#HOUDAHGEO VS PHOTOLINKER FREE#

Now I have iPHoto'09 and want to either embrace iPhoto and use it entirely (doing away with my folders?) or use it solely as an organizational tool, keeping my own folder system (and not duplicating upon import).ġ - it is not recommended to use iPhoto in a referenced mode for many reasons - it puts you in charge of file management and makes replacing a hard drive or moving to a new computer much more difficult - and it accomplishes nothing positive in most (almost all) casesĢ - iPhoto is a photo management database what lets you access your photos in a number of ways - by date taken, by event, by personal grouping (albums), by rating, by people in the photo (faces), by where the photo was taken (places), by Keyword, by camera used, by exposure, etc And iPhoto gives you many easy ways to share photos (MobileMe, Flickr, Facebook) and to make Keepsakes (books, cards, photos, calendars, etc)ĭoing your own file management gives you two ways to find a photo - byname or by date imported A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.Īlias Herder will help you change from a Referenced to a Managed Library. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.Ģ.

#HOUDAHGEO VS PHOTOLINKER FREE#

*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:Ĭreate a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utilityġ.

If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto. However, if you're using Gmail you can use This is also true for emailing with Web-based services.

It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work: Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. If you're concerned about accessing the files, there are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.Ĥ. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.ģ. If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:Ģ. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.Īlways allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.ģ. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Import and deleting pics are more complex proceduresĢ. Using a Referenced Library has the following pitfalls:ġ.

This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. You are much better off using a Managed Library. If you're running a Referenced Library, then you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced and iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing. If you're running a Managed library, then it's the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing Your choices are between a Managed or a Referenced Library.

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