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Hide iPhoto Command + H. Keeps it running but out of the way. Way faster than quitting the darn thing and relaunching.

Closing Events En Masse Cruising around in Photos view can be a little overwhelming, especially when all of the Event names are expanded so you're seeing thousands of thumbnails. The fix is to collapse all the Events en masse by Option-clicking the flippy triangle to the left of the Event name. That way you can expand them one at a time as you wish. (Option-clicking a collapsed triangle will expand them all, too.)

Splitting Events Need to split an event? Open the Event and click once to select the first thumbnail of the newly desired event, and then press the S key. It's as simple as that!

Deleting Events Click to activate the Event and press Command + Delete.

Merging Events Click and drag one Event thumbnail to another.

Sorting photos If you’d prefer that the most recent items appear at the top of the iPhoto window instead of the bottom, choose View> Sort Photos> Descending.

Find all photos not currently in an Album Press Option + Command + N and name the new Smart Album “Not in any album.” Set the pop-up menus to “Album”, “is not”, and “Any”. This is a great way to rediscover forgotten photos or to find candidates for zapping.

Find all photos without keywords Press Option + Command + N and name the new Smart Album “No keywords.” Then set the pop-up menus to “Keyword,” “is,” and “None,” and then click OK. iPhoto scours your entire library, and rounds ‘em up so you can add keywords at your leisure.

Rating photos Press Command + 1 to assign a rating of one star, Command + 2 for two stars, and so on. Press Command + 0 to strip away any existing rating.

Magnify single photo to fill viewing area Double-click thumbnail photo or press the Space bar

Open photo in edit view Return

Enter or exit full-screen view Option + Command + F

Rotate photo Command + R

Rotate photo in opposite direction Option + Command + R

Open Adjust pane A

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Scrolling DatesWant to see the month and year your photos were taken as you’re scrolling through thumbnails in either Events or Photos view? You’re in luck! Choose iPhoto> Preferences and turn on “Show informational overlays.” When next you scroll through your thumbnails, you’ll see the month and year appear in the middle of the viewing area.

Power of Smart Albums and FacesSmart Albums and Faces tags are the perfect way to quickly put together a slideshow for your next party. For example, if you’ve tagged friends and family using Faces, you can quickly create a Smart Album by dragging someone’s picture from the Faces cork-board into an empty area in your Source list. If you want to add another person to that Smart Album, simply drag his/her image into the same Smart Album to create a self-populating album of just those two people. Sweet!

Flag for deletionFlags are a great way to mark photos for deletion en masse (in-stead of deleting one at a time). As soon as you’ve imported your photos, take a spin through ‘em and when you find one you want to delete, click to activate its thumbnail and then press Command . (that’s the Command key plus the period) to flag it. Alternatively, hover your cursor over the thumbnail and then click the tiny gray flag that appears at its top right (it looks like a miniature pennant). Either way, you’ll see a tiny orange pennant appear at the thumb-nails top left. Once you’re finished, click Flagged in your Source list, choose Select> All to highlight all the thumbnails, and then press the Delete key. When iPhoto asks if you’re sure you want to delete those photos, click OK and poof! iPhoto moves all those photos into its very own trash.

Power of Smart Albums and FacesYour entire iPhoto world—everything in your Source list, plus Faces and Places info—is accessible within your Mac’s System Preferences and, therefore, available as an instant screensaver. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences; then click the Desktop & Screen Saver icon. Click the Screen Saver tab and then click one of the 14 photo-based themes. From the Source popup menu that appears beneath the preview, choose Photo Library. In a moment, a new pane appears listing your iPhoto goodies on the left. With dual monitors, you see different photos on each monitor as the screensaver plays. Who knew?

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