Tips for Adding Places

Fine-tuning a location. When iPhoto locates a place, the location’s pin may not be where you were when you snapped the shutter. Say you spent an afternoon on the beach at San Francisco’s Crissy Field. You want to geotag some photos you took in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, but the pin that iPhoto dropped is located at the Crissy Field main entrance—not where you were standing.

The solution: drag the pin to the correct spot.

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Renaming a location. When you create a custom location using the instructions on the opposite page, the location retains the name of the original place that you searched—for example, Jaffrey, ...

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