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Apple have many beginner videos on the support section of their website. Try this one for starters iPhoto '11: View and Organize Photos by Event
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You don't really. iPhoto organizes the photos by itself, and you can rearrange that into different views depending on what you'd like to see.
Internally, iPhoto uses the EXIF tags (first) and file creation dates (fallback if no EXIF is present) to organize photos by Year -> Month -> Day -> Time. But this makes no difference at all to the user.
Events sorts photos into groups based on the timestamp -- photos taken roughly together sorted into an event. Events can be split or combined as you like, but the thing to remember is that this is just a "view" of the photos. Photos view unbundles events but arranges the photos chronologically in a huge single "view."
Faces organizes photos by who's in them. Places by where they were taken if that info is available. Again, these are all just views.
If that's not enough for you, there are Albums and Smart Albums. You create albums and drag in pictures and move them around however you want (even a freehand "unsorted" mode if you want). Smart Albums are really just a set of criteria and a view of every photo that meets that criteria (example: all photos take with a particular camera model, from a set year, taken in Paris).
Hopefully that makes things clearer. Let iPhoto do most of the work.
Internally, iPhoto uses the EXIF tags (first) and file creation dates (fallback if no EXIF is present) to organize photos by Year -> Month -> Day -> Time. But this makes no difference at all to the user.
Events sorts photos into groups based on the timestamp -- photos taken roughly together sorted into an event. Events can be split or combined as you like, but the thing to remember is that this is just a "view" of the photos. Photos view unbundles events but arranges the photos chronologically in a huge single "view."
Faces organizes photos by who's in them. Places by where they were taken if that info is available. Again, these are all just views.
If that's not enough for you, there are Albums and Smart Albums. You create albums and drag in pictures and move them around however you want (even a freehand "unsorted" mode if you want). Smart Albums are really just a set of criteria and a view of every photo that meets that criteria (example: all photos take with a particular camera model, from a set year, taken in Paris).
Hopefully that makes things clearer. Let iPhoto do most of the work.
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