Best way to organise photos on iphone and mac plus transferring question

HI all
sorry if this has been asked before. However what is the best way to set up photos i have taken on my iphone 4 on my iphone. At the moment all photos are in camera roll. Is it possible to set up different photo albums on my iphone?
Also whats best way to keep the photos on my iphone and also transfer photos on my macbook pro to my iphone. As itunes only gives me a sync option and I believe that only puts certain photos from iphoto to my iphone and may replace photos that are on my iphone already. Also how to transfer photos on my macbook to my iphone. I am sorry if this is such a silly question. But hope someone can help and explain this to me.
thanks in advance

You need to import the photos in your camera roll to iPhoto. Treat the camera roll just like you'd treat any digital camera...temporary storage only. You cannot organize photos in the camera roll. Once in iPhoto, you can create various albums, copy whatever photos you want on your phone to these various albums, then select what albums/events you want to sync back to your phone in iTunes.

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