Your Macintosh comes with an easy to use photo application called iPhoto. You will find the icon on your dock at the bottom of your screen. When you first run iPhoto, it will ask if you want the application to open when you attach a camera. This is a good idea, unless you plan on using another application to store and modify your photos. When you connect your camera and upload your photos, photos will be stored in Events
Events are a very clean way to help organize your photos into more manageable groups. Basically, iPhoto takes the information from your photos and groups them together by the day the photos were taken. Once they are grouped together, you can “skim” through an event by moving your mouse across the event, giving you a quick glimpse at every photo in that event.
Usually this will put the “event” that you were at (i.e. - wedding, birthday party, etc.) all together in one collection of photos. If the automatic sorting doesn’t quite do the job (say the event lasted more than 1 day, or only part of the day’s photos were from a specific event), it is very easy for you to either add photos to an event (by simply dragging them into the event), or separating them (by selecting the first picture you want separated and simply clicking “split”).
There are also some fantastic new printing options that give you the power of a portraits studio right on your Mac. You can print mats, multi-picture layouts, and more with just a few clicks.
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