A way to automatically transfer newly downloaded photos into iPhoto?

I download load a lot of random photos and it is a pain to download them to the hard drive and then import them into iphoto. Is there a way (possibly through automator) for me (when I download a new photo) to automatically import it into iPhoto?

It is a database - not a file manager
It is not fragile - few people who follow the rules ever have a problem - the prime rule is do not ever change the contents of the iPhoto database (iPhoto library) - except with iPhoto
Hardware or software failures can damage the database and therefore is it important to have backups - but then that is true of all computer files
Why use it - the power of the database - I can show you all photos that I took in Cortona Italy in a second - or all photos of my wife and grandson taken in 2006 - or of my granddaughter at a birthday party - of gather and export for a digital frame all photos of my mother -- etc, etc, etc
Plus it makes great keepsakes (I do books of vacations now that we keep on our coffee table and look through instead of photo albums that we never go back to)
And it creates and maintains web albums
It is a fun and very powerful program
There is nothing wrong with Picasa - lots of people use it - it just is nothing like iPhoto
Before you make a decision create a small (100 - 200 photos) iPhoto library and assign faces and places and keywords and play with it - you may find that you like it
As to duplicates - it make no duplicates - it does have two or three (if you have made any modifications) versions of a photo
iPhoto maintains your original photo unchanged - the digital negative - so you always have it available - it does make a small thumbnail for display and when you modify a photo it keeps one modified version - it uses non destructive editing so each edit goes back to the digital negative eliminating the progressive degradation of an image created by multiple edits in other programs.
LN
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