Elements 3 and iPhoto albums

[Jacqueline M. Smith]

Most of my photos have been imported into iPhoto from photo CD's (I do not digital at this time). Can I import those photos into Elements for editing? When I do "Browse" my iPhoto Library does not come up.

I use a Mac iBook G3 laptop with 10.3

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[Xanthus]

Jacqueline,

You can indeed use Elements as your default photo editor. When inside iPhoto, go to the iPhoto menu and choose Preferences. There's a place to change the application that will open your photo when you double-click. Choose that button, then browse for the Photoshop Elements application (inside the Mac OS X Applications folder), and click OK.

Now whenever you double-on a photo, it will open within Elements.

There are a couple fine points to remember in doing this. One is that if you are working with jpeg photos, always flatten your image in Elements before saving it back to iPhoto, otherwise it will try to save your file in the Photoshop format within the iPhoto Library folder.

-George

[Wendy]

Hi Jacqueline,

... and welcome to the forum :)

As George said you can indeed integrate iPhoto and Elements ... it works quite well.

... if you get stuck then there is usually someone here who will talk you through things.

Wendy