Chapter 13
Focusing on Photos
IN THIS CHAPTER
Importing pictures from your hard drive or digital camera
Organizing images with Photos
Tweaking the appearance of photographs
Sharing photos with your friends
For decades now, the Mac has been the choice of professional photographers for working with digital images — not surprising, considering the Mac’s graphical nature. 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 Photo, 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 soft-bound or hard-bound copy shipped to you, or create a slideshow that you can upload to YouTube.
In this chapter, I walk you through an overview ...
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