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

Using Keywords to organize you Photo Library

Another useful way to organize your photos is by using Keywords.

Keywords are sort of like Albums. I find Keywords to be awkward, and I don't use them very much. But they do have the advantage of allowing you to sift though your photos by searching for the Keywords that you have assigned.

1. Open your Photo Library and click on the Organize tab.
2. Pick any one of your photos by clicking on it.
3. Open the Keywords window by selecting Keywords from the File menu

   To assign an existing Keyword...

4. Click on the desired keyword then click the Assign tab.

   To create a new Keyword and assign it to your photo...

5. Select New from the Keywords pop-up menu near the top of the window. A new keyword will appear in the list.
6. Edit its name by typing your new keyword.
7. Click the Assign tab to set it to your selected photo.

Assigning multiple Keywords to a single photo.

After assigning a Keyword to a pic... with that same photo still selected... click a different keyword and click the Assign tab.

When you open the Keyword window, the keywords for your selected photo will be highlighted in the list. You can assign as many Keywords to each photo as you like.

Search for keywords.

You can find all the photos with a specific keyword by typing that keyword in the Search box at the bottom of the window.

As you type, iPhoto will continually update to show the photos that match those letters. That means that typing "fav" might be enough to show all the photos with the Keyword "Favotite".

You can also type in more than one word and iPhoto will display all the photos that match BOTH words. That means that "fav kid" would show all the photos that are assigned to BOTH the "Favorites" and the "Kids" keywords.

Copyright 2003 by Jack Hodgson userguides@da4.com

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