Chapter 14

Focusing on Photos

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Importing pictures from your internal drive or digital camera

Bullet Organizing images with Photos

Bullet Tweaking the appearance of photographs

Bullet Sharing photos with your friends

For decades now, the Mac has been the choice of professional photographers for working with digital images — which is not surprising, considering the Mac’s graphical nature (and the incredible quality of Apple displays)! Apple continues this tradition with Photos, its photography tool for the home user that can help 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 smartphone or a digital camera, you can import them into Photos, 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, as well as video clips. You can even create a photo album and use the Photos interface to order a handsome softbound or hardbound copy shipped to you, or you can create a slideshow and upload ...

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