My grateful thanks to all What a great system for problem solving Hope that you all enjoy a wonderful Christmas and 2010
Graeme On 22/12/2009, at 1:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Graeme, > > Paul, Peta & Rob have given correct and useful information in their replies. > I will only try to explain Events for you in my reply. > > In the Events Preference Pane in iPhoto > Preferences - Events - "Autosplit > into Events" > 'One event per day', 'One event per week' , Two-hour' or 'Eight-hour' gaps. > > iPhoto 09 (like its predecessor) automatically splits imported photos into > Events based on the capture date of the photos. > Usually this is very handy, but sometimes events can be split when it would > be better to have them together. > > You can "combine" events by selecting them, then click the Merge button on > the bottom toolbar. > Or you can drag one Event onto another to merge the two Events. > The result is a single Event. > You can rename the Events, by clicking on the title field under the thumbnail. > > You can move photos between events, drag photos from one event to another in > Photos view. > > You can Split Events, either by: > 1. When you’re importing new photos, check Autosplit Events after Importing. > 2. In Events view, select one or more events and choose Autosplit Selected > Events from the Events menu. > or > 3. When viewing an event’s photos, select one or more photos and click the > Split button. > > A good Video showing "How to organise photos with Events in iPhoto '09" can > be viewed here: > <http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-organize-photos-with-events-in-iphoto-09-278578/> > > Also, I would recommend purchasing 'iPhoto ‘09: Visual QuickStart Guide' > <http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/iphoto09-vqs> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > On 21/12/2009, at 5:48 PM, Graeme Winters wrote: > >> >> Greetings to all >> >> As a very recent Imac user I transferred all of My Photos from my PC to the >> new Mac using a Belkin Switch to Cable system and everything appears to have >> come across. >> I had many years of photos on my old PC and the transfer took some time >> I had over a 100 folders including many from a recent trip to Europe. These >> most recent photos were taken on a Canon and a Fuji. >> >> The Canon downloaded all pictures neatly into folders according to the date >> the photo was taken whereas the Fuji did not and I then sorted each Fuji >> download into folders according to the town or place we visited over 70 >> days. There was nearly 9Gb of photos from this recent trip >> >> >> Curious thing now is that a great number of My Pictures have ended up in >> Photos and the rest in Events >> It does appear as though the Mac may have decided that if the folder was the >> name of a person then those photos went into Photos and if the folder was >> named say by a location then this lot went into Events. This was not the >> case in 100% of cases but simply a guess on my part at the moment >> >> Those photos now in Photos appear also to be sorted by the date the photo >> was taken. >> >> Result is of course that in trying to create a DVD the search is quite >> difficult >> >> Not sure where to go next >> If I could transfer all the Events group into Photos I may at least have >> these then sorted by date which would be a help >> >> Next time I think we will just use one camera rather than 2 >> >> Graeme >> IMac 27 > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
