I found that it works better to bypass the camera company’s software, and take the card out of the camera, put it into your card reader, and copy the pictures directly into a folder on your HD. Then open them in PSE, or look at them in GC as a full screen slide show. That’s nice. While looking at them in full screen mode, jot down their numbers, and save the best to a ‘best’ folder and open the best ones right away in PSE, or what ever you want to do.
I find that method much quicker and easier for me.
Jane
Irwin,
If you loaded the software that comes with the camera, you should also be able to connect the camera to the PC (assuming you’re running Win) and access it like another drive. Using Explorer you then can copy the images into a directory on your hard drive (My Pictures e.g.). Then, with Elements running you open the images via the File>open… command. Now you can do your editing. Do not forget to save the edited file under a different name, so that you do not overwrite the original. Best if you make separate copies of all images and store them somewhere safe before you start editing. Else I agree with Jane that the card reader is the best way.
Juergen
I’ve worked out a simple system that works quite well.
1. Open PE2 and connect your camera to the PC using the USB cable.
2. In PE2, select File, Batch Processing
3. Source: In Explorer, locate the camera. It should appear as a removable drive.
4. Conversion Options: Select PSD
5. File Naming: Enter the name & numbering convention you want to use.
6. Destination: Select the folder where you want the downloaded photos to be saved.
7. Click OK.
PE2 will download the images, change the file type, file size (if you wish), rename each photo, and save them in the desired folder – all without your intervention.
It takes just about a minute to process 100 images this way.
I really like my finepix software…though I use a card reader instead of plugging in the camera the pictures get dumped into the finepix software folder and then directly to ‘my pictures’folder…the Raw converter is built in and works pretty fast.
