[Guro]

Hi!
I have a problem, and I hope somebody can help me! When I want to open a picture in Photoshop, I have to go to Finder - Pictures - iPhoto Library and so on.. But the pictures are very bad orginized. When I upload pictures in iPhoto, it automaticly comes in folders named 2004, 2005, 2005 1, 2 ,3 ,4 and so on (in Finder). It is impossible to find the picture I want, because I have no idea how the system is.. I tried to make a system, so it could be easy to find the pictures I wanted, but now I can't see any of the pictures when I open the iPhoto library. Is there anything I can do, so that I can see the thumbs again, or do I have to upload all of my pictures over again? And how can I make a system that makes it easy to find the pictures I want?

[PrOeliuM]

Here's what I do to solve that problem:

I created a folder inside my "Pictures" folder called "Personal Pics" to use as my organized folder.

Use iPhoto to download pictures off my camera.

Select "Last Roll" from the sidebar and then highlight all the pictures and go to "Photos -> Batch Change" and then set the Title to Text with "append a number" and then name the pictures what I want.

I then go to "Share -> export" to export the pics to my organized folder using the Title as the file name. My organized folder is organized by date (personal preference).

This way if I want to mess with something in PS Elements, I can navigate through my organized folder much easier than the iPhoto library. Plus now you can just use spotlight to find the pics since they're named more accurately now.

The downside of course is that I have duplicate photos between the iPhoto library and the organized folder, but that's not so bad.

[SpaceMonkey]

The folders are a hierarchy of Year-->Month-->Day in which the pictures were uploaded. If you have your iPhoto library set to view by Film Rolls (View-->Film Rolls, or shift-cmd-F), then the date shown above each film roll is the folder hierarchy that those photos will be in.

So, for example, if one of my rolls is dated 11/3/05, then to find that photo in Finder, I would first go to the 2005 folder, and then the 11 folder, and then the 3 folder.

[Apfhex]

Why don't you just drag and drop the pics you want from the iPhoto window to the Photoshop icon in your Dock?

[iomatic]

What Apfhex said. There's really no need to dig into the folders. If it's a project, you may as well Save As… from Photoshop anyway; I use iPhoto more as a big contact sheet than a project organizer. For that, you can use Bridge.