A time-saving tip for you....
If you're fed up with the time it takes to download your photos from
your digital camera onto the computer, using the camera's software,
eg Canon's Zoom-Browser (and find the software too fiddly to use) ...
how about uninstalling the software and getting a card reader instead?
Plug your camera's memory card into a card reader like the above one,
& then plug the reader into a USB port on your computer. Wait a short
while for a little window to appear on your screen & click on "Open
folder to view files" ...
(click on these photos to see larger versions)
... and access your photos with 1-2 mouse clicks.
Copy & paste them onto your computer (into Pictures / My Pictures or
into a new folder on your computer).
Click on one of your photos, and then ...
Ctrl + A .... to highlight all your photos
Ctrl + C ... to copy them
Ctrl + V .... to paste them.
I was in Curry's in the Victoria Centre yesterday, and spotted a
multiple card reader for sale for about £15. You could use this reader
on someone else's computer --- take it with you when visiting family
or friends, so you can download photos you've taken onto their
computer .... also handy if someone comes to stay at your house with
a different camera (& memory card), if he/she wishes to download pics
onto your computer.
Before you buy a card reader, please check that it will be compatible
with your computer and operating system (should be OK with a modern
computer and Windows XP/Vista).
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Free Capture Tool with Windows Vista (Home Premium)
I've found out that Vista offers a free capture tool, to capture parts of
your screen, so you can create presentations on Powerpoint, etc.
It's called the Snipping Tool and I used it to create the second photo above.
I found out about this on an excellent website called
www.graphicssoft.com.
Anyway, do a search for "snipping tool" in the search box on the
Start menu ...
... save a shortcut to the program on your Start menu or taskbar, and have
a play with it.
You can save your captures as gif, jpeg and png files. The latter are the
best quality. The middle photo in this post is a PNG photo. However, you
will find that you can't take a snip of certain things, eg the Start menu,
with this tool.
To create the above photo, I used the Print Screen button to take a copy of
Start menu, which I then pasted onto a blank white canvas in Photoshop. I then
used the Crop tool to select the area I wanted, and saved it as a jpeg image
.... quite a rigmarole.
