Recently, we have been importing all photos from a Compact Flash card into one iPhoto library, then switching to the other user account, opening the other user's shared library in iPhoto, selecting the required photos and dragging them across to import then into iPhoto library. However, I have only just realised that when you do this, iPhoto only imports JPG files -- it doesn't import the original RAW file. This is very annoying, as we would prefer to work with the RAW file for any editing.
There are several ways around this:
- You can copy all photos from the memory card to a folder at the root level of the hard drive, then import the desired ones to each iPhoto library separately.
- You can import all the photos from the camera to one iPhoto library, then select the photos you want in the other library, ane export them to file using the 'Original format' option -- this correctly exports them as RAW files. These exported files can then be imported into the other user's library.
- You can import all photos from the camera into both libraries by not using the 'Delete from camera after importing' option in iPhoto during the first import.

