Chapter 1. iPhoto

iPhoto makes managing, sharing, and enhancing your digital photos both easy and fun. You can effortlessly import photos straight from most digital cameras, as well as from digital card readers, CDs, DVDs, Zip disks, or any location on your Mac's hard disk.

Organize your photos, expertly retouch blemishes, get rid of red-eye, adjust contrast and brightness, make other adjustments, then share your photos with friends, relatives, or business associates in a number of different ways.

If you have a .Mac account, use iPhoto to create web photo albums and screen saver slideshows, order custom prints online, and order large or small photo albums of your favorite digital photos.

If you don't own a digital camera or if you have quite a collection of prints, negatives, and slides from long ago that you would like to drop into iPhoto for organizing and sharing, search the web for "slide scanning" or "photo scanning" services. Avoid services that give you back images in their proprietary format, such as Kodak's PictureCD or PhotoCDyou want your images in standard .jpeg or .tiff formats. Try someplace like SlideScanning.com or DigitalMemoriesOnline.net.