What software you use with your camera?

Question

I've taken many pictures with my digital camera, but can't find a good software to extract them into my computer, then edit , make resizing and view them.

Anyone here know a decent photo software I can download?

Answer 1

If all you need is to crop, resize and some basic editing, try Google's Picasa - it suit most of my needs for organizing and printing my many digital photos.

Answer 2

It's not free, but if you want to explore the world of Adobe Photoshop without spending the big money for the full product, get Photoshop Elements 5.0. It is a tremendously powerful program and it only sells for $99.00. You can get it at http://www.adobe.com or any of the usual places you buy software.

You can use it practically right out of the box with the "Quick Fix" option and then you can advance into the full program, learning TONS about the Photoshop world as you go. Frankly, I think neither you nor I would ever explore the full capabilities of Photoshop Elements 5.0. If you ever DO think you are ready for more, you will already know much of what you will need to know about "real" Photoshop. They'll undoubtedly have a new and improved version by then. Since Nikon just came out with a totally new image editting package, Adobe will have to step up to the plate.

You may still find Photoshop Elements 4.0 at closeout for about $40 at several retail outlets as well as on eBay and it's a great program, too.

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As Chuckie suggested, many people use Picasa, although I have not. I don't know how powerful it is, but it's free.

http://picasa.google.com/download/index.html

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I use a card reader to download my pictures directly from the card to the computer. If you get a card reader, no additional software is necessary. This is not only faster, but it saves your camera batteries. Your computer or printer may even have a card reader built into it. I have enough USB ports that I just leave it plugged in all the time.

First of all, be sure there are some pictures on the card. Plug the card reader into an open USB port. Plug the card into the appropriate slot on your card reader. I use Photoshop Elements and as soon as I plug my card into the reader, it starts its own card reader and displays a thumbnail of every picture on the card.

This whole process happens automatically with Photoshop Elements. If this does not happen automatically, open your photo editing software. Do whatever you usually do to open a file, but click on the selector where you can change drives. Your card reader will be assigned a new drive name that will be one letter higher than you ever saw before, such as "Drive G:" or such. Then, just double click on the name of the file you want to open and it will appear in your photo editor.

Answer 3

As far as extracting the pictures from your camera, try just using Windows Explorer (aka "My Computer".) Most of the "image management" software that come with cameras pretend that they're working some sort of magic in getting pictures from your camera. When you connect your camera to your computer, it shows up as a drive (typically the "E" drive, but it depends on how your computer is set up.) You can view the pictures in your camera and drag and drop them to folders, just as if your camera was another hard drive on your computer.
As far as viewing and simple editting is concerned, try Picassa (free) or ACD See (fairly cheap) which allow you to do basic editing functions, view slideshows, etc... If you want to do more intensive editing such as adjusting color depth, masking operations or crazy filtering effects, Adobe Photoshop is the best, but it's pricey. Paintshop Pro is pretty good at about a quarter of the price, but it's more cumbersome to use.

Answer 4

Try Microsoft Digital Image Suite

Answer 5

Not anymore. Not legally at least. You need something like Corel or Adobe and that's just for working with them.

If you have a driver for the camera installed, you can go to MY COMPUTER and find the REMOVABLE drive and then click on it and drag and drop your pictures anywhere on the C drive.

Answer 6

if you have an apple, you should just use iPhoto.