Saving attachments in iphoto

Ive received 6 emails containing around 10 jpgs in each email. How can I move these to iphoto, there must be an easier way than saving to desktop then draging to the iphoto library.

Not 100% sure but you might be able to drag the image from the email right to the iphoto icon (if it is in your dock).
Also, instead of dragging the files from where you save them, go to the file menu add to library, and select them all at once.
If you upgrade to 10.4 Tiger Mail has a great feature. You can view photos as a slide show and click an onscreen button and the picture gets sucked to iphoto, ot you can just save strait to iPhoto.

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