Transferring Images to a Macintosh Computer
Whether you use a card reader or plug directly into your camera, transferring images to your Mac is very simple, and you have a number of options for determining what happens when you attach the camera or card reader.
Depending on what kind of Mac you have and when you bought it, you might have a copy of iPhoto, Apple's image organizing and editing program. iPhoto is very good, and can handle the transfer of images from your media card, as well as help you with the rest of your photographic workflow, from organizing to editing to output.
iPhoto is part of Apple's iLife suite, and it comes bundled on many new Macs. If your Mac doesn't have it, you can buy the latest version from any vendor that sells Apple products.
Whether or not you have iPhoto, every Mac ships with a copy of Image Capture, a small utility that helps manage the transfer of images into your computer. Image Capture has no editing or organization features; its sole purpose is to get images copied onto your hard drive. Once they're there, you can decide what to do with them.
If you installed the Canon EOS Digital Solutions disk, then you'll have some additional software on your Mac, which we'll take a look at later in this chapter. You might also have other editing software that you want to use, such as Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. These programs can also manage the transfer of images from your computer.
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