iPhoto '08 Organizational Question...

[dreamsINdigital]

My biggest problem with Events is that I can't delete an event without deleting the picture from my library.

Becasue iPhoto made a bunch of events for me that were not really events I now want to delete them, but when I do that the pictures are deleted from my library. Why can't I just manually control the events?

Any thoughts on this? Thanks!

That bugs me as well. It seems that every photo MUST be in an event, but I wish it wasn't this way. Sometimes I take random photos that don't qualify as events. I keep these in different albums titled Miscellaneous, Friends & Family, School, etc. I wish I could just leave it at that instead of having to put them in events as well. I know I can just throw them into one big event, but I'd just prefer that it wasn't this way.

 

[aristobrat]

So an Event is pretty much the equivalent of the Film Roll from prior iPhoto releases -- the most basic form of iPhoto organization. Every photo has to exist in an Event/Film Roll, and from there, you can drop them into albums and stuff.

How did you folks that don't like Events handle this situation back then?

 

[mike016256]

I have an idea...

If I do a Photoshop batch process on all the pictures in one folder, wouldn't that make all of them have the same date in the EXIF data?

Then when I import to iPhoto, all those pictures would be in one event, right?