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Part I: Getting Ready to Roll with iPhoto ’09
Figure 1-1: Event photos grouped by date.
✓ Albums: Suppose you want to take some photos from several Events
and group them, under a subject or theme, while still leaving them in
their original Events. That’s where Albums come in. You can choose
any photos from any number of Events (usually they have something
in common) and put them in an Album whose name suggests the com-
monality. The Event groups remain unchanged. You can even use Smart
Albums, which select their photos based on conditions you can set for
them. Any photo matching those conditions is automatically put in that
Smart Album. I tell you much more about Albums and Smart Albums in
Chapter 5.
✓ Folders: Taking organization one step further, suppose that you created
several Albums that have a similar subject or theme. You can put all
the Albums in a folder. For instance, if you have several Birthday Party
Albums covering several years, you can put them all into a folder named
Birthdays, making all these Albums easy to find.