Hi all,
I recently switched to mac and am extremely happy so far. I am just trying to get my head round the way iPhoto works. Specifically my questions are:
1)
When I finish organising my pictures in iPhoto, the Library will store all these new groupings, tags, faces etc... but if I were to do a backup on a flashdrive for instance and then wanted to view the pictures on a PC, how much of the grouping I did in iPhoto would stay when I view it in windows? Would it simply be the whole bunch of pictures unorganised as from the moment I imported them to iPhoto, or does some form of organisation transfer on...?
I am curious because I want to organise my pictures by certain events that span over time, say a birthday over 3 days which I call "BDAY". as long as I m in iPhoto that's fine, but I am concerned that if I ever wanted to show someone on Windows my pictures I end up with a huge jumble...
2)
I transfered my old iPhone 3GS pictures onto my mac from my PC (i no longer have the 3GS, but the 4 instead). However, when I put these 3GS pics into iPhoto it did not categorise them into events by date as it did for my iPHone 4 pictures (which i transfered directly from the phone). I checked whether my 3GS pictures have "date taken" fields on them, and they do, so I am wondering why iphoto cant do the same for these pictures as it did for the iPhone4 pictures?
On a side question, if I make changes to my 3GS pictures in iPhoto (which are stored in a non-library folder) will the grouping changes i make in iPhoto somehow be reflected in the original folder?
I just want to get a bif of clarity as to what extent the underlying organisation of pictures changes when I make chagnes in iPhoto.
Many thanks!
I recently switched to mac and am extremely happy so far. I am just trying to get my head round the way iPhoto works. Specifically my questions are:
1)
When I finish organising my pictures in iPhoto, the Library will store all these new groupings, tags, faces etc... but if I were to do a backup on a flashdrive for instance and then wanted to view the pictures on a PC, how much of the grouping I did in iPhoto would stay when I view it in windows? Would it simply be the whole bunch of pictures unorganised as from the moment I imported them to iPhoto, or does some form of organisation transfer on...?
I am curious because I want to organise my pictures by certain events that span over time, say a birthday over 3 days which I call "BDAY". as long as I m in iPhoto that's fine, but I am concerned that if I ever wanted to show someone on Windows my pictures I end up with a huge jumble...
2)
I transfered my old iPhone 3GS pictures onto my mac from my PC (i no longer have the 3GS, but the 4 instead). However, when I put these 3GS pics into iPhoto it did not categorise them into events by date as it did for my iPHone 4 pictures (which i transfered directly from the phone). I checked whether my 3GS pictures have "date taken" fields on them, and they do, so I am wondering why iphoto cant do the same for these pictures as it did for the iPhone4 pictures?
On a side question, if I make changes to my 3GS pictures in iPhoto (which are stored in a non-library folder) will the grouping changes i make in iPhoto somehow be reflected in the original folder?
I just want to get a bif of clarity as to what extent the underlying organisation of pictures changes when I make chagnes in iPhoto.
Many thanks!
