Good morning everyone, and Happy New Year!!!

I'm basically a rookie when it comes to photographs, but I've put a lot of time in in the past few months to figure out my new dslr. I'm making significant progress which I'm very excited about!

I was in need of a new computer so I got a MacBook Pro. It's uses will be primarily for my photography, maybe some film editing, and maybe a little Microsoft Office. Anyway, I have never used photoshop or anything like it so as you can all imagine GIMP is like a foreign language to me. My biggest problem right now is that I can't even upload a photo to edit. That obviously sounds idiotic, but it's giving me fits. Is there something I have to do in particular?

Any help is much appreciated!!

Thank you!

hi lunchbox_lb, and welcome to gimp chat! you'll hopefully get heaps of good advice and help here, i know i have .
are you having problems opening a file in gimp? could you describe more exactly what the problem is?

Hi, welcome to the board, I don't use a mac but I'm sure someone who does will be along soon to help you out.

Maybe you could give a little bit more info if known, are you having trouble loading the omage from your camera to your mac or opening the image in gimp, also what file type is the image, if its in raw format then I think you will need an additional plugin to upload in gimp.

Thank you both for the warm welcome!

I'm currently at work, and don't have my MAC with me. When I get back this evening or tomorrow I'll go on and try to descibe my troubles more detailed.

Again, thanks for the warm welcome and quick responses!

Which McGimp build are you using? Partha's seems to be a popular choice.

Welcome aboard, Lunchbox!
I'm using an iMac so I'll hopefully be able to help if you explain the problem.

Not having used Photoshop may actually be an advantage as you won't have to unlearn the Adobe way of doing things before learning how to Gimp!

Welcome to Gimpchat!

Which DSLR are we talking about?

What OS is the Mac running - Snow-Leopard or Mountain Lion?

I am assuming you are unable to upload images from your DSLR to your Mac? Is this true? If yes, get a multipurpose card reader and use the reader to connect the CF/SDHC card to your Mac. Mac will automatically mount the card as a Volume. Now you can drag and drop the images on to your local hard drive. I would advice you to create some sort of filing system (~/Pictures/Year/Month/ etc.). Otherwise, very soon you will have a mess on your hands.

Assuming you shoot RAW, you will need to edit/convert the RAW images in your RAW editor and export as jpegs/tiffs. I recommend exporting to 16-bit tiffs. McGimp 2.8.2 and below will open these as 8-bit tiffs and then edit away. McGimp 2.9.1 (experimental!!!) will edit these as native 16-bit. Either way, you will come out ahead. Always save your edits under a different name so that you can always go back to the original tiff exported from your RAW Editor.

Both Canon and Nikon provide software to edit your RAW images.

If you shoot jpegs, no need to do anything special. Simply open in McGimp.

Hope this helps. If you have any questions, PM me or leave me feedback on my website.

Happy New Year!
Partha

Welcome to another Mac user. I guess it will help to know what kind of camera you use and what kind of files you shoot with it.