Photo Loader Version 1.
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Table of contents Introduction ................................................................... 4 ■ To first-time users of Photo Loader ....................................... ■ Features of Photo Loader ....................................................... Automatically loads recording images from a digital camera or memory card. .......................................................................... Handling high-volume image data as a library ...........................
■ Copying a library .................................................................... ■ Moving a library ..................................................................... ■ Editing a library ...................................................................... Changing the title of a library ................................................... Rebuilding a library .................................................................. 31 33 35 35 37 Changing Photo Loader preferences ....................
Introduction This document describes the CASIO LCD digital camera image loading software, Photo Loader (hereafter called Photo Loader in this document). Photo Loader is a software application that runs on Macintosh. This document does not describe how to use Macintosh. This document assumes that Photo Loader users are familiar with the following basic operations.
Important! • Recording images that can be loaded using Photo Loader are images saved in JPEG format and animation files saved in AVI format. Handling high-volume image data as a library Loaded image files will be managed in a folder by date, which is handled as a library. Automatically creates an HTML file in which recorded images can be searched in calendar format.
■ How to read this instruction manual Operation conventions The description assumes that a mouse is used. In this document, the buttons in dialog boxes are described as follows. [View] button [Load image] button [Edit] button [Delete] button [Copy] button [Move] button [Preferences] button [Help] button [Exit] button Display screens • Note that the display screens used in this document may differ slightly from the actual screens, but this does not mean that the contents will be different.
Starting Photo Loader Photo Loader must be installed on your Macintosh before starting. If not yet installed, install Photo Loader on your Macintosh. 1. Switch on your Macintosh. 2. Open the destination folder and double-click “Photo Loader 1.1E”. Photo Loader starts and the function buttons is displayed.
■ Checking communication status between digital camera and Photo Loader (for Serial connection) Important! • A serial connection may not be possible depending on the digital camera model. For details, refer to the digital camera's user's guide. • Before 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 Macintosh before checking the communication status.
3. Click the [Setting] button. Click the [Cancel] button to cancel the operation. • Check that the serial port on the Macintosh to which the cable is connected is the same as the serial port (modem port or printer port) displayed in the configuration dialog box. • Read the Macintosh instruction manual for details of the serial port on your Macintosh. • If the serial port connected is different from the port in the configuration dialog box, select the serial port connected. 4. Click the [Test] button.
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 Macintosh using Photo Loader. You can choose from “Loading images automatically” and “Loading images manually”. * Images to be loaded using Photo Loader should be image files saved in JPEG format or animation files saved in AVI format. * Connect peripheral units to your Macintosh before loading images.
Note • It is recommended that the peripheral devices listed above be used to automatically load images recorded with digital cameras. To load images not from a digital camera, see “Loading images other than those recorded by digital cameras” on page 22. • Images can be automatically loaded from the following cameras in addition to this camera.
2. Click the tab. 3. Select “Automatic loading ON” from “Set up automatic loading”. • “Automatic loading ON” is specified as the default. • Select “Automatic loading OFF” to disable automatic loading.
4. Restart Photo Loader (Restarting is not necessary unless the settings have been changed.). This completes the automatic loading settings. Images will be automatically loaded, when you connect the digital camera to the USB port of your Macintosh, or when you mount the memory card used to record pictures with the digital camera. It will be turned “ON”. Important! • Be sure to re-start Photo Loader after changing the Auto download settings.
When the screen above is displayed, highlight “Pausing loading” and click with the mouse. “Pausing loading” will be unchecked. ) is displayed, the monitoring If the icon with the camera only ( program is not running. In this case, open the folder in which Photo Loader is to be installed and double-click “Desktop Watcher 1.1E” to run the monitoring program. • To display a library after loading an image, you must first specify the browser to be used by selecting [Preferences]→“Browser to display libraries”.
7. Select the folder containing the image data to be loaded and click the [Add] button. To reselect an image to be loaded, select the folder from the folder list and click [Delete]. Then reselect the image to be loaded. Folder names to be loaded will be displayed in the folder list. 8. Click the [Load] button. • Images will be loaded in the selected image folder. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel image loading.
• If the following message appears when loading with “Sort by recording date”, see “Handling image loading errors” on page 25. 9. Enter a library name for the loaded images. • Only valid when loading with “Sort by date” selected. • Operation 10 screen will be displayed when loaded using “Sort by recording date”. • See “Library sort method” on page 39 for “Sort by recording date”. • You can enter up to 40 characters. • You can enter a library name when “Yes” is set for “Enter title after loading”.
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 27 for details of viewing a library. • Change the setting if you do not want to display a library after loading images. See “Changing Photo Loader preferences” on page 39.
Manually loading images (for Card/USB connection) Image data recorded using a digital camera will be loaded into Photo Loader. When serial connection is selected, read “Manually loading images (for Serial connection)” on page 19. 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 Macintosh. • Select “Card/USB connection”.
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 16. Manually loading images (for Serial connection) Image data recorded using a digital camera will be loaded into Photo Loader. Read “Manually loading images (for Card/USB connection)” on page 18 if you have selected card/USB connection.
2. Select the “Load image in camera” option based on the connection between the digital camera (or memory card) and your Macintosh. • Select “Serial connection”. 3. Click the [Load image in camera...] button. 4. Select either “Batch” or “Specified folder” from “Transfer unit”. • Select “Batch” to load all images saved in the digital camera. • Select “Specify folder” to specify a folder to load images saved in the digital camera. 5.
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” is selected, the loading date confirmation dialog box will be displayed. Specify a date with the pull-down button and click [OK]. Pull-down button • If the following message appears when loading with “Sort by recording date”, see “Handling image loading errors” on page 25.
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 or video data saved in AVI format can be loaded from the hard disk of your Macintosh or peripheral devices 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.
3. Select the folder containing the image data to be loaded into Photo Loader and click the [Add] button. To reselect an image to be loaded, select the image data from the folder list and click the [Delete] 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” ........................ The source image data will be retained after the image is loaded. • “Move” ...................
5. Click the [Load] button. • Images will be loaded from the folder selected. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel image loading. • When “Sort by date” is selected, the loading date confirmation dialog box will be displayed. Specify a date with the pull-down button and click [OK]. Pull-down button • If the following message appears when loading with “Sort by recording date”, see “Handling image loading errors” on page 25. 6. Subsequent operations are the same as those for operation 7 on page 15.
Important! ● About movie images recorded using a digital camera Movie recording QuickTime 4.0 or later is required to play back movie images (AVI files) recorded in Movie recording mode with a CASIO LCD digital camera. Handling image loading errors (for “Sort by recording date”) To load images by “Sort by recording date”, sort images on the Exif photographed date information of the image (JPEG) file and create a library.
1 Select “Sort by date information of a file”. • Sort images on the file date information (update date) and create a library. • To load images by specifying a date instead of using the file date information, proceed to step 3. • Clicking the [Cancel] button loads the file with the correct Exif recorded date information and exits the process. 2 Click the [OK] button. • This loads the image.
■ Viewing a library Photo Loader handles the folder saving image files as “Library”. This section describes how to list images in a library on the Macintosh screen. * A browser is required to display a library. * The browser software to be used by Photo Loader must be specified after installing the browser software. The browser software must be selected using [Preferences]→“Browser to display libraries”. Viewing a library from Photo Loader 1. Click the [View] button from the function buttons.
2. Click the month for the libraries to be displayed. 3. Click the date or title for the libraries to be displayed. The library selected is displayed.
■ Deleting a library This sub-section describes how to delete a Photo Loader library. 1. Click the [Delete] button from the function buttons.
2. Select the library to be deleted. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images” displays the images in the library selected. The images in the library selected are displayed. 3. Click the [Delete...] button. The library selected is deleted.
■ 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. 2. Select the library to be copied. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images” displays the images in the library selected.
The images in the library selected are displayed. The capacity of the library selected is displayed. 3. Click the [Copy...] button. 4. Specify the target folder. Displays the selected library capacity and drive space. Files cannot be copied if there is insufficient drive space. 5. Click the [OK] button. • The library selected is copied to the specified folder. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel copying.
■ Moving a library This sub-section describes how to move a Photo Loader library. “Library saving folder” allows the library to be moved from the active drive to a different drive. 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” displays the images in the library selected.
Images within the library selected are displayed. The capacity of the selected library is displayed. 3. Click the [Move] button. Displays the selected library capacity and drive space. Files cannot be moved if there is insufficient drive space. 4. Specify the target folder. 5. Click the [OK] button. • The library selected is moved to the specified folder. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel moving.
■ 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.
2. Select the library to change the title. • Titles cannot be changed if multiple libraries are selected. • Checking “Display preview images” displays the images in the library selected. Images within the library selected are displayed. 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 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] → → “Select built-in template”. ● When a browser is used to view a library, but an error is displayed and no image appears. Warning • Re-editing will take time when there are large images in the library. 1. Click the [Edit] button from the function buttons.
2. Select the library to be rebuilt. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images” displays the images in the library selected. Images within the selected library are displayed. 3. Click the [Rebuild...] button. 4. Click the [OK] button. • The library selected is rebuilt. • Click the [Cancel] button to stop library rebuilding.
Changing Photo Loader preferences This sub-section describes the various Photo Loader preferences. Photo Loader preferences are broadly divided into following three types. ● General ● Loading images in a camera ● Version ■ General 1. Click the [Preferences] button from the function buttons. 2. Click the tab. 3. Set the preferences as required. covers the following preferences. Library sort method Specifies how to sort loading images and create a library when loading images.
Folder to save library Specify a folder to load images. Click the [Browse...] button to change the download destination. If it is changed, all libraries previously loaded will be moved to the new destination. Enter title after loading You can choose to enter a library title after loading images. If “Yes” is selected, a dialog box appears for entering the library title after loading images into Photo Loader. * Titles can be entered after loading images only when the library sorting method is “Sort by date”.
■ Loading images in camera 1. Click the [Preferences] button from the function buttons. 2. Click the tab. 3. Set the preferences as required. includes the following preferences. Set up automatic loading *1 Specifies whether or not to load images automatically. If “Automatic loading ON” is selected, images will be automatically loaded from a digital camera by the Photo Loader monitoring program.
Convert image aspect based on rotation information Sets whether or not to convert the image aspect when loading images. If “Convert aspect” is selected, a portrait image will be loaded as portrait image based on the rotation information, where applicable.Image aspect conversion may not be available for images loaded from certain digital cameras. ■ Version Displays the Photo Loader program version. 1. Click the [Preferences] button from the function buttons. 2. Click the tab.
Viewing help 1. Click the [Help] button from the function buttons. 2. 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”.
Glossary This section describes terms used in this document that are especially difficult to understand. ● DCF This stands for Design rule 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. ● Exif The file format with photograph information and thumbnail added to a JPEG format file. ● JPEG A format for saving image data. The file extension is “.jpg”.
