As always, iPhoto makes fresh copies of the files you import, storing them in one centralized photo repository the iPhoto Library folder on your hard drive. The program also creates thumbnail versions of each image for display in the main iPhoto window.
Through this process and all other importing processes, remember this: iPhoto never moves a file, whether from a memory card or disk; it only copies it. Just about every digital camera on earth saves photos as JPEG files—and iPhoto handles this format beautifully. The program now imports and recognizes some very useful additional formats. Most digital cameras work like this: When you squeeze the shutter button, the camera studies the data picked up by its sensors.
For millions of people, the resulting picture quality is just fine, even terrific. But all that in-camera processing drives professional shutterbugs nuts. As a result, each RAW photo takes up much more space on your memory card. Most cameras take longer to store RAW photos on the card, too.
But for image-manipulation nerds, the beauty of RAW files is that once you open them up on the Mac, you can perform astounding acts of editing on them. You can actually change the lighting of the scene—retroactively! Until recently, most people used a program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to do this kind of editing.
But amazingly enough, humble, cheap little iPhoto 5 can now edit them, too. For details on editing RAW images, see Chapter 6. Not every camera offers an option to save your files in RAW format—and among those that do, not all are iPhoto compatible.
With iPhoto 5, Apple has brought the software one delicate step into the 21st century. In addition to still photos, most consumer digital cameras these days can also capture cute little digital movies. Some are jittery, silent affairs the size of a Wheat Thin; others are full-blown, frames-per-second, fill-your-screen movies that eat up a memory card plenty fast. Either way, iPhoto can now import and organize them. The program recognizes. In fact, it can import any format that QuickTime itself recognizes, which is a very long list indeed.
Of course, iPhoto also lets you load pictures that have been saved in a number of other file formats, too—including a few unusual ones. They include:. Most digital cameras capture photos in a graphics-file format called JPEG. GIF is the most common format used for non-photographic images on Web pages. The borders, backgrounds, and logos you typically encounter on Web sites are usually GIF files—as well as 98 percent of those blinking, flashing banner ads that drive you insane.
They often display more complex graphic elements. BMP is a popular graphics file format in Windows. SGI and Targa are specialized graphics formats used on high-end Silicon Graphics workstations and Truevision video-editing systems. They can be user manuals, brochures, or Read Me files that you downloaded or received on a CD.
Skip to main content. Start your free trial. Ask a question. User profile for user: Biffarama Biffarama. Question: Q: Question: Q: How long to complete import of photos? Reply I have this question too 8 I have this question too Me too 8 Me too. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Just trash the Library and make a new one to start over.
View answer in context. Loading page content. Oct 28, PM in response to Biffarama In response to Biffarama Pretty much undefined It is likely to fail - it is not a good idea to import 30, photos at once - it takes a lot of resource especially memory If it works great - assuming it fails trash the failed iPhoto library and start over - import photos in groups of to rather than 30, And note that iPhoto is a much different operation than many PC users are used to - it is a SQLite database and you do not ever directly access you photos - you only access photos using iPhoto or the media browser - How to Access Files in iPhoto Sometimes it is best to import a few hundred and play with them to get familiar with he totally different method of operating LN.
Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: notcloudy notcloudy. Oct 28, PM in response to Biffarama In response to Biffarama If your original photos are of people and you want to use Iphoto face recognition - you may want to play with it first - then import pictures a few at a time. If I stop the Import now will that clear all the photos so I could start over clean? Reply Helpful 1 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post.
Oct 29, AM in response to notcloudy In response to notcloudy That changed a couple of years ago Multiple libraries are inconvenient, and there are many more ways to back up than Time Machine. Multiple libraries is generally a bad idea - Unless a user has a very specific need for multiple libraries lifework and home with no overlap it is much better to have one single library LN. Oct 29, PM in response to LarryHN In response to LarryHN I have no problem handling multiple libraries - just a matter of setting up a desktop folder with aliases for each library - and giving that icon a long descriptive name.
Thanks, Scott. I tuned in to your live tutorial years ago when Aperture was killed off, and it worked like a charm. This update is useful, too. I have a follow-up question to this process… Before the Photos app began storing the master files within the package contents, one could setup LightRoom to watch the folder of iCloud Photostream masters, enabling Lightroom to automatically import all photos from the iCloud Photostream.
Do you know of a method for automatically importing all iCloud Photostream photos into Lightroom? Hello Scott, thanks for sharing. I assume that this also work for Aperture. Could you be so kind a say something about the limitations?
Thank you! Then I only need to answer the question if it worth to invest any time into a dead product like the Perpetual-Licence-Lightroom. What I would love to know is how to import some -not all- Photos images into Lightroom the most straightforward way possible. Hi Scott, thanks for sharing but i have some problem when i try to import my library to lightroom. In fact when i use the import plugin and try to import my big library 80gb this process takes a long time.
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