Comments on: The iPhoto Challenge IV

By: Adrian M

Adrian M — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:48:30 +0000

I use KeywordAssistant to do all the key-wording in iPhoto. I've found it more usable that most other apps; you just type, and it auto-completes.

By: ryos

ryos — Fri, 20 May 2005 20:18:42 +0000

Applescript? iPhoto has the scriptability to apply keywords to images with AppleScript. I don’t have iView, so I can’t verify if it has the scriptability to get them out.

Nice articles; I’m in the “dump everything in the flat library” category, so I haven’t played with the folder organization. Maybe as the library grows…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:09:05 +0000

I don't know of any specific utility or process that will migrate iView keywords or other metadata to iPhoto. Every app (iPhoto, Photoshop, iView, etc.) stores metadata in their own database format, so exports are limited to what is embedded into the images; EXIF and IPTC (which these apps choose not to use exclusively).

One possible workaround would be to physically move your images into folders named for the keywords you use (this is simple to do in iView). When these folders are then imported into iPhoto, each roll would represent a keyword, making it easy to apply iPhoto's keywords to them.

Of course this trick is of limited use if you have multiple keywords for images, or if you have a standing folder hierarchy you want to transfer as set albums into iPhoto via the roll method.

If anyone has a solution to this, please let me know.

By: sybian

sybian — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:26:05 +0000

Thank you very much for your review, I might go and switch, mainly because iView is recently crashing constantly. But… I actually use the keywords etc. in iView MPro, and I wonder: do you know a solution to import the iView-archives (with metadata) into iPhoto? Please let me know, and thanks in advance.