iphoto: who imports here?

[Melissa Hill]

Importing seems to be a little different on a mac than with a pc. iphoto seems to convert your raw files into jpeg unless you tell it otherwise. Just wondering (for those that own a mac) where do you import all your photos? Lightroom, Bridge, iphoto, or ?? So many options!

Melissa

[LauraBean]

Well, I use Aperture, and I like how it handles RAW files. I did use iPhoto, but once I started shooting in RAW, I wasn't as thrilled with it as I had been for a couple years before that. Aperture, though, is some kind of awesome, IMO. (You can download a trial to check it out; I tried both Aperture and Lightroom before making the jump to Aperture.)

[Melissa Hill]

Thanks Laura, I am downloading Aperture to see how it differs from Lightroom 2.

[AllynD]

For my little Nikon S10 I just use iPhoto. For my husband's D60, we are looking at some other options, so I will be interested in what others do.

[nirecreations]

I use LR and I BEYOND LOVE it!!@

[kb522]

I struggle with this. I use iPhoto because that's what everyone else in my family uses so I can easily upload pics to my Mobile Me gallery and others can subscribe to the pics in their iPhoto programs. I upload to iPhoto, tag, delete, organize, etc. If they are pics that I'm not doing anything with, I do some minor editing in iPhoto and that's where they stay.

If they are portraits or other pictures that I want to use in LR or Photoshop to make some major edits then I export them to a folder and then import from there into LR and PS to make my edits.

It's kind of complicated, and I'm not sure it's the most efficient way, but it is what has worked for me so far.