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?
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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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