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Hey everybody. It’s Curtis Bisel from ScanYourEntireLife.com and in this video, I want to show you how
you can get photographs out of iPhoto but still maintain the titles and descriptions
that you spent a lot of time typing in.
So here’s an iPhoto library that I’ve created. It has got about eight events in
it. So I’m going to click on the first event and you can see there’s only one photo in
here. If I click on the photo, then the info button here at the bottom, the info panel
will open up and you can see that I’ve already typed in a description for this photo, “Mom
holding Curtis the first day home from the hospital,” and you can see over here the
title that I gave the photograph, Mom Holding Curtis. A better way for us to see the title
is to go up to View and make sure that Titles is selected. Now you can see the title underneath
the photograph.
OK. So let’s say you want to get this photo out of iPhoto to send to someone and still
maintain this title and description. Now Apple has done a great job of making us feel like
we can drag and drop everything, so most of us will probably try this. We will just click
on the photo and drag it to our desktop.
Now everything looks fine except for right here, the filename doesn’t have the same
filename as the title. The thing is, it’s kind of hard to know whether the title and
description information actually is in the photograph, because a lot of applications
don’t utilize or pull this information from the photo.
Even if you were to click on the photo and hit Command I for information, you can see
even over here it doesn’t display title or caption or description information. So
I’m going to control click or right click on the file and choose Open With and iExifer
which is an app that I bought on the App Store and if this photograph had a title or description
saved inside the photograph, we would see it listed down here under IPTC.
Now IPTC stands for iPhoto Technical Crap [comical car horn sound]. No, I’m just kidding.
It actually stands for International Press Telecommunications Council and the reason
I know this is because I looked it up on Wikipedia because no one should know this off the top
of their head.
Now this IPTC metadata information was originally created for news organizations so that photographers
and companies could maintain their copyright and ownership information with the photo.
But what’s cool is now we can use that information to label our personal photos.
OK. So if the photo doesn’t have this information in it, how do we get the photo out and have
that information stay with it? The trick is not dragging and dropping the photo. The trick
is to actually export the photo and choose the right selections.
So I’m going to select the photo again. Go up to File. Choose Export and a window
will pop up and in this first tab under File Export, you will see Kind. Now for whatever
reason, Apple only allows you to choose JPEG or TIFF to export your photo out and maintain
titles and descriptions. I don’t know why, because man, there are times I really want
to use original or current.
I’m currently using iPhoto 11 version number 9.2.1 and these two formats seem to be the
only way.
Since a lot of people use their photographs to post on social networking sites and the
email, I’m going to choose JPEG and then medium quality which will make the file size
really small but still have a pretty good look to it.
If your goal is to have the highest quality, I would choose either JPEG and maximum or
I would choose TIFF and maximum, and then make sure size is set to full size.
So I’m going to put it back to JPEG and then put the quality at medium and here’s
where the magic happens. You want to put a check mark right here next to title and keywords.
Now what this is going to do is it’s going to force iPhoto to export out your photo with
the title, the keywords, if you have any, and the description embedded inside of the
image. So when you send or give this photo to someone, this information will stay intact.
Then for filename, there are several options. One of which is Use Filename and what this
is going to do is save this file using the filename that was originally given to this
image either from the camera that you took it with, the digital camera or the filename
that you gave your scan before you imported it.
For this tutorial, I’m going to choose Use Title. So I’m going to click on Export and
then you can see for Save As, the filename defaults to the title Mom Holding Curtis and
I’m going to choose Desktop and then click on OK. And there it is right here in the desktop.
The image is called MomHoldingCurtis.jpeg. All right. Let’s see if it worked.
I’m going to control click or right click, if you have a two-button mouse, choose Open
With and again for me, I’m going to choose this lightweight program called iExifer and
at the bottom, we will see if the IPTC is there and there it is. You can see right there.
Under caption, it has got, “Mom holding Curtis the first day,” and unfortunately
it’s cut off a bit but that’s just what happens with this program. And then under
Object Name, you can see Mom holding Curtis which is the title that we gave the image.
Another way we can see this information is to open the file with Preview that comes with
Mac. Again, I’m going to control click or right click on the image. Choose Open With
and then Preview.
Aww, I love that photo. You want to go up to Tools now and choose Show Inspector and
a new window will open up over here on the right and then you want to choose this second
tab for show Info Inspector and then you will see the IPTC tab right here and there it is.
Under Caption/Description, there is our description and there’s our title.
Now there are ways to export multiple files at the same time. Here’s an event with multiple
images and you can either lasso multiple images or command clicking on each one. Now after
choosing File and then Export, all of your selected images will now be exported with
titles and descriptions.
Now if you come to this address on my website, that’s ScanYourEntireLife.com/YT2 for YouTube
Video 2 and if you’re watching this on YouTube, you can click on the link directly below this
video, you will find step-by-step written instructions of what you just watched as well
as the super cool instructions on how you can email a photo right out of iPhoto and
the title and description will be written right underneath the photo in the recipient’s
email.
So thank you so much for watching. Cheers!