digital camera

[tspapa]

I recently purchased a canon a 50 digital camera,it came with software,(photoimpact)It is'nt very user friendly....all I want to do is download my pics to an album,is there a better program out there?Any help would be appreciated,thanks.

[Warthog]

PhotoImpact not user friendly??? I thought it was MUCH better than Paintshop Pro. Can't help you - that's all I use. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[Toadman]

A real user-friendly program is Adobe Photodeluxe also(not the Photoshop supreme upgrade though). http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Richard_Cranium72]

Corel Photo Paint 8 upgrade. It's OK for a low-middle price range. The manuals have lots of pages, 85 pages, a image book w/o numbers? bout 75 pages, the main one with the lady's face and lips on the front, 640pages! AND "Corel Photo Paint 8 The Official Guide" 658 pages! Whew, I read what was needed and scanned the rest. I repair old and scratched photos. Just scanning them with my HP 5pse scanner improves the image tremendously. It removes a bunch of dust and imperfections in auto. But, I still have to do a lot of dot dot dot,, It is extremely time consuming however rewarding by improving while enlarging damaged photos. Kodak Glossy Photo Paper is the best I've used.

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[Bleeding Edge]

If you’re looking for a fast Viewer/Image cataloging application, try ACD Systems' ACDSee.

http://www.acdsystems.com/products/index.htm

Note:
If you look elsewhere around the net, I'm certain you'll find additional utilities that will let you realize the full potential of programs.



[This message has been edited by Bleeding Edge (edited 06-05-2000).]

[mattheadfat]

umm...

i use acdsee for my agfa camera, but the actual software for getting the pics off the camera to the computer sucks! are there many programs which i can download the pics off my agfa camera?

[SysOpt]

Does it use compact flash or smart media? Either way, you can get a Sandisk USB ImageMate drive (http://www.sandisk.com/cons/imagemate.htm). All you do is remove the media card from the camera, stick it in the drive, and the drive becomes visible as a regular drive letter in windows - with each image being a file. It is SOOOOOO much easier to use than the crappy software that comes with the digital cameras to offload images, and USB is clearly much faster than serial cable.

[Glynn R Harris]

I agonized and shopped and then bought what I could afford: the Olympus D450 Zoom. No regrets: I love this camera! It has been discontinued in favor of another model with s'more pixels, but I like what I got just fine.
But the software? Yeesh. While they WERE nice enough to include an LE version of Photoshop (so no plugins http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif ) the software for loading and organizing is something called Camedia Master. It isn't up to the task.
I use Thumbs Plus 4 ( Cerious Software) as I think it is by far the best and most versatile picture utility I have ever seen, I use it for many things...
But here is a sorry thing re Olympus (I don't know about other camera makers). I bought this camera, in part, because it had a nice feature, video out, so that I could take pictures, assemble a "slide show" with titles, arrows and the like, load the jpgs BACK into the camera in order, and go places with my Smartcard presentation! What I DIDN'T know, is that Olympus jpgs are proprietarily tagged. You cannot alter them and then put them back in the camera... they have no manipulation software that saves the jpg with the Olympus tag, so though you CAN put pictures back in your camera, you can not alter them and put them back, the camera refuses them.
No software I have found lets me get around this. I've told Olympus that users need a "tagger" or something for this purpose, but no reply.
On transfers: I bought a "ActionTec Camera Connect Pro" little slotreader for the pc. It is Removable Drive Q: on my machine, and I take the card out of the camera, slip it in the reader, and my pictures are THERE, like it was a hard drive. It's cool. The slotreader cost $50, reads three kinds of cards!!! go for it by all means.

[SysOpt]

Regarding the "ActionTec Camera Connect Pro", yeah, the Sandisk ImageMate is the same deal - you didn't mention what interface yours has, I like USB.

[Glynn R Harris]

"ActionTec Camera Connect Pro" is a parallel port passthru. I have USB disabled on my pc, so this is perfect. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif