How do I transfer photos in iPhoto to Photoshop?

I have hung on to the bitter end with iPhoto, despite the objections of Apple tech support and have discovered this KEY POINT. If changing over from iPhoto to photoshop, DO NOT use the standard import option to start your library. iPhoto does not included any keywords, tags, descriptions or other personalized info if you use that method, all will be lost. You must go into iPhoto and export each event, or group of photos to a new storage folder. Then import in a separate step to photoshop to preserve your metadata.

First click on all the photos or events to export to select them, then, from the file menu, choose Export. On the export menu, pick an option that allows you to check the "title and keywords" and "location information" boxes. I used tiff. If you have renamed your images, select "use title" for filename option. From the Subfolder format menu, select "Event Name" if you want to preserve your events from iPhoto as subfolders in photoshop. (If you used them to organize your photos, odds are you do!) then export the photos to your new storage folder, where they will now be kept as image files instead of as part of a library file. Lastly, open photoshop and import from your storage folders not directly from iphoto. This way your keywords, descriptions & other organizing data will be saved.

It depends what you mean by "transfer." iPhoto manages photos in its own package while Photoshop doesn't store or manage any files, so "transferring" images from iPhoto to Photoshop doesn't make sense.

Do you mean you want to open iPhoto images in Photoshop? That part is easy, and there's more than one way to do it.

• When you're looking at a photo thumbnail in iPhoto, drag it to the Photoshop icon in the dock. The image will open in Photoshop.
• In iPhoto Preferences, click Advanced and use the Edit Photos option to choose Photoshop as an external editor. After you do that, pressing Return for a selected photo in iPhoto will pop it open in Photoshop for editing.

With either method, after you edit and save a new version in Photoshop, if you want to manage it in iPhoto you'll probably have to manually drag the new version to iPhoto. (Just don't save new files into the hidden folders iPhoto manages.)

While it's true that iPhoto keeps photos in a hidden package, the methods above let you easily use the photos in other Mac programs. iPhoto also has a File > Reveal in Finder command so you can always reveal the actual location of a file managed by iPhoto. This is useful if you want to copy a photo to a folder outside of the iPhoto Library so you can manage it with Bridge instead.

This is not as easy as it sounds as iPhoto puts the photos in a hidden packet, and only shows you the thumbnail.  Most advise to use one or the other, but not both as they do not play well together.

Do a web search for iPhoto and Photoshop to see solutions.

Moved the discussion to Adobe Photoshop Forum.

Regards,

Anit Kumar