any iMac users please help (Page 2): If you just got your Mac and live near an Apple store buy one to one immediately. Mt understanding is that they are stoping one to one sales very...

sueyeisert Loc: New Jersey

If you just got your Mac and live near an Apple store buy one to one immediately. Mt understanding is that they are stoping one to one sales very soon and going to group lessons.
If you have Lightroom import with lightroom.
See this scroll down it's free. http://en.elephorm.com/tuto-lightroom-4-complete-training.html

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

1Georgie wrote:

I always used a PC. My computer finically died on ... (show quote)

Two recommendations: "Switching to the Mac," by David Pogue, and lynda.com. Lynda has several videos about using the Mac. You can sign up for a week for free and see how you like it. Then it's only $25 for a month of unlimited viewing.

Yes, going from Windows to Mac is a challenge, but once you learn the basics, it's a nice move. One thing I don't like is the absence of the Delete key. All the Mac has is Backspace.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

jerryc41 wrote:

Two recommendations: "Switching to the Mac," by David Pogue, and lynda.com. Lynda has several videos about using the Mac. You can sign up for a week for free and see how you like it. Then it's only $25 for a month of unlimited viewing.

Yes, going from Windows to Mac is a challenge, but once you learn the basics, it's a nice move. One thing I don't like is the absence of the Delete key. All the Mac has is Backspace.

I have a delete key on my keyboard, Jerry.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Mac wrote:

I have a delete key on my keyboard, Jerry.

Right. My bad. I bet you don't have a Backspace key, though.

Sylvanboy

You can stop iphoto/Photos importing the files from your camera/card by going into iphoto or Photos Preferences General and slect Nothing to open. Your Camera/Card will now appear on your desktop. Open a new empty file and drag the photos from your camera/card into it. When complete eject camera/card and disconnect. Your new files are now ready to import into the application of your choice. Highlight all photos and in the drop down File menu choose Open With and Off you Go. Hope this helps.

bpiekney Loc: Vienna, Virginia

A lot of different approaches here, but this is what I do on my iMac: I import photos from the SD card via Nikon software called "Nikon Transfer 2" into the "Pictures" application on the Mac, everything going into folders annotated by the year. "Nikon Transfer 2" can be set to automatically open when the SD card is inserted. (I close down "Photos" when it pops up.) I then import the photos I want into LR5 from the Applications - Pictures, edit them and export back to either the same folder in "Pictures" or to the desktop.

The Export dialogue is critical; toward the bottom of the dialogue you can choose the kind of photo (i.e. JPEG)) and the dimensions of the exported image. Do not resize and set the Quality slider to 100%. Depending on the camera, your JPEGs will average around 20 MB but you control the size and kind of photo being exported. This approach works well for me and I have been using a Mac now for about three years. I no longer use PhotoShop.

Hope this helps a little.

Bill

NoSocks Loc: quonochontaug, rhode island

jerryc41 wrote:

Two recommendations: "Switching to the Mac," by David Pogue, and lynda.com. Lynda has several videos about using the Mac. You can sign up for a week for free and see how you like it. Then it's only $25 for a month of unlimited viewing.

Yes, going from Windows to Mac is a challenge, but once you learn the basics, it's a nice move. One thing I don't like is the absence of the Delete key. All the Mac has is Backspace.

My Mac Book Pro has a delete key but no backspace key. They perform the same function. By the way, there is a way to delete text that follows the cursor. It is Function>Delete (or function>backspace, I assume). I only learned that a year ago and I've been a Mac user for five years!

studavis

I understand that, I had that problem.. I went to a Apple store paid $100.00 for a year of 1 hour one to one lessons.

1Georgie Loc: nevada

Thanks everyone one for your help and advise. I do appreciate it very much.

bweber Loc: Newton, MA

This should be easy to fix. The problem with the new MAC OS is that it opens "Photos" was soon as you insert a photo card into any reader and it wants to import the images into Photos. The simple thing to do is to hit the quit button on the screen and do not import into Photos. This closes Photos. Then open lightroom and import directly into lightroom. I do this with Capture One and never have any problems. I assume that lightroom allows for the direct import. I use a card reader because it is faster and easier, but you can import directly from you camera.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

1Georgie wrote:

Thanks everyone one for your help and advise. I do appreciate it very much.

Georgie,

First, you need to understand what your Mac is doing when you attach your camera or insert a card in a card reader. By default, your Mac is going to recognize the files as pictures images and import them into the iMac's default "Mac" program for viewing and editing. You want to stop that from happening because the images are going directly into a place where you can't open them directly with any of the third party applications like Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop or Adobe PSE. I don't know how many images you've got stored on your new iMac, but you probably need to export all of them as jpgs into a folder or into several folders in the "Pictures" folder so that your Adobe applications can open and edit them. Then you need to follow the directions that another person here already posted on how to change the default downloads of your images so that they don't download into your iMacs photo viewing/editing program. You want them to simply download into a folder that you specify.

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

1Georgie wrote:

I always used a PC. My computer finically died on ... (show quote)

While the Apple system (OS-X) is pretty straightforward to use and understand, there are a few things that seem to defy logic, yet are actually simple once you find out how to do them. One thing I found is that it is wonderful to use the Apple tech support. These people actually know their stuff, and when you get a tech after the computer asks you what the problem is, you get someone who apparently specializes in that area. I have had great results using Apple Care. I am assuming that you got the Apple Care when you got your I-Mac. For those things I can't resolve myself (or in this case on UHH for photography-related problems) I go straight to Apple Care.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

When you boot the Mac you will see an icon, often in the top left corner that belongs to the computer - it will have some give away name. Open it - there should be a User folder - open it - there should be a folder with the name you gave - open it and scan all the folders - thats where the Mac puts your stuff by default. Apps like iPhoto or Photos know that is where to look pictures - they list the pictures my alias names but don't show the "alias." You can create folders on the hard drive and put you stuff there. I have a master folder named Filecabinet and stash my stuff in subfolders. Got in that habit years ago. Hope this helps.

Alfresco

You have three months of support even if you didn't get AppleCare, which I strongly suggest you buy! Call Apple support and they will very nicely walk you through any problem you have.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

NoSocks wrote:

By the way, there is a way to delete text that follows the cursor. It is Function>Delete (or function>backspace, I assume).

Thanks for that! :thumbup: