iPhoto is a photo organizer and editor for Mac that is part of the iLife suite of apps that come bundled with new Mac and are also for sale individually

learn more… | top users | synonyms

1
vote
0answers
47 views

Failure in Sharing iPhoto pictures

I couldn't share photo on facebook via iphoto (version1.0.1) using the new ipad. A non-stop loop between iphoto and facebook despite that I downloaded and installed many times the iphoto and the main ...
1
vote
1answer
3k views

Does iPhoto copy all photos from Photo Stream, or just make references?

When using Photo Stream on the iPhone, you have access to the last 1,000 photos taken, or the last 30 days of photos (source). That same rule applies to all iOS devices, and beyond the 30-day window, ...
0
votes
0answers
152 views

Efficient way to delete photos on iPhone without removing those in albums?

I've got a good number of photos on my iPhone (263, to be exact—may not seem like a lot, but I'm pretty OCD about keeping the numbers low), and I'm about to pull them off of the phone to my desktop ...
0
votes
1answer
798 views

How can I reset the sorting of my Events in iPhoto back to by date?

I see by default iphoto orders events by the earliest date inside the event. That being said, i see you can drag and drop events to come up with your own ordering. Is there a way to reset the ...
1
vote
1answer
142 views

How do I automatically resize all iPhoto pictures above a certain size?

I have many photos managed by iPhoto that are over 16 megapixels, much larger than I need. I'm running low on hard disk space and I'd like automatically resize all images over a certain ...
1
vote
1answer
315 views

is there anyway to directly email videos or upload a video from iphoto to youtube?

When i download images and video from my iphone everything shows up under pictures in my iphoto library. When i open iphoto i can scroll through pictures and videos but when i click on a video, i can ...
4
votes
3answers
4k views

Most iPhone 4S photos import into iPhoto 11 as all black images

Strange problem: when I import photos from my iPhone 4S (5.0.1) into iPhoto 11 (latest), MOST of the images show as all black. Strangely, almost all landscape photos are imported/displayed ok, ...
0
votes
4answers
901 views

On my MacBook Pro, how can I open a picture in Photoshop that is in my iPhoto library?

I have imported a bunch of photos from my iPhone into iPhoto. I notice that it saves my full photo library as a single file (12 GB in my case) and when I open iPhoto it works fine. I now want to open ...
1
vote
1answer
700 views

How can I transfer pictures from a Macbook Pro to an iPad I don't own?

My parents would like to have a copy of most of the photos that are stored within iPhoto. I can't find the files on the hard drive, and don't know the best way to transfer them to an iPad that isn't ...
0
votes
0answers
155 views

iPhoto doesn't get the gps data of photos

I have a photo camera which store the gps data for each photo. It seems to me me that iPhoto is not aware of the gps data when I import the photos. Is there anyway to make Places to work with the gps ...
3
votes
2answers
3k views

How to troubleshoot “iPhoto unable to connect to Photo Stream”?

When I click "Turn On Photo Stream" on in iPhoto it reports "iPhoto unable to connect to Photo Stream." It shows the correct user name on the Photo Stream screen in iPhoto. I have the correct ...
0
votes
1answer
358 views

iPhoto vs Photo stream vs Image capture

What is the difference between iPhoto/Photo Stream/ Image Capture? I hope, all the three is using photos. But WHAT is the difference?
0
votes
1answer
274 views

iPhoto '09 referenced library - modified files are saved locally?

I've been trying to organise my photos better on a NAS (QNAP) that is exposed as an AFP share. I've copied all the JPEGs into an organised structure on the NAS volume manually. I'd like the files on ...
0
votes
3answers
1k views

How to stop iPhoto 11(9.3.2) from freezing when 'assembling' prints?

I've found some photos cause the iPhoto 'Assembling' phase of ordering prints to freeze so so that the iPhoto still shows, but is otherwise unresponsive to the point that only Force Quit can quit. ...
3
votes
2answers
419 views

How to get files from iPhoto

During my first day with a Mac, I imported some pictures from a SD card into iPhoto. After a few days I have decided not to use iPhoto and switch to Picasa instead. My question is, how to get my ...
0
votes
1answer
210 views

Rename pictures in iPhoto

What's the best way for renaming all the pictures of an event or an album in iPhoto?
0
votes
1answer
252 views

Backing up iPhoto pictures and folders from the command-line

I'd like to install a new OS X on a MacBook and I'd like to know what needs to be done to backup only the iPhoto pictures. I definitely do not want to backup the entire /Users/Cedric/ directory. All ...
4
votes
1answer
706 views

How exactly do I get Facebook to link my friends to iPhoto's Faces tags when sharing from iPhoto?

I'm preparing to upload an iPhoto event to Facebook for the first time (I'm using iPhoto '11 and my Mac runs Mac OS X 10.7), except I can't quite get Facebook to turn iPhoto's Faces tags into links to ...
0
votes
0answers
49 views

Removing “shared” photo information from iPhoto

I just shared a photo through email and would like to take off the "sharing" tag. How do you do that?
0
votes
1answer
86 views

Backgrounding iPhoto sharing via email

I just found out that when you share a picture in iPhoto via email, the email screen does not go away until the photo has been completely emailed. This means, if its a large photo that I am trying to ...
2
votes
3answers
1k views

How can I sync iPhone photos one way?

Is it possible to configure my iPhone to just send Photos I have taken with the camera to iPhoto without synchronizing additionally stored photos back to the phone?
0
votes
0answers
351 views

Video playback choppy in iPhoto

I am using a Sony NEX-5N camera and Eye-fi card to import photos and videos into iPhoto. The videos are very choppy and pixelated when played in iPhoto but when they are dragged to the desktop and ...
0
votes
1answer
451 views

How to recover deleted data from erased hard drive?

So last night my wifes laptop died big time. I could only boot up in safe mode and clearing pram / smc wasn't helping so I decided to wipe the hard drive and install Mountain Lion. I booted it in safe ...
1
vote
1answer
2k views

How to access Journals from iCloud.com

Is there a way to access Journals publish by iOS iPhoto, directly from icloud.com, without knowing the link already. Currently I have to "share the link with a friend" before I can access it on ...
1
vote
1answer
706 views

How do you create an alias for iPhoto package folders in mountain lion?

Has the ability to create aliases to folders inside the iPhoto package file been disabled or removed? I used to sync up my LightRoom library with iPhoto by using an alias to the Originals/Masters ...
1
vote
1answer
927 views

How to throttle Photostream traffic?

When my wife's 2012 macbook pro is doing it's photostream sync, it slows my internet connection to a crawl and gives me 500+ pings in various video games. If I knew the ports that Photostream uses, ...
2
votes
1answer
266 views

Using a Mac Mini as a central photo repository

Is it possible to setup a mac mini as a central photo repository and have all the tagging and extra info follow to the other computers on the network? Or would each computer have to access iPhoto on ...
2
votes
2answers
242 views

How can I create a photo slide show of one face from iPhoto's faces?

I really like the view in the Faces section of iPhoto when you are identifying possible matches. You get the closeup of just the picture and you can see all of the ways the person has changed over ...
0
votes
1answer
524 views

organize pictures into destination folders automatically based on date

I have a ~50000 pictures: located in multiple folders not organized, there are duplicates source contains videos, but I need only pictures I would like to organize all of them into subfolders ...
1
vote
3answers
4k views

Camera Roll Duplicates

Why do I have 2 of every picture side-by-side in my Photo Library? I don't edit or rename pictures at all. All I do is take pictures. Then sync phone to my Mac with iTunes. But Photo Library on ...
1
vote
2answers
3k views

Restoring iTunes/iPhoto Libraries After a Clean Install

I have an iMac i7 that's got a collection of files, settings, etc. that's the culmination of being transferred from past machines (originally an iMac G4, then a PowerMac G5). I finally decided to ...
0
votes
2answers
929 views

iPhoto does not open a window after Lion Upgrade

iPhoto is not properly anymore since I upgraded on Lion. It starts and seems to be alive in Task Switcher or in the Menu Bar, but there is no open Window for iPhoto. I re-installed from the AppStore ...
1
vote
0answers
66 views

Troubleshooting for flash or iLife related beachballs or system hangs?

My wife and I share her iMac, using two separate user accounts. My account is used almost exclusively for browsing the web. My wife's account hosts a large iTunes library, our iPhoto libraries ...
0
votes
2answers
217 views

Video backup solution in the Cloud

I'm about to purchase the new Macbook Pro with Retina display and I want to get the cheapest version. But it only comes with a 256gbyte hard drive. I probably use 30gbytes for all my data and ...
0
votes
3answers
602 views

Problem importing iPhoto library in Aperture

I just bought a new mbp and I copied the iPhoto '10 library of my old iMac to the Pictures folder of my mpb. Then I opened iPhoto '11, it said that it has to update the library. To that point it was ...
5
votes
2answers
426 views

How to move from Aperture to iPhoto

What's the best way to import my Aperture library to iPhoto?
1
vote
2answers
102 views

How can I burn a slideshow to a DVD in its present form in iPhoto 2011?

Using iPhoto 2011. I was going to export my slideshow as a Quicktime movie, then burn it to DVD in iDVD. However when I get 3/4 of the way through my 20 minute slide show presentation, the video goes ...
0
votes
0answers
75 views

iPad 2 [iOS 4.3.5] missing substantial amount of images in iPhoto?

Figured it was worth a shot asking here... my wife is planning on getting a new iPad tomorrow; and in preparation was doing some house cleaning on her existing iPad 2 [iOS 4.3.5], she went to open her ...
0
votes
2answers
712 views

Unable to import iPhoto 11 Library in OS X Lion

I have an iPhoto 11 Library on an old Macbook Pro. I just received a new Macbook Pro with a clean copy of iPhoto 11 I put my iPhoto Library into Dropbox and synced When I try to import my iPhoto ...
1
vote
0answers
23 views

Show photo dates when reviewing faces

Is it possible to see the date of a photo when I'm confirming additional faces in iPhoto? It's nearly impossible for me to tell my kids apart in some of their photos, but since they were born three ...
1
vote
1answer
2k views

I can't update iPhoto

Iphoto was acting strangely, and was unable to open a valid iPhoto library that worked just fine with another copy of iPhoto on an external drive created with Superduper from my original disk. I'm ...
0
votes
1answer
304 views

I'm using Hazel to move photos from the iPhoto catalog into Lightroom. Is this a terrible idea?

I use Lightroom and not iPhoto, and I'm on a MacBook Air, so HD space is premium. I want all my PhotoStream photos to find their way into Lightroom. I've set up a Hazel rule that looks at ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views

How do I move an iPhoto '11 book project from one mac to another

I have iPhoto '11 with Photostream set up on my Mac Mini and on my Macbook Pro. I'm getting rid of the macbook pro, but have a photo book I've been working on on it that I want to move over to my Mac ...
0
votes
2answers
176 views

What happens if iPhoto is opened and the volume with the library is not available?

I'm considering purchasing a MacBook Air for my primary "home" computer. Given that it won't have enough storage for an iPhoto library for all of my photos, I'd like to also purchase an Airport ...
2
votes
1answer
2k views

Using iCloud with iPhoto without upgrading to iPhoto 9

Is there any way to use iCloud on OS X Lion to share pictures with my iPhone without upgrading to the newest iPhoto? I know the newest iPhoto isn't that expensive but I don't use it for anything at ...
0
votes
0answers
174 views

iPhoto Says Photos Are Shared, but Not Showing up on Facebook/Flickr

I've got recent photos in iPhoto 9.2.3 that say they were shared about an hour ago to both Flickr and Facebook. How do I force iPhoto to share to those two services again.
2
votes
0answers
391 views

Why is iPhoto for iOS is “updating photo library” so slowly every time I open it?

Every time I open iPhoto on the iPad, I get an "updating photo library" dialog that sometimes takes minutes to process. I often get it again after editing and sharing a photo within the app. I ...
2
votes
1answer
196 views

Missing Faces When Creating iPhoto '11 Smart Album

I am having trouble creating a Smart Album based on Faces in iPhoto '11. Whenever I set up a Smart Album condition using "Face IS" the third drop-down menu is populated with a list of my Faces. This ...
2
votes
1answer
444 views

Can I tag iPhoto Faces on iOS?

Is there a way to tag photos in the iPhoto library with Faces on iOS? Something like a sequence of screens that just asks for confirmation like "Is this John, yes/no"?
1
vote
0answers
718 views

Why did time machine not backup all my iPhoto pictures, how can I know when my backups are incomplete?

My iPhoto library recently became corrupted to the point iPhoto wouldn't load and none of the repair options would fix it (those that come up if you are pressing option+command when you launch ...

1 2 3 4 5 7