Auto-launch of iphoto

I'm sure I'm overlooking something stupid, but how do you stop iphoto from automatically launching when the iPhone starts to sync?

I posted this other option on another thread:
I find it doesn't open iPhoto if your phone doesn't contain any photos that you took on the iPhone that are still in the "camera roll". I download the photos to iPhoto into a folder I named "From iPhone" which I have checked off to sync with the iPhone (if I do want them to be on the iPhone) then I delete them from the iPhone from the "camera roll" section of photos or from the camera app. Until I take a new photo from the iPhone, iPhoto doesn't open, the photos are still on the phone and in iPhoto and iPhoto will still open when I've taken new pictures via iPhone or my camera.
You could also set iPhoto to delete photos from camera after downloading but I don't want iPhoto to automatically do that with my photos from my regular camera ... I'm afraid I'll forget to uncheck the box so I use the above method.
A P.S. to this, if you've take pictures to use as contact photos, you can remove the photo itself after you've applied it to the contact and it will still work even if it's not on your iPhone at all.

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