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Plug your camera into your Mac’s USB port, turn it on, and start up iPhoto (in the Applications folder).

Click Import All.

Click Delete Photos if you want to clear the original images off the camera; otherwise, click Keep Photos.

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Tip: You Can Get There from Here

To import image files from your hard drive, a removable disk, or camera media you’ve mounted on the desktop, drag and drop the files directly onto the Library entry in the sidebar.

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Note: Found, Not Lost

If you can’t find the latest photos you brought into iPhoto, check out the Last Import album under the Recent heading in the sidebar. That’s where the most recent group of images you imported is always stored.

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Creating iPhoto Albums

Rather than being exactly parallel to a real-world photo album, an iPhoto album is really just a way to group photos together so iPhoto knows which photos you want to print, display, or export. Albums are the way you organize your photos so you can find the ones you want. Creating an album is also the first step in creating a book or web page.

In iPhoto, click the Create button and choose Album from the pop-up menu.

Type a name for the new album and press Enter.

Add photos to the new album by dragging and dropping them from the preview area to the album’s name.

Click the album’s name, and then drag and drop the album’s photos in the preview area to change their order.

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Tip: Information Please

You can add descriptive information to the photos in your albums. Click the Show Info (i) button in the lower right-hand corner of the iPhoto window to display useful information about each photo, including Title and Comments fields that you can fill out.

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Printing Photos

It’s not a paperless world yet, so you’re bound to want to print your photos at some point. iPhoto offers several printing layouts so you can create standard prints, picture packages like the ones photo studios offer, or just plain printouts in your choice of size and number.

in the preview area to select individual photos.

Choose File, Print.

Choose a printer from the Printer pop-up menu.

If available, choose an option from the Presets pop-up menu to set the output type.

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Tip: Fine-Tuning Print Settings

Although your printer driver probably includes presets for photo and plain paper, you might need to fine-tune the settings for your printer. Click Show Details in the final iPhoto Print dialog box to get to a Print dialog box with the usual options, including color and media.

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Choose a Style option and a Print Size option, and make sure the Paper Size setting is correct for your printer.

Click Print.

Click Print again.

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Note: Proxy Preview

The preview area in iPhoto’s Print dialog box shows you how your printouts will look with the selected printer’s paper size and the selected Style option. The preview updates on-the-fly as you change the settings for the selected style.

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Tip: Custom for the Customers

If you want to change the settings for a style, such as the order in which the photos print or their size on the page, click Customize in the lower-right corner of the preview area.

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Sharing Photos on the Web

The best way to share your photos with friends and family all over the country or the world is to put them on the Web. iPhoto makes getting your photos online easy, whether you want to use MobileMe to create your own gallery or simply upload to Flickr or Facebook. Here you see how the process works with MobileMe, but it’s similar with other services.

Click the album you want to share on a web page.

Click Share, and then choose MobileMe Gallery from the pop-up menu.

Click New Album.

Choose options for the web gallery and then click Publish.

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Note: Don’t Stop Now

You can also order prints or email photos directly from iPhoto,