New to Mac. Help

[Dave Stone]

I plugged my card reader into my nice shiny new Mac. Said Mac downloaded the RAW files using iPhoto. I open DPP to edit them and cant seem to get to them. I can view them in iPhoto. If I drag them into DPP they open as JPEGs.
HELP

 

[rogermbyrne]

If you go to File > Export and from the dropdown 'Kind' choose Original.

May be a different way but haven't used iPhoto in a while...

 

[ding76uk]

You need to find where iphoto stored the photos. If I remember right the default is Documents - Photos. Might need a right click open from there to get to the actual RAW files.

 

[Dave Stone]

Thanks Roger. That seem to do the trick if I export them to "Document". I can open them in DPP from there. Is there any way of opening them directly with DPP from the iPhoto library?

 

[Dave Stone]

Hi Carl.

They seem to be stored in the iPhoto library. It doesn't appear when I try and open from DPP though.

 

[rogermbyrne]

If you go into the menu iPhoto > Preferences you can make DPP your 'edit photo in' then go to the Advanced tab and tick 'use RAW for external editor' ?

 

[Dave Stone]

Thanks Roger. That certainly helps.

Could someone talk me through their workflow from RAW to JPG using DPP & iPhoto Pleeeeeaaase.

 

[ding76uk]

Dave, may I suggest downloading the demo versions of Aperture 3 and Lightroom 3. These 2 pieces of software really will make things so much easier for you.

I really can't help with the iphoto workflow though, sorry.

 

[six6six]

in Finder go to your home directory, from there select Pictures then right click click on iPhoto and select 'Show package contents' from the menu.