Downloading photos from a camera

Downloading photos from a camera

When you use a digital camera, your photos are stored on a removable memory card — most likely a CompactFlash (CF) or Secure Digital (SD) card.
Rather than having to tether your camera directly to a computer, you can remove the memory card and insert it into a card reader device, then download your photos from the card reader to your compute via a USB cable or Firewire cable, depending on
which connection your camera supports (Firewire is the faster of the two).
When you start downloading images from a camera, your system’s default application or dialog for acquiring images may launch automatically.
Instead of using the system dialog, we recommend using the Photo Downloader application that is included with Bridge. Instructions are provided here.

To download photos via a card reader andPhoto Downloader:

1. Take the card out of your camera and insert it into the appropriate slot in the card reader.

2. Plug the card reader into your computer. If the default system application for acquiring photos launches, exit/quit it.

3. Launch Bridge, then click the Get Photos from Camera button at the top of the Bridge window. Th e Photo Downloader dialog opens.A If an alert dialog appears and you want to make Photo Downloader the default capture application, click Yes (as we do); if not, click No.

4. From the Get Photos From menu in the Source area, select your card reader.

5. In the Import Settings area, do the following: To change the save location, click Browse/ Choose, then navigate to the desired folder.Click OK/Choose again to assign that folder and return to the Photo Downloader dialog.
To create a new subfolder within the folder you just selected, choose a naming convention from the Create Subfolder(s) menu, or choose Custom Name and enter a folder name (or choose None for no new subfolder).
Optional: To assign your digital images recognizable names and shorter sequential numbers in lieu of the long default number, choose a Custom Name option from the Rename Files menu, then enter a name and a starting number. A sample of your entries displays in the Example fi eld.
Check Open Adobe Bridge to have the photos display in Bridge when the download is
completed.
Keep the Preserve Current Filename in XMP, Convert to DNG, and Delete Original Files options unchecked.
We recommend that you check Save Copies To then click Browse/Choose to send copies of your photos to a designated folder on an external hard drive, as a backup.

6. If you want to download select photos (instead of the whole batch) from your memory card, click Advanced Dialog to display the larger Advanced dialog.A Below the thumbnail window, click UnCheck All, then check the box below each photo to be downloaded. Or click,then Shift-click a sequence of photos, then check the box for one of them; a check mark will appear below each selected photo.
Optional: In the Apply Metadata area, enter Creator and Copyright info to be added to the metadata of all downloaded photos. Th is data will display in Bridge.
➤ To switch back to the smaller Standard
dialog at any time, click Standard Dialog.

7. Click Get Photos to start the downloading process. When the downloading is fi nished, the Photo Downloader dialog is dismissed automatically. If you checked the Open Adobe Bridge option, your photos will display in a new window in Bridge. Don’t worry about previewing or opening them just yet. We’ll step you through that process later.

8. Now that you’re done using the Photo Downloader, you should insert a blank DVD
and burn the copies of your photo fi les to the DVD as a permanent backup copy. In the Mac OS, you can do this via drag-and-drop in the Finder. If you need to learn how to copy fi les to a DVD, consult the Help fi les for your operating system.