Tollett J., Williams R Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps. A guide to iLife '05, .Mac, and more. / Sort the Order of Photos

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Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps. A guide to iLife '05, .Mac, and more.
Authors: Tollett J., Williams R
Published year: 2005
Pages: 20-21/277

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Sort the Order of Photos

When you create a slideshow, book, or HomePage, iPhoto builds the project with your photos in the same order as the album they're in. So you might want to rearrange the photos in an album or in the Library. There are a couple of ways to do this.

To sort photos in an album (this doesn't work in the Library), drag one or more photos to the location desired. As you drag, a black, vertical bar indicates where the photos will be placed when you release the mouse button.
To sort photos in the Library (or in an album) : From the View menu (shown left), choose "Sort Photos," then from the submenu choose one of the options. The only option you cannot choose when sorting the actual Library is "Manually" (you can sort albums manually).

Add titles and comments

The titles and comments that you type in the Information pane are used by the Book and HomePage features to add headlines and captions. When you create a web page or a book from these photos, you'll want them to have descriptive names instead of something like " DSCN0715.JPG ." Descriptive titles also make it easier to conduct a search for photos based on titles.

1.	Single-click a photo to select it.
2.	Click the " i " button beneath the "Source" pane.
3.	Click the "title" field, then type a new name to replace any existing text in the field, such as " DSCN 0715 .JPG ."
4.	Click inside the "comments" field and type any comments you want that describe the photo, or that will make it easier to find in a search.

Keywords

Searching for photos in iPhoto is fast and easy, especially if you previously assigned keywords to photos.

To assign keywords to photos

By assigning keywords to photos, you make it possible to search for photos based on those words. If you take the time to assign keywords, you'll save a lot of time later when you're trying to find a certain photo.

1.	Select one or more photos in an album, or from the Library.
2.	From the Photos menu choose "Get Info," to open the "Photo Info" window, shown on the right. You can also press Command I.
3.	Click the "Keywords" button to show a list of keywords.
4.	Click the checkbox next to a keyword you want to assign.

To assign multiple keywords : Select photos in the viewing area, then repeat steps 14 above.

To remove keywords from photos : Select photos in the viewing area, open the Keywords window (steps 2 and 3 listed above), then click a keyword checkbox to remove its checkmark.

A blue dot on the Keywords button means the current selection of photos that are visible in the viewing area have been chosen by a keyword search and do not necessarily represent all photos in the selected album or Library. Click the Keyword button to see the keyword (or keywords) that is selected and being used to limit the search.

To add, rename, or remove keywords in the keyword list : From the iPhoto menu, choose "Preferences…," then Click the "Keywords" button in the Preferences window to add new keywords to the keyword list, rename or remove existing keywords. See details at the bottom of page 12.

To display keywords next to photos in the viewing pane, go to the View menu, then choose the "Keywords" item to place a checkmark next to it in the menu. Your keywords now show underneath any photo that has a keyword assigned.

What the checkmark indicates

The checkmark that appears in the list of keywords acts as a temporary keyword, useful for marking photos for which you haven't decided upon a keyword or category. A checkmark appears in the bottom-right corner of a photo when you select the checkmark as a keyword.

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