Hi again Graeme, I've just found time to re-read your email, you said: >> Those photos now in Photos appear also to be sorted by the date the photo >> was taken.
That is correct, "Sort by Date" is the default setting in iPhoto, but you can change how Photos are "sorted". Open iPhoto, click on "Photos" (under "Library"), Then go to "View" (in Menu Bar) > Sort Photos - & select which you prefer ... By Date, By Keyword, By Title, or Manually. Once you are sure you have all your photos imported & showing in Library - "Photos", you can organise your photos into"Albums" (similar to the folders you had on your PC).. To Create an Album: 1. Click the Add button (+) at the bottom of the source pane (Library window), or Choose "New Album" from under "File >New Album 2. Choose Album from the item icon list, enter a name, and click "Create" to add it to the source pane. OR You can drag a entire Event, into the Source Pane, onto the Albums List Title, and an Album will be created showing all the photos from the "Event". (When you drag photos into the source pane to create a new album containing them, you will notice how the entire source pane gets a thick blue border.) You can change the name of the Album to whatever you wish to identify it by. We have probably given you enough information to absorb for the moment, otherwise you will be completely confused ;-) If you require help with a certain aspect in iPhoto, start a New Post to WAMUG with a particular subject ...e.g 'iPhoto '09 - Photos to DVD', so people can follow the Thread. Have a look at <http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/> <http://iphoto.maccreate.com/2009/12/17/moving-events-in-iphoto/> Cheers, Ronni On 22/12/2009, at 10:09 AM, 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>
