Where are the pictures stored??

Ok so i am trying to LIKE iPHOTO, as i NEVER have before...One big problem i have is if I am trying to find the actual "file" on finder, I cannot....If i click on iPhoto library in the pictures folder, it launches the application???? I don't want to launch the application, I want to be able to have access to the file/pic separate from the application...
where is it?? How do i do this?? thanks..

Hello - the link in this answer doesn't lead to a discussion (by which I understand something with input from different contributors) but to a download page called Aliashoarder. Is this what you intended or is the link wrong?
As a new Mac user, I'm having problems with coming to terms with iPhoto as well, so much so that if I'm trying to edit photos and send copies to other people, I frequently end up resorting in frustration to the ancient and outdated software that originally came with my digital camera - at least I know how to use that!
For instance, if a scan comes out upside down, I rotate it and it appears to be the right way up: there isn't any prompt asking you to save the new image, so you assume it's now OK - but when I attach the view to an email to send, it comes out upside down again! And if you put a scan into an album called, say "Yellow" and then try to put another scan into the same folder, it puts it into another separate folder, also called "Yellow"! So now I have 2 folders with identical names, each with a different picture in, when what I wanted was one folder containing them both.
Presumably there must be an explanation somewhere, in simple language, of how to use iPhoto properly - but where? Grateful for any help, thanks!

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