Even though your faithful Ambassador does not as yet own a digital camera that works directly with iPhoto (no, I won't get started on why my two ancient-but-venerable Apple QuickTake cameras do not work with iPhoto), it doesn't mean I can't work with iPhoto in a number of interesting and useful ways. I have recently become enamored of those disposable Kodak cameras and have had my film developed on CD (they also give double prints at Walgreen's). The nice part of the Photo CD is that the pictures are saved at a nice, high resolution, comparable to what I would get out of most of today's digital cameras. Anyhow, with these digital photos I can bring them into iPhoto and work with them to my heart's content. What I will be illustrating below and over the next few web pages is how I brought the latest batch of Photo CD images into iPhoto that I took at a friend's birthday celebration and ultimately published them via iPhoto to the web to make it easy to share with all who attended. Believe me, this is so simple to do that it may make you want to get up and running with OS X sooner rather than later, especially if you have a digital camera and have far-flung family and friends you'd love to share your photos with.
Immediately below is the basic iPhoto window. Here I can create a Photo Library of all the digital images I have (including all the thousands of QuickTake images I have taken over the years). If you have a compatible digital camera you can simply hook it up to your Mac and iPhoto can simply transfer the pictures directly for you into iPhoto and hence onto your hard drive.
Here I selected Import from the File menu and navigated the dialog box to the folder of pictures I wished to imort. So far, pretty routine stuff that any Mac user should be able to do.
Here are my photos after being imported into iPhoto:
