Hi Bill & Juliet, I think I know what you mean. After I import photos into iPhoto I give them each a relevent Title so that I can find them and so that they are also displayed on the relevant Smart Folder.
However this does not change the file name. So when I email any of them to friends/family I first drag a copy of each to the desktop. Then (because the file name is still the original nondescript one) I change the file names to something relevant to the receiver. Is it possible to change the File Name whilst the photo is still in iPhoto, seems to be your question ? On 31/08/2013, at 1:43 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Juliet & Bill, > > I'm not too sure exactly what you wish to achieve, so I've tried to cover all > options with my reply below . > > A) iPhoto - How to Add Captions to Your Photos: > > 1. Select a photo in the “thumbnail” Photos view to highlight it or double > click on a thumbnail to take it into the Edit view. > > 2. If the Info panel on the right isn’t already open, click on the Info > button (or command-i) near the right hand side of the bottom toolbar. A > vertical panel with information about your photo will open up. > > 3. Near the top you will see a line of text that reads, “Add a description…” > Click on this text and it will open a box for you to type. > > 4. Type in your entire caption. You can use your cursor keys as well as > clicking through your text to jump around. > Hitting enter will not finish your entry, but will move you to the next line. > When you’re finished, just move your cursor away from the box. > > Just a Side Note: > Some of the themes while showing your photos in a Slideshow (really fun if > you haven’t already tried it!) can display this caption information on top of > the photo. Make sure you go into the settings (gear icon) while in a > slideshow and put a check next to Show Captions. Then choose either > Descriptions or Titles and Descriptions from the pulldown. > > B) How to Export Photos From iPhoto with Titles and Descriptions: > > “Exporting” your photo out of iPhoto is the trick, but even then you have to > select the right settings to make it work. > > Once the image has been exported, your titles, descriptions, keywords and > even location information (if you so choose) is then saved inside the image > so you will no longer need the help of iPhoto to access and view this > information. > > Additionally, you can then also email this exported image to someone with > whichever email software you choose and still maintain the title and > description. > > Something to keep in mind though, some image programs still don’t handle this > (IPTC) metadata yet, so you can’t expect universal access to it. But just > know, as long you don’t accidentally overwrite this information with another > program, your information will always be saved inside of that image you just > exported. > > 1 Select (highlight) a photo or multiple and then click on “File” from > the top Menu Bar and then click “Export” from the list. (Optionally you can > hit SHIFT-COMMAND-E)If you would like to export a large quantity of photos, I > would recommend selecting an entire “Event” full of photos and exporting it > to its own folder named the same as your iPhoto Event. > > 2 Choose the “File Export” tab from the top of this new window. The main > thing you’re looking for here is the “Include:” boxes in the middle of this > window. > You want to put a check mark next to “Title and keywords” if you want your > metadata such as title, description and keywords to be “embedded” into your > the image that you are about to create in the export. > Unfortunately, for whatever reason Apple has, you can only choose this box if > you choose “JPEG” or “TIFF” from the “Kind” option at the top. > For the “File Name“, you can choose “Use Title” if you would like the new > image to be labeled now with the title you gave it inside of iPhoto. > > 3 Click “Export” and then choose where you would like to save this new > image — such as your desktop— and then click “ok.” > The filename will default to your given “title” if you chose that in the > prior menu. You can change this here though if you would like. When you are > done click “ok.” > > So now, if you look on the desktop, you should see your image. You can do > with it as you please. > > Understand that this is a duplicate copy. Exporting is not moving, it’s > copying. So your original image is still safely saved inside of iPhoto. By > exporting, you created another copy of it with the options you chose in the > process. > > C) How to View Your Photos From iPhoto In Preview with Titles and > Descriptions: > > 1. Open the Image in Preview App > > 2. Go to “Tools” in the Menu Bar at the top of your monitor and select “Show > Inspector” from the list. (Optionally you can hit Command-I) > > 3. From the Inspector window that just opened up, select the “Info Inspector” > tab at the top that is labeled with a lower case “i” in a circle. This will > then reveal all of the available metadata inside. To see your titles, > descriptions and keywords, choose the IPTC tab. You may have to click and > drag this window to be a little wider to show the entire length of your > description. > > >> Or does anybody know how names of people in photo can be edited on to photo >> itself. > > Preview App can Add Text to any Image: > 1. Export the Image out of iPhoto (as above) > 2. Open the Image in Preview > 3. Go to "Tools" > Annotate - Text > 4. Click in the image where you want the Text > 5. Type the Name/s etc. (After you have finished typing, you can move the > text box) > 6. When finished - Go To: File > Save > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > On 31/08/2013, at 8:48 AM, Juliet Kitson <billand...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all >> Is there a way to change the file name of a photo so that when it burned to >> a disk it does not revert to origional file name. >> Reason : family history research. >> Or does anybody know how names of people in photo can be edited on to photo >> itself. >> Iphoto 11 >> Imac 10.6.8 >> 2gHz intel >> Core duo 2 >> 3gHz ram. >> regards Bill & Juliet >> >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
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