If you don't want to use iPhoto ...
Open "Image Capture" (in the Applications folder). Go to its
preferences (Image Capture->Preferences) and choose "No Application"
with regards to what application you want the system to run
automatically when a camera or card is connected. Then you can move
the image files yourself, manually, without having to deal with iPhoto
or anything else. At which point it's as Cotty suggested, just a set
of files that you move directly.
But the question, as I read it, was "I have my files in iPhoto ... how
do I use them in something else?" Some people find iPhoto sufficient
for their image management and processing ... the latest version (in
the iLife '08 software package) is actually quite good. It's nothing
like Lightroom or Aperture or Bridge+Photoshop ... but not useless
either.
Godfrey
On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Cotty wrote:
The thing that makes me shudder is when you said 'they went into
iPhoto'.....
There's a really simple way to avoid iPhoto and manage your pictures
manually, with no hindrance from iPhoto, and you still get to see your
pics using 'Preview' (a small application that lets you view pictures
that comes with the OS).
How did you get the pics onto your Mac from the SDS card? Card
reader of
direct connection from camera? I'll assume card reader....
1. Connect card reader to Mac, Insert SD card.
2. Ignore any application that opens, especially iPhoto. Ignore and
close. See your SD card pop up straight onto your desktop. If it
doesn't, look along the top in the menubar, see 'Finder' click on
'Preferences' NOT the same thing as the blue Apple menu and System
Preferences!) (click anywhere on the desktop to make sure 'Finder'
appears top left on the menubar), ensure 'Hard Disks' is checked in :
'Show these items on the desktop'.
3. With your SD card on the desktop, open it by double-clicking on
it -
navigate your way to your pics by double-clicking on the folders
within
til you reach all your pics.
4. Create a new folder directly on the desktop.
5. Drag and drop your pics into this new folder directly from your SD
card pics folder.
6. Eject the SD card from the Mac. Drag it to the trash (does not
delete
anything - dragging a connected hard disk to the trash simply ejects
the
disk - see the cursor change to the eject symbol over the trash. There
are several ways to eject the hard disk, this is one of them. Then
pull
the SD card out of the reader.
7. You now have copies of all you pics on your Mac. If you want to see
them, you can organise them in the folder so they will show the actual
pics in the icons, or open them in Preview. Or organise them and/or
view
them in any suitable application.
Apologies if this is very simplistic. Your question reminds me of a PC
user stumped by the simplest operation on a Mac ;-)
HTH
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