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[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.
