Converting to a mac - captions

Question

I have been using Photoshop 8 on a pc - I have numerous catalogues and albums that have captions - can I see these captions when I move the photos to a mac?  Am using Photoshop 8 for a mac - there is no organizer - just the bridge or iphoto.

Answer 1

There's a Mac web site you should remember:  www.versiontracker.  Basically, they list all software that runs on a Mac.  Let's say you have an unusual requirements that involves camels.  You would go to versiontracker, type in "camels" and see what pops up.  I tried it during our last exchange and typed in "photo" and "Windows".  Alas, there were no hits.
I had a lot more success with your album.  It showed up as a folder with ten pictures.  You can see it in the first picture below,  On the left you can see all the metadata that showed up on this picture.
I then imported the folder into one of my iPhoto libraries - my iPad library.  (I bought an iPad two weeks ago.)  I had no problem importing everything into iPhoto as ten separate pictures.  You can seem them below in my iPhoto library.
I pulled up the metadata for the same picture and have it displayed in the picture below.  Not all the metadata seems to show up.  I don't know if that is normal because I'm just an amateur photographer, and don't use metadata.
My conclusion is that you would have absolutely no problem transferring your pictures as long as you just expand on what you did with me - export your pictures one album at a time, and store each album of exported pictures in a separate, labeled folder.  Since all the folders will make your desktop a nightmare, I'd put all the separate album folders in another folder labeled "My Pictures". 
Then just put the folders on a flash drive or an external hard drive and transport them to your Mac.  You could e-mail them, but I suspect you have a lot of pictures.  E-mails would take a lot of time.  It will be slow work to import each folder into iPhoto, but there doesn't seem to be any alternative.
In the Mac iPhoto library, you can put the same picture in multiple albums by putting what is called an "alias" in all but one of the folders.  The alias really is just a pointer to the "real" picture.  I'm not sure if you can do something like that in the Windows world.  If you can, be very careful to see how the Catalog handles the exporting of that aliased picture.  Ideally, the export of an alias should result in the "real" picture being exported.
After you get everything transferred over to the Mac, you should keep a copy of your old Windows Catalog for a long time.  I keep three backup hard disks.  I take one to the bank every Monday, and exchange it for the one that is in my safety deposit box.  I have a third drive that I keep in my gun safe.  Every six months, I bring it up to date.  In the meantime, that third drive is my long-term backup.  You want to be very sure you got all the pictures before you destroy this old Windows Catalog.
I hope this helps you.