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Let's now take a look at the interface. You will see first of all that I have a
fully populated library here complete with Albums, Galleries and Keepsakes and
we'll cover the creation of all these things in detail in later lessons.
For now, I just want to focus on the main elements of the interface.
At the far left you will see we have the iPhoto's Source list, which has your
basic Library, Recent Locations, Albums, Galleries, Keepsakes and Slideshows,
all listed in their separate categories. At the bottom of the screen, we have
additional buttons. At the left to these rows of buttons we have editing
features. This includes the naming function that works with the Faces
technology. At the center of this row we have Slideshows and Keepsakes and
at the far right we have web publishing options like MobileMe galleries,
publishing to Facebook, Flickr or emailing a photo.
Now, at the lower left we have three buttons. The first is the Add button.
This allows you to quickly add elements to your library like Albums, Slideshows,
MobileMe galleries, Cards and Calendars. Now, with the photo selected,
the Information button next to that brings up a simple summary pane of information
about the photo. Click again to hide it. The next button is a Full Screen button. By
clicking it, the current photo is zoomed to full screen for easy viewing and
editing. We'll see more about this when we actually work on editing and adjusting
our photos. A pop-up menu at that base allows you to click an X to the
far right to return to the standard view. Next, we have a Search field, which allows
you to search for photos via keywords, date or rating. Next to this we
have basic information about what we are viewing. You will see if I click in
the gray space to deselect the current photo it actually tells me exactly how many photos
there are in my library currently. Finally, at the lower right, we have the Photo
Size slider. This allows you to adjust how big the thumbnails appear in your
viewer. Now, this Size slider is independent for different views. Currently
I'm working in the Photos view. If I moved to Events you will see I have independent
slider access for event thumbnails. Now, in coming lessons we'll look at exactly
how the library is broken down, but for now we have just looked at the basic
elements for getting around in iPhoto.