I’ve just managed to switch my wife to using a Mac and she’s taken to it like a duck to water. But the question of how to manage pictures has come up…
At the moment she has a load of images loaded into iPhoto and I’ve moved her Photoshop Elements 11 installation to the Mac but now I need to find the best workflow for her to use.
Does anyone use a similar setup and have any advice about how best to manage/edit images. As I see it she could:
Any suggestions anyone?
Andy
At the moment she has a load of images loaded into iPhoto and I’ve moved her Photoshop Elements 11 installation to the Mac but now I need to find the best workflow for her to use.
Does anyone use a similar setup and have any advice about how best to manage/edit images. As I see it she could:
- Import all her photos into Elements and stop using iPhoto. This may not be a good move for her as she had issues with deleting photos from Explorer on Windows and she looked a bit less than keen when I suggested it yesterday.
- Do what I do which is to save raw files from iPhoto into a working directory and then open them direct from there using ACR/Elements. This uses a bit of additional space and works ok for me but…
- Use the option to edit externally from iPhoto and then save the results either into the iPhoto hierarchy or externally. This is the simplest approach but the folders used by iPhoto are convoluted and badly named so very confusing for someone who’s not completely comfortable with computers.
Any suggestions anyone?
Andy
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