Beginner Lightroom and iPhoto

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Grant Vallely
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I can't seem to find an answer so I am erring to wards no, but does anyone know how to open images stored in iPhoto directly within Lightroom without having to export it first.

Hopefully it is possible, or else I will have to review my storage procedures..

Or what is normal practice for Mac users?

Cheers
 
Hi Grant,

iPhoto doesn't play well with others :-)

OK, its not a direct answer to your question, but I avoid iPhoto like the plague and use Lightroom for all my Mac image cataloguing and editing.
 
OK, first off iPhoto doesn't store images - it's an application for viewing and manipulating images - and the images are stored in a folder somewhere on your hard drive, named something like 'pictures' or 'photos' (I forget the name Apple gives it - was a Mac user, though no longer).

To access your photos with Lightroom you will have to use the Lightroom import tool, navigate to the folder(s) where they are stored and then import them.

In my opinion, allowing iPhoto to organise image storage is asking for trouble, because once there are a lot of pictures you'll find it hard to find individual files outside of iPhoto or LR. My recommendation would be to manually copy them from camera or SD card to your own folder that is in an obvious place, preferably with some kind of internal folder structure that helps locate images easily, then import into lightroom. There are some good videos available on folder structure & importing etc available. Once you start using LR then iPhoto is redundant.
 
I think the problem is that if you want to use both, you need to have the settings as referenced files. In effect iPhoto uses a different library to that it would prefer.

That said I use neither program - just Aperture. Guess how much pain I'm going to go through in the near future!
 
Thanks for the update.. I was getting the feeling that the iPhoto folder is 'billy no mates'

I like that iPhoto will appear on the iPad, iPone etc without having to mess about. But I suppose if I tip my idea on its head.. load ALL into lightroom, then subjectively export the ones I want into iPhoto, that may work..

At least I can possibly stop trying to achieve the impossible now!
 
TH
ancient_mariner said:
OK, first off iPhoto doesn't store images - it's an application for viewing and manipulating images - and the images are stored in a folder somewhere on your hard drive, named something like 'pictures' or 'photos' (I forget the name Apple gives it - was a Mac user, though no longer).

To access your photos with Lightroom you will have to use the Lightroom import tool, navigate to the folder(s) where they are stored and then import them.

In my opinion, allowing iPhoto to organise image storage is asking for trouble, because once there are a lot of pictures you'll find it hard to find individual files outside of iPhoto or LR. My recommendation would be to manually copy them from camera or SD card to your own folder that is in an obvious place, preferably with some kind of internal folder structure that helps locate images easily, then import into lightroom. There are some good videos available on folder structure & importing etc available. Once you start using LR then iPhoto is redundant.
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Thanks for the advice... I am coming to the conclusion that allowing iPhoto to serve me, used to work when all I used was an iPhone, but will no doubt bite me in the butt very soon now that I am importing from the DSLR..

Methinks a bit of youtube searching is in order!
 
Tulipone said:
I think the problem is that if you want to use both, you need to have the settings as referenced files. In effect iPhoto uses a different library to that it would prefer.

That said I use neither program - just Aperture. Guess how much pain I'm going to go through in the near future!
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I have aperture, but currently it is a bit 'flakey' and I thought that I had lost about 5k of photo's as some were there, but the rest had vanished.. I was liking it until that point!
 
I hate to suggest it, but if you joined the Adobe CC subscription model you could have Lightroom on your iDevice too
 
Thanks again for the info... Now so many choices, :-( Which one to plump for..
 
Now it all depends on what you want to do with the images. Apple will be introducing PHOTOS to both iOS and OSX probably around April ( rumored date). This will enable you to access your images on any iOS and OSX device, plus have cloud storage. The beauty is, that any change you make on one device will be reflected in all other instances of the same images. Now the initial offering looks a lot like iPhoto, with only simple ( compared to Lightroom) controls. Now if this is all you want then fine. Might be worth hanging on for a month or so.
 
Chappers said:
Now it all depends on what you want to do with the images. Apple will be introducing PHOTOS to both iOS and OSX probably around April ( rumored date). This will enable you to access your images on any iOS and OSX device, plus have cloud storage. The beauty is, that any change you make on one device will be reflected in all other instances of the same images. Now the initial offering looks a lot like iPhoto, with only simple ( compared to Lightroom) controls. Now if this is all you want then fine. Might be worth hanging on for a month or so.
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Photos seems to be totally pointless to me, I used it for a few minutes and then went back to lightroom. It's just iPhoto again, when I was hoping it would lean more towards Aperture type abilities.
 
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