Lesson 4. Getting Photos into Your Mac (Viewing, Editing, and Printing) Time | This lesson takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. | Goals | To import photos from your digital camera, then view, edit, crop, and print them using Apple's iPhoto application. |
Digital photography has changed the way we use our cameras, and important as the digital camera is, without a computer to view and edit those photos, the digital photo-graphy revolution never would've happened. Luckily, Mac OS X Tiger was built with digital photographers in mind, and it comes with an amazing application called iPhoto that lets you import, organize, print, and share your photos, all in a very intuitive, fun way. Also, because of the way Macs are designed, getting your digital photos into your computer is a breeze. That's because most of today's digital cameras come with a USB cable that lets you connect your camera directly to your Mac (if yours didn't come with that cable, or you can't find your cable, you can buy a digital memory card reader for as little as ten bucks online or from your local camera store). That's all you need to enter the world of sorting, editing, and printing your digital camera photos on your Mac. In this lesson, we'll look at how to import photos, create a slide show using your photos, edit and crop your photos, share them, print them, and just about anything else you want to do with photosand we're going to do all that within one brilliant little application called iPhoto. |