20 Tips and Tricks to Become the Ultimate iPhoto Power User

maclife.com — 20 helpful tips and tricks to totally utilize iPhoto's features and become the ultimate power user. Your friends will never look at your photo albums the same way. Jul 29, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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byteforbyte Jul 29, 2010

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iPhoto is very powerful, especially considering that is is a freebie.

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balanced Jul 30, 2010

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It's free with purchase, but you do have to pay a couple bucks to keep current every now and then... I'm using an older version myself, although I'd like the 'Faces' feature.

haleonearth Aug 7, 2010

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It comes bundled with a new Mac. Otherwise, not free.

digitalmoto Jul 29, 2010

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Cool. Got this one on my mac but never really used it. Bookmarked :)

thtswutshesaid Jul 29, 2010

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Lots to do with iPhoto...never really delved to much in to it but it picks up the iPhone photos right away!

eagles7977 Jul 29, 2010

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Great tips.

backwardscompat Jul 29, 2010

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As someone that's too poor to afford Aperture, this is a really, really welcome guide.

lbucha Jul 29, 2010

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Great article -- I've never been able to maximize iPhoto's use

ESwansonite Jul 29, 2010

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over 9000?

Closed Account Jul 30, 2010

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I have a fairly large library on iphoto over 8GB of stuff I tried using aperture but it was too slow on my macbook.
Right now I'm really liking Adobe's lightroom its fast and really powerful if only i knew to to migrate all my stuff there I'd switch in a second

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dephextwin Jul 30, 2010

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You seem very timid about using punctuation. I encourage you to use it more.

kahlessreborn Jul 30, 2010

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iphoto seems pretty fail I'll stick with lightroom

neutron7 Jul 30, 2010

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Next up, how to become a professional electric moped racer.

rkstar Jul 30, 2010

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Anyone know an easy way to put an image into an existing event? It's so frustrating. If I drag the image to the event, it just makes a new event. If I try to "merge events" like this article recommends, it merges all events in between them. I really wish I could just drag an image into the event.