iPhoto 101: How to delete photos

One thing I've never been sure about - are the photos in iPhoto duplicates of the originals or the same? This is my first mac - I transferred all my photos from my old PC into the Photos folder, then again into iPhoto the first time I opened the program. Do I now have two copies of all those photos?

Here is a tip:

I am triaging hundreds of photos each week. At least 1/4 of the photos are ones that I intend to delete. But manually dragging each undesired photo to the Trash is tiresome and slow. How do i quickly navigate through the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of photos and easily discard the undesired ones?

In the iPhoto album select the top most photo and then click Edit. Now use the Right Arrow to navigate to the first undesired photo. Then hit Option-Command-Delete. This moves the photo to the Trash (hitting Delete simply removes the photo from this particular album). Then continue with the right arrow until you reach the next undesired photo and hit Option-Command-Delete.

I can triage hundreds of photos in very little time this way. Then, of course, don't forget to Empty the Trash later.

Oh, wow. I've never emptied mine. I had 1,422 pictures. YIKES. Could you just repost this about once a year so I remember to do that periodically?

How do I just delete one photo in the trash can in iphoto?

1. When I go to look at what's in the iPhoto Trash (in iPhoto 6), I get a screen with blank placeholders - except that the pictures and vids show WHILE and ONLY while I'm scrolling.

2. I can't click on any particular image to select it while it's visible. I can select the blank, nameless placeholders but I have no idea which is the image or images I'd like to see. Is this the how this is supposed to work?? ('Cos if it is, it sucks.)

3. When a single placeholder is selected the only option is "show info" (which shows nothing of value and deselects my selection). If I select multiple grey outlines, there's more options - like Copy - but after selecting that, "Paste" is still blank in both iPhoto and Word (the other app I tried).

"Show file" and "show original file" are also available options with multiple placeholder selections, but don't seem to do anything that I can see.

And "Restore to iPhoto Library" is another - but I didn't try this, since I have no idea what I'd be restoring, nor where I'd be restoring it to.

Any suggestions or info?

I see some pics I'd like to recover, but

Menu bar? I'd recommend we find a better word to avoid confusion. Side-bar, side tray, tray, etc.

iPhoto itself calls this the iPhoto source list, or just the source list.

I've always used this feature, as it is not new.

I'm guessing the empty trash button is new in iPhoto 11?

Yeah. I never deleted it. I had over 1,000 photos. I gained 6 GB. Thanks for the tip!