The Power of IPhoto

What is iPhoto? iPhoto is a software application made by Apple Computer for their Mac OS X operating system and iLife software suite. iPhoto is designed to help manage the digital photos. iPhoto makes sharing photos faster, simpler, and cooler than ever before. iPhoto now supports up to 250,000 images. That means you can confidently shoot over a thousand photos per month for the next 20 years!

Organize your pictures with iPhoto

Whether you're importing pictures from your digital camera, uploading shots your friend gave you on CD or importing a batch of images you've scanned out of an old family album, iPhoto offers flexible ways to organize the lot. For importing your own digital pictures, it's as easy as plugging your camera in - iPhoto has built-in drivers for the majority of common cameras, so it really is as easy as plug-and-play. You can import images from CD or other pictures that aren't already in your iPhoto library just by typing command-o and navigating to the folder you're after. When importing, you can include keywords, dates and other information to help you keep the images organized. For office projects, this meant we could import images from everywhere, keeping track of whose they were, when they arrived and where they belonged in our catalog.

iPhoto helps you share your images

If you've got a family and love sending pictures of the kids or anything that you would love to show online, never fear - you can export images from iPhoto into simple web pages, create stunning slideshows, share images with friends online via your .Mac account, order prints, burn images to CD and send them via email.

Perhaps the most useful thing iPhoto does is make it simple to email images at sensible sizes so that even those of us still cursed with dial-up connections can cope with sending and receiving them. You select the pictures you want to share, find 'email' under the 'sharing' menu and iPhoto presents you with a drop-down menu to select an appropriate size from. What's better than that? If you're writing an email, you can simply drop an image onto the window you're typing in and a pop-up menu appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the window to allow you to resize images on the fly. Also, any images in your iPhoto library are readily available to the other applications in Apple's iWork and iLife collections - so if you're putting together a Keynote presentation, your photographs are only a click away.