- 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
Duplicating Sources
Anything you can create in the Source pane—be it an album, smart album, a card, a slideshow, a calendar, or a folder—you can duplicate. Duplicating isn't something you'll use every day, but it can be useful.
Ways to duplicate a source:
-click an item in the Source pane and choose Duplicate from the contextual menu that appears (Figure 3.24).
Figure 3.24 To duplicate a source, Control-click it and choose Duplicate from the contextual menu.
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Select an item in the Source pane, and then choose Duplicate from the Photos menu (
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iPhoto duplicates the album, appending "2" to its name (Figure 3.25).
Figure 3.25 iPhoto appends a number to the name of the duplicate.
Reasons to duplicate sources:
- If you're making picture books for two sets of grandparents, for instance, you might want to use a very similar set of photos with different text. Lay out one book, then duplicate it to eliminate the effort of arranging photos again.
- If you want make differently themed books or calendars with the same set of images, create one, then duplicate it and change the theme of the duplicate.
- If you've put quite a lot of work into a book, calendar, or slideshow, and you want to try something without potentially messing up your work, make a duplicate first.
- If you've constructed a complex smart album and want to make another that's only slightly different, duplicating the first one and modifying the duplicate is easier than making a new one.