Chapter 14
The Masterpiece That Is iPhoto
In This Chapter
Importing pictures from your hard drive or digital camera
Organizing images with iPhoto
Tweaking the appearance of photographs
Sharing photos with your friends
Do you still own a camera that uses real film? (Heck, have you ever seen a film camera?) The digital camera has reached the pinnacle that those funny (strange) marketing people refer to as saturation (virtually everyone owns one or a smartphone that sports a built-in camera), and iPhoto was written to address the needs of every person with a digital camera and an iMac!
With iPhoto, you organize, edit, and even publish your photographs. (It sports more features than a handful of Swiss Army knives.) After you shoot your photos with a digital camera (or even scan images from original film prints or negatives), you can import them into iPhoto, edit them, and publish them. You’re not limited to photos that you take yourself, either; you can edit, share, and organize all kinds of digital image files. You can even create a photo album and use the iPhoto interface to order ...
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