How do you transfer photos between ipad and mac on demand?

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How do you transfer photos between ipad and mac on demand?

New Ipad air, purchased today, upgraded as soon as box was opened to 7.1.1. Mac mini i7 running mavericks (2 weeks old)

After waiting an undetermined time for icloud to sync (not very long actually) I find SOME of my photos from my mac on my new ipad.

I edit on the ipad (the reason I bought it) and cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the edited version to go BACK to my mac.

Honestly, I thought editing was supposed to be "seamless" across platforms; that what you edited on one showed up on the other. This is NOT happening and furthermore there seems to be no way to actually deliberately SEND a picture from one to the other.

The OS makes no sense at all in this regard. Did I waste myu money on the ipad? (I can still return it!)

iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 7.1.1

Posted on Apr 27, 2014 8:31 PM

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picas

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Apr 27, 2014 11:21 PM in response to ccdave2

What app are you actually using to edit the photos in?

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picas

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Apr 27, 2014 11:39 PM in response to picas

Are the photos in your Photo Stream?

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Apr 28, 2014 2:34 PM in response to ccdave2

Figured it out finally. Save edited pic (edited on ipad) to camera roll, which then automatically uploads to icloud. Get it on Mac from icloud "project" (or album or whatever it is called) and IMPORT it to aperture for editing, etc. Then edited pic (edited on Mac) must be dragged to icloud to be available on ipad.

Quite the runaround, but it works.

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