iLife® '09 Portable Genius

Chapter 3. How Do I Organize, Edit, and Share My Photos?

After importing your photos into your iPhoto library, you're ready to start making the most of them. One essential is to organize the photos effectively using iPhoto's Events, Faces, and Places tools, and to create albums so that you quickly put your hands on the photos you want. A second essential is to use iPhoto's powerful tools effectively to give your photos full power and impact. You may also want to separate your photos into two or more libraries for ease of use, and you'll almost certainly want to create compelling slideshows, share your photos with others, and use the photos extensively within the Mac OS X user interface

• Organizing Your Photos

• Editing and Improving Your Photos

• Keeping Multiple iPhoto Libraries

• Creating Powerful Slideshows

• Sharing Your Photos with Others

• Using Your Photos Within Mac OS X

Organizing Your Photos

You can quickly add large numbers of photos to your iPhoto library by using the techniques discussed in the previous chapter.

To get the most out of your library, you need to organize your photos effectively into Events and albums. iPhoto also lets you organize photos by people's faces using its face-recognition technology and by location using its Places feature.

To sort through your photos easily, you need to flag photos of interest, and add keywords, descriptions, and ratings to as many photos as possible. ...