Add photos to album . . .

Question

I'm having a blast with my new (for me) Powerbook with OSX Tiger. Am now playing with iPhoto. I imported photos from my digital camera, then created albums by subject. Noticed I forgot 4 additional photos for one particular album. Can't find anywhere in the iPhoto Help menu, how to ADD photos to an already established album (not folder or book). It tells how to delete but not add. Can it not be done? This is all new to me, so thanx for any help.
~Newbie~
Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Answer 1

Hi, Keehun.
The concept with iPhoto is that you view your photos from the iPhoto application and let it take care of the file management. You can organize with the different choices in the View menu. You can use the calendar tool (lower left corner) to filter you library by year, month, and/or date. After you assign keywords to your photos you can use the keyword tool (lower left corner) to filter your photos to include or exclude (option-click the keyword) any combination of keywords. You can create Smart Albums to gather collections based on date, title, keyword, comment and many other categories. It's very fast and powerful.
That being said, it sounds like you wish to organize your library into more-or-less permanent groups. You can do that, too. Choose Library from the Source Pane. When you view your library, you are looking at your total photo "inventory;" that is, each photo in the library displays once and only once. Choose Film Rolls from the View menu. By organizing the film rolls you are moving photos into distinct folders, and each photo can only exist in one film roll. [As opposed to Albums, where photos can exist in one, 100, or no albums.] Film rolls can be open or closed - click the disclosure triangle beside a roll's title. (Option-click one triangle to open or close all film rolls.) You can move photos between rolls by drag-and-drop. The trick is that you have to drop on the destination roll's title; when the title becomes selected, you can release the mouse and the photo will be placed in that roll. Select photos and choose "Create Film Roll" to make a new roll for them. When a roll's title is selected you can type in the title, roll date, and comment fields in the Info Pane (lower left corner again). Once you get your film rolls organized the way you like, all you have to do is file new imports into your system. You can change it if you want to, or leave it alone. Using the view options and filtering tools I described above will not change your film roll organization. You only have to go back to film roll view to see it.
iPhoto 6 files your photos into folders based on the film rolls. So changes you make to the rolls will be reflected in the Finder. But remember that it's best to stay out of there and manipulate your photos from within iPhoto. Any changes you make to items inside the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder will cause iPhoto to lose the links to your files; at worst, you can corrupt the database and have to create a new library.