[yasashisasy0nara]

Everytime i would upload photos onto iPhoto it names your photos with numbers and seperate them in all sorts of folders, etc. Which really doesn't help the user at all when trying to find the original pictures in a folder when its named by numbers. SO i try editing the name of the folder which results with the photo not showing up anymore on the iphoto gallery. Then i would import the photos back into the iphoto program (which now has my folder changed to the name i want) which results in iphoto creating an additional copy of each photo and creating another obnoxious folder with the same pictures i imported with obnoxious numberd folders. Is there anyway to name the folders while still having it show up in the iphoto gallery?

[Daft&Dewey-eyed]

iPhoto is designed so you don't need to access photos from folders on the desktop. When you import photos into iPhoto, it places your photos into its own filing system. As you've discovered, you can't mess with iPhoto's behind the scenes filing system, or you mess something up.
If you want to use iPhoto, use it as the access point for all your photos. Organize and name your photos in iPhoto, not on the desktop. E-mail pictures from iPhoto, set the desktop picture and screen saver slide shows from iPhoto. If you need an actual file, export it from iPhoto at whatever resolution you need.
iPhoto is supposed to be a database and repository for all your digital photos. It takes over everything so you won't mess anything up. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif The point is, you can't rename the file folders that iPhoto puts the pictures in because that's not how the iPhoto way works.
Do everything from within iPhoto. It actually works pretty well, once you figure out what's going on.

[Cordless_Drill]

I know what the original poster is saying. I was so used to organizing my stuff in OS 9 in my own little folders and working everything through Photoshop. Now iPhoto does all that for me. Still, it takes a while to make sense of it all.
This is a good time to say: I wish Apple spent more time producing stuff to show how the iLife apps work. It's a bitch trying to make sense of iMovie without a 50-page book. It should be a really thick thing. Instead, I didn't get anything at all.
Yes, I know about the "tutorial". It's like showing a car to someone who's never seen one before and saying: "It moves. Just hop in and it runs."

[whazzup]

Do not mess with the folders in the Finde. As you have found, you will corrupt the library. If you want to name the folders in the finder, use iView. Otherwise, use the very convenient organizational feautures within iPhoto.

[yasashisasy0nara]

I see, i was afraid i was going to get that response. Oh well, I can live with that until i get an adobe photo album software.

[whazzup]

Asof now, PS Album is not, nor will it likely be, available for the Mac. Right now, you can choose between iPhoto, iView, Extensis Portfolio and Cumulus (?) to organize your media. I like iPhoto's organization, but it is slooow. If you shoot, edit and print, it maintains you roriginal file, unaltered, after editing. All you need to do is click on Revery to Original to delete the edited copy. This is obviously not as flexible as keeping multiple copies. Also, if your images are jpeg's you can't store layers. If you only want to spend a few bucks, iView is great. It is fast, although it can't do dynamic resizing like iPhoto. It's very slow to burn a CD fom the program. The contact sheet command works funny, and I haven't wuite figured it out. Howerver, it is fast and does what it does fairly well.
My new "workflow" is to shoot, dump the card into a temporary file, import into iPhoto. I do simple manip's in iPhoto, but then export to a separate folder. I edit for print and burn that to CD. iPhoto is therefore more of a catalog. But I really like being able to create albums and to dynamically resize the photos. I do find that it is really, really slow (my main library is about 5GB large).
I don't know PS Album, but I would guaantee that iPhoto, iView or some combination thereof would serve you purposes quite well.