Ok so organizing my pictures into "events" in iphoto makes sense for most pictures. But not all. Consider, for example, pictures of our dog. We'll take random pictures whenever she looks cute or something, and there's nothing "eventful" about it other than perhaps that it's a saturday in August. Unless I'm missing something, I see these options:
(1) Muck up my events section, so that intermixed with real events (e.g., Trip to London, New Years Party, etc.) are random events (e.g., Saturday in August) that mean nothing to me. That is, unless there's a way to "hide" certain events like this so that they don't show up here?
(2) Create an artificial event (e.g., "Pictures of Dog") that isn't really an event at all, by merging all those saturdays that we took pictures of our dog into one "event."
What makes more sense for these types of pictures is to just have an album for Pictures of Dog. But from what I understand, albums are just pictures collected based on certain criteria (e.g., based on collecting all pictures that have the keyword "dog" applied to them); the pictures in them are still associated with events and thus still show up in the events. There's no way to just have albums for things that aren't true events.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to best organize these types of pictures in iphoto? I am a new switcher to mac and am not tied down to any particular photo organizing application, so I am open to others. However, i'd prefer to not have to buy additional software if iphoto will do; indeed, one of the reasons many people gave for switching in the first place was the ilife suite.
(1) Muck up my events section, so that intermixed with real events (e.g., Trip to London, New Years Party, etc.) are random events (e.g., Saturday in August) that mean nothing to me. That is, unless there's a way to "hide" certain events like this so that they don't show up here?
(2) Create an artificial event (e.g., "Pictures of Dog") that isn't really an event at all, by merging all those saturdays that we took pictures of our dog into one "event."
What makes more sense for these types of pictures is to just have an album for Pictures of Dog. But from what I understand, albums are just pictures collected based on certain criteria (e.g., based on collecting all pictures that have the keyword "dog" applied to them); the pictures in them are still associated with events and thus still show up in the events. There's no way to just have albums for things that aren't true events.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to best organize these types of pictures in iphoto? I am a new switcher to mac and am not tied down to any particular photo organizing application, so I am open to others. However, i'd prefer to not have to buy additional software if iphoto will do; indeed, one of the reasons many people gave for switching in the first place was the ilife suite.