underneath.
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May 3, 2015 9:44 AMby LarryHN,Click on the circled i to show the info window - the image title is in it
to go back launch iPhoto form you applications folder or the LaunchPad
and note that the image number is not critical or even needed for editing - you never directly access your photos in either Photos or iPhoto - in Photos for now to edit in an external program you export the photos, edit it and save and then import to Photos
LN
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May 3, 2015 11:50 AMby léonie,HelpfulImages do not show the camera image number underneath. These are crucial for editing. How do I get them to show?
Open the Info panel for the photo by selecting the photo and pressing command-I (⌘I) The camera image number is the filename of the photo, and the filename is only shown in the info panel. Photos does not use it as the default version name of the photo. If you want to see the filename below the thumbnail of the image, you need to copy the filename to the title of the image in the info panel.
You could try to copy the filename to the title field using an Apple Script, for example:
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May 3, 2015 12:02 PMby balmorgan,The version of iPhoto I was using no longer works in Yosemite. It's from an iLife '09 I have had for a very long time. I can't even find the original disk, but I have a back up I made which I have tried to re-install and now I get a warning that it needs updating, go to Apple Store it says, but the update is not available in the UK. How do I get it? Or even the later iLife, which I am very happy to buy. That's one of the problems. The other is that the method of working I use much of the time as a photographer is to load the images to iPhoto, assess them very quickly, send thumbnails of my first choice to the client after perhaps minor adjustments. When I get the client's own selection back it will be as file names, the camera image number. I then just need to skim through the iPhoto image window for those file names, and export them to Photoshop for final adjustments and adding meta-data. I can't do that anymore. Clicking on each image to see what the camera number is is just too slow as is going through them one by one to re-label each image. Of course the file number is not needed for the editing process but it's needed to locate the precise image for editing. Taking photographs for clients often means there are dozens of very similar images, just scanning through them for the one that's been chosen either by myself or by them will not do the trick. It just needs the file number there under all the photos as iPhoto used to have and other image managers have.
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May 3, 2015 12:04 PMby balmorgan,A copy of my response to Leonie "The version of iPhoto I was using no longer works in Yosemite. It's from an iLife '09 I have had for a very long time. I can't even find the original disk, but I have a back up I made which I have tried to re-install and now I get a warning that it needs updating, go to Apple Store it says, but the update is not available in the UK. How do I get it? Or even the later iLife, which I am very happy to buy. That's one of the problems. The other is that the method of working I use much of the time as a photographer is to load the images to iPhoto, assess them very quickly, send thumbnails of my first choice to the client after perhaps minor adjustments. When I get the client's own selection back it will be as file names, the camera image number. I then just need to skim through the iPhoto image window for those file names, and export them to Photoshop for final adjustments and adding meta-data. I can't do that anymore. Clicking on each image to see what the camera number is is just too slow as is going through them one by one to re-label each image. Of course the file number is not needed for the editing process but it's needed to locate the precise image for editing. Taking photographs for clients often means there are dozens of very similar images, just scanning through them for the one that's been chosen either by myself or by them will not do the trick. It just needs the file number there under all the photos as iPhoto used to have and other image managers have."
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May 4, 2015 6:24 AMby LarryHN,Helpfulone reply is enough - we all see it
you need to upgrade to iPhoto 9.6.1 - for help see Why won't my iPhotos open?
And you can enter the image number in the search window and find it that way
LN
