My Mom's Guide to Using iPhoto 2 A step-by-step guide to the everyday features of iPhoto.

Organizing your photos in albums

As you add photos to your Photo Library it will start to get so crowded that it will get harder and harder to find the photos you want.

iPhoto lets you organize your pictures into mini Photo Libraries called Albums. You can create as many Albums as you want and give them any name that you like.

1. Click the Organize tab to view your entire library.

   If you're not seeing the entire Library of photos, click on the words Photo Library near the top left.

2. Click the Plus-Sign button in the lower left of the iPhoto window
3. Type "my first album" onto the window that appearss, then click the OK button

   Your Album will appear in the Albums list.

4. Locate a photo that you'd like to add to the Album. For this practice Album it's OK to pick any photo.
5. Drag the photo from the Library to the left and drop it on top of the name of your new Album.

   The name of the Album will have a bold black frame around it when it's OK to drop your photo.

6. Repeat this drag-and-drop process with a few more photos.
7. Click on the name of your new Album.

   You'll now see the photos that are in this Album.

   Flip back and forth between this Album and the entire Photo Library, and you'll see that the original photos are still in the library.

A couple of things to know about Albums.

Because the photos in an Album are also still in the main Photo Library, you can delete a photo from an Album without losing it from the Library. But use caution, since any editing you do on a photo in an Album WILL ALSO change the original in the main Library.

Secondly, you can put a photo in more than one Album. For example, if you have an Album for "Birthday Parties" and another for "Grandchildren" you can place that photo of North with cake on his face in both of them. No problem.

Copyright 2003 by Jack Hodgson userguides@da4.com

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