Linking one picture to multiple persons

[Knarressprings]

I have some family group photographs scanned and I'd love to be able to link one instance of each to the many people in the photographs. I'm sure there must be a way to do so but I can't seem to find it - could somebody please tell me how?

[theKiwi]

Re: Linking one picture to multiple persons

You can copy the media item (Command C) that you've placed on one person, and Paste it (Command V) to the other people.

Or use the Right click (control click) to "Copy to Clipboard" and then "Paste"

Roger

[Knarressprings]

Re: Linking one picture to multiple persons

Ta - I'm really sorry for taking so long to reply. I'm not normally this rude.

Does that add a new instance of the picture to each person's record?

[jbastin]

Re: Linking one picture to multiple persons

Ta - I'm really sorry for taking so long to reply. I'm not normally this rude.

Does that add a new instance of the picture to each person's record?

No doubt.

If you want to use one photo for multiple individuals in your family file (assuming you're displaying these images in the "Multimedia" section of the Family window), then for each individual, click the plus (+) sign in his/her segment of the Multimedia window and then select the photo file in the "Choose a multimedia file" drop-down window.

That will enable use of one picture in every instance, without creating another copy of the file.

Hope this helps.

[Knarressprings]

Re: Linking one picture to multiple persons

No doubt.

If you want to use one photo for multiple individuals in your family file (assuming you're displaying these images in the "Multimedia" section of the Family window), then for each individual, click the plus (+) sign in his/her segment of the Multimedia window and then select the photo file in the "Choose a multimedia file" drop-down window.

That will enable use of one picture in every instance, without creating another copy of the file.

Hope this helps.

Thank you - I'll try it!

[theKiwi]

Re: Linking one picture to multiple persons

Ta - I'm really sorry for taking so long to reply. I'm not normally this rude.

Does that add a new instance of the picture to each person's record?

No it doesn't - it uses the same picture over and over as many times as you paste that media item to another person.

Roger