How iPhoto Works

iPhoto lets you store all your pictures in one place, called the iPhoto Library. iPhoto gives you five ways to view and organize the pictures in your library:

  • Events

  • Photos

  • Albums

  • Faces

  • Places

Events represent a fixed period of time, such as one day. Using the date on which each picture was taken, iPhoto automatically organizes your pictures into events, where, for example, one event might represent all the pictures you took on July 24 and a second event might represent all the pictures you took on September 20, as shown in Figure 27-1.

Events organize your digital photographs into groups.

Figure 27-1. Events organize your digital photographs into groups.

Think of events as iPhoto's way of ...

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