- Joined
- Jan 20, 2007
- Messages
- 14
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 1
Folks,
Have some questions for you all about iPhoto.. I have been a long time windows user, and have had a macbook for about a year now.. Just recently bought a iMac and need to move ALL my digital pictures from the PC to the mac.. I have all my pictures set up in my PC in folders by year, subfolders by month, and then from each "event" inside the month there are folders for RAW and JPG files.. I know it is a big overkill, but I shoot everythingin RAW because I like the control that I get with exposure compensation and white balance adjustments..
I like some of the features that iPhoto has, but frankly don't understand how it works as far as it's file system.. I would love to hear some of your opinons on how to go about setting up my pics on the iMac... I have copied them all to an external drive... I'm leaning towards recreating my "file" system on the mac, and importing the JPG files into iphoto.. Is this stupid? Also if I do this will I wind up using twice the hard drive space, or does iPhoto just reference your files? Also, I have photoshop CS3 on the iMac so I can use bridge as well for browsing photos.. The last piece of info is that my wife is a snapfish junky.. She loves uploading pics and having them delivered.. That is why I'd like to preserve a file system, so I know where they are so she can upload..
Anyway I'm open to all suggestions.. I think I have a case of "analysis paralasis".. Sorry for the longwinded question and thanks in advance!!
John..
Have some questions for you all about iPhoto.. I have been a long time windows user, and have had a macbook for about a year now.. Just recently bought a iMac and need to move ALL my digital pictures from the PC to the mac.. I have all my pictures set up in my PC in folders by year, subfolders by month, and then from each "event" inside the month there are folders for RAW and JPG files.. I know it is a big overkill, but I shoot everythingin RAW because I like the control that I get with exposure compensation and white balance adjustments..
I like some of the features that iPhoto has, but frankly don't understand how it works as far as it's file system.. I would love to hear some of your opinons on how to go about setting up my pics on the iMac... I have copied them all to an external drive... I'm leaning towards recreating my "file" system on the mac, and importing the JPG files into iphoto.. Is this stupid? Also if I do this will I wind up using twice the hard drive space, or does iPhoto just reference your files? Also, I have photoshop CS3 on the iMac so I can use bridge as well for browsing photos.. The last piece of info is that my wife is a snapfish junky.. She loves uploading pics and having them delivered.. That is why I'd like to preserve a file system, so I know where they are so she can upload..
Anyway I'm open to all suggestions.. I think I have a case of "analysis paralasis".. Sorry for the longwinded question and thanks in advance!!
John..