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Digital Cameras for Teachers

Downloading, Storing and Viewing Photos

Downloading, Storing and Viewing Photos
Now that your camera card is full of award-winning pictures, what will you do with them? Leave them on the camera, delete them in order to make room for new ones, or --- take the plunge, and attempt to get the pictures out of the camera and onto the computer? If printing directly from your card is all you want, take a look at the page on

Printing and Printers.

Follow the links for the following information:

Downloading your photos
Organizing and viewing your photos
Storing and archiving your photos

If you are planning on keeping all your photos on your computer hard drive where you can easily access them, the first thing you can try is to install the software that came with the camera.

Digital cameras usually come with simple downloading software that recognizes when your camera is attached to your computer, and automatically starts the process for you. Some of these downloaders will put your pictures automatically into your My Documents folder, so if you have another folder (or another hard drive) for storing your photos, make sure you know how to direct your software to deposit the pictures there. If you've already figured out this step, and you have hundreds, no, thousands of photos on your hard drive, could you find a picture if you tried?
Do you know how to archive, or back up your precious photos by burning them onto a CD? This is where album, or photo cataloguing software programs come in. Often digital cameras will provide viewing and simple editing software along with the downloading software.

Digital Cameras for Teachers

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