Newbie question about photoshop

"Timmy" wrote in message

Hi
I am very new to digital photography at the present moment I use a program called photo express and when I put my memory card into the reader it tells me that it has photos for me to look at and it allows me to do just basic things with my photos.
What I would like to know is if I delete this program and install Photoshop CS2 will it come up automatically and tell me I have photos to look at when I insert my memory card into the card reader. Thanks for any help
from Eddie in Glasgow….

Hi from Roy in Ayr.

No it wont. If you are using Win XP you should not need any Software to move picture files from your card to your Computer. A Wndows Wizard will leap into action, and ask stupid questions.
Delete that and just go into My Comp, and get to your card, which will show as a Drive. Drag or copy the pictures you want from your card to a Folder on your HDD.

Then use whatever Editor, you fancy, to Edit them.

Roy G

Roy G wrote:

"Timmy" wrote in message

Hi
I am very new to digital photography at the present moment I use a program called photo express and when I put my memory card into the reader it tells me that it has photos for me to look at and it allows me to do just basic things with my photos.
What I would like to know is if I delete this program and install Photoshop CS2 will it come up automatically and tell me I have photos to look at when I insert my memory card into the card reader. Thanks for any help
from Eddie in Glasgow….

Hi from Roy in Ayr.

No it wont. If you are using Win XP you should not need any Software to move picture files from your card to your Computer. A Wndows Wizard will leap into action, and ask stupid questions.
Delete that and just go into My Comp, and get to your card, which will show as a Drive. Drag or copy the pictures you want from your card to a Folder on your HDD.

Then use whatever Editor, you fancy, to Edit them.

Roy G

Better yet, put a shortcut to the card and any other disks on your Desktop so you don’t have to go through My Computer. It amazes me that Windows doesn’t mount disks on the Desktop when inserted, as Macs have done for years.

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"Roy G" wrote in message

"Timmy" wrote in message

Hi
I am very new to digital photography at the present moment I use a program called photo express and when I put my memory card into the reader it tells me that it has photos for me to look at and it allows me to do just basic things with my photos.
What I would like to know is if I delete this program and install Photoshop CS2 will it come up automatically and tell me I have photos to look at when I insert my memory card into the card reader. Thanks for any help
from Eddie in Glasgow….

Hi from Roy in Ayr.

No it wont. If you are using Win XP you should not need any Software to move picture files from your card to your Computer. A Wndows Wizard will leap into action, and ask stupid questions.
Delete that and just go into My Comp, and get to your card, which will show as a Drive. Drag or copy the pictures you want from your card to a Folder on your HDD.

Then use whatever Editor, you fancy, to Edit them.

Roy G

I like the picture wizard, it does take longer than just copying the card files to a folder because it creates thumbnails. The good thing about that being you can rotate your images before d/l or viewing, makes it nice not to have to rotate each one by one during preview. Any Windows computer caches all the thumbnails in a file called Thumbs.db in each folder. It is extremely faster than the stupid PS browser for looking at images. At the next prompt you can name your images like Subjectname or other and you will not have a million files with similar numbers like CF_0005868. If the picture wizard does not come on when you insert our card into the reader, go to my computer, right click on the drive and select OPEN, the wizard will come on, or a dialog that lets you choose, copy to a folder, the wizard or other choices.

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"Timmy" wrote in message

Hi
I am very new to digital photography at the present moment I use a program called photo express and when I put my memory card into the reader it tells me that it has photos for me to look at and it allows me to do just basic things with my photos.
What I would like to know is if I delete this program and install Photoshop CS2 will it come up automatically and tell me I have photos to look at when I insert my memory card into the card reader.

No it wont. If you are using Win XP you should not need any Software to move picture files from your card to your Computer. A Wndows Wizard will leap into action, and ask stupid questions.
Delete that and just go into My Comp, and get to your card, which will show as a Drive. Drag or copy the pictures you want from your card to a Folder on your HDD.

Then use whatever Editor, you fancy, to Edit them.

I like the picture wizard, it does take longer than just copying the card files to a folder because it creates thumbnails. The good thing about that being you can rotate your images before d/l or viewing, makes it nice not to have to rotate each one by one during preview. Any Windows computer caches all the thumbnails in a file called Thumbs.db in each folder. It is extremely faster than the stupid PS browser for looking at images. At the next prompt you can name your images like Subjectname or other and you will not have a million files with similar numbers like CF_0005868. If the picture wizard does not come on when you insert our card into the reader, go to my computer, right click on the drive and select OPEN, the wizard will come on, or a dialog that lets you choose, copy to a folder, the wizard or other choices.

I let the wizard open the folder every time I put a card in, then copy to my HD & browse with irfanview or acdsee. CS doesn’t have the ability to right-click a folder & ‘browse with photoshop’ from windows. The CS browser is useful but I always need to resize even when tabbing from an image & back and other annoyances.

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:21:05 -0000, "Timmy"
wrote:

Hi
I am very new to digital photography at the present moment I use a program called photo express and when I put my memory card into the reader it tells me that it has photos for me to look at and it allows me to do just basic things with my photos.
What I would like to know is if I delete this program and install Photoshop CS2 will it come up automatically and tell me I have photos to look at when I insert my memory card into the card reader.
Thanks for any help
from Eddie in Glasgow….

Others have addressed your question, but I’ll jump in to point out that you need not delete Photo Express just because you are adding CS2. There will not be any conflict.

In fact, you should keep Photo Express and just use CS2 to edit the images. Don’t burn the old bridge until you are fully comfortable with the new one.

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What I would like to know is if I delete this program and install Photoshop CS2 will it come up automatically and tell me I have photos to look at when I insert my memory card into the card reader.
Thanks for any help
from Eddie in Glasgow….

How irritating this would have been if PS opened every time you transferred photos from your card to your hard drive! Thanks that it is not the case. You only need a normal viewer unless you are editing photos,
and I have Photoshow Express (Nero) as well on my hard drive but rather use the normal Windows viewer via Total Commander.

Dave