Digital cameras come in all shapes and sizes. And different cameras have different ways of connecting to your computer. However, most new cameras work as plug-and-play devices with Windows 7. This means that Windows 7 is able to recognize them as cameras as soon as they are plugged in without you needing to install additional software. How do you know if your camera is the plug-andplay type? Just plug it in and see if the wizard comes up. If not, install the software that came with your camera and follow the directions in your camera’s user manual.
1. Plug your camera into your computer. Most cameras come with a cable especially for this purpose - usually a USB cable.
2. Turn on your camera.
3. The Removable Disk dialog appears. Windows 7 knows that what you’ve plugged in is a camera, but in some ways, it treats it as if it were a removable disk drive.
4. Select the first option. It should have a picture of a camera and text that reads: Copy Pictures to a Folder on My Computer Using Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard.
5. Click OK. The opening page of the Scanner and Camera Wizard appears.
6. Click Next. The Choose Pictures to Copy page of the wizard appears. Here you view all the images stored on your camera as thumbnails. Each thumbnail has a check box in the upper right indicating that the picture should be copied to your hard drive. By default, all the pictures are checked.
7. Look through all the images (using the scroll bar on the right to scroll up and down). If there are any you don’t want to copy, click the check box to remove the check mark on that picture. Buttons in the lower right allow you to Select All or Clear All check boxes.
8. Click Next. The Picture Name and Destination page appears. Here you can choose where on the hard drive you want to place your pictures.
9. Click Next. In Windows 7 The Copying Pictures page appears. The wizard immediately goes to work copying each picture to the hard drive. When it is done, the Other Options page is displayed. Here you have the option to order prints or publish the pictures to a Web site. You’ll have the option of doing these things later, too, if you like.
10. Choose the Nothing. I’m Finished Working with These Pictures option, and click Next. The Completing the Scanner and Camera Wizard dialog appears. Click Finish and you’re done! A window appears showing you the folder where you copied your picture files.
Digital cameras make it easy to download pictures and post them on your Web site or email them to a friend. But what if you have taken pictures with a regular camera that you’d like to get onto your computer’s hard drive? That’s what scanners are for! You can buy a scanner for around $75 that allows you to scan documents, receipts, or pictures and save the images on your hard drive, just as you would with a digital camera. Once you have your scanner properly installed, follow these steps to scan your pictures to your hard drive.
1. Select My Computer from the Windows 7 Start menu. The My Computer window appears. Look through the items here. You should find your scanner listed.
2. Double-click on your scanner. The opening page of the Camera and Scanner Wizard appears.
3. Click Next. The Choose Scanning Preferences page appears.
4. Select an appropriate picture type. If you are scanning a color picture, choose Color picture. If you are scanning a black-and-white picture, choose Grayscale picture.
5. Place the picture you want to scan in your scanner as directed. Click Preview. In a Windows 7 system, the scanner does a preliminary scan of the page and shows you the results. If the picture is smaller than a full page, you’ll see a dotted line around the picture with boxes at each corner.
6. Click the Next button. The Picture Name and Destination page appears. Here you can choose where on the hard drive you want to place your pictures.
7. Click the Next button. The Scanning Picture page appears. Your scanner now does a final scan of the picture. When it is complete, the Other Options page appears. Here you have the option to order prints or publish the pictures to a Web site. You’ll have the option of doing these things later, too, if you like.
8. Choose the Nothing. I’m Finished Working with These Pictures option and click Next. The Completing the Scanner and Camera Wizard page appears.
9. Click Finish, and you’re done! A window opens showing you the folder where you copied your picture.
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