Importing Pix From A Disk

A friend sent me a disc full of jpegs and I can't figure out how to import the pix into iPhoto. Also I cannot view the picturs as thumbnails because they only showup as icons. In windows you could go to view and click view as thumbnails to see the pix. Any advice?

Click on the CD icon and select all images on the CD (cmd A), then double click one of the images. All images will then show up in Preview. This will allow you to view all images on the CD.
To import into iPhoto:
1. Open iPhoto and resize to fit side-by-side with the finder window showing the image files on the CD.
2. Select all the images on the CD (cmd A) or if you only want to copy certain images, click on the ones you want while you hold down the cmd key.
3. Drag the selected images onto the iPhoto browser window.
4. Images will copy to iPhoto.

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