Moving WinXP photos to Mac iPhoto
I'm brand new to this forum. Currently, I use a Windows XP system but am on the cusp of switching platforms to iMac. I have perhaps 3,000 images to transfer over. Some are from digital cameras but others are scanned 35mm slides and black & white negatives. All of these images have captions, keywords, dates, notes, etc. entered into IPTC metadata fields. What problems will I run into in transferring these photos to the Mac and using iPhoto to them? For example, will iPhoto pick up all the IPTC data so that I don't have to reconstruct it? Most of the images are either .tif or .jpg, but some are .dng and a few are .psd. I believe I have already read that iPhoto will not recognize grayscale. Pity. Possibly a deal-breaker for a new system unless I can find a reasonable work-around.
Of course, I could invest in more sophisticated software such as Aperture or Photoshop Elements or Lightroom, but I'd rather not spend the money in expensive apps like those (well PSE is not so bad) until I have the new system and can download trials for experimentation.
Many thanks for any suggestions.
RHN
Hello again~
As I worked with embedding the sRGB color profile in my greyscale images, I came across another possible issue: Many of the color slides I scanned also lack an embedded profile. The file properties in Photoshop Elements 6 (WinXP) give a Color Mode as RGB and a Color Profile as "Untagged RGB" in ACDSee Pro 2.5, another program I use, the color profile file says "N/A". My question: Where importing into iPhoto is concerned, do I need to embed the sRGB profile into these color images as well as the B&W ones? Or does the fact that the images are in color make this issue moot?
And what about pictures taken with a digital camera? I'm not sure at this point, but I think some of them may not specify an embedded color profile?
Fortunately, ACDSee Pro allows me to convert color profiles on a batch basis so a large scale conversion, while inconvenient, is not impossible. (Photoshop Elements forced me to go through a multi-step process, one image at a time; a real pain.)
By the way, is it possible that whatever conversion I need to do -- B&Ws only or color, too -- can be performed after all of the files have been transferred from Win to the Mac? Does iPhoto itself have this conversion facility? Naturally, I'm seeking the most efficient way to carry out this process.
Thanks for any light you can shed. This is getting to be quite a project.
~Dick
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