iPhoto...Events and Albums...I'm confused

[GNice]

I'm a recent switcher and love my mac, but iPhoto is confusing me a bit. I just want to create a "library" for my background images. So I created an Album and imported the images from a folder on my hard drive....guess that's the right way.

Anyway, an Event was also created. Well, I don't want an Event. My background images aren't an Event! So I deleted the Event and the images in the Album went away as well.

So what's the right way to simply create a library/collection of images and not also have to any event.

Also on a more general note...why have albums if you have events...just don't understand the relationship between the two.

Any advice/direction would be greatly appreciated.

 

[expergo]

Events are like a timeline of pictures (eg. Joe's wedding 2004, Christmas 2004, etc).

Albums are like categories of pictures (eg. ALL Christmas Pics, Pictures of me and Jessica, etc).

 

[Epicurus]

I would also add that Events are useful if you would normally make more than one album out of a single "event" you take pictures at. Previously, if I took a lot of pictures at a football game, I would put them all in one album. Then I would take the best shots, ones that might go into the school paper, for instance, and I would make another album. Then I'd probably put both albums into a folder. Now the photos I want are buried two levels down, but at least everything is organized.

With Events, I can group all the photos together as one "Event" right away, then pick out the good shots and put those into a single new album. This reduces the complexity of the storage system and keeps everything clean and organized. iPhoto can also hide pictures, so I can quickly take out pictures that I don't want to show a client, but still be able to go back and reveal them if I have second thoughts.

 

[simoncoul]

Hey I'm gonna be switching soon, and when I import my pictures into iPhoto how does the folder hierarchy reflect in the library? Is it done through the albums or events. Like if I import a folder or pictures say "My birthday" from my PC and put it in a album called "My birthday" in iPhoto will they still be in the same folder?