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[Learn. The How To series from Adobe.] [video2brain World-Class Training] [Adobe Photoshop Element 9: Learn by Video] [Narrator] You've no doubt already captured a great many digital photographs and those images are probably stored in a variety of folders on your computer's hard drive. As you capture new images you'll want to be sure they're downloaded safely from your digital camera and that they are organized right from the start. As you'll see in this lesson, the photo down loader and elements organizer makes it easy to accomplish these goals. It guides you through the process of downloading your new digital photos so you can focus on optimizing and sharing those images. To get started we'll choose file, get photos and video and then from camera or card reader from the menu. Note that you can also use the keyboard shortcut which is control G on windows or command G on the MacIntosh. When you choose this option, the photo down loader will appear. The first step in downloading your images is to specify where you want to download from. That may be a digital camera attached to your computer or you might be using a card reader that you insert the digital media into. When you choose the appropriate source from the popup, the photo down loader will analyze that source to determine how many images are contained on that media, how much space the images are consuming, and the date the images were captured. You can then specify the location where you want the images to be downloaded to. This should be the primary location that you use for all of your photos. For example, I use an external hard drive to store all of my images, so I'm going to click the browse button in order to bring up the browse-for-folder dialogue and then I'll navigate to and identify the hard drive that I use for storing my images. I'll then click okay and that will become the new destination for my downloaded images. Of course, I want to organize the images I'm downloading into a sub folder, so I'll utilize the create sub folder option. The default is to utilize the date the images were captured as the folder name. I prefer to create my own custom folder names, in part because that allows me to perform a more meaningful search based on the folder names in addition to the image contents, so I'll click the popup and choose custom name. Note that all of the other default options relate to dates. I'm going to choose custom name and then type custom text that identifies these images. Now the images I'm downloading are certainly not award winning images. To be honest, I just got excited when I saw the late afternoon light illuminating the roses in front of my house, so I had to run out and take a few pictures. So I'll give the folder a name that's meaningful for these images. For example I'll just call this "Roses," and I'll include the date. These images happened to have been captured in August of 2010, and so I'll include that information. I could certainly get more detailed if I wanted to, but the key here is that I'm organizing these images into a folder and that folder is descriptive of the contents of those images. I could also choose to rename the images as I download them if I'd like to. Again, we have a variety of options mostly related to the shot date, but also some that allow the use of a custom name. In this case, I'm not going to rename my images, in part because I could always do that later if I wanted to. If you do rename your images, I encourage you to use the "preserve current file name" in XMP option so that the original capture file name will be included within the meta data for your images. This could be helpful later if anyone happens to reference the original file name for any purpose. You also have the option to delete the original images after they've finished copying to your computer. The available options include "do not delete," "verify and then delete" or simply "delete." I prefer not to delete the original images, instead I want to personally verify that all the images have downloaded successfully. Ideally, I also want to create a backup copy of those images before I delete the originals. When it does come time to delete the original images, I encourage you to use the option in your digital camera to format the digital media. This will not only delete the images contained on the card, but also reinitialize that card which can be helpful in terms of performance and reliability. There's also an option to automatically download. In other words, whenever you insert a digital media card or attach a digital camera, images will be downloaded automatically. While this can be a convenient option, I prefer not to put it to use in large part because I want to be able to identify a custom folder name for all images when I download them. We also have the option to utilize an advanced dialogue for the photo down loader. The most notable difference is that we can then see thumbnails for all of the images we're downloading, and in fact if any of these images were not worthy of being downloaded; for example, a particularly problematic exposure, we could clear the check mark for that image and it would not be downloaded. At the bottom of the thumbnail display, you'll see there are options for "check all" or "uncheck all images" in the current set of images being downloaded. There are also some additional options available to you in the advanced mode. These include the option to automatically fix red eye in pictures of people, to automatically suggest photo stacks in order to group similar images together and an option to make the group custom name a tag for all of the images. This relates to the renaming options that are available to you when downloading. You can also import the images directly into an album in order to help keep them more organized. The other additional options available in the advanced mode are to apply meta data. You can apply basic meta data or none at all. In this case, I've already created my own template for meta data, and so I can choose that from the popup as well, but if you don't have a template, you can choose basic meta data and then type your name and copy write information into the available fields. In this case, I don't really need to make use of any of the advanced features, so I'll go ahead and switch back to the standard dialogue. Now that I've identified which images I want to download and where I want them to be placed, I can go ahead and click the "get media" button. This will initiate the downloading process based on the settings I've established. When the download is complete, you'll receive a notification letting you know the process was successful. You then have the option to filter the images so that you can only see the images you've just downloaded. If you always want to take whichever action you choose, simply turn on the "always take this action" check box. I do prefer to see the images I've just downloaded as soon as that process is complete, so I'll leave "always take this action" turned on and click the "yes" button. When the process of downloading and importing my new images is complete, those images will then be displayed within the organizer. I'm sure we've all experienced situations where the card in your digital camera contained images that should've found their way to the computer long ago. You grab your camera to capture images at a friend's spring-time wedding only to realize you still have photos from your New Year's party from two years ago. The photo downloader helps ensure this will never happen to you again because it makes it so easy and efficient to download your digital photos and keep them organized at the same time.
