Section 7.1. ACDSee

7.1. ACDSee

As digital photography becomes more popular, so do programs like ACDSee, a popular Windows program that serves as a digital shoebox and basic retouching program for digital photos.

Your Mac, of course, stands ready to run a far more elegant equivalent: iPhoto, described on Section 14.14. It's one of the world's most pleasant photo-organizing programsand it's free.

In its most recent incarnation, iPhoto has a pretty complete set of image-retouching features. Still, if you need more editing power, consider Photoshop Elements, a program that's available for both Mac and Windows and has won rave reviews on both platforms.

In any case, ACDSee doesn't have any documents of its ownit does all its work on your existing digital photos, wherever you keep them on your hard drive. All you have to do, then, is move the photos themselves to the Mac, using any of the techniques described in Chapter 5. From there, drag them into the iPhoto Window to import them.