aperature/mac question

starky987

This is a stupid problem to have, but none the less I have it....I'm a new mac user nd when I plug my canon xti into my mac i do not get the option to just load the pictures onto my computer. To get the pictures off my camera and onto my laptop I must go into aperature and then load them into the program. Is there a way to load the pictures directly to my hard drive so that I can view them without going into aperature? Might it be because I shoot in RAW format? I'm really not sure what to do here but its a pain that I have to view and open my pictures through aperature instead of just being able to view them and load them onto the hard drive directly. This seems to be the same with iPhoto which is the basic software that comes on macs. thanks

DonRicklin

starky987 wrote:

This is a stupid problem to have, but none the less I have it....I'm a new mac user nd when I plug my canon xti into my mac i do not get the option to just load the pictures onto my computer. To get the pictures off my camera and onto my laptop I must go into aperature and then load them into the program. Is there a way to load the pictures directly to my hard drive so that I can view them without going into aperature? Might it be because I shoot in RAW format? I'm really not sure what to do here but its a pain that I have to view and open my pictures through aperature instead of just being able to view them and load them onto the hard drive directly. This seems to be the same with iPhoto which is the basic software that comes on macs. thanks

I am not an Aperture user ( ), but on a Mac using OSX it is the applicaton Image Capture that is used for downloading (Lightroom uses it). There is where you can configure your downloads and set what app to auto open or not.

Have fun,
Don

starky987

thanks a lot...it works perfectly!!!