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:
- 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.
- 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.