![]() Copy your iPhoto library to the disk image and then launch Photos while holding down the Option key. Let’s say that your iPhoto library is 2GB and you create a 2.5GB image. In Disk Utility create a disk image with a capacity 25-percent larger than your iPhoto library. It’s a bit confounding, but you can test it yourself. The Finder simply reflects the size of the library as if it held all the original files, which it isn’t as it’s referencing the original images. But the truth is that it’s not really consuming that amount of space. And the Finder tells us that it’s a bit bigger than the iPhoto library. When you launch Photos and it pulls images from your iPhoto library, a new Photos Library archive appears in the same location as your iPhoto library. The Finder, however, is telling a half-truth. ![]() Is it possible to assign a geotag after the fact?Īs you say, the Finder seems to tell us that you’ve doubled the storage requirements necessary to maintain these two libraries. What about applying geotags as I could do with iPhoto’s Places feature. Open the Keyword Manager to easily assign ratings to your images with a click or key press. To assign a rating all I have to do is open the Keyword Manager window, select an image (or group of images), and press the appropriate number key to assign the rating. In my case, because the first five keywords I assigned were 1 Star, 2 Star, 3 Star, 4 Star, and 5 Star, they were assigned numbers 1 – 5. When you do this, these keywords are automatically assigned number key shortcuts. You might, therefore, add 1 Star, 2 Star, and so on. Photos has a Keyword Manager window where you can add keywords. You can continue to create smart albums based on rating.īut that means I can no longer easily assign a rating by typing a keyboard shortcut!Īctually you can, but it takes just a little finagling. If you’d like to gather together all the images that you’ve assigned a particular rating, you can do so by creating a smart album using that keyword search as its condition. Although you can no longer sort by the star character, you can perform a keyword search by entering 2 Star or the like. When it does so, it turns them into keywords along the lines of 1 Star, 2 Star, 3 Star, and so on. ![]() While it’s true that star ratings have been replaced by Photos’ on/off Favorite feature, Photos does import star ratings from your iPhoto library.
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