Chapter 1. Camera Meets Mac
Your digital camera is brimming with photos. You’ve snapped the perfect graduation portrait, captured that jaw-dropping sunset over the Pacific, or compiled an unforgettable photo essay of your 2-year-old attempting to eat a bowl of spaghetti. It’s time to use your Mac to gather, organize, and tweak all these photos so you can share them with the rest of the world.
That’s the core of this book—compiling, organizing, and adjusting your pictures using iPhoto, and then transforming this collection of digital photos into a professional-looking slideshow, set of prints, movie, web page, email, desktop picture, calendar, or bound book.
But before you start organizing and publishing these pictures using iPhoto, they have to find their way from your camera to your Mac. This chapter explains how to get pictures from camera to computer and introduces you to iPhoto.
iPhoto: The Application
iPhoto approaches digital photo management as a four-step process:
Import. Working with iPhoto begins with feeding your digital pictures (and videos) into the program, either from a camera or from somewhere else on your Mac. In general, importing is literally a one-click process. This is the part of iPhoto covered in this chapter.
Organize. This step is about sorting and categorizing your chaotic jumble of pictures so you can easily find them and arrange them into logical groups. You can add searchable keywords like Vacation or Kids to make pictures easier to find. You can change the ...
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