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Creating a standard photo album

You can create standard albums to better organize your photo library, group the photos you want to burn to CD or DVD, or choose pictures for a webpage.

There are several ways to create a standard album.

Create the album, then add photos to it:

  1. Click the Add (+) button in the bottom-left corner of the iPhoto window, then click Album in the dialog.

    Or, you can choose File > New Album instead.

    2. Image of Add button

  2. Type a name for your album and click Create. The album appears in your Source list.

  3. Click Events, then drag entire Events, or photos within one or more Events, to your new album.

    4. Note:You can also drag a photo to an album directly from another album, a CD or DVD, or another location on your hard disk.

    When you add a photo to an iPhoto album from outside iPhoto, it is automatically imported into your photo library.

Select individual photos first, then turn them into an album:

  1. Command-click to select all the photos you want to include in the album.

  2. Choose File > New Album From Selection, and name your album.

    3. Note:You can always add more photos later.

Create an album directly from an entire Event or folder of photos:

  • Select an Event and drag it into an empty part of the Source list. iPhoto creates an unnamed album, which you can then name.

  • Drag a folder of photos from the Finder into an empty part of the iPhoto Source list. iPhoto creates an album with the folder’s name and imports all photos contained in the folder.

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