Lightroom on Mac: I am having trouble getting the Lightroom program to see my camera when I plug it in on my Mac laptop. iPhoto takes over every time. Until I recently installed...

Nightski

I am having trouble getting the Lightroom program to see my camera when I plug it in on my Mac laptop. iPhoto takes over every time. Until I recently installed Lightroom, I had been using iphoto to import my photos. How do I fix this?

fotowerks Loc: San Diego, CA

Your iPhoto program is set to open upon mounting a camera, this can be changed under preferences in iPhoto. When you have done that, plug your camera in and open lightroom. In the Library screen, push the import button. On the left side of the window you should see a navigation panel. Your camera should show up there. If not, locate youe camera on the desktop and drag it on to import pane. Good luck.

Nightski

fotowerks wrote:

Your iPhoto program is set to open upon mounting a camera, this can be changed under preferences in iPhoto. When you have done that, plug your camera in and open lightroom. In the Library screen, push the import button. On the left side of the window you should see a navigation panel. Your camera should show up there. If not, locate youe camera on the desktop and drag it on to import pane. Good luck.

Thank-you.

Joecosentino Loc: Whitesboro, New York

Nightski wrote:

Thank-you.

Also in the preference panes you will see an image setting ( I am at work and don't have a Mac available) you can open that pane and set age program to open when a card reader or camera is plugged in

Nightski

Joecosentino wrote:

Also in the preference panes you will see an image setting ( I am at work and don't have a Mac available) you can open that pane and set age program to open when a card reader or camera is plugged in

Thanks so much. I am a windows lady, but my son gave me his macbook pro when he upgraded his laptop, so it's a learning curve for me.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

You might find this site helpful. http://terrywhite.com/
Terry is the President of Mac Group Detroit, and is also a Director/Trainer for Adobe Corporation. He also posts tutorials on photo topics to youTube, FYI.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

Nightski it just takes resetting the preferences in iPhoto so it will not attempt to open and load your images when you. I use a card reader rather than attempting to link my cameras to my mac.

Nightski

Dun1 wrote:

Nightski it just takes resetting the preferences in iPhoto so it will not attempt to open and load your images when you. I use a card reader rather than attempting to link my cameras to my mac.

Is a card reader an external device that you plug into your computer? Does one size fit all, or does each camera have it's own type of card reader? I ask, because I did change the settings, and everything was going fine. Then yesterday morning I could not get the mac to recognize my camera. I restarted it, I looked through every menu. Then last night for some reason it decided to cooperate, and I managed to upload my photos. Maybe it would be more consistent with one of these card readers instead of the camera.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

Yes most of the external card readers plug into a USB port on your computer and allows you to take the camera USB cord out of the import process. I seldom import photos directly from the camera. One size does not fit all usually most card readers have slots for CF cards, SD cards, xD cards, and micro SD cards. Card readers of course like everything else in relation to photography come with basics, and then work their way up the line at different price levels and features. I tend to shy away from the smaller cards readers, and the biggest advantage some card readers is the ability to read the higher speed cards.

Kombiguy Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Your MacBook Pro probably has a built-in card reader for SD cards. On the left side, closest to you is a slot for SD cards.

photogmom Loc: Royal Palm Beach, Florida

Nightski wrote:

Is a card reader an external device that you plug ... (show quote)

What camera do you have? My nikons use CompactFlash cards. I bought two basic usb card readers for about $12 from B&H photo. I like them because they are small and travel well. I have a different multi-card reader for my desk top. You will still need to change your preferences in iPhoto so that it doesn't automatically prepare to upload your photos from the card. And you can set your preferences in lightroom to automatically read your card and begin the import process... and you can set the preference to auto eject the card when import is finished. Side note.... once I went MAC.... will never go back :)