Converting (transferring) tagged photos from PC to IMac

Gentleman and Ladies if appropriate,
When I could not upgrade my Xp desktop, I decided to convert to Apple's IMac.
Since my current emphasis is not office related and more on photos,music and the web it fits nicely.
My problem. I have some 6000 photos tagged with Photoshop Elements Version 6 (people, places,events etc). I would dearly love to transfer this meta data into the I Mac where I can then use Mac's "IPhoto" to handle them and create slide shows etc.
Since I could not see a way to do this directly, I purchased the Mac version (6) of the same Adobe software (Photoshop Elements) to facilitate
the transfer. It is quite different! It uses a sub program called Bridge to sort and select photos. So I am not sure how to proceed.
My original photos were transferred over from the Dell to the Mac but I can not determine if the meta data is in place and how I should
go about transferring it. I would appreciate any help you could provide.
Cheers,
Zinfan
Markham, Ontario
The new Imac desktop has 4 Gb of Ram and the Dell Pentium 4 is available to re-download the photos if necessary.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
On the Windows box, use Elements to write the tags to the IPTC data of the files. Consult the help on Elements for details on how to do that, or search this forum. The question comes up from time to time. You will also get specific assistance over at the Adobe Forums
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/
As this is the iPhoto forum, a word of warning: Bridge and iPhoto are not compatible. You need to choose one or the other to manage your photos.
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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