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2 - Using iPhoto: Advanced
iPhoto Preferences
You can make two changes in Preferences in iPhoto.
This article assumes you've set the two preferences
as follows.
1 - Edit with Photoshop Elements
Do you want to edit your photographs with Photoshop Elements
rather than iPhoto?
1) Go to iPhoto > Preferences > General.
2) Look for Edit Photo: and select In Photoshop
Elements.
When you select a photograph in iPhoto, and click the Edit button
below the thumbnails, the photograph will open in Photoshop Elements.
2 - Open with Double Click
Do you want a photograph to open in Photoshop Elements when you
double-click its thumbnail in iPhoto?
By default, when you double-click a thumbnail, it's magnified.
1) Go to iPhoto > Preferences > General.
2) Look for Double-click Photo: and select Edits
photo.
3) Select a photograph in iPhoto, double-click it, and the photograph
will open in Photoshop Elements.
The JPEG Round Trip
There are two possible trips your JPEG file can take from iPhoto—to Photoshop Elements—and back to iPhoto.
There's the basic trip—and the bit more complicated trip.
Let's say you have a file called sapsucker.
1 - Basic Trip
In iPhoto
1) Select the JPEG file in iPhoto.
2) Click Edit or double-click the thumbnail, if you configured
these actions in Preferences as described
above.
The sapsucker file will open in Photoshop Elements.
In Photoshop Elements
3) Edit the photograph.
4) Go to File > Save As.
5) Change the file format from PSD to JPEG.
6) Click Save.
7) Select 12 as the quality level in the JPEG Options window.
8) Click OK.
Photoshop Elements will save the file back to iPhoto.
The original file is not overwritten by the edited file.
Instead, iPhoto saves the edited version in a folder called Modified.
The original file, sapsucker.jpg, is still unchanged in a folder called Originals.
The thumbnail you see in iPhoto is the edited version,
sapsucker copy.jpg.
What You See: |
|
sapsucker copy.jpg |
What's in the Library: |
sapsucker.jpg
|
sapsucker
copy.jpg |
You can revert to the original file.
In iPhoto, select the photograph, and then go to Photos > Revert
to Original.
All editing is lost.
The edited version is deleted from the Modified folder.
2 - A Bit More Complicated JPEG Trip
What if you want to be able to see the original file, and,
the edited version, in iPhoto?
It's beneficial to be able to compare the original and edited
versions.
In iPhoto - Make a Duplicate Right Away
Make a duplicate of the photograph.
Do the following.
1) Click the thumbnail of the photograph.
2) Go to Photos > Duplicate, or press Cmd + d.
You now have a duplicate.
iPhoto appends copy to the name of the file.
3) Select the duplicate.
2) Click Edit or double-click the thumbnail, if you configured
these actions in Preferences as described
above.
The JPEG file will open in Photoshop Elements.
What if you didn't make a duplicate, and are editing the
original?
If You Didn't Make a Duplicate
Let's say you have edited a file called sapsucker.
You didn't make a duplicate of sapsucker before editing.
Do the following.
In Photoshop Elements
1) In Photoshop Elements, go to File > Save As.
2) Change the file format from PSD to JPEG.
2) Append -edited, or some other notation, to the file name.
Make sure you preserve the .jpg at the end of the file name.
3) Change the destination, in the Where box, to your Desktop.
4) Click Save.
5) Select 12 as the quality level in the JPEG Options window.
6) Click OK.
In iPhoto
5) In iPhoto, go to File > Import to Library.
6) Navigate to your desktop and select sapsucker-edited.
7) Click Import.
iPhoto doesn't know that sapsucker and sapsucker-edited are related.
The program puts sapsucker-edited in a new Event with today's
date.
So, sapsucker is in one Event, and sapsucker-edited is in another
Event.
Merge the New Event into the Older Event
You probably want sapsucker and sapsucker-edited side-by-side
in the same Event.
Do the following.
Drag the new Event, with sapsucker-edited inside, onto the old
Event, containing sapsucker.
Now sapsucker and sapsucker-edited are side-by-side if the
Event is sorted by file name (title).
To sort, go to View > Sort Photos > By Title.
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