[Freeflyer]

Hi, trying to figure out something about the way iPhoto scores and names photos.

I imported some photos off my camera into iphoto, and then in iphoto I renamed them from the names the camera gave them (number order etc) to something that actually had some meaning for each photo. Nothing unusual so far.

However, when I went to try and locate the photos using the finder, (iphoto library, albums, album name, photo) the photos still had they're original names from the camera.

Can anyone suggest how I can make iphoto change the name of the actual photo as it is stored on the hard disk (actual filename). Otherwise, trying to find a given photo using another piece of software (photoshop etc) becomes much more difficult.

Many thanks,

J.

[Developer]

Originally posted by Freeflyer:
Otherwise, trying to find a given photo using another piece of software (photoshop etc) becomes much more difficult.

I think you are supposed to drag the photo out of iPhoto onto the Photoshop icon in the Dock.

[Freeflyer]

Ah, that's good and would work for a single photo, but if I want to import a bunch to do something like a panorama stitch or build a web page, you need to select multiple files from the file open dialogue box.

If you can't see anything other than numerical filenames, it's very awkward. You would think that when you rename a photo, it would rename the filename. Otherwise, I would need to just import the photos to finder, rename them there, and then import them to iphoto. this seems a very odd way to go about doing something that should be very easy.

With most cameras giving files numerical names, you could end up with many files with identical names, and finding them using anything other than iphoto would be extremely user unfriendly.

Hopefully theres a more elegant way to achieve this in iphoto.

Cheers,

J.

[MacMatt]

Not sure how you are trying to do this...However, if you forget about opening iPhoto and just migrate to the Pictures>iPhoto Library>Dates Folders>your picture, you can highlight the picture title and make it whatever you want and it will stay that way.

Matt

[Freeflyer]

Yes, but that means knowing which photo relates to which number, and I thought that this is about the simplest thing iphoto could be expected to do.

If you rename the photo it should rename the file.

If iphoto can't even do this, then it's a piss poor implementation of a photo organiser. I had thought it was quite good until this problem came up. Given that I'm going to need to do this with every single photo that I ever transfer to the computer, it makes no sense to use iphoto, if you have to use the finder to manage the file names. Might as well use photoshop and be done with it.

Will phone apple support on this one, and get back to you.

Cheers,

J.

[Sal]

Guys, guys, guys. Simple thing, simple answer: use AppleScript.

If you have the Photoshop scripting plugin installed in Photoshop 7.0, save this script as an application, place its icon in the Dock, and drag any number of images to it from iPhoto.

on open these_items
tell application "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
activate
set display dialogs to never
open these_items showing dialogs never
end tell
end open

However, if you don't have the scripting plugin installed, try this script instead:

on open these_items
tell application "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
activate
open these_items
end tell
end open

[Developer]

Originally posted by Sal:
Guys, guys, guys. Simple thing, simple answer: use AppleScript.

If you have the Photoshop scripting plugin installed in Photoshop 7.0, save this script as an application, place its icon in the Dock, and drag any number of images to it from iPhoto.

Yes, that's so much easier than dragging them directly onto the Photoshop icon.

[Sal]

Originally posted by Developer:
Yes, that's so much easier than dragging them directly onto the Photoshop icon.

Add a little imagination please...

The example code is just the "shell" for opening the images. You can add other code to the script to do things like: perform actions, custom manipulations, adding text, making compound images, file renaming, etc.