What application for modifying a jpeg of my daugher?

[pcpacker]

I just got the iMac today. My dad emailed me a photo of my 7 year old daughter. I assumed that this should go to iPhoto, but now I am wondering.
Is iPhoto a place to store all of my digital photos, or just a way to get them off of a camera? Also, what about red eye touch up and turning a color to B/W before printing? Any advice would be great.

[Mudbug]

iPhoto will do all of those things you're asking about - think of it as a digital version of a photo album, that happens to have simplistic darkroom tools for fixing minor photo blemishes and color changes. If you want a little more power for the editing part, you should look into Photoshop Elements, or if you feel like going whole-hog, then get Photoshop CS, although the learning curve on CS is a bit steep.

One nice thing to remember is that iPhoto is non-destructive, so that if you totally fubar your original image by tinkering, you can just revert back to the original and lose the changes.

[pcpacker]

Thank you for your quick response.

I cannot seem to get the photo into iPhoto. When I control click, or export, it wants to go to preview instead. Any advice?

[Mechcozmo]

Open iPhoto.

Click on picture(s) and drag into iPhoto. iPhoto will then import them into its library.

Go to File->Export and choose your settings.