TUAW Tip: iPhoto '08 does selective importing

#11: If you want to get technical about it, Image Capture - provided in Mac OS X's Applications folder I believe since 10.0 (or at least since 10.2 - has done this for nearly half a decade now.

Each of these apps have their pros and cons, and each fortunately evolve and get inspired based on what their competitors are doing. Picasa might serve some people very well, and I actually prefer some Picasa features to iPhoto, but overall iPhoto and Picasa are pretty well matched when you consider their target audience and their strengths.

I used the same TUAW tip in iPhoto '06 to do selected imports.

As for iPhoto '08, does this "new" selected import feature also let you rename the physical filename from IMG09575.JPG to something like vacation-calif-trip-01.jpg ? I know that Aperture does, and that the new iPhoto borrows some features from it.

David Fischer, it was not learned from anything but other Apple software--the built-in Image Capture utility has had this feature for 5 years (which is why I never use iPhoto to import from my camera, and advise others against doing so as well.)

iPhoto '06 has always been able to did this. You can learn how here:
http://www.thepoundersblog.com/2007/07/molly-wood-is-cunt-tutorial-on.html

Is anyone else concerned about the name iPhoto '08. It's 2007. Does this mean no iLife next year?

"You can do this in iPhoto '06, by hitting "return" twice on the camera import screen."

Which begs the question - what happens when you hit return twice in the same window in iPhoto '08?

You can do this in iPhoto '06, by hitting "return" twice on the camera import screen. I probably read that here at TUAW!

"Convincing me to agree with folks who say iPhoto is finally learning a few tricks from its older brother Aperture"

Did iPhoto learn this from Aperture, or from Picasa, which has done this for a year or so now? (Perhaps by iPhoto '10, it will be caught up with Picasa.) Or by then Picasa will be available on the Mac.

I don't have iPhoto yet, but will this fix the issue with importing a pic from the iphone that was already uploaded to a web gallery? This causes a double import.

Is the file system organized by 'Events' now? The only reason I never used iPhoto was because of the horrrrible way it organized my photos in the finder.

Is it just me, or was there a hidden way to do this in iPhoto '06?
I am positive I did it once in iPhoto. The only problem was it was hard to get to.