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Two productivity tips for iPhoto 5 Apps
Ken Ferry, author of the amazingly useful and free KeywordAssistant for iPhoto (which is even more useful in iPhoto 5, given how they changed the keyword assignment process) sent in the following two tips:
  1. When the main photo pane has focus (click on it), pressing 0, 1, or 2 sets the image size to a preset value. In Organize mode (thumbnails), 0 is smallest possible, 1 is largest possible, and 2 is a comfortable viewing size. In Edit mode, 0 is smallest, 2 is largest and 1 is somewhere in the middle. It works in an external editing window as well. This is pretty convenient, especially 0 and 2 in Organize mode. This shortcut is documented in iPhoto's Help: iPhoto Keyboard Shortcuts tip sheet, but only for Edit mode.

  2. The keyword area (view by clicking the Key icon below the Source area) in the bottom left corner of the window is a pain to scroll if you have a lot of keywords (I have 311). There is no scroll bar, holding down the scroll buttons has no effect (you have to click - release - click etc.), and Page Up and Page Down don't work because the widget doesn't accept keyboard input. So what's left? Mouse scroll wheel! It works, and it helps a lot. Just make sure the mouse pointer is in the Keyword display area.
If you use keywords a lot (and you should, if you have a large photo collection), Ken's KeywordAssistant is well worth the install time. It's a previous PotW, and as I noted, it's even more useful in iPhoto 5, as they've made (in my opinion, at least) assigning keywords more difficult.
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Two productivity tips for iPhoto 5
Authored by: penum6ra on Feb 03, '05 11:09:53AM

You can actually make the keyword area in the lower left corner larger by pulling up on the top bar. That would be annoying in any other mode, however Apple has thoughtfully provided a neat feature. When you switch off Keyword to Info, etc that left corner area resizes for each use.

This means that you can make the keyword area huge if you need to, then when you switch the smaller info area will appear (as small as you want), and when you click on the key again, the area will expand once more. Voila! No more scrolling. (That is unless your keyword list doesn't even fit on the screen!)



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Two productivity tips for iPhoto 5
Authored by: kenferry on Feb 03, '05 07:51:31PM

A full screen gets me to the middle of keywords that start with 'C' in my alphabetized keywords. :-)



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Two productivity tips for iPhoto 5
Authored by: Kool on Feb 03, '05 11:39:21AM

Alt/option click a keyword is cool! It let's you say, show everything that has NOT this keyword assigned.



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Two productivity tips for iPhoto 5
Authored by: genericuser on Feb 06, '05 12:04:32AM

As Kool noted in another comment, you can option+click a keyword button to turn the keyword query from it's default "show images with this keyword" to "hide images with this keyword."

You can also drag images onto keyword buttons to add keywords to them, or option+drag images onto a keyword button to remove a keyword.

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