Add Ratings, Titles, and Comments

iPhoto lets you add a title, comments, and ratings to your photos. For example, you can set a photo’s title to "Kelly’s first soccer game," add a comment about where it was taken, and give it a rating from 1 to 5 according to how much you like it. Later, you can use this information to find, group, and publish your photos, or simply to quickly add captions to your photos in a webpage or photo book.

Tips

Keyboard shortcuts to rate a photo

You can quickly rate a photo by just holding the Command key and typing 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, according to the rating you want. You can use these keyboard shortcuts whether you are viewing your photo library, working in edit mode, or viewing your photos in a slideshow.

Information pane and Get Info

There are two ways to edit a photo’s information. You can simply display the Information pane in the bottom left corner of the iPhoto window by pressing the Information button or you display the Photo Info panel by selecting Get Info from the Photos menu. The Photo Info panel will display more information about a particular photo, like your camera’s make and model, exposure information, and keywords used.

Change the rating, title, or comment of multiple photos

To change the rating, title, or comment of multiple photos, select the photos that you want to edit, and choose Batch Change from the Photos menu. Make your edits from the pop-up menu, and then click OK.

Control-click a photo to quickly change its rating

You can quickly change a photo’s rating by Control-clicking the photo, or group of photos, selecting My Rating from the menu that appears, and then selecting the rating you want.

Steps

Set a photo’s title, add comments, and rate photos

To change the title of the image, click the Information icon at the bottom of the page. The information pane will appear.
Click on the image’s title, and set a new title for the image.
To add a comment to the image, click on the Comments area in the Information pane, and add your comments.
Change the rating by clicking a ranking dot according to the number of stars you wish to assign.