- What's New in Organize Mode
- Organize Tools Overview
- Changing the Display Pane's Layout
- Other Display Preferences
- Contextual Menu Shortcuts
- Moving Around in iPhoto
- Editing Film Rolls
- Creating and Modifying New Film Rolls
- Creating and Working with Folders
- Creating Albums
- Creating and Editing Smart Albums
- Smart Album Ideas
- Duplicating Sources
- Renaming and Rearranging Sources
- Deleting Sources
- Selecting Photos
- Adding Photos to Sources
- Removing Photos from Sources
- Sorting Photos
- Assigning Titles to Photos
- Assigning Comments to Photos
- Editing Photo Dates
- Assigning Ratings
- Managing Keywords
- Assigning and Removing Keywords
- Searching with the Keyword Pane
- Searching with the Search Field
- Searching with the Calendar Pane
- Viewing Photo Information
Contextual Menu Shortcuts
iPhoto isn't great about letting you edit information about a photo—title, date, and keywords—directly "on" the photo. Instead, you must select the photo and then make your changes in the Information or Keywords pane. However, you can -click (or, if you have a two-button mouse, right-click) a photo to bring up a contextual menu that lets you perform a number of actions directly on the photo you clicked (Figure 3.9).
Figure 3.9 Control-click one or more selected photos to display iPhoto's contextual menu shortcuts.
Contextual menu shortcuts:
- You can cut, copy, or paste photos, but only within iPhoto. Cutting a photo removes it from the current album and pasting a photo adds it to the current album (other than the Library).
- The Edit commands are particularly useful for opening photos in alternative ways without switching iPhoto's preferences.
- Show File and Show Original File switch you to the Finder. Show File selects the original file if no changes have been made; the edited version otherwise. And if changes have been made, Show Original File selects the original.
- The rest of the commands—Rotate, Show Info, Batch Change, Duplicate, My Rating, Delete from Album, and Revert to Original—are like those in iPhoto's Photos menu, but using the contextual menu to apply them may feel more intuitive.