It’s been a while since I posted some keyboard shortcuts, so I thought my next set would be for an Apple application. iPhoto is one of the most popular apps in the OS X iLife suite of products. It provides easy to use management of photos and albums on your desktop. Of course in integrates extremely well with other applications and as usual, has a slew of keyboard shortcuts for you to use. Here’s the list (or at least it’s as exhaustive as I could make it):

Import

• Shift + Cmd + I - Import photos

Organize

• Home - Move to the top of the photo library
• End - Move to the bottom of the photo library
• Cmd + N - Create new album
• Create new album from selection Shift-Command-N
• Option Cmd + N - Create new Smart Album
• Option + Add Button - Create new Smart Album
• Shift + Cmd + T - Show or hide titles
• Shift + Cmd + K - Show or hide keywords
• Shift + Cmd + F - Show or hide film rolls
• Hold down the Option key and click the triangle next to any film roll - Show or hide all film roll photos
• Shift + Cmd + R - Show or hide ratings
• Shift + Cmd + B - Set the title, date, or comments of multiple photos
• Cmd + K - Assign, edit, or search by keywords
• Cmd + I - Show a photo’s image and camera information
• Cmd + D - Duplicate a photo
• Cmd + X - Cut photo
• Cmd + C - Copy photo
• Cmd + V - Paste photo
• Delete - Move photo to Trash from the photo library, or remove photo from album
• Cmd + Option + Delete - Move photo to Trash from album
• Double-click the photo - Open photo in its own window or in edit view (depends on the double-click preference you set)
• Option + double-click the photo - Reverse double-click preference when opening a photo

Selecting and deselecting photos

• Select a single photo Click the photo
• Cmd + A - Select all photos
• Hold down the Shift key and click the non-adjacent photo - Select all photos between the current selection and a non-adjacent photo
• Select the first photo, then hold down the Cmd key and click additional photos - Select photos that are non-adjacent to each other
• Click outside the photos and drag to enclose them within the selection rectangle - Select several photos located together
• Click the film roll icon - Select all photos in a film roll
• Hold down the Cmd key and click the photos you want to deselect - Deselect specific photos in a group of selected photos
• Shift + Cmd + A or click outside a photo - Deselect all photos

Rating photos

• Cmd + 0 - Assign zero stars to a photo
• Cmd + 1 - Assign one star to a photo
• Cmd + 2 - Assign two stars to a photo
• Cmd + 3 - Assign three stars to a photo
• Cmd + 4 - Assign four stars to a photo
• Cmd + 5 - Assign five stars to a photo

Slideshow

• Press the mouse button - Stop a slideshow
• Press the Space bar - Pause and resume playing
• Use the Up and Down Arrow keys - Adjust the speed
• Use the Right and Left Arrow keys - Move through a slideshow manually
• Press 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 - Rate photos

Edit

• Cmd + R - Rotate photo clockwise
• Option + Cmd + R or press the Option key while clicking the Rotate button - Rotate photo counter clockwise
• Press the Right Arrow key - Go to next photo
• Press the Left Arrow key - Go to previous photo
• Press the Cmd key while dragging - Disable constrain setting when selecting an area
• Press the Option key while dragging - Switch between portrait and landscape constrain setting when selecting an area
• Double-click the photo - Return to organize view
• Cmd + Z - Undo last action
• Shift + Cmd + Z - Redo last action

Book

• Select the first page you want changed and press the Option key when choosing a design from the Page Design pop-up menu - Apply a page design through the end of a book
• Cmd + T - Show fonts
• Cmd + 3 - Copy font
• Cmd + 4 - Paste font
• Cmd + : (colon) - Spelling

Book preview

• Press the Right Arrow key - Move forward one page
• Press the Left Arrow key - Move back one page

Share

• Cmd + P - Print
• Shift + Cmd + P - Page setup

General

• Cmd + , (comma) - Show preferences
• Cmd + ? - iPhoto Help
• Cmd + W - Close window
• Cmd + M - Minimize window
• Cmd + H - Hide iPhoto
• Cmd + Q - Quit iPhoto

Hope that helps make things a little easier for you when you are playing around in iPhoto. Be sure to add us as a friend if you have a flickr account. Talk to ya soon!