Hullo Ronni
I have been stewing on your reply to my query on October 26, and
Eugene's later reply to my query re "reverting to original" situations.
I have experimented with this successfully; however, your comment
about "Moving things, renaming things...." has been bothering me.
When I receive photos to place into iPhoto they come from various
sources, i.e. someone may email them to me, or they come from a USB
stick, or they may be scanned in. Some of these photos are very old
and there is no clue as to the true date the photo was taken. The
Mac of course gives them the date that they were placed into iPhoto
(not of course photos from a digital camera where we can always obtain
the true date). Sometimes I wish to place these photos into a
relevant Family Tree folder, or e.g., "2008 Christmas" folder. Then,
in order to use the excellent Search button in iPhoto I like to show
the names of the people in the photo.
Some photos just show "Img 24" and have not been named, obviously
originally from a digital camera, or scanner. Sometimes the person
who has given me the photos has their own code for naming photos.
Sorry, I am rambling on - now, when I receive a photo as a single or
as a group, I re-name each photo with a code which is meaningful to
me, e.g. "Family Tree Smith 1931-ish Mum, Dad, Gran". Then of course
that or those photos are placed into the "Family Tree Smith" folder.
Therefore, I assume that I have interfered with the "original" and it
may not be able to be "reverted", whether or not I have actually
modified the actual photo?
Thanks for any advice on this, I just wanted to absolutely clarify
this point.
Have a good day.
Peculiar weather!
Peta
On 26/10/2009, at 12:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Peta,
iPhoto never deletes the original. It always preserves it, treating
it like a film photographer minds his negative.
There is no way to remove the Original from iPhoto.
This facilitates the Photos - "Revert to Original" command in iPhoto
and the non-destructive editing feature.
This is one of the reasons we are always telling people, NEVER touch
anything in the "iPhoto Library", do everything in iPhoto
application, then the originals are protected.
Do not remove the original file yourself: Don't change anything in
the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application.
iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this
folder.
Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will
prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or
lose your photos.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 26/10/2009, at 12:31 PM, peta belczowski wrote:
Thank you so much Ronni
So simple, yet so amazing!
Peta
On 26/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Peta,
In iPhoto you can select the photo, then go to 'Photos' in the
Menu Bar and "Revert to Original".
Cheers,
Ronni
On 26/10/2009, at 12:15 PM, peta belczowski wrote:
Hullo Eugene
I have just read with interest your reply to John. My question
for you is at a tangent though.
If iPhoto keeps 3 copies of each photo, is it possible to recall/
reinstate the original (which I assume is "hidden" somewhere in
the depths of my Mac?
I hate to admit it, but when I first began working with iPhoto
over 18 months ago, I did not always keep my original photo and
then edit a copy of that photo. (I do now). So, what has
happened is that occasionally iPhoto has not given me the results
that I have been after - e.g. iPhoto does not do such a great job
with red-eye.
Now quite a few of my photos have badly edited red-eyes and my
subjects appear to be wearing a lot of badly applied eye-shadow.
Is there a way of reinstating the originals into iPhoto so that I
can re-work with them?
Thanks to anyone who can assist with this,
Peta
On 26/10/2009, at 11:06 AM, Eugene wrote:
Hi John,
the iPhoto library folder on your computer does keep 3 copies of
the photo. The original, the modified version (if you have
altered contrast/cropped/ rotated etc the picture) and finally a
thumbnail for quick viewing the image.
When you move your picture to an external storage device such as
the memory stick you mentioned you usually do this by exporting
the image from iPhoto or simply drag it from iPhoto. This will
place only one file (image) on your memory stick.
The only way you would have all 3 files on your memory stick
that I can think of is if you dragged the whole iPhoto library
to you memory stick.
Regards,
Eugene
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On 26/10/2009, at 9:35 AM, John Daniels wrote:
Hi Wamuggers
I †ook a memory stick into Cameraland to print from iPhoto
shots. They told me that iPhoto creates 3 copies of each image
in small, medium and full resolution. Therefore they were
unable to identify on their server which copy to print. The
person who explained it to me has some knowledge of Mac stuff.
Can anyone confirm that this is what happens?
Cheers
John
Cheers,
Ronni
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