Chapter 3

Importing, Viewing, Organizing, and Sharing Photos

In This Chapter

arrow Seeing how digital photography works

arrow Getting your digital images onto your Mac

arrow Capturing digital images without a digital camera

arrow Using iPhoto to organize your digital images

arrow Making your photos look better

arrow Sharing photos with your family and friends

More people are taking photos than ever before with digital cameras and mobile phones, and then using websites like Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr to share every moment and morsel. Of course, before you share your immortalized antics, you may want to edit the evidence with an image-editing app to make the subject or scene look better than it did in real life.

You can use iPhoto, which is part of the iLife suite, not only for image editing but also for managing (an important part of digital photography because it’s so easy to accumulate hundreds, if not thousands, ...

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