I'm having loads of trouble working out how iPhoto works so decided to email my photos to 365 in the interim but although it says the photo has been sent, where is it? How do I get it onto 365?
I had the same problem. In 365, I click on Upload, then click on Browse, Select photo you want to upload and click on it. There is probably an easier way, but this is how I upload my photos from my IMac/IPhoto. @kjarn -- hope this helps!
@lorihiro - this is how I always did it when I had my photos in My Pictures on my PC but now I've got a Mac and I can't work out iPhoto at all -can't get it to do it like that any more.
@keithdavid - I have no idea Keith. I click on browse but then can't find any photos. I really want my PC back, am hating Mac at the moment. A friend recommended I email my photos to 365 but I can't do that either.
Haha, I tried the email thing last night for the first time because I'd used my iPhone for yesterday's pic. It takes a few mins, probably longer if you're uploading loads at once, but I don't know if that applies here anyway. Then when you go to your homepage (the main feed) you'll see on top that it says you have uplods waiting to be sorted/dated and so forth.
@indiannie_jones - I must have done something wrong because iPhoto said the photo had been successfully emailed but 365 had no uploads for me to date etc
When I email (which I sometimes have to) I then go to the upload tab and there's a message at the very top of the screen telling me that there are photos waiting to be organised. Click on that message and it all works.
@sunnygreenwood - I'm not liking this Mac at all and have no idea how iPhoto works. I'm finding it very frustrating as I'm 10 days behind in 365 just because I don't know what I'm doing!
@sunnygreenwood - thank you for trying to help but I'm too stupid to even understand your advice. Its so frustrating because I could manage my photos so well on my PC and now they've all been transferred onto iPhoto they are all jumbled up, out of order, out of their original albums and I have no idea how to do anything to them. I'm very close to giving up I might add.
@sunnygreenwood - thank you for trying to help and I'm so sorry for taking up your time. When I put my SD card into the computer the photos go straight to iPhoto, I don't get a choice and even if I did I wouldn't have a clue how to move them onto my computer. With my PC they automatically went into My Pictures.
I have thousands of photos and they were all in albums and in numbered order, now they are all still in their albums but completely out of order so they go 1,24,52 etc and I can't get them back into their order. I can't access 365, FB, Flickr, photoshop or Picnik through iPhoto. If I edit a photo in photoshop or Picnik it doesn't save back into iPhoto.
All the photos I've taken since I got this ridiculous Mac have been sorted by file number and day but I can't move them from that album.
I'm not very computer literate, but I use a Mac. I never export out of iphoto - you can close iphoto, and open whatever server you want (I use Safari) and go directly to 365, upload and all that. Easy, at least for me. Please don't give up!
@sunnygreenwood - I followed your instructions and a miracle happened in that I was able to download photos into a new folder but that's where the miracle ended because 365 can't find that folder and now nor can I.
I am hopeless!
I do want to use both photoshop elements and Picnik but I can't access either of them through iPhoto and nor can I access iPhoto from either of those. I definitely think I need to ring the help line!
@kjarn - I don't know the answer, Kathy, as you well know. But it exists and someone out there will be able to help you. If not here, perhaps the Apple helpline as suggested further up. Or help may be at hand closer to home. As frustrating as it no doubt is, I can't believe that this is the first time such a problem has ever faced a photographer/computer user and I think this will definitely be solveable. And then later on, when I get MY Mac, I'll know exactly who to ask for help!! Hang in there.
@timandelke - thank you. I'm much less computer literate than the average person and I don't understand most of what is said on here. I have finally worked out how to upload directly to 365 but each photo is taking ages and I'm sure I'm doing it the longest and hardest way possible. I still don't get iPhoto, all my photos are still jumbled and I still can't edit in Picnik or photoshop through iPhoto but hopefully I'll get there before I give up.
@kjarn Kathy - I'm thinking maybe iPhoto needs to be trained. When you click browse at 365 a Mac box will appear. There's the column on the left that says Devices, Places, Search For, Media and maybe various other things. Under Media you'll see Photos. Select that and I believe iPhoto will appear to the right along with all your photos on file there. Highlight the one you want and click "open" and 365 should offer you the option to upload it and you know what to do from there. If that works I think iPhoto will open automatically the next time you use 365 and hit "browse." I tried to find a way to make iPhoto your preferred photo location - assuming you don't have any other, but didn't succeed. I think this may work. Good luck.
I just submitted a question to an Apple Support Community for iPhoto:
"how to make iPhoto the default photo program" - I belong to a photo sharing site where I upload photos. When I click "browse" at the site, iPhoto automatically opens and I can select and upload my photo. A friend with a new Mac does the same thing - clicks "browse," but iPhoto doesn't open. I think she needs to somehow make iPhoto her default, but I can't figure out how to do that.
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I'll let you know here what I hear.
I find Apple very user unfriendly at providing info. They seem to have an assumed user - needs extremely basic info. and is MOST interested in purchasing iTunes. Can be frustrating when you have a real question. Luckily using the products themselves is usually pretty intuitive.
I've been meaning to use the video function on my 60D, maybe I'll set up the tripod and put it behind me and give you a tutorial and I can email you the video (hoping you can at least manage to play a video on your new Mac.... hehehehe
@keithdavid - WOW wouldn't that be amazing! Well I hope one day you do decide to do it and that I can play videos :-)
Actually I couldn't watch videos when I first got this machine but I downloaded a Flash player and now I can..................I think!
@reba - thank you Reba, you are a life saver. I followed your instructions and now I can upload directly from iPhoto. Now I only need to learn how to use iPhoto, how to organise photos, how to use Photoshop and Picnik with iPhoto etc.......the list is endless!
@kjarn Oh - I'm so thrilled it worked for you - i thought it would. You would NOT believe all the garbage I got back from my inquiry to the Apple community. Unbelievable!
Feel free to ask questions on my page about iPhoto if you get stuck. It's not the user friendliest program I've ever used. It's pretty simple actually, but it's set up kind of awkwardly I guess I'd say. It won't take long to get used to it. Picnic is lots of fun.
@keithdavid - don't email it to @kjarn - upload it to You Tube and then all of us potential Mac Users can see it! (Err, and I'm not joking. If there's anyone around who's less computer literate than Kathy, it'd be me. I know I'll need a LOT of help when I get my Mac.)
@reba - Thank you so much. I already use Picnik and photoshop elements and love them but I used to open up photoshop through My Pictures (on my PC), edit my photo, save the edited and unedited photos back to My Pictures then open them up in Picnik to do other sorts of editing and then save all 3 versions back to My Pictures. I would choose which version I wanted to use and then upload it to 365 but I can't do any of that with iPhoto
I started a dropbox account, and I export the photos I want to upload to 365 into a folder I created in there just for that purpose. (I export by drag & drop from iPhoto, but there is an export option in the menu as well.) After I export, I rename the photo with the date and 365 album it is for. From 365, when I upload, I navigate to the 365 folder, which appears in the list of devices and folders in the left side of the finder window that pops up. Once you use that folder once, it will default to it after that. I like Dropbox because I can also access the files in it from my iPhone or from my work computer, but you could also create a 365 folder within iPhoto and navigate to it as described by Reba above.
PS: You can save edited photos back to iPhoto by dragging and dropping the photo over the iPhoto icon in your dock. (And vice-versa, you can drag a picture you want to edit over PS Elements icon to open it there.)
@ronah - thank you so much. I'll look into getting a dropbox account but I think I have the iPhoto to 365 and vice versa sorted now thanks to @reba. I'm amazed at how simple things can be - who would have thought that all I had to do was drag and drop to PS Elements and vice versa - I've got that working now too.
I do use iTunes but have never known how to set up playlists ! :-)
Thank you again for your help
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I have thousands of photos and they were all in albums and in numbered order, now they are all still in their albums but completely out of order so they go 1,24,52 etc and I can't get them back into their order. I can't access 365, FB, Flickr, photoshop or Picnik through iPhoto. If I edit a photo in photoshop or Picnik it doesn't save back into iPhoto.
All the photos I've taken since I got this ridiculous Mac have been sorted by file number and day but I can't move them from that album.
I am hopeless!
I do want to use both photoshop elements and Picnik but I can't access either of them through iPhoto and nor can I access iPhoto from either of those. I definitely think I need to ring the help line!
Thank you.
"how to make iPhoto the default photo program" - I belong to a photo sharing site where I upload photos. When I click "browse" at the site, iPhoto automatically opens and I can select and upload my photo. A friend with a new Mac does the same thing - clicks "browse," but iPhoto doesn't open. I think she needs to somehow make iPhoto her default, but I can't figure out how to do that.
- - - - -
I'll let you know here what I hear.
I find Apple very user unfriendly at providing info. They seem to have an assumed user - needs extremely basic info. and is MOST interested in purchasing iTunes. Can be frustrating when you have a real question. Luckily using the products themselves is usually pretty intuitive.
I've been meaning to use the video function on my 60D, maybe I'll set up the tripod and put it behind me and give you a tutorial and I can email you the video (hoping you can at least manage to play a video on your new Mac.... hehehehe
Actually I couldn't watch videos when I first got this machine but I downloaded a Flash player and now I can..................I think!
Feel free to ask questions on my page about iPhoto if you get stuck. It's not the user friendliest program I've ever used. It's pretty simple actually, but it's set up kind of awkwardly I guess I'd say. It won't take long to get used to it. Picnic is lots of fun.
I do use iTunes but have never known how to set up playlists ! :-)
Thank you again for your help