So I spent the night trying to do things with photos on my PC. Here are the problems I am having.

1. I plug the camera into the computer and my only option is to download. So allthe pictures get loaded on at once. I can't picka nd choose. Is there some software I should have that will let me look at the phjotos on the camera and pick the ones I want to download?

2. Once I have all these pictures on the hard drive, I can't divide them into seperate folders. I open a new folder, I drag the photos I want into the folder, but when I go to delete the original photos from the download, the photos in the folder disappear too.

I don't have a fancy PC. It was a bargain ACER that was on slae at Wal-Mart last Christmas.
Is there some easy to use software I should use? Am I just doing something wrong, or missing a step? Let me know if you need more info about what I have and I'll try to figure that out tonight.

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

 

Go here and download the Picasa for the PC . This will be your solution to photos it will organize them , edit them , email them . If you have a google account let you upload them to it which Google gives you a free 1G account . I use this on my MAC and used to have it for my PC .


picasa.google.com

 

Should I delete all my other photo software? what about the crap that is on Microsoft's basic OS?

 

what do you mean you can't select which pictures you want to load of the camera -

of course you can - when you plug in the camera the computer will automatically show you thumbnails of everything that's on the camera (small pics of the pic) – now there should be a check box on the bottom right of what you want to load either uncheck all or check all and then select which ones you want – once in the file – you can click and drag the pics to different folders without any problems




it’s really easy bill

 

No need to .


It will fine every photo on your PC and organize it automatically when you first fire it up .

In the top left you will see a button that says import , then the next screen click the button that says select device

then you have the choice to download all or just the ones you select .

 

I use Picassa too. There is a setting where it won't download previously downloaded pics as well. My new camera has a setting where I can pick and choose which pics to download....that is one thing I like.

Whatever folder you last used to download, the camera/program will default to that folder again....

Picassa is pretty user friendly, just gotta click around here and there.

 

Like Steve says, there are always check boxes when mine pops up. Just go buy another Mac. Sounds liek the PC is too advanced for you

 

at jeff's post


or when the camera is connected just open it as a drive and click and drag the photos what you want - screw the wizard

i forgot you have vista and that might be different from XP

 

Your PC should recognize the camera as a separate drive, either listed as "Camera" or Drive X where X is the next available drive letter. If you open it, you should be able to hold the CTRL button and choose the files you want to save by left clicking on them. Once all the ones you want are highlighted, right click and choose "Copy." Before this, you should have created a new folder where you want these pics. Choose that folder, right click and choose "Paste." You should be able to create additional folders and move your pics around. Click "File" (or "Organize" in Vista) and click "New Folder." Name the folder appropriately.

 

I saw PA Jim do this at the Fall Crawl with the pics from my camera. I had not seen it done that way....who knew? Not me.