Pc Acdsee database in mac environment

Is there a way to process PC AcdSee databases in order to get them in a mac software ? (not in windows installed on mac ...)

I guess that many ex-windows users already wondered if and how it is possible to translate PC Acdsee databases into the mac environment.

I would like to switch but I dont want to loose my Acdsee classifications. I took me days an days (months ? ) of work !

Thks for your feedback

anybody?

It seems that not so many windows user switched to mac with thousands of pictures classified in Acdsee PC ...

Really nobody faced this problem ?

yep, and hadn't taken it into account before switching

was not happy/ now use bridge w cs2

tried and failed to get comfy with iphoto

I have my photos on an external hard drive and use Acdsee. If I go with an imac and quit the pc can I use the external hard drive with the imac and if so how would I access the pictures?

While I'm at it, how does iphoto compare to acdsee as an organizer?
(I don't use acdsee for an editor.)

I use Acdsee for organizing, Photoshop Elements 4.0 for editing, Nikon Capture as a raw converter, and ProShow Gold for slideshows.

I would like to use Apple type programs for organizing and slideshows but still be able to use PHotoshop elements and nikon capture.

Is this possible?

Thanks

I am ignorant about Acdsee but your problem seems somewhat solvable. It appears like there are two big issues for you here. One is accessing the actual photos you have edited using Acdsee. If they are saved a standard file format then any Mac-based photo editing application should open them fine. You may have to export all your photos to another folder but that's easy I would hope.

Secondly, you probably want to replicate the information architecture or picture category structure that you established in Acdsee in a Mac-based tool. That may be tricky. See if Acdsee allows you to export metadata or tags that another tool can import. I use iView media pro for my image management and it is cross-platform. The worse case is that you may have to manually redo your architecture and drop the file pointers into the right buckets again.

There are plenty of excellent photo editing applications for Macs including PS elements and whatever conversion Nikon uses. Personally I see zero reason for using separate apps for image management and for showing slides. iPhoto could do most things for you as can the most recent version of Elements. Are you sure that the Nikon raw converter is the best out there? Have you compared it with the ACR that elements uses or iPhoto's converter?

Finally, since new Macs run Windows better than most PCs, you can just use Parallels and stay with Acdsee. I believe the Mac would still be able to access the photo files for image editing and printing etc, but you could keep organizing them in Acdsee.
Hope this helps.

i thought you had to open windows OR osx. .. if thats so, i would think it would be awkward to have ACDsee on one, and editor on another. Does Parallets mean simultanous?

back when I used acdsee and ps6, on a pc, they worked smoothly together, just drag the thumb from asdsee onto the toolbar and ps icon,, and then onto the ps workspace , veryfast

now w cs2 and bridge, can doubleclick on thumb, and it opens in cs2, but takes a bit longer.. but i have a powerbook , probably faster on the new machines.

Boot Camp beta forces you to run an Intel Mac as either Windows or OS X; Parallels simply opens the Windows environment in a separate window on OS X. File access is open to both platforms I believe though I have only used an earlier beta of Parallels. A pretty good product that will become great.

This approach pretty much eliminates much the perceived awkwardness of a two-platform approach. Good image management applications just arrange pointers to the data and if the data is totally accessible then the big problems start disappearing.

geoduck, thanks! for clearing my confusion