Of course, those of us who have been using iPhoto since the beginning, used iPhoto’s keywords because keywords was the best organizational tool Apple had come up with for use in iPhoto.

Well, there is good news. You’ll have to use the Export function, found in the File Menu.

Here’s how it works:

Select a photo, or a bunch of photos, an entire album, etc, go to File, and select Export.

From here, you’ll be presented with this window.

Be sure to check the boxes next to the Include: Title and keywords and Location information options.

Select your desired quality, and export your files.

If you forget to check these Include options, your files will have only the meta data put there by your camera.

Hope this helps!

~ Chris

Of course, those of us who have been using iPhoto since the beginning, used iPhoto’s keywords because keywords was the best organizational tool Apple had come up with for use in iPhoto.

Well, there is good news. You’ll have to use the Export function, found in the File Menu.

Here’s how it works:

Select a photo, or a bunch of photos, an entire album, etc, go to File, and select Export.

From here, you’ll be presented with this window.

Be sure to check the boxes next to the Include: Title and keywords and Location information options.

Select your desired quality, and export your files.

If you forget to check these Include options, your files will have only the meta data put there by your camera.

Hope this helps!

~ Chris

For some reason unknown to anyone outside of Apple, iPhoto does not offer the ability to export your Album data to .xml files, the way that iTunes allows for Playlists.

So if you are concerned with preserving your albums, you will need to create a folder on your desktop representing each Album. Then export that Album’s photos into the folder. Repeat for each Album.

After you’ve created your new iPhoto Library, using the method described in the above article, you can drag each folder into the iPhoto sidebar one at a time. This will cause each of the photos to be imported into the new iPhoto Library, while putting them into an Album. The resulting Album will be named after the folder from which it was created, so if you had named the folder when you created it, the Album name will be preserved. If you did not name the folder, the new Album will likely be called “untitled 1″ or something like that, and you’ll need to rename.

Once you’ve verified that all of your photos have come over, you can delete the folder from your desktop, as all of the images COPY into iPhoto on import, and then you can also delete the photos and albums in which they reside from your old iPhoto Library.

Cheers!
Chris