Tagging Photos

You can tag each picture with a title (any name you want to give a picture), a rating (from one star to five stars), and a keyword (to identify a category for your picture). By tagging pictures with titles, ratings, or keywords, you can quickly find all your pictures displayed in alphabetical order by name, all your five-star pictures, or all pictures tagged with keywords, such as Birthday or Vacation.

After you load an image, your Macintosh uses the generic filename created by your digital camera, such as DSC_048. Since trying to find a picture based on a generic filename can be difficult, if not impossible, take time to rename picture titles, define a rating, and type keywords for each picture.

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