5.13. Rate Your Photos iPhoto offers a great way to categorize your pictures: by how great they are! You can assign each picture a rating of 1 to 5 stars, then use the ratings to sort your Photo Library, or gather only the cream of the crop into a slideshow, smart album, or photo book. Here are the ways you can rate your digital masterpieces: -
Select a photo (or several) and choose Photos My Rating; from the submenu, choose from 1 through 5 stars. You can even do this while youre editing a single photo.
Tip: If the top of the screen is just too far away, you can also Control-click any one of the selected thumbnails (or, in Edit mode, anywhere on the photo) and choose the My Rating command from the shortcut menu. Its submenu is exactly the same as what you'd find in the Photos My Rating command.
-1 for one star, -2 for two stars, and so on. Press -0 to strip away any existing ratings. -
During a slideshow, twitch the mouse to bring up the onscreen control bar. In the bar, click the row of dots to turn them into rating stars (click the third dot to give the current photo 3 stars, for example). Or just press the number keys on the keyboard to bestow that number of stars as the slides go by. -
To remove a rating, select the photo and choose Photos My Ratings None. Youre saying, in effect, "This photo has not yet been rated." Keyboard shortcut: -0.
Tip: Once you've applied your star ratings, you can view the actual little stars right under the corresponding thumbnails by choosing View My Ratings (or pressing Shift- -R).
| FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION Undeletable Photos? | | iPhoto won't delete photos of my sister. I thought I got rid of a bunch of unflattering pictures of her the other day, and then I found them again when browsing through my Library. Why aren't they staying deleted? Possibility 1: You deleted the pictures from an album instead of the Library itself (the first icon in the list). When you remove a photo from an album, it removes only a reference to that picture from the album, leaving the photo itself untouched in the Library. If the pictures of your sister are really horrendous, click the Library icon in the Source list, move the offending photos to the Trash, and then empty the Trash. That'll get rid of them once and for all. Possibility 2: You're trying to delete the photo from inside a smart album (page 120). Remember, you have to delete such photos from the Library itself, or from the Last __ Months or Last __ Rolls collections. | |