Hi Juliet & Bill, I'm not too sure exactly what you wish to achieve, so I've tried to cover all options with my reply below .
A) iPhoto - How to Add Captions to Your Photos: 1. Select a photo in the “thumbnail” Photos view to highlight it or double click on a thumbnail to take it into the Edit view. 2. If the Info panel on the right isn’t already open, click on the Info button (or command-i) near the right hand side of the bottom toolbar. A vertical panel with information about your photo will open up. 3. Near the top you will see a line of text that reads, “Add a description…” Click on this text and it will open a box for you to type. 4. Type in your entire caption. You can use your cursor keys as well as clicking through your text to jump around. Hitting enter will not finish your entry, but will move you to the next line. When you’re finished, just move your cursor away from the box. Just a Side Note: Some of the themes while showing your photos in a Slideshow (really fun if you haven’t already tried it!) can display this caption information on top of the photo. Make sure you go into the settings (gear icon) while in a slideshow and put a check next to Show Captions. Then choose either Descriptions or Titles and Descriptions from the pulldown. B) How to Export Photos From iPhoto with Titles and Descriptions: “Exporting” your photo out of iPhoto is the trick, but even then you have to select the right settings to make it work. Once the image has been exported, your titles, descriptions, keywords and even location information (if you so choose) is then saved inside the image so you will no longer need the help of iPhoto to access and view this information. Additionally, you can then also email this exported image to someone with whichever email software you choose and still maintain the title and description. Something to keep in mind though, some image programs still don’t handle this (IPTC) metadata yet, so you can’t expect universal access to it. But just know, as long you don’t accidentally overwrite this information with another program, your information will always be saved inside of that image you just exported. 1 Select (highlight) a photo or multiple and then click on “File” from the top Menu Bar and then click “Export” from the list. (Optionally you can hit SHIFT-COMMAND-E)If you would like to export a large quantity of photos, I would recommend selecting an entire “Event” full of photos and exporting it to its own folder named the same as your iPhoto Event. 2 Choose the “File Export” tab from the top of this new window. The main thing you’re looking for here is the “Include:” boxes in the middle of this window. You want to put a check mark next to “Title and keywords” if you want your metadata such as title, description and keywords to be “embedded” into your the image that you are about to create in the export. Unfortunately, for whatever reason Apple has, you can only choose this box if you choose “JPEG” or “TIFF” from the “Kind” option at the top. For the “File Name“, you can choose “Use Title” if you would like the new image to be labeled now with the title you gave it inside of iPhoto. 3 Click “Export” and then choose where you would like to save this new image — such as your desktop— and then click “ok.” The filename will default to your given “title” if you chose that in the prior menu. You can change this here though if you would like. When you are done click “ok.” So now, if you look on the desktop, you should see your image. You can do with it as you please. Understand that this is a duplicate copy. Exporting is not moving, it’s copying. So your original image is still safely saved inside of iPhoto. By exporting, you created another copy of it with the options you chose in the process. C) How to View Your Photos From iPhoto In Preview with Titles and Descriptions: 1. Open the Image in Preview App 2. Go to “Tools” in the Menu Bar at the top of your monitor and select “Show Inspector” from the list. (Optionally you can hit Command-I) 3. From the Inspector window that just opened up, select the “Info Inspector” tab at the top that is labeled with a lower case “i” in a circle. This will then reveal all of the available metadata inside. To see your titles, descriptions and keywords, choose the IPTC tab. You may have to click and drag this window to be a little wider to show the entire length of your description. > Or does anybody know how names of people in photo can be edited on to photo > itself. Preview App can Add Text to any Image: 1. Export the Image out of iPhoto (as above) 2. Open the Image in Preview 3. Go to "Tools" > Annotate - Text 4. Click in the image where you want the Text 5. Type the Name/s etc. (After you have finished typing, you can move the text box) 6. When finished - Go To: File > Save Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 31/08/2013, at 8:48 AM, Juliet Kitson <billand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all > Is there a way to change the file name of a photo so that when it burned to a > disk it does not revert to origional file name. > Reason : family history research. > Or does anybody know how names of people in photo can be edited on to photo > itself. > Iphoto 11 > Imac 10.6.8 > 2gHz intel > Core duo 2 > 3gHz ram. > regards Bill & Juliet > >
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