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Wallace Wang, Mac OS X for Absolute Beginners, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1913-3_13

13. Playing with Photos

Wallace Wang

(1)San Diego, California, USA

Taking pictures can be fun. With digital cameras in every smartphone and tablet, it’s easy to capture pictures wherever you go without worrying about taking a camera with you.

One of the biggest problems with taking pictures is finding a place to store them. If you take too many pictures, you’ll eventually run out of room to store any more, so you need to know how to get photos off a smartphone, tablet, or camera and on to a Mac for safekeeping.

There are three ways to transfer pictures from an external device (such as a smartphone or tablet) to a Mac:

  • Use the Photos program

  • Use the Image ...

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