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Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual
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Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual

by Barbara Brundage
October 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
591 pages
20h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 2. Importing, Managing, and Saving Your Photos

Now that you’ve had a look around Elements, it’s time to start learning how to get photos into the program, and also how to keep track of where these photos are stored. As a digital photographer, you may no longer be facing shoeboxes stuffed with prints, but you’ve still got to face the menace of photos piling up on your hard drive. Fortunately, Elements gives you some great tools for organizing your collection and quickly finding individual pictures.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to import photos from cameras, memory card readers, and scanners. You’ll also find out how to import individual frames from videos, open files already on your computer, and create a new file from scratch. At that point you’re ready for a quick tour of the Organizer, where you can sort and find pictures once they’re in Elements. Finally, you’ll learn about photo preservation: saving and backing up your precious files.

Importing from Cameras

Elements gives you lots of different ways to get photos from camera to computer, but the simplest tool is Adobe’s Photo Downloader. Even if you don’t like the Downloader, read on. Later in this section, you’ll learn about other ways to import your photos.

Note

Take a moment to carefully read the instructions from your camera manufacturer. Those directions should always take precedence over anything you read here that suggests doing something differently.

The Photo Downloader

When you plug your camera or memory card ...

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