All this talk about the Eye-Fi has got us really excited about streamlining our photo workflows. With 17 different places you can wirelessly send your shots - what else could you ask for?
Oh right, how about iPhoto integration! If you’re a Mac lover and Eye-Fi fan - fear no more - we’ve bridged the gap between your favorite new wireless buddy and Apple’s poster child photo program.
We’ve put together a light little application which keeps watch on your Eye-Fi folder. When it sees new photos have been added it automatically loads them into iPhoto. Cool!
We’re still perfecting our little Eye-Fi to iPhoto sidekick - so we can’t guarantee it’ll work on all systems and without kinks. Infact, we’d really appreciate your feedback. After you try it out - you can stop by this forum thread and let us know how its working or if you have any problems. We can’t wait to hear from you.
Without further ado - download Eye-Fi to iPhoto.zip and then get rolling with these three, one time only, simple steps.
Step 1 - Unzip the file.
Step 2 - From the unzipped file you should see a folder called “Eye-Fi to iPhoto.” Drag that whole folder to Applications.
Step 3 - Open that folder from Applications and look for the “Eye-Fi to iPhoto” app inside. Go ahead and load it - you’ll be prompted to locate your Eye-Fi pictures folder.
Here’s a screencast of us installing and running the app for the first time.
Our little app will be added to your Startup items (just like the Eye-Fi program is) so you don’t need to worry about loading it again everytime you reboot. It’s also set to work in the background so it won’t be sitting there taking up space in your dock. And if you ever want to change what folder the application is monitoring (say you move your Eye-Fi folder), no worries - just double click the application again and it’ll ask you if you want to make any changes.
Note: If your Eye-Fi wasn’t set to upload images to your computer, you can change this by going to the Eye-Fi manager and looking under Settings for “Upload to Computer.” You also need to make sure you have checked the option to “add date to path.” Have a look at our settings to see what we mean.
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Way cool. Thanks Susan!
Comment by Daniel — November 27, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
Great app. is there anyway to port that over for aperture or lightroom for the mac?
Comment by felix — December 1, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
@Felix : It seems like lightroom’s support of AppleScript (what our little tool is written with) is limited / not really existant. Aperture holds out some more hope though.
All the basic actions of the app (monitoring the folder) would work for anything - would just need to change the few lines in the code that does the importing.
Comment by Susan — December 3, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
I’m running this on Leopard and I still get the eyeFiToiPhotoBackground script show up on the dock every time, taking up room despite the note above. Am I doing something wrong? Hiding it doesn’t work.
Comment by ywu — December 9, 2007 @ 8:43 am
@ywu -
Thanks for pointing this out! I’ve discovered that the technique we used to turn this into a background app isn’t compatible with Leopard. However, I’ve tried a new method which is!
Check out the forum post -
http://photojojo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4430
where I posted instructions and a new version for download.
And please let us know if you come across anything else. Having feedback from a Leopard user is particuarly useful as I’m working on Tiger and can’t always catch everything.
Comment by Susan — December 9, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Thanks Susan, that’s sorted the problem out!
Comment by ywu — December 11, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
About Eye-fi and Lightroom: you can set Lightroom to watch any folder. Have it watch the folder eye-fi imports into and Bam! (well, slower than Bam!) the photo opens in Lightroom.
Comment by Will Emerson — December 13, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
I notice from another site that with iPhoto’08 you can drop files into “/Users/YOURACCOUNTNAME/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Auto Import” directly from the Eye-Fi Manager and iPhoto will import automatically too. It deletes the files in that watch folder after adding to the library. Not sure how well it performs though as it’s not a documented feature.
Comment by ywu — December 16, 2007 @ 8:46 am
Will RAW images work when only using Eye-Fi together with iPhoto?
Comment by Fredrik — May 25, 2008 @ 4:20 pm