Section B.6. View Menu


B.6. View Menu

This menu lets you change the order of your photos in the main viewing area, as well the kind of information you want displayed along with each picture (Figure B-3).

B.6.1. Titles, Keywords, Film Rolls, My Rating

Select any of these commands to display titles, keywords, film roll divider lines, or star ratings info in the main photo-viewing area. Titles, stars, and keywords always appear beneath each thumbnail; film rolls are denoted by horizontal lines, tiny film-roll icons, and flippy triangles .

You can turn each of these four commands on or off, in any combination, by repeatedly selecting it or by using the corresponding keyboard shortcuts: Shift- -T for Titles, Shift- -K for Keywords, Shift- -R for Ratings, and Shift- -F for Film Rolls. A checkmark next to a command shows that it's currently turned on.

B.6.2. Sort Photos

Determines how iPhoto sorts the photos in the viewing area. You have six options (Figure B-3):

  • by Film Roll . Sorts the photos chronologically according to when each batch was imported into iPhoto.

  • by Date . Arranges the photos chronologically based on the creation dates of each file.

  • by Keyword . Sorts your photos alphabetically by the first keyword you've applied to each. (Photos with no keywords appear at the top of the list.)

  • by Title . Uses the titles to sort photos alphabetically.

  • by Rating . Arranges all of your pictures by how good they are, from best to worstat least, if you've taken the time to apply star ratings to them (Chapter 5). Unrated photos appear at the bottom.

  • Manually . Lets you drag your photos into any order you like. (This choice is dimmed unless you're in an album. In the main Photo Library, you must use one of the first two options.)

  • Ascending, Descending . Reverses the sorting order, no matter which criterion you've specified above. For example, it puts oldest photos at the top rather than newest.

  • Reset Manual Sort . What if you're in an album, you carefully drag pictures into a custom order, and then you sort the whole thing alphabetically? This command restores the manual positioning.

Figure B-3. The View menu lets you customize how iPhoto displays and sorts thumbnails. The option to view photos by Film Roll option is dimmed out (as shown here) if you're currently viewing an album instead of your whole Photo Library. On the other hand, Manually is dimmed out if you're viewing the Library and not an album.

B.6.3. Show Thumbnails

Several of iPhoto's modesediting and book/card/calendar creation, for examplefeature a scrolling stream of thumbnails that lets you jump from one photo to another without exiting the editing mode. This command lets you hide or show that thumbnail browser.

B.6.4. Show in Toolbar

See those icons at the bottom of the main iPhoto window? Some of them are permanently installed and nonnegotiable, like Rotate, Edit, Book, and Slideshow.

The others, though, are optional in iPhoto 6. By choosing their names from the Show in Toolbar submenu, you can make them appear or disappear. (The names bearing checkmarks in the submenu are the ones that currently appear on the toolbar.)

The freedom to eliminate certain icons make a lot of sense. For one thing, some of them may not apply to you. The HomePage icon is useful only if you're a .Mac subscriber, the Send to iDVD button is helpful only if your Mac can burn DVDs, and so on. Furthermore, hiding the less useful icons leaves more room for the ones you do use (and reduces the likelihood that some of the buttons will be hidden behind the >> menu that sprouts whenever the window isn't wide enough).

Anyway, whatever functions you eliminate from the toolbar aren't gone for good. They're still available as commands right in the body of the Share menu.




iPhoto 6
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 059652725X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 183

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