Selecting Photos
You probably know how to select one photoâfor opening, printing, rotating, or whatever: Just click it once with the mouse. But many first-timers have no idea how to manipulate more than one icon at a time, in preparation for deleting, moving, duplicating, printing, and so on. Here's how.
To select all photos in the window. Select all the pictures in the set you're viewing by pressing â-A (iPhoto) or Ctrl+A (Picasa). That's the equivalent of the EditâSelect All command.
To select several photos by dragging. You can drag diagonally to highlight a group of nearby photos. You don't even have to enclose the thumbnails completely; your cursor can touch any part of any icon to highlight it. In fact, if you keep dragging past the edge of the window, the window scrolls automatically.
Tip
If you include a particular thumbnail in your dragged group by mistake, you can remove it from the selected cluster with a â-click (Mac) or a Ctrl-click (Windows).
To select consecutive photos. Click the first thumbnail, and then Shift-click the last one. All the files in between are automatically selected.
To select random photos. If you want to highlight, for example, only the second, fourth, and eighth photos in a window, start by clicking photo icon number two. Then click each of the others while pressing â (iPhoto) or Ctrl (Picasa).
To deselect a photo. If you're highlighting a long string of photos and then click one by mistake, you don't have to start over. Instead, just â-click/Ctrl-click ...
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