Learn how to download photos from your digital camera or memory card to your computer using Adobe Bridge and its Photo Downloader app. Preview and select images, save a backup of your files, add copyright information, and more! For Adobe Bridge CC and CS6.
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Moving Photos from SD card to iCloud. The first thing you'll want to do is transfer all of the photos from your SD card over to your Mac. This can be done by simply plugging in your SD card to the SD card reader port on your computer. The SD card will show up as a storage device on your computer. Wait for all the photos to be imported into the. Importing Photos from Your SD Card to Mac. 1.Insert your SD card into the SD card reader on your Mac. 2.Open the Photos app on your Mac. 3.Look at the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen. Locate the Import heading at the top of the sidebar. Underneath this heading will be your SD card's name; click on it.
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In the previous tutorial in this series on Getting Started with Photoshop, we learned how to install Adobe Bridge CC. Bridge is a file browser included with Photoshop and with every Creative Cloud subscription. Now that Bridge is installed, let's learn how to use Bridge to get photos from our camera or memory card onto our computer. Once Adobe Bridge has downloaded our photos, we can begin using Bridge to organize our images and open them into Photoshop.
To download images, Bridge actually uses a separate, built-in app known as the Photo Downloader. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to access the Photo Downloader in Bridge, and how to use it to download our files. This tutorial is compatible with both Adobe Bridge CC and Adobe Bridge CS6. However, if you're a Photoshop CC user, make sure you've installed Bridge CC before you continue. Adobe Bridge CS6 installs automatically with Photoshop CS6, so CS6 users don't need to install Bridge separately.
Also, since we're learning how to download photos, it helps to have some photos to download. To follow along, you'll want to have your camera or memory card plugged into your computer.
This is lesson 3 of 8 in Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Photoshop.
Let's get started!
How To Download Photos With Adobe Bridge
Step 1: Launch Adobe Bridge
Minitool partition wizard review. First, to download your photos, open Adobe Bridge. The easiest way to launch Bridge is from Photoshop. Go up to the File menu (in Photoshop) in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choose Browse in Bridge:
Step 2: Launch The Photo Downloader
With Bridge open, launch the Photo Downloader. As I mentioned, the Photo Downloader is a separate app that's built in to Adobe Bridge. To give the Photo Downloader something to download, make sure your camera or memory card is plugged in. Then, to open the Photo Downloader, go up to the File menu (in Bridge) at the top of the screen and choose Get Photos from Camera:
Another way to launch the Photo Downloader is by clicking the camera icon in the toolbar that runs along the upper left of the Bridge interface:
Launching The Photo Downloader Automatically (Mac Only)
Bridge can also launch the Photo Downloader automatically when you connect a camera or memory card to your computer. But for whatever reason, this option is only available on the Mac. Windows user can skip ahead to Step 3.
On a Mac, when the Photo Downloader opens for the first time, Bridge will ask if the Photo Downloader should launch automatically each time a camera or memory card is connected. Choose Yes or No depending on your personal preference. To stop Bridge from asking this every time you launch the Photo Downloader, choose Don't show again before making your choice:
You can always change your mind later by turning the same option on or off in the Bridge Preferences. To open the Preferences, go up to the Adobe Bridge CC (or Adobe Bridge CS6) menu at the top of the screen and choose Preferences (again, this is for Mac users only):
The Preferences dialog box will open to the General options. Look for the option that says When a Camera is Connected, Launch Adobe Photo Downloader. Check or uncheck this option to toggle it on or off. Then, click OK to close the Preferences dialog box:
Step 3: Choose Your Camera Or Memory Card
With the Photo Downloader open, use the Get Photos from option at the top to select the source of your images. The source will be either your camera or memory card. Sometimes the Photo Downloader automatically detects the correct source for you. If it doesn't, choose the correct source from the list. If your camera or memory card is not listed, make sure it's connected properly to your computer. Then, click the Refresh List option.
In my case, I have my memory card connected via a USB card reader. Since my photos were taken with a Canon camera, the card appears in the list as 'EOS_DIGITAL'. Your card may be named something different depending on your camera's manufacturer:
Step 4: Switch To The Advanced Dialog
By default, the Photo Downloader appears in what Adobe calls the Standard dialog. The Standard dialog is a simplified version of the Photo Downloader interface. It gives us access to most, but not all, of the options available to us. A better choice is to use the Advanced dialog. The Advanced dialog isn't really 'advanced'. It just gives us more options. To switch from the Standard to the Advanced dialog, click the Advanced Dialog button in the lower left of the dialog box:
The Advanced dialog includes all of the options from the Standard dialog, plus a few additional and important features. We now have a large preview area displaying thumbnails of all the images on the camera or memory card. We also have options in the lower right for adding copyright information (metadata) to the images as they're being downloaded:
Step 5: Select The Images You Want To Download
Along with letting us view the images, the preview area also lets us choose which photos we want to download. In most cases, you'll want to download everything and then decide later which images are worth keeping. But if you know for a fact that there are images you don't need, there's a couple of ways to stop those images from downloading.
Below each thumbnail, along with the file's name, shot date and time, you'll see a checkbox. Every image with a check inside the box will be downloaded. By default, every image is checked. If there are only a few images you want to exclude, simply uncheck them. Depending on how many images you have, you may need to scroll through them using the scroll bar along the right:
If there are more than a few images you want to exclude, it may be faster to uncheck them all. Then, you can manually select the ones you want to keep. To do that, click the UnCheck All button below the preview area:
Then, press and hold the Ctrl (Win) / Command (Mac) key on your keyboard and click on the images you want to download. A highlight box will appear around each image you select. Once they're all selected, click inside the checkbox of any of your highlighted images to select them all:
Step 6: Choose Where You Want To Save The Images
Next, we need to specify the location on our computer where the Photo Downloader should save the images. We do that in the Save Options section in the upper right of the dialog box. Click the Choose button. Then, navigate to the folder or location where you want to save them. Here, I'll be saving mine to a folder named 'photos' on my Desktop. Ideally, you'll want to save your images to a separate external hard drive, but I'll just choose this folder for now:
Step 7: Create A Subfolder For The Images
To help keep your photos better organized, the Photo Downloader will create a subfolder in the location you specified. It will then save your images in the subfolder. By default, the subfolder will be named based on the date the photos were taken. Cick on the box below the words Create Subfolder(s) to open a list of preset naming options for the folder. Most of the options are just variations on the shot date.
If you need something more specific, choose Custom Name from the list, Then, enter anything you like for the folder's name. Since I shot these photos in Alaska, I'll name my subfolder 'Alaska'. The Location section above updates to show a preview of the name you've entered:
Step 8: Rename The Files (Optional)
The Photo Downloader also includes a Rename Files option that lets us rename our images as they're being downloaded. While it may be tempting to rename them at this point, there's a couple of reasons why I recommend against it. The main reason is that you probably won't want to keep all of your images once you've had a chance to look them over. Renaming files first and then deleting ones we don't like means we end up with breaks in the naming sequence. It would be better to review the images first in Adobe Bridge. Then, we can delete the ones not worth keeping, and then rename the keepers.
Also, Adobe Bridge includes a Batch Rename feature that makes it incredibly easy to rename multiple files at once. So, since we don't know which images we're going to keep, and we can easily rename them later, it's just not worth renaming them here.
Choosing A New File Name
By default, the Rename Files option is set to Do not rename files, so you can safely ignore it. But, if you do need to rename them here, click on the Rename Files box to choose from a list of preset naming options. Again, most of the presets are variations on the shot date. There's also a Custom Name option that lets us enter our own name for the files. I'll choose Custom Name, and then I'll enter 'Alaska'. An example of the new file name appears directly below the name field:
Setting The Four-Digit Extension And Preserving The Original File Name
To the right of the name field is another field with a number in it. The number is the starting number of a four-digit extension that will be appended to the file names. The default value is 1, which means the sequence will begin with '0001'. You can enter your own value as well. Again, an example of the new name, along with its four-digit extension, appears below the name field. In my case, the files would be renamed beginning with 'Alaska_0001'.
If you want to embed the original file name with the image, select the Preserve Current Filename in XMP option. If you change your mind and decide not to rename the files, as I'm going to do, set the Rename Files box back to Do not rename files:
Step 9: The Advanced Options
Directly below the Save Options is the Advanced Options section. But oddly enough, you won't find any advanced options here. Instead, you'll find the same four options that are also found in the Standard dialog. Still, these options are important, so let's take a look at them. You may need to click on the words 'Advanced Options' to twirl the section open.
Open Adobe Bridge
The first option in the 'Advanced' section is Open Adobe Bridge. Leave this option checked to have Bridge open to the folder containing your images once the download is complete:
Convert to DNG
The next option is Convert to DNG. DNG stands for 'Digital Negative' and is Adobe's version of the raw file format. If your camera supports the raw format and your images were captured as raw files, it's a good idea to select this option. This will convert your images from your camera's raw file format to Adobe's DNG format as they're being downloaded. DNG files are smaller than your camera's native raw files so they'll take up less space without any loss in quality. DNG is also an open source format, not owned by any camera manufacturer. This can help keep your images compatible with future versions of Photoshop and other software. And, for reasons we'll look at in our Camera Raw section, the DNG format makes it easier to move files that have been edited in Camera Raw.
We'll learn more about the DNG format in another tutorial. For now, if you're familiar with DNG, go ahead and select this option, otherwise you can safely leave it unchecked. You can always convert your raw files to DNG later if you choose:
Delete Original Files
The third option is Delete Original Files. This will delete your images from your camera or memory card as soon as the download is finished. Leave this option turned off. Otherwise, you could lose your files forever if something goes wrong during the download process. A better way to work is to leave the files on your memory card until you're sure they all made it to your computer safely. Then, to clear off the images, format the memory card in your camera the next time you go to shoot:
The 'Save Copies to' Option
The fourth option, Save Copies to, will save a copy of your files to a second location. This is a great way to back up your images and is highly recommended. Whenever possible, choose a separate hard drive, not the same hard drive as the original location. External hard drives work great. This way, if one hard drive fails, you'll still have a copy of your images on the second drive. Enable the 'Save Copies to' option by clicking inside its checkbox. Then click the Choose button and browse to the location where you want to save the backups. As the images are being downloaded from your camera or memory card, the Photo Downloader will save them to both your primary location (that you specified earlier) and this secondary location:
Step 10: Add Your Copyright Information
Finally, below the Advanced Options is the Apply Metadata section. This section is only available in the Advanced dialog. Apply Metadata lets us add creator and copyright information to our images as they're being downloaded. Enter your name into the Creator field. Then enter your copyright info into the Copyright field. To add the copyright symbol ( © ), on a Windows PC, press and hold your Alt key and type 0169 on your keyboard's numeric keypad. On a Mac, it's even easier. Just press Option+G on your keyboard. As we'll see in another tutorial, Adobe Bridge gives us other ways to add copyright and other metadata to our images, including the ability to create and apply metadata templates. For now, we'll keep things simple and stick with the basic options:
Step 11: Download Your Images
To download your images, click the Get Media button in the lower right corner of the Photo Downloader. Depending on the number of images, the size of the files and other factors, it may take a while for the download to complete. A progress bar will keep you updated with how it's going:
Once all your images have been downloaded, Adobe Bridge will jump to the folder containing the photos so you can begin sorting through them. We learn how to review our images with Bridge in the next tutorial:
Where to go next..
And there we have it! So far, we've learned how to install Adobe Bridge and how to use Bridge to download files from our camera. Yet we haven't learned much about Bridge itself. In the next lesson in this chapter, we'll learn how to use Adobe Bridge to manage and organize your images!
Or check out any of the other lessons in this chapter:
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You have just had a wonderful holiday and have taken many beautiful photos with your Android phone and camera. Now, you want to import these photos to your computer so that you can easily share them with your friends or colleagues. However, if you don't know how to transfer photos from SD card to computer, you will find this process troublesome.
In this tutorial, we will show you four different ways to import pictures from SD card to computer, including Windows PC and Mac. With detailed step-by-step instructions, I believe you can quickly accomplish what you want to do.
Part 1: How to Transfer Photos from SD Card to Computer via Card Reader
How do I get pictures off my memory card without installing additional software? Well, you can use the computer's built-in SD card slot. If there is no SD card slot, then an SD card reader can help you connect the SD card to the computer, or you can use a USB cable to connect the camera to the computer directly.
Steps on how to upload pictures from camera to computer using memory card.
- Please remove the SD card from your camera or Android device, and insert it into the computer via a card reader.
- Once the connection is successful, double click the 'This PC' icon and navigate to the photo folder in your SD card.
- Preview and select the photos you want to transfer. Right-click to choose the 'Cut' or 'Copy' option, and paste them to a location on the computer.
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Part 2: How to Transfer Photos from Micro SD Card to Computer with SD Card Recovery
In addition to photos on your SD card, other data like videos, music, and documents, no matter existing or deleted, can all be transferred from SD card to PC or Mac computer by using MobiKin Doctor for Android (for both Win and Mac). It works on SD cards from Android device, digital camera, camcorder, MP4 player, TV set, and any other devices containing SD card. Other functions are highlighted below.
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- You are free to preview and select the data on SD card and start the transferring process selectively.
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How to transfer photos from Micro SD card to computer with this SD card recovery:
Before running this software, check if your computer has a microSD card slot. If not, find a microSD card reader, and then power off your phone to take out the card.
Step 1: Get your SD card inserted ito the computer
Plug your SD card into the computer via a prepared card reader. Run the installed SD card recovery tool and choose the 'SD Card Recovery' menu from the top to get the initial interface.
Step 2: Scan your Micro SD card with the program
You will see your SD card is shown on the window. Now, just mark the disk drive of your card, and click 'Next' to let the program scan for the card.
Step 3: Start to transfer photos from SD card to computer
After the scanning process, all file types on your SD card like 'Photos', 'Music', 'Videos' and 'Document' will be listed on the left panel. Click the 'Photos' tab, preview, and tick the photos you'd like to transfer. Then press the 'Recover' button to save them on your computer.
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Part 3: How Do You Import Pictures from SD Card to Computer with AutoPlay
AutoPlay is a built-in feature on Windows computer, which can help you back up SD card data on computer. Once your insert your SD card into the computer, AutoPlay will automatically pop up and detect your SD card. Then, it offers you an option to access the files on the SD card.
Steps to copy photos from SD card to computer with AutoPlay:
- First of all, enable AutoPlay on your computer. Here setting Windows 10 as an example. Please navigate to the 'Start' > 'Settings' > 'Devices' > 'AutoPlay' option and switch it on.
- Insert your SD card to the computer's card slot or using a card reader. Then, the AutoPlay window will appear.
- Choose the 'Open folder to view files' option from the AutoPlay window and you will access the storage content of the SD card.
- Browse and pick out the photos you need, and drag-n-drop them to your computer.
Part 4: How to Download Pictures from An SD Card to Mac Using Photos App
Membuat program billing warnet dengan java. Above, we have introduced three ways of how to transfer photos from SD card to Windows PC. In the final part, we will show you how to import pictures from your SD card to your Mac, including macOS High Sierra, using the Photos app. Using this method, you do not need to install additional tools, you only need to prepare a Mac with an SD card slot or a USB SD card reader.
Steps of downloading photos from SD card to Mac by using Photos app:
How To Download Pictures From Memory Card To Mac Computer
- Plug your SD card into the SD card slot on your Mac. If there is no card slot, connect it via a card reader.
- Run the Photos app on your Mac.
- Go to the top of the left sidebar of the app screen to click on the name of your SD card. If you can't see the SD card here, you can also go to the upper left-hand corner of your Mac's screen, click File > Import from the toolbar and find the SD card from the Finder pop-up window.
- Select the photos you want to import.
- All selected photos on your SD card will now appear on the Photos app's window.
- Choose 'Import All New Photos' or 'Import Selected' from the upper right-hand corner of the screen to import these photos to the Mac.
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Final Thoughts
Through the above content, we can know that transferring photos from SD card to computer can be easily completed without downloading and installing any software. However, if you want a one-click transfer method and wish to better organize these multimedia files on your computer, then MobiKin Doctor for Android is undoubtedly the best choice. Especially when you accidentally lose photos or other data on the SD card, this software can also help you recover deleted data from SD card with zero loss.
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