OS X, where have my photos gone?

At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

On Jan 30, 1:46 pm, Justin C wrote:
At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

The way I use iPhoto in my workflow is like this:

1) Import photos into iPhoto from the CF card reader.

2) Look at the photos and decide which photo I care enough to work
on and drag that
photo into PhotoShop.

3) After making the changes to the photo, I save it into the iPhoto
directory
location ( which will be up one level from where PhotoShop got
the CR2 file )
overwriting the iPhoto created jpeg.

The only problem with this workflow is that iPhoto will show its own
thumbnail version of the picture when viewing the standard size
thumbnails and not the edited one. But when you change the size of
the thumbnail previews, you will see the edited version.

Does anyone know how to force iPhoto to update the thumbnail previews?


John

PS If you are editing jpeg photos, it would be best to double click
the photo in iPhoto to edit it so that iPhoto will create a copy of
the photo. iPhoto always does this with RAW photos.

In article m,
Justin C wrote:

At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

Skip iPhoto. It's more trouble than it's worth. iPhoto's RAW
conversion is pretty ugly too. Let Photoshop do it.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:46:42 -0800, Justin C wrote
(in article m):


At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.



If you use a third party application, such as Bridge, with iPhoto, modify the
file or move or rename it, iPhoto loses the location of the photo. If you
then try to use the Revert to Original command to try to get your photo back,
then iPhoto will over-write the original file with the "nothing" that if
finds in the original's place -- a zero-K file. You lose the original and
only have a chance of getting it back with some file recovery utilities.

iPhoto 5.0.1 or later prevents the loss of non-RAW images this way, but RAW
images are still destroyed. Furthermore, iPhoto will quit unexpectedly if you
persist in trying to view these photos.

So, first of all, whatever you do, DO NOT USE THE REVERT TO ORIGINAL COMMAND
ON THESE IMAGES.

Now, what has happened is that iPhoto has lost the information, so your best
bet is to simply re-import the original file. You will get a new thumbnail
and the file will be unmodified unless you modified it in Photoshop.

The best way to do this is to export your library, which must be done
separately for both RAW and non-RAW images, then re-importing it. A link to
an Apple support document describing this procedure is he

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300808

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

In article
,
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

In article m,
Justin C wrote:

At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

Skip iPhoto. It's more trouble than it's worth. iPhoto's RAW
conversion is pretty ugly too. Let Photoshop do it.

Or get Aperture, which handles it all - conversion, image adjustment,
handoff to PS (or other program) for pixel editing, and reception of
the edited picture right back into its library from the editing
program, stacked with the original, untouched image.

Free trial, too.

--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard

On 2007-01-31, C J Campbell wrote:

The best way to do this is to export your library, which must be done
separately for both RAW and non-RAW images, then re-importing it. A link to
an Apple support document describing this procedure is he

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300808

That's interesting, thank you.

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

On 2007-01-30, jdear64 wrote:

The way I use iPhoto in my workflow is like this:

1) Import photos into iPhoto from the CF card reader.

2) Look at the photos and decide which photo I care enough to work
on and drag that
photo into PhotoShop.

3) After making the changes to the photo, I save it into the iPhoto
directory
location ( which will be up one level from where PhotoShop got
the CR2 file )
overwriting the iPhoto created jpeg.

The only problem with this workflow is that iPhoto will show its own
thumbnail version of the picture when viewing the standard size
thumbnails and not the edited one. But when you change the size of
the thumbnail previews, you will see the edited version.

Thanks, I've noted that for next time.


Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

Ken Lucke wrote:

In article
,
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

In article m,
Justin C wrote:

At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

Skip iPhoto. It's more trouble than it's worth. iPhoto's RAW
conversion is pretty ugly too. Let Photoshop do it.

Or get Aperture, which handles it all - conversion, image adjustment,
handoff to PS (or other program) for pixel editing, and reception of
the edited picture right back into its library from the editing
program, stacked with the original, untouched image.

Free trial, too.

I use Aperture for ediitng Raw and jpegs - I find I hardly ever have to
go into Photoshop to tweak images these days - this avoids any image
duplication as all edits, which are non-destructive, are stored as tiny
text files within the programme which saves lots of disk space.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:47:38 -0800, Ken Lucke wrote
(in article ):

In article
,
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

In article m,
Justin C wrote:

At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

Skip iPhoto. It's more trouble than it's worth. iPhoto's RAW
conversion is pretty ugly too. Let Photoshop do it.

Or get Aperture, which handles it all - conversion, image adjustment,
handoff to PS (or other program) for pixel editing, and reception of
the edited picture right back into its library from the editing
program, stacked with the original, untouched image.

Free trial, too.



Not only that, but Aperture will share its images with iLife '06
applications. iPhoto '06 allows you to open the Aperture library from within
iPhoto. So you lose absolutely nothing, gain considerable security and
flexibility, and a great deal more editing power by going with Aperture.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

In article m, C J
Campbell wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:47:38 -0800, Ken Lucke wrote
(in article ):

In article
,
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

In article m,
Justin C wrote:

At last I've started going through my RAW files. When I connect my
camera to my Mac the RAW images are imported into iPhoto automatically,
I've set up a double click to lauch PhotoShop - though what starts, I
guess, is Bridge - where I can adjust the RAW data and save the image as
jpg, tiff, psd, etc. But where have the images gone? I can find them in
finder, but why can I not get them back into iPhoto?

If I select import from iPhoto, navigate to the folder, select the items
I get a message telling me the images are unreadable... even though
they're not, I can open them in Preview easily enough.

I'd like to carry on using iPhoto to organise my images - I don't want
to have to start again with my photo library. Any suggestions greatfully
received.

Justin.

Skip iPhoto. It's more trouble than it's worth. iPhoto's RAW
conversion is pretty ugly too. Let Photoshop do it.

Or get Aperture, which handles it all - conversion, image adjustment,
handoff to PS (or other program) for pixel editing, and reception of
the edited picture right back into its library from the editing
program, stacked with the original, untouched image.

Free trial, too.



Not only that, but Aperture will share its images with iLife '06
applications. iPhoto '06 allows you to open the Aperture library from within
iPhoto. So you lose absolutely nothing, gain considerable security and
flexibility, and a great deal more editing power by going with Aperture.

Indeed, I forgot that point - as I never use iPhoto. iPhoto, iDVD,
iMovieHD, all of them and more, can access your Aperture libraries
directly, without any intermediate steps, whether your pictures are in
..jpg, .tif, raw, or other formats. Aperture also shares its libraries
with the whole system if desired, so you can even just go to the System
Prefs for the OS X screensaver, for example, and enable your favorite
albums (or even your whole library) as a slideshow screen saver without
ever having to do another thing, and they become dynamic - changing as
your albums/libraries change - again without any intercession on your
part.

v1.5 even allows plugins for exports - you can now automatically export
to several stock photo companies, or to Flickr, automatically from
Aperture.

--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard