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New mac with iphoto and photoshop elements...which do I use?

Mar 18, 2008 4:21AM PDT

I have a new mac with the iphoto and i also bought and downloaded the photoshop elements 4 software.....this will be the first time I import photos into the mac.....Which do I use and why?

also the new photoshop elements program doesn't have the old 'browser' which collected all the photos, gave them tags and made it easy to organize. the new word is 'Bridge'..how does that differ, and is that where I import the photos to...I am confused by the choices...and how to accomplish the (use to be simple) task of importing photos from my camera to my computer??
please help!

Susan

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iPhoto, Photoshop Elements, and stuff
Mar 18, 2008 6:46AM PDT

Hi Susan,

To import the photo's into your computer, all you need to do is plug the camera into a USB port and iPhoto will open and allow you to import your photographs.
Alternatively, you could take the memory card out of the camera and put it in a card reader that you would attach to a USB port. Again, iPhoto would open and allow you to import your photo's
Do not use the USB port on your keyboard. Only use the USB ports on the back of you Mac. They are the USB 2.0 ports and are faster.

Photoshop Elements is a good program for editing your pictures, although you can do that to a certain extent in iPhoto.

What was your prime reason for the purchase of Elements?

P

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bought the photoshop because
Mar 18, 2008 7:14AM PDT

I had it in my Dell and found it a great way to organize, edit, etc. my photos. wasn't aware that the mac had its own program, but I assume that the elements probably does a bit more than the basic mac photo program....am I wrong?

Also with my dell, photoshop elements automatically 'found' any imported photos and put them in my organizer. Of course the new elements no longer has the 'browser, so I have to figure out how the 'bridge' works and take it from there. So I guess I will just import into iphoto and deal with all there until I figure out photoshop. I assume (there goes that word again!) that I can burn photos to CD in iphoto easily?

thanks,
S

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Photoshop
Mar 18, 2008 11:04AM PDT

iPhoto is an excellent program for storing and organizing all your photo's.
It will also edit your programs but if you want to go just that little bit further with your editing, you can tell iPhoto to launch Photoshop Elements whenever you want to do some serious editing.

In iPhoto, go to the Preferences. Click General
Under EDIT PHOTO, select "In Application"
Choose PhotoSHop elements
close the windows

Next time you hit edit, iPhoto will launch PE and have your picture ready for editing

P