Chapter 9. Sharing Photos

Although iPhoto provides numerous ways of presenting your photos to others—slideshows, publishing to the Web, and (coming up in the next chapter), creating books, calendars, and cards—there’s an additional way in which you can share photos in iPhoto that’s also important.

I’m talking about the sharing of the actual photo files. For instance, you might want to share photos with a family member who also uses your Mac, or a roommate whose Mac is on your network. Or maybe you want to send photos to friends via email or on a CD or DVD. iPhoto can help in all of these situations and more. I’ve organized this chapter in roughly that order; think of it as near (sharing on your Mac) to far (sending a CD to a Windows-using relative ...

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