The Organize View

After you've imported all the photos from the camera to iPhoto, you can begin organizing, arranging, and sharing them. The Organize view lets you see and select many photos at once. The Organize pane at the bottom of the window provides all the tools you need to share your photos in many different ways.

Organize photos into albums

After you've imported photos from your camera to iPhoto, you can begin organizing, arranging, and sharing them. You can drag photos into an existing album or create a new album, as explained on the pages 1819. If you've created Smart Albums, photos in the Library are added to the album automatically, depending on the conditions you set (see pages 2021).

Advantages of organizing photos into albums

• It's easy to find photos that you've collected into an album.

• Grouping photos into an album makes it easy to create a book or slideshow.

• Photos in an album can be manually sorteddragged to a new position to change the order of appearance. Rearrange photos in an album (drag the photos) to customize their order of appearance in an iPhoto slideshow, on a HomePage, in a Slideshow, on pages of multiple prints (Order Prints), in an iDVD slideshow, or in a Book.

• When you put photos in an album, you can easily keep track of which photos you've selected for certain sharing options.

To delete unwanted photos from the Library

Note: If you delete a photo from the Library, it will disappear from every album that contained it, and from iPhoto itself.

• To delete multiple photos that are next to each other, click on an image, then Shift-click on another image. All images between the two clicks are automatically selected. Press the Delete key to put all of the selected photos in the Trash.

• To delete multiple photos that are NOT next to each other, click a photo, then Command-click additional photos you want to select, then press the Delete key to put all selected photos in the Trash.

Photos deleted from the Library are moved to the Trash in the "Source" pane. They are stored there until you go to the iPhoto menu and choose "Empty Trash." Or until you Control-click on the Trash icon and choose "Empty Trash" from the contextual menu.

To retrieve a photo from the Trash, click the Trash icon to display the images that are in it, then drag the photo from the viewing area to the "Source" pane or to the Library icon in the "Source" pane. Or Control-click on a photo and choose "Restore to Library" from the contextual menu. Or select a photo and from the Photos menu choose "Restore to Library."