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Photo Loader

Version 2.1

CASIO LCD Digital Camera Image Loading
Software
Windows version

Instruction manual

K862PSM3DMX

E

B

Summary of Contents for Photo Loader Version 2.1

Page 1: ...Photo Loader Version 2 1 CASIO LCD Digital Camera Image Loading Software Windows version Instruction manual K862PSM3DMX E B ...

Page 2: ...ublished by CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD and CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD retains all copyrights and other related rights except for those described above This document may not be copied in part or in entirety without permission We assume no responsibility for any damage or loss or claims from third parties resulting from the use of Photo Loader Important Images loaded will be saved in the following location if...

Page 3: ...ruction manual 7 Operation conventions 7 Display screens 7 Starting Photo Loader 8 Checking communication status between digital camera and Photo Loader for RS 232C connection 9 Using Photo Loader 11 Loading an image 11 Loading an image automatically 11 Setting up automatic loading 12 Loading an Image Manually for Card USB connection 18 Loading an Image Manually for RS 232C connection 20 Loading i...

Page 4: ...r saving 43 Selecting built in template 43 Loading images in camera 44 Set up automatic loading 44 Confirmation dialog box 44 Original image after saving 44 Convert image aspect based on rotation information 45 Options 45 Adding Print button 45 Selecting the e mail software 46 Setting the size of image files to be attached with e mail mes sages 46 Adding Removing the optional buttons to the Librar...

Page 5: ...erations on this manual are described for Windows 98 To first time users of Photo Loader Read the Read me file in the CD ROM provided This describes how to check the system requirements for Photo Loader and how to install it on your PC Check your operating environment and Windows version to be used before installing Photo Loader Features of Photo Loader Automatically loads recorded images from a d...

Page 6: ...er New functions of Photo Loader 2 1 Some new functions have been added to Photo Loader 2 1 For details please consult the Photo Loader Read me document contained in the provided CD ROM Continuing use of Photo Loader 1 0 1 1 2 0 library If you are currently using Photo Loader 1 0 1 1 2 0 and are upgrading to 2 1 make sure you consult beforehand the Photo Loader Read me document contained in the pr...

Page 7: ... follows Copy button View button Load image button Edit button Delete button Move button Preferences button Help button Exit button Print button Display screens The display screens in this document are from Windows 98 and may differ slightly from other versions of Windows Note that the display screens used in this document may differ slightly from the actual screens but this does not mean that the...

Page 8: ...ograms Casio Photo Loader Photo Loader 2 1E Photo Loader starts and the function buttons are displayed Photo Loader function buttons Note When you start Photo Loader for the first time a dialog message Mail Settings First setup options To apply settings to the library rebuild the library after setting up will appear If necessary adjust the settings For details see Options on page 45 ...

Page 9: ...ore loading image data from a digital camera check that communication between the digital camera and Photo Loader is successful using the following steps Connect a digital camera to your PC before checking the communication status Read the instruction manual of the digital camera for connection details 1 Click the Load image button from the function buttons 2 Select RS232C connection S and click L...

Page 10: ... RS 232C terminal If the number of the RS 232C terminal connected is different from the communication port number in the preferences dialog box select the communication port number connected 4 Click the Test 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 digita...

Page 11: ...be loaded Sort by recording date R and Sort by date P See Library sort method on page 42 for details Loading an image automatically You can have a supervisory program start and load images automatically from the digital camera connected to your PC by setting automatic loading The automatic loading function only works in the following conditions Peripheral unit connected Digital camera PC card adap...

Page 12: ... files only memory cards of QV 7000SX and QV 5500SX JPEG and AVI files Must be mounted on PC as a drive Automatic loading is not possible with an RS 232C connection Important Images loaded will be saved in the following location if the setting for the library save destination location has not been changed after installing Photo Loader To alter the save destination location see Folder to save libra...

Page 13: ...lick the Load images in camera 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 ...

Page 14: ...u mount the memory card used to record pictures with the digital camera Important Always restart Photo Loader after you have changed the automatic loading setting Otherwise the changes will not take effect Check that the icon is displayed in the task tray It shows that the supervisory program is activated Right click if the icon is displayed When the screen above is displayed highlight Pausing loa...

Page 15: ...l be loaded from the digital camera and a library will be created Click the Suspend button to disable automatic loading 7 Select the folder containing the image data to be loaded and click the Add A button To reselect an image to be loaded select the folder from the folder list and click Delete D button Then reselect the image to be loaded Folder names to be loaded will be displayed in the folder ...

Page 16: ...ge 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 loading with Sort by recording date R see Handling image loading errors for Sort by recording date R on page 26 Pull down button ...

Page 17: ... Yes is set for Enter title after loading The default is set to No See Enter title after loading on page 43 for library name entry settings 10 Click the OK button This completes image loading The Web browser is launched and the libraries created are displayed in calendar format See Viewing a library on page 28 for details of viewing a library Change the setting of Excute View library after saving ...

Page 18: ...o Windows Start Programs StartUp Loading an Image Manually for Card USB connection Image data recorded using a digital camera will be loaded into Photo Loader When RS 232C connection is selected see Loading an Image Manually for RS 232C connection on page 20 1 Click the Load image button from the function buttons ...

Page 19: ...mory 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 page 15 Note If the digital camera or memory card has only one image folder subsequent operations are the same as those for operation 9 on page 17 ...

Page 20: ...n on page 18 if you have selected card USB connection Important RS 232C connection is not possible with some digital cameras For details see the user s manual of the digital camera 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 RS232C connection S ...

Page 21: ...o load images saved in the digital camera 5 If you select Specified folder F select image data to be loaded on the following screen 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 ...

Page 22: ...see Handling image loading errors for Sort by recording date R on page 26 See Checking communication status between digital camera and Photo Loader for RS 232C connection on page 9 for Communication settings 7 Subsequent operations are the same as those for operation 9 on page 17 ...

Page 23: ...at including those without sound and audio data saved in WAV format can be captured from the hard disk of the PC or from peripheral units connected via a network 1 Click the Load image button from the function buttons 2 Click the Load other image button The folders below the desktop will be displayed If Display preview images P is checked with a loadable folder specified the preview will be displa...

Page 24: ...k 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 method for loading images from Specify saving Copy C The source image data will be retained after the image is loaded Move M The image data will be deleted after the image is loaded You cannot select Move M to load image data from the folder onto a network ...

Page 25: ...a date with the pull down button and click OK If the following message appears when loading with Sort by recording date R see Handling image loading errors for Sort by recording date R on page 26 6 Subsequent operations are the same as those for operation 7 on page 15 Note If the digital camera or memory card has only one image folder subsequent operations are the same as those for operation 9 on ...

Page 26: ...se Panorama Editor to generate images Read the instruction manual of Panorama Editor for more information If you transfer image data to your PC and then transfer the data back to a digital camera the image can no longer be played back in panorama mode using the camera Handling image loading errors for Sort by recording date R To load images by Sort by recording date R sort images on the Exif photo...

Page 27: ...e information and exits the process 2 Click the OK button This loads the image If a file with incorrect file date information is encountered the loading date confirmation dialog box will be displayed 3 Specify a date with the pull down button A library will be created with the specified date Clicking the Cancel button loads only Exif and files only Exif when Sort by date information of a file is n...

Page 28: ... section describes how to list images in a library on the PC screen Viewing a library from Photo Loader 1 Click the View button from the function buttons The calendar is displayed for the years in which the image data was saved The months in which the image data was saved are highlighted ...

Page 29: ...29 2 Click the month for the libraries to be displayed 3 Click the date or title for the libraries to be displayed ...

Page 30: ...econds INDEX Displays thumbnails of the images DATA Displays the recorded date information Link Click PRINT to start the Photohands retouching printing software and temporarily transfer the image currently displayed to Photohands The image can then be retouched and printed using Photohands Note This feature works only with Internet Explorer 5 0 or later For details on using Photohands please consu...

Page 31: ... be selected Refer to Selecting the e mail software on page 46 For details about the MAIL button see Adding Removing the optional buttons to the Library on page 47 Note Images with template types 1 and 3 can be attached with e mail messages The MAIL button is not displayed with type 2 and 4 images See Selecting built in template on page 43 Video images AVI format file cannot be attached with e mai...

Page 32: ... the sound recorded in audio files Image files with sound are indicated by and audio files are indicated by EXIT button Click the button to return to the window in Step 3 on page 29 H J buttons Click J to move to the next image file Click H to move back to the previous image file Deleting Images Deleting a library This section describes how to delete a Photo Loader library If a library is deleted ...

Page 33: ...raries 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 The images in the library selected are displayed ...

Page 34: ...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 ...

Page 35: ... 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 library You can copy the library referenced by Folder to save a library to another folder The copied library will be hidden from Photo Loader 1 Click the Copy button from the function buttons ...

Page 36: ...ck the Copy button 4 Specify the target folder 5 Click the OK button The library selected is copied to the specified folder Click the Cancel button to cancel copying The capacity of the selected library is displayed The images in the library selected are displayed Displays the selected library capacity and drive space Files cannot be copied if there is insufficient drive space ...

Page 37: ...rive The library moved will not be visible in Photo Loader 1 Click the Move button from the function buttons 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 Images within the library selected are displayed The capacity of the selected library is displayed ...

Page 38: ...Editing a library This sub section describes how to modify a Photo Loader library The following two operations are supported Changing the title of a library Rebuilding a library Changing the title of a library 1 Click the Edit button from the function buttons Displays the selected library capacity and drive space Files cannot be copied if there is insufficient drive space ...

Page 39: ...e and click the OK button The title will change to the new title entered Click the Cancel button to cancel changing the title Rebuilding a library Rebuild a library in the following cases To reflect templates selected for each library by selecting Preferences General Select built in template When a browser is used to view a library but an error is displayed and no image appears Images within the l...

Page 40: ...e library contains 1000 image files it will take 30 minutes to rebuild the library using a PC with a Crusoe 600 MHz CPU If JPEG data and WAV data have the same file names both images will be displayed If there is no data with the same file name only the WAV data will be displayed 1 Click the Edit button from the function buttons ...

Page 41: ... all the libraries Checking Display preview images P displays the images in the library selected 3 Click the Rebuild button 4 Click the OK button The library selected is rebuilt Click the Cancel button to stop library rebuilding Images within the library selected are displayed ...

Page 42: ...a library when loading images There are two sorting methods Sort by recording date R and Sort by date P Sort by recording date R Sort by the date taken using a digital camera Will be sorted according to the Exif recorded date information for the image JPEG file Video AVI files and audio WAV files are sorted by the date information updated date of the file Ex The image file recorded on 2002 7 31 wi...

Page 43: ...nnot be entered in Sort by recording date R mode Find the date of the library created when the images were loaded and enter a title by selecting Edit Change title Library sort method on page 42 Execute View library after saving You can choose to view all the libraries within Photo Loader after loading images If Yes L is selected you can view all the libraries within Photo Loader after saving loadi...

Page 44: ...ry program Confirmation dialog box 2 Specifies whether or not to display the image loading confirmation dialog box If View V is selected the confirmation dialog box will be displayed before loading an image Original image after saving 3 Specifies whether or not to retain the original loaded image data when loading images If Keep M is selected the original loaded image is retained after loading Imp...

Page 45: ...arious settings are performed here Option provides the following settings Adding Print button With Yes D set PRINT button appears in the Library By clicking this button you can retouch and print image files in conjunction with the Photohands retouching printing software Note This function is available only with Internet Explorer After changing any settings always perform Adding Removing the option...

Page 46: ...enger from MAPI based applications check box An e mail account must be set up in Outlook Express or Outlook 2000 otherwise the mailing function will not work Note For details of instructions and system requirements for e mail software see the user s manual for each application Setting the size of image files to be attached with e mail messages Set the size of an image file attached with an e mail ...

Page 47: ...ebuild button If Yes D is selected in Adding Print button on page 45 the PRINT button will be added If No O is selected the PRINT button will be removed If e mail software is selected in Selecting the e mail software on page 46 the MAIL button will be added If Email software is not assigned is selected the MAIL button will be deleted Version Displays the Photo Loader program version 1 Click the Pr...

Page 48: ...image viewing screen This section describes how to start Photohands from the function button 1 Click the Print function button Photohands starts up Note To start from the library index see step 3 in Viewing a library from Photo Loader on page 28 To start from the image viewing screen see step 2 of Retouching and Printing Images Attaching with E mail on page 31 For details on using Photohands pleas...

Page 49: ... 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 Troubleshooting If a problem occurs during use see Help ...

Page 50: ...PEG A format for saving image data The file extension is jpg AVI A format for saving animation data The file extension is avi WAV A format for saving audio data The file extension is wav Memory card CompactFlash SD Memory Card MultiMediaCard This is mainly used as a storage device for digital cameras Image data recorded with a digital camera can be saved and called up from a memory card Browser A ...

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