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Originally Posted by dmoolenaar
I recently defected to Mac, well for home use, and I'm still scratching my head on a couple items.
Granted I'm not using a Mac keyboard but I can't get the ALT-Select to work. I'll have to google it.
iPhoto. Supposedly the *intuitive* picture tool. Hummm. I have all pictures organized into folders by type (family pictures, cars, work, etc...) and then deeper by date or event on the hard drive. So...I import the directory and get a Library organized by event and photos thats completely haphazard. Now I have car pictures and kids pictures mixed under a 2005 October event...??? WTF? I spend 2 hours (4K pictures) manually putting stuff into iPhoto albums. My next issue is getting pictures ready for internet posting. In Windows XP I had a nifty right click "Resize pictures" tweak UI tool installed. Made resizing single/multiple 5 MP pictures a one step process. How is this done in iPhoto?
Admittedly I like the cover flow option for browsing pictures. I'm sure this is mostly a *drink more coolaid* sort of situation but for someone reasonably comfortable with modern technology this Mac stuff is not all the intuitive.
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Alt Select. A PC keyboard is from left to right CTRL/FN/Windows Key/ALT
A Mac keyboard is FN/CTRL/ALT/Apple (COMMAND)
The OS does not remap keys so regardless of the keyboard ALT is the second key on either side of the spacebar, not the first.
In other words forget what the key is labeled, it's position is what the OS reads.
FOr exporting from iPhoto simply select your photos, go to FILE/EXPORT. Will be self explanatory after that.
Iphoto uses the meta data/time of the photo to organize.
Iphoto does its initial import based on meta data of the file, at it's basic the timestamp of the picture. Which makes sense as the pics on your camera are shot in chronological order.