How to copy images

Digital cameras typically store images as files on media such as secure digital (SD) cards or memory sticks etc. To transfer images from a digital camera to a computer, these files are copied to the hard disk of that computer. Application Photo Album Helper allows to copy all image files from such media to a computer in one step as follows:

  1. put the storage media from the digital camera into a reader connected to the computer

  2. start application Photo Album Helper

  3. click on tab "Transfer"

  4. click the button next to field "Read from"

  5. locate the image directory on the camera storage media (digital cameras often use a directory such as F:\DCIM\PANA_100 or similar)

  6. click the button next to field "Store at"

  7. select the directory to copy images to and

  8. click button "Transfer images now".

The display will switch to the log display and log messages inform about the transfer status as image files are copied. A progress bar at the bottom indicates how much of the transfer process is completed.

Please note: You can use the file chooser to create a target directory in step 7. above as well.

Directories are kept

Settings for the source and target directory will be "remembered" by Photo Album Helper. This way an incoming directory such as C:\my files\my images\camera incoming\ can be defined without having to select the directory again each time Photo Album Helper is used. In the same way the source directory can always stay at F:\DCIM\PANA_100 or whatever directory is typically used by the camera to store images.

Automatic creation of subdirectories

With selection of option "create new subdirectory" Photo Album Helper automatically creates a new directory inside the incoming directory whenever a copy process is initiated. This way image files are copied to their own subdirectory inside the incoming directory without the need to set the storage location explicitly.

The creation date of the first image file to copy is taken to create the subdirectory, i.e. when the first image that will be copied was taken at 11:30 a.m. on May 17, 2005 a new subdirectory named 20050517_1130 will be created inside the incoming directory and all files are copied into that new subdirectory.

See also

Transferring images

Change image names

Processing images