Importing into iPhoto after CS and Bridge.

I have moved from a PC using PS7 to edit and ACDSee to manage my photos.  I am now on the latest iMac using CS6 to edit and Bridge to manage my photos.  Many of my photos started out as scans by ScanCafe.
I can successfully load into Bridge an old photo file that started as a scan then was renamed by ACDSee ( and possible editied by PS7).  i can also further edit the photo in CS6 and rename in Bridge.  However, when I try to import the result into iPhoto (I want to use Faces) the file name is not properly picked up by iPhoto and called a Title.  I can successfully import the original file (scan plus ACDSee rename) and iPhoto pickes up the Title from the file name.
When this doesn't work properly, I can slect the photo in iPhoto and click on Info but the Title field is blank on the top RHS of the screen.  If I scroll over the blank title, a pop-up shows the correct Title.  So there appears to be a disconnect as the file is passed between these software packages.
I could send some sample photos but can't attach them.
I hope that this reaches someone with Adobe and iPhoto experience so I don't get into finger pointing between the two products.

dmoffat323 wrote:
Let me summarize more clearly… 
Oh, I understand you, dmoffat323. 
Let me try again:
dmoffat323 wrote:
…With Bridge I am able to go through my folders and files with no problems. File names are visible and correct, and renaming works fine…
Bridge is only showing you the embedded low-res JPEG thumbnail/previews that iPhoto leaves exposed after swallowing your actual image files into the entrails of one of its libraries/packages.  Just like Curt Y says.
If you still want to use iPhoto, Curt Y has the right advice for you, i.e. to check out the Apple discussion boards, specifically the iPhoto forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto
You are not addressing Adobe here.  We are all users just like you, and we are not here to defend Adobe or to apologize for them.
What I am also telling you is that Curt Y is a Windows user and yours truly an avid Mac User of three decades' standing who nevertheless detests iPhoto.   Personally neither one of us gives a darn that iPhoto and Photoshop don't play nice with each other.  We're just trying to give you the best advice we can.
Also remember that Apple banned the use of Adobe's Flash, and is actually a competitor to Photoshop with its Aperture application.  Not really a flawless relationship there.

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