Create an Album and Add Photos to It

Create albums to organize your photos, make them easier to find, and make collections to use when you create a slideshow, HomePage, or Book.

You can put the same photo in any number of albums because iPhoto just "points" to the original photo stored in the Library (like aliases on your Desktop), which means you don't end up with multiple copies of the same photo taking up space on your hard disk.

To create a new album

1.	Click the "Add" button in the lower-left corner of the iPhoto window, shown below.
2.	In the sheet that drops down, choose "Album" from the pop-up menu, type a name for the new album, then click "Create." Your new album appears in the "Source" pane.

To add photos to an album

Drag images from the viewing area and drop them on an album icon.

To rename an existing album

Double-click the album name to highlight it and type a new name.

To delete photos from an album

If you delete a photo from an album, it will not be deleted from the Library; the photo in the album "points" to the original photo in the Library. But if you delete a photo from the Library, it will disappear from the Library and every album that contains it.

1.	Select an album from which you want to delete one or more photos.
2.	Select one or more photos to delete.
3.	Press the Delete key. Or Control-click on the photo and choose "Delete From Album" from the contextual pop-up menu.

To duplicate an album

You may want to experiment with different arrangements of photos for a book project or a slideshow. You can duplicate an entire album. In the duplicate, you can rearrange the photos, delete some, add others, and it won't affect the original album or add to the size of your Library (because duplicate albums just refer to originals in the Library).

iPhoto automatically names a duplicate album the same as the original source album, with a number added to the end of the name.

1.	Single-click an album in the "Source" pane to select it, then from the Photos menu, choose "Duplicate" (or press Command D). Or Control-click an album, then choose "Duplicate" from the pop-up menu.
2.	If you want to rename the duplicate album, double-click the new album in the "Source" pane, then type a new name.

Create Smart Albums

Creating albums and dragging photos into them is a great way to organize your photos, but it gets a lot better than that. iPhoto lets you create Smart Albums that automatically find and organize photos that match certain conditions you've set. For instance, you can create a Smart Album that contains only photos to which you've assigned a five-star rating (see the next page). iPhoto will place all five-star photos in the Smart Album.

A Smart Album can be identified in the "Source" pane by the "gear" icon on it, representing automation.

To create a Smart Album

1.	Click the Add button in the bottom-left corner of the iPhoto window, shown below.
2.	In the sheet that drops down, choose "Smart Album," type a name for the new Smart Album, then click "Create."
3.	A second sheet drops down that contains pop-up menus, as shown on the next page. Choose options from the pop-up menus to set the conditions that will identify photos for this Smart Album. To add more conditions, click the plus button on the right side of the sheet. To remove a condition, click its minus button. This Smart Album will automatically collect photos that have a 5-star rating and that have been assigned the keyword "Kauai."
4.	If you choose more than one condition, use the top pop-up menu to choose between "Match any of the following conditions" or "Match all of the following conditions."
5.	Click OK . The new Smart Album appears in the "Source" pane as shown below, automatically adding photos that meet the conditions you set.

The new Smart Album icon is selected in the "Source" pane and the viewing area shows all photos in the Library that match the Smart Album conditions.

To edit a Smart Album's settings

1.	Select a Smart Album in the "Source" pane.
2.	From the File menu choose "Edit Smart Album."
3.	The Smart Album sheet drops down again (as shown at the top of the page). Make any changes you want, then click OK .