COMPUTER INFO

So, you spent all your hard-earned money on your air-conditioned agenda camera and you went out and took a day’s account of pictures. Now you appetite to email the photos to your ancestors but you accept no abstraction how to get them assimilate your computer easily, abundant beneath get them in an email-friendly format.

Being able to “develop” your own pictures on your computer is, to some, both a absolution and a curse. Sure, it saves you from accepting to declivity the pictures at your bounded adjacency Walgreens, but downloading them to your computer and cropping, adjusting brightness, and resizing are alarming to best people.

This will be a two allotment lesson. First, we’ll allocution about accepting the pictures downloaded to your computer; again we’ll awning how to accomplish all of the adjustments and get them into a web-friendly architecture that you can use for emailing and MySpacing to your heart’s content.

Most agenda cameras nowadays appear withcomputer application that tries to accomplish this action easier. What best bodies don’t accept is that the above operating systems accept technology congenital to admit your accessory and abetment you in downloading your pictures. This comes in accessible back you appetite to download pictures assimilate your assignment computer but forgot your camera’scomputer application accession CD at home.

First things first, we gotta get your camera/memory agenda affiliated to the computer somehow. Fortunately we alive in a time back there are several options accessible to us:

 When you bought your camera, you apparently accustomed a cable that connects from your camera to your computer’s USB port. Artlessly constituent the cable to an accessible USB anchorage on your computer and affix the added end to your camera. Make abiding your camera is in playback approach and ability it on. If you’re application a agenda reader, artlessly abolish the anamnesis agenda from your camera, admit it into the reader, again admit the clairvoyant into your computer.

If this is the aboriginal time you’ve affiliated your camera to your computer, acquiesce a few abnormal for the computer to admit your camera and install any all-important drivers. At this point, the Camera and Scanner Wizard should appear.

The Camera Wizard will aboriginal let you baddest which pictures you appetite to download. Bang Next and you’ll be asked for the area you appetite to abundance the pictures in. To abbreviate confusion, go to My Documents and accept My Pictures (that’s what it’s there for, afterwards all).

You may be different, but I alone don’t like accepting all of my pictures airtight calm about in one folder. I like to actualize a fresh binder for anniversary set of pictures I import. To do this, bang on Make Fresh Binder and name it. For the account of organization, I name my folders in the afterward format:

YYYY-MM-DD – Binder Name

Example: 2007-07-18 – Katie’s Birthday Party

I’ve begin this architecture to be decidedly accessible aback aggravating to coursing bottomward assertive pictures. You may acquisition an easier architecture for yourself. The important affair is to advance a allotment architecture and stick to it.

After you’ve created and called your folder, you’re now accessible to import. Click Acceptation and let the computer assignment its magic.

Once all your pictures are imported, this is the absolute time to aback them up. Before any modifications are done, aback them up. That way, you’ll consistently accept an aboriginal archetype cautiously stored away. You can back either assimilate a DVD, an alien adamantine drive, a alien server, whatever. Just don’t skip this step. Back-ups are about quick and accessible to, and this simple footfall could save you affliction and annoyance bottomward the road. Trust me on this one.

Now you’ve finer alien your photos from your agenda camera. Continue account allotment 2 of this series, Get Your Pictures Accessible for the Internet, area we’ll altercate how to adapt and resize your pictures and get them accessible for either book or web use.