Browsing tips and tricks

Here are a few tips and tricks to help efficiently find the photos you’re looking for in your libraries.

• Your library’s events are listed in the “Events” group in the album list. The events will be listed in the same order they’re sorted in the library in iPhoto itself, so if you want to change the ordering displayed in iPLM, you can do so by just changing the sort order in iPhoto via its View menu.
• Another way of viewing your events is to select the main “Photos” album in the album list, then select the “Event Titles” item from the View menu. This will group photos into events in the photo browser itself. You can then use the “Sort” submenu in the View menu to change the order in which the events are sorted there.
• When browsing this way, you can option-click one of the disclosure triangles next to an event’s title in the photo browser to expand/collapse all the events at once. This can give you a more compact list of just the event names to browse through.
• Photos marked as “hidden” in iPhoto will always be displayed in iPLM’s photo browser, but with an orange “X” in the corner of the photo to show its hidden status. Hidden photos are also counted when calculating the photo count for each album in the album list.
• iPLM remembers the view settings separately for each library. This includes things like the position of the zoom slider, what subtitles are shown under photos, what columns are shown in list view, and so forth. Once you have things set up the way you like to view a particular library, those changes will “stick” so you don’t have to constantly reconfigure things if you want to view two libraries with different setups.
• The background color in the photo browser is determined by looking at your setting in iPhoto’s preferences, and will automatically change when you change the background color in iPhoto.
• Large iPhoto libraries can sometimes take a little while to fully load in the photo browser. iPLM does cache its results once a library is loaded though, so after it's been loaded once, viewing it subsequently will be much faster. Of course if the user makes changes to the library, it will then need to be reloaded from scratch the next time it's selected.