digital photos - managing

Hi


I would keep the easyshare software on your PC as to be honest and I have been on a few Photoshop training courses over the years as I was previously in digital photofinishing working for Kodak, and having some basic photo editing applications is wise to have on your PC as Photoshop is not the easy application many think it is.

While its powerful many only use 10% of its functions, I as mentioned have been trained on it and only use about 40% of its fuctionality, applications like EasyShare, Windows Live Photo Gallery, XNView, Adobe Photoshop Starter Edition and IrfanView to name a few come into their own as they offer basic editing, if you wish to use multiple layers and filters then Photoshop is the king.

Many more editing applications that are paid and free here



EDIT: In the end my advice is stick with what you are happy with and know already, but do try a few alternative options out, maybe the ones above, but do backup your images from My Pictures to another location.


As for saving, if you have a Kodak camera, then the EasyShare software will save them to a chosen folder, but if you plug your camera in and then goto My Computer/Computer (dont know your Windows version so the main location is named differently) then look for a Camera icon/Removable drive and that is likely to be your camera, just open it up and look for image folders. This way you can manually copy and paste the images to a folder of your choice.


To be Honest I would still use the Kodak EasyShare software to manage your images and camera and just find out what folder they are saved in (likely as you know My Pictures) then you can use Photoshop to open them by just clicking Open and then Browse to the location of the pics.

Yes if you delete a picture from My Picture or EasyShare they are perminently deleted from the two locations as EayShare is a managment application and viewer, the original location is My Pictures so if they are deleted in My Pictures they will disapear from EasyShare. So advice here is create a sperate folder on your hard drive or on a removable drive and save your images to that location as a backup. Personally what I do is to have a main folder on a 2nd hard drive called Images and inside that folder is folders for type of image like Christmas, Holidays, Misc etc then inside them are various folders named after the event and year for easy finding, the application I use to manage them all is the earlier mentioned Windows Live Photo Gallery, I can also import images direct from my camera with this applicaion, it also gives me access to finding them really quickly (also Adobe Photoshop Starter is good), then if I need basic edit I use Windows Photo Gallery, if its a major edit then I use Photoshop and all I need to do is in Windows Photo Gallery is to click Extras and Open With as in image below.

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