Datasheet

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Working with Digital Images
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FIGURE 1.19
USB connectors
FIGURE 1.20
FireWire connectors
FireWire
You can also contact the manufacturer to find out what kind of cable you need for your camera
model. The major manufacturers, like Canon and Nikon, have Web sites with lots of information,
including downloadable camera operation manuals. You can also take the camera to an electronics
store, such as Circuit City, for help finding the right cable.
When you either put your camera’s memory card into an appropriate card slot or connect your
camera to your computer with a cable, an additional drive that represents the memory card should
show up on your computer. Figure 1.21 shows a memory card called “NO NAME,” listed with the
other drives on the computer: Macintosh HD, iDisk, and My Book. The path to the images inside
the NO NAME memory card is shown as DCIM ➪ 101CANON ➪ images.
You can use your computer’s operating system to copy the images from their location on the mem-
ory card to your hard drive, then use Bridge or choose File ➪ Open from within Photoshop to open
the files on your hard drive (not directly from the memory card drive) into Photoshop.