How to transfer photos from iPad to Mac with iPhoto

You may need to move photos taken with your iPad camera to your Mac hard drive from time to time, as they have taken up much of your iPad capacity. You may also want to create slide shows with your great iPad photos in your iMovie on Mac or burn them onto DVD's in iDVD. So what's the best and easiest way to transfer photos from iPad to Mac?

If your USB cable is available, it is very easy and fast to move iPad photos to Mac so long as iPhoto has been installed to your Mac.

What is iPhoto for Mac?

iPhoto is designed to allow the importing of pictures from digital cameras, scanners, picture CDs and the Internet to a user's iPhoto Library. Almost all digital cameras are recognized without additional software, as are many scanners. iPhoto supports most common image file formats.

After photos are imported, they can be titled, labeled, sorted and organized into groups (known as "events"). Individual photos can be edited with basic image manipulation tools, such as a red-eye filter, contrast and brightness adjustments, cropping and resizing tools, and other basic functions. iPhoto does not, however, provide the comprehensive editing functionality of programs such as GIMP, Apple's own Aperture, or Adobe's Photoshop (not to be confused with Photoshop Elements or Album).

Since the Apple iPad also works as an HD digital camera, you can certainly import pictures shot with iPad to your iPhoto library. Now let me show you how to transfer photos from iPad to Mac using iPhoto:

1. Connect your iPad with your Mac via cable

2. Run iPhoto on your Mac and find your iPad in the left panel under DEVICES

3. Choose to import selected or all photos into iPhoto library



4. Switch to the Last Import tab. Press Edit -> Select All and then press Edit -> Copy to copy all photos you just imported from your iPad



5. Go to Finder, press Edit -> Paste XX Items and paste the imported photos to your Mac hard drive



In case your cable isn't at hand and there's wifi network around, you may download the iOS app Wireless Transfer App (iTunes link) to help you easily get iPad photos transferred to your Mac hard drive. Here is the tutorial about how to transfer photos and videos from iPad to Mac using this app:

How to transfer photos and videos from iPad to Mac via wifi