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Many digital cameras offer a number of size and quality modes when taking pictures. All of these settings affect the file sizes produced by the camera. Small images require much less hard disk space and processing time than large ones. Be aware of how much disk space you have on your system when you take your pictures. If your available disk space is limited, you may only be able to copy a few photographs from your camera to the computer. If you plan to use your pictures on the Web, smaller pictures may be better. Typical digital camera pictures are over 1000 pixels wide and 500K bytes in size. Pictures used on the Web are usually much smaller (say 500 pixels wide and less than 100K).

You can use camera settings to take smaller pictures or use Ulead Photo Explorer 7.0 Pro to perform the conversions. Some cameras allow you to adjust the photo compression before you take the pictures. By increasing the compression, you will get smaller file sizes. This allows you to collect more images in your camera, (like getting a longer roll of film) and copy more to your computer. If you only have a small memory card you can use a lower resolution setting to be able to take more pictures. However, images with higher compression will not be so sharp or as accurate as images with lower compression. Some cameras offer special very high quality modes for special applications. Use these with care since the files are large and often the image quality is not much better.

When you install a card reader into your computer it will look as if you have an extra disc drive. You have to find out the drive letter that was assigned by your computer. When you click on the My Computer icon on the desktop you should see an extra drive. It will be given a letter (for example "E:") and will usually be called something like "Removable Disc".

Unfortunately some drives such Zip drive also look the same, so you may need to experiment a bit to work out which one it is. If you insert the memory card in the card reader, you should be able to see some folders; there is usually one called "DCIM" on cards from cameras. When you have worked out the drive letter, go to the Digital Camera Wizard and select the Configure button. Set the Location to the drive letter of your card reader. The Digital Camera Wizard is now set to use this card reader.

Only some special versions of Photo Explorer can select specific cameras. Since most digital camera memory cards conform to a standard there is no need to select your particular model.

If you are transferring from a camera to PC using a USB or RS232 cable your camera will need to be turned on. It will usually need to be set to a special computer transfer mode. Check the instructions that came with your camera to find out how to do this.

This information is contained in the JPG file and will be retained even if the photos are copied to CD or to other computers. But be careful, this information is often lost when pictures are re-saved from image editors and other software.