How do I transfer photos from iPad to iMac?

I want photos to transfer from ipad to iphoto on the imac so my photos are all in one main place.
I've backed up once or twice and know that I have to have the ipad plugged into the mains and using wi-fi and launch itunes from the imac. 
But after backing up which takes ages... none of the photos I took on the ipad have appeared in iphoto on the imac. 
I have tried several things in 'Camera' on the ipad.  I've 'shared' the latest photos from 'camera roll' (edit, share) and put in photostream - which then appear in the main 'photo' app on the ipad.  But again they don't back up to the imac. 
What exactly am I leaving out here?  And using itunes - well it beats me why we have to use that.  Why can't they develop an app that is just for backing up and selectively so.  The whole process is just not intuitive as I am used to within the Mac world.  When I take a few photos here and there on the ipad (or whatever on the ipad) I don't always want to have to back up the whole ipad again - just the photos I took!  It's just not necessary to waste all that time for a few photos.
I've been using Macs since 1987 and feel daft not being able to work this simple one out! 
Thanks to anyone who can save me a trip to the Apple store for coaching....

On a Mac a backup is stored under :
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
But you probably won't be able to make much, if any, sense of the backup files unless you restore them onto a device.
Syncing is when you copy content to the device from your computer. If you want to be able to access your iPad's files on your Mac then, depending upon what the app that they are in supports, you might be able to copy them via the file sharing section on the device's Apps tab (file sharing), copy them via your wifi network, email them to yourself, use Dropbox - for photos you can copy them as above. If you want to copy things that you've purchased directly on your iPad (e.g. music, films, apps etc) over to your Mac's iTunes then you should be able to do so via the File > Devices > Transfer Purchases menu option.
Edit : got distracted half-way through typing this, so Demo's reply appeared after I started it but before I finished.
Message was edited by: King_Penguin

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