Casio VERSION 2.3 manual

Photo Loader V ersion 2.3 CASIO LCD Digital Camera Image Loading Software W indows version Instruction manual K831PSM2DMX E[...]

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3 T able of contents Introduction ................................................................... 5 ■ To first-time users of Photo Loader ....................................... 5 ■ Features of Photo Loader ....................................................... 5 Automatically loads recorded images from a digital camera or memory card. ...[...]

4 ■ Deleting Images ..................................................................... 33 Deleting a library ...................................................................... 33 Deleting images one by one .................................................... 34 ■ Copying a library .........................................................[...]

5 Intr oduction This document describes how to use the CASIO LCD digital camer a image loading software , Photo Loader (hereafter called Photo Loader in this document). Photo Loader is a software application that runs on Windo ws . This document does not describe how to use Windows . This document assumes that Photo Loader users are f amiliar with [...]

6 Important! Photo Loader can be used to capture the following types of multimedia files. • Image files saved in JPEG format • V ideo files saved in A VI format (including those without sound) • Audio files saved in W A V format Linked still images (JPEG) and audio files (W A V) can also be managed in linked form by Photo Loader . Handling hi[...]

7 ■ How to read this instruction manual Operation conventions All operations on this manual are described for Windows XP . The description assumes that a mouse is used. In this document, the buttons in dialog boxes are described as follows. Display screens • The display screens in this document are from Windows XP and may dif fer slightly from [...]

8 Starting Photo Loader Photo Loader must be installed on your PC before starting. If not yet installed, install Photo Loader on your PC. 1. Switch on your PC to start Windows. 2. Select “All Programs” → → → → → “Casio” → → → → → “Photo Loader” → → → → → “Photo Loader 2.3E”. Photo Loader starts and the [...]

9 Using Photo Loader This section describes how to use Photo Loader . ■ Loading an image This sub-section describes how to load image data onto your PC using Photo Loader . Y ou can choose from “Loading images automatically” and “Loading images manually”. * Photo Loader can be used to capture the following types of multimedia file. • Im[...]

10 Note • It is recommended that the peripheral devices listed above be used to automatically load images recorded with digital cameras. T o load images not from a digital camera, see “Loading images other than those recorded by digital cameras” on page 23. • Images can be automatically loaded from the following cameras in addition to this [...]

11 2. Click the <Load images> tab. 3. Select “Automatic loading ON(N)” from “Set up automatic loading”. • “Automatic loading ON( N)” is specified as the default. • Select “Automatic loading OFF( F)” to disable automatic loading.[...]

12 4. Restart Photo Loader by clicking [Exit] (Restarting is not necessary unless the settings have been changed). This completes the automatic loading settings. Images will be automatically loaded after starting Windows, when you connect the digital camera to the USB port of your PC, or when you mount the memory card used to record pictures with t[...]

13 5. Connect the digital camera to the USB port or mount the memory card used to record pictures on your PC. • The confirmation dialog will be displayed. • If the confirmation dialog is not required, change the setting by referring to page 46. 6. Click the [OK] button to start automatic loading. • Images will be loaded from the digital camer[...]

14 8. Click the [Load( G)] button. • Images will be loaded in the selected image folder . • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel image loading. • When “Sort by date ( P)” is selected, the loading date confirmation dialog box will be displayed. Specify a date with the pull-down button and click [OK]. • If the following message appears whe[...]

15 9. Enter a library name for the loaded images. • Only valid when loading with “Sort by date ( P)” selected. • Operation 10 screen will be displayed when loaded using “Sort by recording date ( R)”. • See “Library sort method” on page 44 for “Sort by recording date ( R)”. • Y ou can enter up to 40 characters. • Y ou can e[...]

16 • To use the calendar format display , click the Pull-down button next to “List Style” at the top right of the screen and select the calendar format. • See “V iewing a library” on page 28 for details of viewing a library . • Change the setting of “Excute [V iew library] after saving” if you do not want to display a library afte[...]

17 1. Click the [Load image] button from the function buttons. 2. Select the “Load image in camera” option based on the connection between the digital camera (or memory card) and your PC. • Select “Card/USB connection( U)”. 3. Click the [Load image in camera...] button. 4. Subsequent operations are the same as those for operation 7 on pag[...]

18 Loading an Image Manually (for RS-232C connection) Image data recorded using a digital camera will be loaded into Photo Loader . See “Loading an Image Manually (for Card/USB connection)” on page 16 if you have selected card/USB connection. Important! • RS-232C connection is not possible with some digital cameras. For details, see the user [...]

19 2. Select “RS232C connection(S)” and click [Load image in camera...] button. 3. Click the [Setting( S)] button. Click the [Cancel] button to cancel the operation. • Check that the number of the RS-232C terminal (serial port) on your PC connected by the cable is the same as the port number (COM1-COM9) displayed by the communication port set[...]

20 4. Click the [T est( T)...] button. • When the “The camera was recognized.” dialog box is displayed, click the [OK] button and then click the [OK] button in the preferences dialog box. • When an error message is displayed, the digital camera is not communicating correctly with Photo Loader . If this occurs, check that the digital camera [...]

21 2. Select the “Load image in camera” option based on the connection between the digital camera (or memory card) and your PC. • Select “RS232C connection( S)”. 3. Click the [Load image in camera...] button. 4. Select either “Batch(A)” or “Specified folder( F)” from “T ransfer unit”. • Select “Batch( A)” to load all ima[...]

22 6. Click the [OK] button. • Images will be loaded from the digital camera connected. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel image loading. • When “Sort by date ( P)” is selected, the loading date confirmation dialog box will be displayed. Specify a date with the pull-down button and click [OK]. • If the following message appears when [...]

23 Loading images other than those recorded by digital cameras Loads image data other than that taken with a digital camera into Photo Loader . Image data saved in JPEG format, video data saved in A VI format, and audio data saved in W A V format can be captured from the hard disk of the PC or from peripheral units connected via a network. 1. Click[...]

24 3. Select the folder containing the image data to be loaded into Photo Loader and click the [Add( A)] button. To reselect an image to be loaded, select the image data from the folder list and click the [Delete( D)] button. Then, reselect an image to be loaded. Names of the images to be loaded are displayed in the folder list. 4. Select the metho[...]

25 5. Click the [Load( G)] button. • Images will be loaded from the folder selected. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel image loading. • When “Sort by date ( P)” is selected, the loading date confirmation dialog box will be displayed. Specify a date with the pull-down button and click [OK]. • If the following message appears when loa[...]

26 Important! ● About movie images and panor ama images recorded using a digital camera 1 Mo vie recording To repla y movie images (A VI files) recorded in “Movie recording mode” on a CASIO LCD digital camera on Windows 98 computer , Microsoft DirectX9.0c or later , or Quic kTime 4.0 or later , is required. 2 P anorama recording CASIO LCD dig[...]

27 1 Select “Sort by date information of a file”. • Sort images on the file date information and create a library . • To load images by specifying a date instead of using the file date information, select “Sort by date”, click the [OK] button, and then proceed to step 3 . • Clicking the [Cancel] button loads the file with the correct [...]

28 ■ V iewing a library Photo Loader handles the folder saving image files as “Library”. This section describes how to list images in a library on the PC screen. V iewing a library from Photo Loader 1. Click the [V iew] button from the function buttons. The calendar is displayed for the years in which the image data was saved. The months in w[...]

29 2. Click the month for the libraries to be displayed. List Style Calendar Style For more information about how to toggle between “List Style” and “Calendar Style”, see page15.[...]

30 3. Click the date or title for the libraries to be displayed. List Style Calendar Style[...]

31 The library selected is displayed. This window is used for various views and functions. • Slide show ................. Displays images contained in a library one by one. Click [MANUAL] to manually browse through images one by one. Click [AUT O] to display the next images every 5 seconds. • INDEX ........................ Displays thumbnails o[...]

32 Retouching and Printing Images/Attaching with E-mail Images can be retouched, printed, and attached with e-mail. 1 . Follow the procedure as far as Step 3 in “V iewing a library from Photo Loader” on page 28. 2 . Click the image to be displayed. The selected image is displayed. [MAIL] button • Clicking the button launches the e-mail softwa[...]

33 • For details about the [PRINT] button, see “Adding/Removing the optional buttons to the Library” on page 49. Note • This function is available only with Internet Explorer . • For details on using Photohands, please consult the Photohands manual contained in the provided CD-ROM. [ ] button • Plays image files with sound or the sound [...]

34 2. Select the library to be deleted. Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. 3. Click the [ Delete...] button. The library selected is deleted. Deleting images one by one This section describes how to delete images one by one. 1 . Click the [Delete] function button. 2 . Select the library that contains the image to be deleted[...]

35 3 . Click [ H H H H H Back] or [ Next J J J J J ] button to display the image file to be deleted. 4 . Click the [Select/Cancel...] button. • appears next to the image to be deleted. Clicking the [ Select/Cancel...] button again removes the . 5 . Click the [ Delete...] button. The images in the library selected are displayed.[...]

36 6 . Click the [OK] button. • Image files marked with are deleted. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel deletion. • When all image files within a library have been erased, delete the library . • It may take a significant length of time to update the library . ■ Copying a library This sub-section describes how to copy a Photo Loader lib[...]

37 2 . Select the library to be copied. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images( P)” displays the images in the library selected. 3. Click the [ Copy ...] button. 4. Specify the target folder . The capacity of the selected library is displayed. The images in the library selected are d[...]

38 5. Click the [OK] button. • The library selected is copied to the specified folder . • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel copying. • “HTML folder”, “Library folder”, “autorun.inf”, and “Library .htm” are copied to the specified folder . If you copy these four folders and files to the root directory (topmost layer) of a CD-[...]

39 2. Select the library to be moved. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images( P)” displays the images in the library selected. 3. Click the [Move...] button. 4. Specify the target folder . Displays the selected library capacity and drive space. Files cannot be copied if there is insu[...]

40 5. Click the [OK] button. • The library selected is moved to the specified folder . • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel moving. • “HTML folder”, “Library folder”, “autorun.inf”, and “Library .htm” are copied to the specified folder . If you copy these four folders and files to the root directory (topmost layer) of a CD-R,[...]

41 2 . Select the library to change the title. • T itles cannot be changed if multiple libraries are selected. • Checking “Display preview images( P)” displays the images in the library selected. 3. Click the [Change title...] button. 4. Enter a title and click the [OK] button. • The title will change to the new title entered. • Click t[...]

42 Note The reb uilding process tak es a significant length of time if the librar y contains a large number of files . <Reference> If the librar y contains 1000 image files , it will take 30 min utes to rebuild the library using a PC with a Cr usoe 600 MHz CPU . If JPEG data and W A V data ha v e the same file names, both images will be displ[...]

43 3. Select the library to be rebuilt. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images( P)” displays the images in the library selected. • When clicking the date, title, number of image, template or location in the “Library list(L)”, sorting is performed accordingly . • When you sele[...]

44 Changing Photo Loader preferences This sub-section describes the various Photo Loader preferences. Photo Loader preferences are broadly divided into following four types. ● General ● Load images ● Options ● V ersion ■ General 1. Click the [Preferences] button from the function buttons. 2. Click the <General> tab. 3. Set the prefe[...]

45 Folder to save library Specifies the folder for loading images to. Click on [ Browse...] button and specify the folder for loading to. Libraries previously loaded will all be transferred to the new folder once specified. • If you specify a library located on the hard drive other than internal one, the application may not work properly . In ord[...]

46 Select Display Style Specify how libraries are displayed. For details of how to change the display , see page 15. • List Style ······ displays five images at a time based on date. • Calendar Style ······ displays the first image shot on the corresponding date in the monthly calendar . ■ Load images 1. Click the [Preferences] bu[...]

47 Convert image aspect based on rotation information Sets whether or not to convert the image aspect when loading images. If “Convert aspect( C)” is selected, a portrait image will be loaded as portrait image based on the rotation information, where applicable. ■ Options 1 . Click the [Preferences] function button. 2 . Click the <Option&g[...]

48 Selecting the e-mail software Set the mailing software with which an image file is to be attached. If you do not use the mailing function, select “Do not set mailing software”. Compatible e-mail software: Outlook Express (IE5.5 or 6.0), Outlook 2000 Important! •Y ou need to install e-mail software compatible with this function on your PC t[...]

49 Adding/Removing the optional buttons to the Library Adds the [PRINT] button used when printing an image in “Retouching and Printing Images/Attaching with E-mail” on page 32. Also, adds or removes the [MAIL] button used when attaching an image to an e-mail. 1 . Click the [ Rebuild...] button. • If [Y es( D)] is selected in “Adding Print b[...]

50 Starting the Photohands retouching/printing software Photohands must be installed on your PC before it can be started. There are three methods for starting Photohands from Photo Loader: • Start from the function button • Start from the library index • Start from the image viewing screen This section describes how to start Photohands from t[...]

51 V iewing help 1. Click the [Help] button from the function buttons. 2. Double-click the desired item. The item selected opens. Exiting from Photo Loader 1. Click the [Exit] button from the function buttons. • Photo Loader program ends. T roubleshooting If a problem occurs during use, see “Help”.[...]

52 Glossary This section describes terms used in this document that are especially difficult to understand. ● DCF This stands for Design rule for Camera File system. This is a rule to unify image data saving format to allow image data taken by a digital camera to be exchanged between digital cameras and peripheral units of various manufacturers. [...]