Stupid iPhoto Question...

[bhingsto]

I am a new owner of a 2.2 MBP and absolutely loving it so far! I have a quick question about iPhoto. As soon as I got it I uploaded all of my photos into iPhoto. When I am on msn I am trying to change my display picture, but I am not sure how to select from my iPhoto library. I have tried going through applications and through my pictures folder. When I am in either of those folders I can't click in to my iPhoto library. Anyone able to help me out?

P.S. I have iPhoto '08 if that makes a difference.

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

you need to open iPhoto, choose the photo, drag it out of iPhoto onto the desktop (or elsewhere), and then select it in MSN.

One of the reasons I don't let iPhoto organize my photos for me. It may be tightly integrated with other iLife applications, but not with a lot of others that I use much more often.

 

[kwood]

you need to open iPhoto, choose the photo, drag it out of iPhoto onto the desktop (or elsewhere), and then select it in MSN.

One of the reasons I don't let iPhoto organize my photos for me. It may be tightly integrated with other iLife applications, but not with a lot of others that I use much more often.

Although that is an issue with the way MSN for Mac was written, not a flaw of iPhoto.

 

[bhingsto]

Thanks a lot for the quick answer. I was beginning to think it was something like that and not my sanity!

 

[Father Jack]

Sorry I can't help, but iPhoto 08 seems a bit of a horses ass ....

I reformatted my Mac Pro this morning and installed iPhoto 06. IMO a much more user friendly program and you can get at your photos easily without iPhoto automatically starting ....

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

Although that is an issue with the way MSN for Mac was written, not a flaw of iPhoto.

oh yeah, I know that. It would be great if every application/website offered an iPhoto browser to select photos, but they don't. That's why I do my own thing with my photos in Finder and only use iPhoto for slideshows and stuff.

 

[kwood]

oh yeah, I know that. It would be great if every application/website offered an iPhoto browser to select photos, but they don't. That's why I do my own thing with my photos in Finder and only use iPhoto for slideshows and stuff.

Sorry I didn't mean for it to sound like I was saying you didn't know. But I find a lot of people blame the Operating system/series of programs, or a company when a product they didn't make doesn't work.

Personally I like the way iPhoto organizes things so I let iPhoto organize it for me. When I need an IM picture I juts put it in my pictures folder as a ~1MB duplicate doesn't bother me too much.

 

[buffalo]

you need to open iPhoto, choose the photo, drag it out of iPhoto onto the desktop (or elsewhere), and then select it in MSN...

What do you do with the photo after you have put it on the desktop and uploaded it online? Does iPhoto still have the copy allowing you to drag the desktop file to the trash?

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

What do you do with the photo after you have put it on the desktop and uploaded it online? Does iPhoto still have the copy allowing you to drag the desktop file to the trash?

Yes, the photo on the desktop is a copy of the original, so you can delete it