Leaving IPhoto to PSE?

[MystrE]

Since Apple is stopping development of IPhoto, I am thinking about moving all my photos from IPhoto into Photoshop Elements 12 which is installed on my IMac. I've done the majority of my photo adjusting using IPhoto and I've been shooting recently in Nikon's RAW format. What is the safest way to get my photos from IPhoto into PSE and does PSE destructively edit photos to where the original is lost after editing? I liked the fact I could always revert back to the original in IPhoto if I didn't like my edits.
Given my inexperience with PSE, is totally abandoning IPhoto a wise thing to do since Apple is no longer developing that program? I could wait to see what Apple's Photos App has to offer in 2015 and FWIW, I have enrolled in an online PSE version 12 class to get up to speed with that program.
Your thoughts are most welcome and appreciated.

 

[snowbear]

Take a good look at Lightroom; 90% of my edits are with Lightroom. You get basic editing as well as some photo management functions. Edits are non-destructive and Adobe reads NEF files.

 

[Light Guru]

I would ether go with Lightroom or wait and see how good the Photos App that Apple is replacing iPhoto with.

 

[e.rose]

Since Apple is stopping development of IPhoto, I am thinking about moving all my photos from IPhoto into Photoshop Elements 12 which is installed on my IMac. I've done the majority of my photo adjusting using IPhoto and I've been shooting recently in Nikon's RAW format. What is the safest way to get my photos from IPhoto into PSE and does PSE destructively edit photos to where the original is lost after editing?

Yes and no.

It completely depends on how you edit your photos in PSE12. Are you editing them destructively on the same layer, or are you finding different ways to stay non-destructive using multiple layers and masks? STILL... If you were using iPhoto... there's a better way...

I liked the fact I could always revert back to the original in IPhoto if I didn't like my edits.

And that way is what everyone has said so far.

Use Lightroom.

Lightroom will allow you to revert back to your original images, like you're used to in iPhoto, and it also has the added benefit of being a "Big Boy Program"

Given my inexperience with PSE, is totally abandoning IPhoto a wise thing to do since Apple is no longer developing that program? I could wait to see what Apple's Photos App has to offer in 2015 and FWIW, I have enrolled in an online PSE version 12 class to get up to speed with that program.
Your thoughts are most welcome and appreciated.

Look, I love Apple. I work for Apple. I have loved Apple prior to ever having worked for them... but iPhoto is NOT even a prosumer level program.

It's meant for people who use point and shoots, and their iPhone 6 Pluses as their every day cameras.

Apple's "Photos" slated to come out isn't going to be any different. It's supposed to be a little more powerful, and have some things integrated into it that Aperture once had, but it's *still* not what you're wanting to use even as a serious hobbyist.

Just get Lightroom.

Seriously.

Lightroom.

Liiiiiiggghhhtttttrooooooooom.

 

[KmH]

Rule #1 of image editing - NEVER edit the original. Edit a copy of the original.

iPhoto's Raw conversion will look different from PsE Camera Raw conversion.
PsE Camera Raw is a non-destructive parametric editor that is more similar to Apple's Aperture than to iPhoto.
PsE 12 Camera Raw has available about 1/2 of the tools, features, and functions that is the same Raw conversion software (Adobe Camera Raw or ACR) that is Photoshop CC Camera Raw and Lightroom 5's Develop module.