Already using Dropbox with iPhone, but new to iPhoto. WTD?

I am a long-time iPhone user but until recently have always been on a PC, so I would at first manually move photos from my iPhone to my Dropbox folder, then later started using the "upload to Dropbox" feature to automatically download my photos to my Dropbox folder via Wifi.
However I've just got a Macbook so want to start using iPhoto. Most of my photos are already in Dropbox, and I want to keep using Dropbox as I like having all my photos baked up, and I like that it syncs my photos over WiFi.
So the question is, how do I get my photos from DropBox to best appear in iPhoto, and what import should I use in future? I don't want to duplicate my photos in iPhoto and Dropbox. Most of the advice I can find seems to assume you already use iPhoto. I did an import from my Dropbox folder to iPhoto but do I have to do a completely new Import every time I want to get a few new photos in to iPhoto? I just tried another import and it seemed it was starting from scratch to import them all.

You clearly need to spend some time learning iPhoto - it is not a photo viewer but a SALite database photo manager - it can only work with photos that are imported into it and it is very strongly recommended that you let it copy those photos to the iPhoto library - although it is possible to not copy them there are many reasons not to do that
Take the iPhoto tutorials and read the user tips for iPhoto to understand iPhoto better and learn about how to properly use it and then play with a small library of a few hundred photos before you go whole hog
Specifically 
how do I get my photos from DropBox to best appear in iPhoto
The only way is to import them to iPhoto
what import should I use in future?
Same - although you probably will find using PhotoStream a better solution for your iPhone photos - this is similer to what you have been doing and is more automatic
I don't want to duplicate my photos in iPhoto and Dropbox.
That is not possible if you use both - the best answer is to use PhotoStream to move photos form the phone to iPhoto rather than Drop Box - or pick a different photo program and do not use iPhoto
LN

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