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
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How do I view my iCloud Photo Stream online?
I set up iCloud when I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone and was excited about Photo Stream. I logged into icloud.com and found there are no photos. What gives? I was hoping that this would end the need to ...
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Why am I having this problem importing photos from iPhone to iPhoto?
I'm getting the error
Error downloading image.
iPhoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem downloading an image.
when I "Import All..." from my iPhone. Trying to import individual ...
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What is the best way to deal with a large iPhoto library?
I just migrated from Wndows and imported all my pictures from my external hard drive into iPhoto. I have around 100GB of photos. I wanted to see if this is going to scale or if there is a way I should ...
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How can I prevent iPhoto from opening everytime I plug my iPad/iPhone?
How can I prevent iPhoto from launching everytime I plug my iPad/iPhone?
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How to delete duplicate photos from an iPhoto event?
I did a stupid thing with one Event in iPhoto library. I thought of making a copy of this Event, and I did use the menu duplicate.
Instead of creating another copy of event, it did copies of all the ...
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how to keep low-res photos handy, while archiving high-res versions?
I have a laptop with a 256Gb SSD that always seems to be full. A lot of my disk space is used by photos (in Aperture and iPhoto).
What I really want is to have low-res versions of all my photos on ...
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Is it safe to delete ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iLifeSlideshow/Pictures?
I was just doing a quick audit of the files on my hard drive and noticed that ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iLifeSlideshow/Pictures is taking up 1.57 GB on my machine! This leads to the following ...
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Photo Streams from two or more iCloud accounts into same iPhoto library?
I'd like to connect iPhoto on my MBP to my photo stream and my wife's photo stream. We each have our own Apple ID and iCloud account. Can iPhoto connect to multiple iCloud photo streams?
Thanks.
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What's the easiest way to free up disk space on my iMac with a huge photo library?
This is a hybrid hardware/software question with a few more factors than the typical "freeing disk space" question.
I have an older iMac with (I think) about a 250 GB hard drive. It's been running ...
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What is wireless beaming and how do I use it?
In the new version of iPhoto for iOS it has a setting for "Wireless Beaming". I'm not quite sure what this even is. If I can share photos among devices, do they all have to have iPhoto installed? What ...
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What to do with single-picture events in iPhoto?
I use iPhoto to manage my pictures. I have, therefore, over several years gained quite a set of Events as iPhoto calls them.
I also have lots of one-off pictures that people send me that I want to ...
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How to sync iPhone photo albums to iPhoto
I'm using iPhone4 and the latest iOS. I've created albums and categorized my photos into the albums.
Question is, how can I then sync the photos WITH the albums into iPhoto?
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How do I get iPhoto's facial recognition to stick?
I worked with iPhoto for a while, tagging photos with faces. Now when I view my own faces, I see "Steven Fisher may be in 8 additional photos."
I click Confirm Additional Faces, then click to confirm ...
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How do I import photos from my iPhone when using iPhoto in full screen mode on Lion?
In non-full screen mode your iPhone shows up in the left side bar under the 'Devices' area. In full screen mode there is no left side bar. I tried File -> Import to Library... but there's no iPhone ...
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Managing pictures and videos between my iPhone and iPad
I take a lot of photos and videos with my iPhone, and like to have most of them on my iPad. However, often, I take and combine videos with iMovie eliminating the need to have 10-20+ videos of whatever ...
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Just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I have to buy iPhoto again?
I originally was on Leopard. Then I got the free upgrade to Snow Leopard.
I bought Lion when it was released and removed it after a few months because it made my machine too slow. I upgraded the ...
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How do I password protect iPhoto '11?
I have some albums in my iPhoto 11, that contain personal photos. I want to password protect particular albums or the iPhoto application itself.
Is there any way to password protect iPhoto 11?
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How to import an old iPhoto 09 library to iPhoto 11?
I have found an old iPhoto 09 library on a back up folder and I want to import its content to my newly purchased iPhoto 11. Is this possible? If yes, how is it done?
By the way: I tried to import it ...
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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, ...
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What is the correct way to use an iPhone and iPhoto and PhotoStream?
I'm rather confused about the 'proper' way to use Photo Stream and an iPhone and iPhoto.
Here's how I use iPhoto and my iPhone: (This workflow was as far as I can tell the correct way to operate ...
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How can I programatically fill a flash drive with my latest photos from iPhoto?
Suppose I want to fill up a flash drive with the most recent photos in my iPhoto Library.
I want to end up with an external drive that has all my photos in a single directory (no nested folders)
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What is the best way to consolidate two iPhoto libraries into one library?
On the family's iMac my wife and daughter have separate user accounts, each with their own iPhoto library. My wife has asked me to consolidate both libraries into a single library for convenience.
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How do you access the content of the iPhoto bundle from Time Machine?
I would like to access the files of the iPhoto library bundle to retrieve just some of the files to help solving this question about corrupted iPhoto db files properly.
In time machine mode there is ...
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Sharing a iPhoto Library between users on the same computer
I tried to share my iPhoto library with putting it into my sharing folder. I changed the permissions, so the other users can use it. Now they can use it, but if they add new photos, i cannot edit ...
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Is using a Mac mini as an iPhoto server for 2 client laptops a good idea?
We have 200+ gigs of pictures and home videos on both me and my wife's laptops. This is getting unmanageable as well as taking up too much hard drive space on both of our laptops.
I am thinking about ...
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Can I delete photos from iPhoto and delete originals that aren't in the iPhoto folder?
I like the simplicity of iPhoto and all the nice ordering features. But, since I like to manage my library myself (folder names etc) I have not selected the option to import my photos to iPhotos' ...
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iPhoto files compressed in Time Capsule. Where is the original size?
My 8 year old iMac died some days ago. Fortunately, I have everything backed up on my Time Capsule. I just tried to get my photos from iPhoto off it, but realized that all my shots have been ...
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Two Photo Streams, one iPhoto library
My wife and I share the same iPhoto library, which exists on a mounted disk image with each of our user accounts pointing to this same shared library.
We each have iPhones and I wondered whether our ...
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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 ...
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Keyboard shortcuts for “Straighten” in iPhoto?
If you've used iPhoto for photo retouching, you probably know the Straighten functionality.
My question is, are there any keyboard shortcuts for rotating the photo, or is mouse & the slider ...
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How can I upload my whole iPhoto-Library to flickr?
Is there any plugin or other tool that I can use to upload my whole iPhoto Library to flickr? What do I need to do with that tool?
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Is there a way to look at photos by date taken in iPhoto?
In Windows Live Photo Gallery, there's an easy way to view photos by date taken:
How do I accomplish the same thing in iPhoto '11?
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How can I get a list of all iPhone pictures that are imported to iPhoto?
I have used iPhoto to backup my pictures from the iPhone. How can I find all the iPhone-photos without having to click on all the pictures to view the EXIF-info?
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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 ...
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How can I play MTS videos from my Sony camera on my Mac?
My family has used a Sony Cyber-Shot camera for several years. A few months ago, we replaced it with a newer model Cyber-Shot. To our dismay, however, the videos the camera records are not in the old ...
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What is the most effective way for a iPhoto user to have all photos synced and stored in the cloud for sharing?
If I make the switch in handling my photos on my Mac, from Picasa to iPhoto, then I need to have a way to have all of my photos synced and stored on cloud servers, for photo sharing online. (note, all ...
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How do I force iPhoto to download new photos in my Photo Stream?
I'm listing some items for sale online, and have taken a bunch of pictures with my iPhone. About half-way through the process, iPhoto '11 stopped downloading new photos into its local Photo Stream. ...
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Can I delete my iPhoto themes folder (/Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Themes)?
I have no interest in ever using them, although I do use iPhoto to store my photos. Will deleting the entire Themes folder mess anything up?
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Dimensions as criteria for iPhoto smart album?
In iPhoto '11 (latest version, on Mac OS Lion), can I make a smart album for all photos of a certain size (e.g. 960x640)? Can I make a smart album containing photos of multiple sizes?
EDIT
I ...
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Setting up iPhoto library on external HDD
Is there any way to set iPhoto library on external HDD instead of main HDD. I have a lot of photos and am running out of space on my MBP.
I was thinking to achieve it by symlinks or something. It ...
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Can i use iPhoto to trim my photos?
I scaned many photos to one image file. How can i cut it down to many pieces? Can iPhoto do that or is there any other free software suggestion?
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Can you copy location metadata from one photo to another in iPhoto?
Some of my imported pictures don't have location data on them because they were created using apps like Diptic. I'd like to tag them with them location data but the 'Assign a place...' search dialog ...
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How can I export my iPhoto library so I can import it on another computer?
I want to export my iPhoto library so that I can import it onto another computer and still keep the Events I've organized etc. How can I do this?
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Sync picasa with iPhoto
Is there any way to sync my iPhoto photos with picasa? It would be great if it works in the same way that the facebook integration works.
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iPhoto failed to download
After upgrading to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro, I noticed an update was available for iPhoto '11 (version 9.4) I went to App Store -> Updates and it downloaded and than hung. The message I ...
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How can I delete an individual photo from my photostream? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you erase pictures from the Photo Stream album on an iPhone running iOS 5?
Either on my Mac, or on iPhone or iPad, how can I delete an individual image from my ...
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How to send existing photos to photo stream?
I just enabled iCloud on my iPad. I've also downloaded iPhoto on my Mac to sync my photos on the iPad. The problem is that I can only get pictures that I downloaded after I enabled iCloud on my iPad.
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How can I store my iPhoto Library and iTunes library in Lion Server (Mini) and access it via my MBP?
My iPhoto and iTunes library is taking up most of the space in my 128GB SSD MBP.
I'm considering to buy a mac mini to store all of my media for iPhoto and iTunes libraries and sync a few of my ...
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Storing and working off iphoto and itunes library on NAS?
I have the 2011 macbook air with 128gb ssd. Storage is low so i'm hoping to set up for the very first time, a NAS to host large files such as photo's (raw format), video's and music (lossless and aac ...
