iPhoto ’11: The Macintosh iLife Guide to using iPhoto with OS X Lion and iCloud

Welcome to iPhoto

Photographs can commemorate, inspire, amuse, persuade, and entertain. They’re time machines that recall people and places. They’re vehicles that carry messages into the future. They’re ingrained in infancy and become intensely personal parts of our lives.

And now that photos have gone digital, they’re everywhere. Between the cameras in our phones and the larger cameras that we tether to our wrists or wear around our necks, we have more ways to record slices of life than ever before. The phone in my pocket contains more photos than my dad shot in his lifetime.

How do we deal with this deluge of images? How do we keep track of them so we can find them years from now? How can we make them look better? How do we share them so that ...