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

Viewing your Photos by Film Roll

Up until now you have viewed the pictures in your Photo Library as either one large collection of all your photo thumbnails, or in individual Albums.

Another way to look at them is grouped according to when they were imported. Each batch of photos you imported from your camera, or from files on your hard drive, will be displayed together.

Viewing your photos by Film Roll is a good way to locate a photo you took by what other photos were in the same imported batch. Also you can expand and collapse these Film Rolls to they don't take up so much room on your screen, and are easier to scroll through.

1. Click the Organize tab
2. Select by Film Roll from the View menu. A check mark will appear nect to the menu item.

   It may take a moment for iPhoto to update your display, but your photos will now grouped by Film Roll.

3. To return to the thumbnail view of all your photos, select Film Roll from the View menu again. The checkmark will disappear and the display will change.

You can speed up scrolling through this list by "collapsing" the display of some of the rolls.

Just click on the dark triangle in the upper left of any of the rolls.

You can collapse ALL the rolls by holding down the OPTION key on your keyboard, and click on one of the dark triangle. This either open or close ALL the rolls.

Copyright 2003 by Jack Hodgson userguides@da4.com

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