[Yakov]

iphoto is an exasperating program. the process of naming and tagging my photos is like pulling teeth. is there any developer that's made a plugin to ease this process?

[King Bob On The Cob]

You don't even say why it's bad, or give any reasoning that people could help you with. Anyways, how would you envision a plugin helping you tag? Read your mind?

[Yakov]

for each image in iphoto, i have to click on the picture, click on the info button, click on the name, then type a name. then i have to go back to the mouse, click on tags, and drag the photo to the tags i want, one at a time.

this is ridiculous!

i'd like to see a simple system that allows me to type the name, click a few checkboxes for tags, and hit enter to go to the next photo. best system would allow me to do all this without going to the mouse. i'm thinking of classic WinAmp (back in the day!) where you could select fifteen MP3s, hit control-3 for id3 tags, and then be able to fill in the info in a dialog box -- everytime you hit OK you get the dialog box for the next file, quickly!

any ideas, friends?

thank you kindly,
yakov.

[CatOne]

You can do batch changes of photos. Just select all the ones you want to change, and then select the keywords you want. You can also do Photos->Batch Change and add other comments to the photos.

So what are you missing?

[JazzCatDRP]

Check MacUpdate for Keyword Assistant. It's a great keyword plugin

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally Posted by Yakov

for each image in iphoto, i have to click on the picture, click on the info button, click on the name, then type a name. then i have to go back to the mouse, click on tags, and drag the photo to the tags i want, one at a time.

this is ridiculous!

i'd like to see a simple system that allows me to type the name, click a few checkboxes for tags, and hit enter to go to the next photo. best system would allow me to do all this without going to the mouse. i'm thinking of classic WinAmp (back in the day!) where you could select fifteen MP3s, hit control-3 for id3 tags, and then be able to fill in the info in a dialog box -- everytime you hit OK you get the dialog box for the next file, quickly!

any ideas, friends?

thank you kindly,
yakov.

Multiple selection is possible. Click-Drag. Click then Shift-Click. Option-Click Option-Click Option-Click. Take your pick. You can then get info and set a keyword on all of them. Or you can select "Batch Change..." and mass edit.

[icruise]

Originally Posted by Yakov

this is ridiculous!

No, what's ridiculous is complaining about a program missing features that are already there. iPhoto doesn't really have that many menu items, so I wonder if you even looked.

I kind of think one of the strengths of a program like iPhoto is that it doesn't require you to name your photos, though. You can just identify them by sight (and to a lesser extent, by date). Keywords, though, are very useful since one photo can have any number of keywords, but only one title.

[Yakov]

you're talking about Get Info, right? it lets me pick keywords but not a name, and it clogs up the screen...

ok, never mind, guess i'm the only one who feels the way i do about this program

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally Posted by Yakov

you're talking about Get Info, right? it lets me pick keywords but not a name, and it clogs up the screen...

ok, never mind, guess i'm the only one who feels the way i do about this program

Batch Change works similarly... for the love of god, just LOOK at the menu options.

[Yakov]

for the love of god, read what i wrote.

[icruise]

I think I and others thought you were complaining that you could only edit the titles one at a time, when it seems that what you actually want is a way to edit titles quickly one after another. There is a shortcut available for this.

Click on the title of the photo you want to rename in the Information window on the bottom left. Type in the new title. Then press command + right bracket (the ] key) to go on to the next photo. You'll immediately be able to type in the next title. Press command + ] again to go on to the next one, and so on. You can also press command + left bracket to go to the previous photo. In this way, you can rename photos fairly quickly.

[- - e r i k - -]

For the love of Atheism, download this:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14092

[icruise]

He's talking mostly about titles and not keywords, though.