Backing up iphone photos somewhere other than iPhoto

Help!! I have to restore my iPhone ASAP. Since I have too many pictures on my Mac to use the Cloud for my back up, I need to back up my iPhone pictures to my Mac - but I don't want them in iPhoto. I don't use iPhoto for my pictures b/c it forces me to organize my photos in a different way than what works for me, so I keep them in the Pictures folder on my Mac. How do I do this? I want to be absolutely positive I have my photos backed up before I reset my iPhone. I've been able to import them to iPhoto, but I can't get them into a folder outside of iPhoto and into a new folder in Pictures. I've tried every way I see to use iPhoto to get them into a separate folder, and it's either not possible or I'm doing something wrong (the latter is most likely). I have tried Image Capture, which lets me create a new folder to put my pictures in, but it doesn't give me the option to put them there. I've even tried old-fashioned command-C and command-V to copy-n-paste the pictures, and it didn't work, either. When I set my phone up again I want to leave the pictures off my phone (so I have room for more!!) so I need them backed up on my Mac. I am probably doing something wrong, but I am desperate at this point!!! I have an iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.1.1) and a MacBook Pro (running Lion 10.7.4). HELP!!!
Sarah

Rich
Yes there is. You want to use a back up utility that will do incremental back ups. Chronosync and DejaVu are two such, but there are others. Search on MacUpdate.
Regards
TD

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