E Photo Loader Version 2.
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Table of contents Introduction ................................................................... 5 ■ To first-time users of Photo Loader ....................................... 5 ■ Features of Photo Loader ....................................................... 5 Automatically loads recorded images from a digital camera or memory card. .......................................................................... 5 Handling high-volume image data as a library ...........................
■ Deleting Images ..................................................................... Deleting a library ...................................................................... Deleting images one by one .................................................... ■ Copying a library .................................................................... ■ Moving a library ..................................................................... ■ Editing a library ........................................................
Introduction This document describes how to use 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 Windows. This document does not describe how to use Windows. This document assumes that Photo Loader users are familiar with the following basic operations.
Important! Photo Loader can be used to capture the following types of multimedia files. • Image files saved in JPEG format • Video files saved in AVI format (including those without sound) • Audio files saved in WAV format Linked still images (JPEG) and audio files (WAV) can also be managed in linked form by Photo Loader. 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.
■ How to read this instruction manual Operation conventions All operations on this manual are described for Windows XP. The description assumes that a mouse is used. In this document, the buttons in dialog boxes are described as follows.
Starting Photo Loader Photo Loader must be installed on your PC before starting. If not yet installed, install Photo Loader on your PC. 1. Switch on your PC to start Windows. → “Casio”→ → “Photo Loader” → “Photo 2. Select “All Programs”→ Loader 2.3E”. Photo Loader starts and the function buttons are displayed. Photo Loader function buttons Note Always select the “Yes” button on the “Construct Calendar Data” dialog box that appears when you start Photo Loader for the first time.
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 PC using Photo Loader. You can choose from “Loading images automatically” and “Loading images manually”. * Photo Loader can be used to capture the following types of multimedia file.
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 23. • Images can be automatically loaded from the following cameras in addition to this camera. DCF-compatible digital cameras or memory cards* (JPEG files only) memory cards* of QV-7000SX and QV-5500SX (JPEG and AVI files) * Must be mounted on PC as a drive.
2. Click the 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.
4. Restart Photo Loader by clicking [Exit] (Restarting is not necessary unless the settings have been changed). This completes the automatic loading settings. Images will be automatically loaded after starting Windows, when you connect the digital camera to the USB port of your PC, or when you mount the memory card used to record pictures with the digital camera. It will be turned “ON”. Important! • Always restart Photo Loader after you have changed the automatic loading setting.
5. Connect the digital camera to the USB port or mount the memory card used to record pictures on your PC. • The confirmation dialog will be displayed. • If the confirmation dialog is not required, change the setting by referring to page 46. 6. Click the [OK] button to start automatic loading. • Images will be loaded from the digital camera, and a library will be created. • Click the [Suspend] button to disable automatic loading. 7.
8. Click the [Load(G)] button. • Images will be loaded in the selected image folder. • 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 [OK]. Pull-down button • 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.
9. Enter a library name for the loaded images. • Only valid when loading with “Sort by date (P)” selected. • Operation 10 screen will be displayed when loaded using “Sort by recording date (R)”. • See “Library sort method” on page 44 for “Sort by recording date (R)”. • You can enter up to 40 characters. • You can enter a library name when “Yes” is set for “Enter title after loading”. The default is set to “No”. • See “Enter title after loading” on page 45 for library name entry settings. 10.
• To use the calendar format display, click the Pull-down button next to “List Style” at the top right of the screen and select the calendar format. • See “Viewing a library” on page 28 for details of viewing a library. • Change the setting of “Excute [View library] after saving” if you do not want to display a library after loading images. See “Changing Photo Loader preferences” on page 44 to 45.
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 “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 13. 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 15.
Loading an Image Manually (for RS-232C connection) Image data recorded using a digital camera will be loaded into Photo Loader. See “Loading an Image Manually (for Card/USB connection)” on page 16 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.
2. Select “RS232C connection(S)” and click [Load image in camera...] button. 3. Click the [Setting(S)] button. Click the [Cancel] button to cancel the operation. • Check that the number of the RS-232C terminal (serial port) on your PC connected by the cable is the same as the port number (COM1-COM9) displayed by the communication port setting in the preferences dialog box. • Read the instruction manual of your PC for the number of the RS-232C terminal.
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 digital camera is not communicating correctly with Photo Loader. If this occurs, check that the digital camera is correctly connected to the PC and try again. Loading images 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)”. 3. Click the [Load image in camera...] button. 4. Select either “Batch(A)” or “Specified folder(F)” from “Transfer unit”. • Select “Batch(A)” to load all images saved in the digital camera. • Select “Specified folder(F)” 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 (P)” 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 (R)”, see “Handling image loading errors (for “Sort by recording date(R)”)” on page 26.
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, video data saved in AVI format, 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.
3. Select the folder containing the image data to be loaded into Photo Loader and click the [Add(A)] button. To reselect an image to be loaded, select the image data from the folder list and click the [Delete(D)] button. Then, reselect an image to be loaded. Names of the images to be loaded are displayed in the folder list. Sample images 4. Select the method for loading images from “Specify saving”. • “Copy(C)” ................... The source image data will be retained after the image is loaded.
5. Click the [Load(G)] button. • Images will be loaded from the folder selected. • 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 [OK]. Pull-down button • 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.
Important! ● About movie images and panorama images recorded using a digital camera 1 Movie recording To replay movie images (AVI files) recorded in “Movie recording mode” on a CASIO LCD digital camera on Windows 98 computer, Microsoft DirectX9.0c or later, or QuickTime 4.0 or later, is required. 2 Panorama recording CASIO LCD digital cameras with a Panorama playback function quasi- compose and play back images recorded in Panorama recording mode.
1 Select “Sort by date information of a file”. • Sort images on the file date information and create a library. • To load images by specifying a date instead of using the file date information, select “Sort by date”, click the [OK] button, and then 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 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.
2. Click the month for the libraries to be displayed. List Style Calendar Style For more information about how to toggle between “List Style” and “Calendar Style”, see page15.
3. Click the date or title for the libraries to be displayed.
The library selected is displayed. This window is used for various views and functions. • Slide show ................. Displays images contained in a library one by one. Click [MANUAL] to manually browse through images one by one. Click [AUTO] to display the next images every 5 seconds. • INDEX ........................ Displays thumbnails of the images. • DATA .......................... Displays the recorded date information. • Link ............................
Retouching and Printing Images/Attaching with E-mail Images can be retouched, printed, and attached with e-mail. 1. Follow the procedure as far as Step 3 in “Viewing a library from Photo Loader” on page 28. 2. Click the image to be displayed. The selected image is displayed. [MAIL] button • Clicking the button launches the e-mail software and attaches the image file with an e-mail message. • The e-mail software to be used must be selected. Refer to “Selecting the e-mail software” on page 48.
• For details about the [PRINT] button, see “Adding/Removing the optional buttons to the Library” on page 49. Note • This function is available only with Internet Explorer. • For details on using Photohands, please consult the Photohands manual contained in the provided CD-ROM. [ ] button • Plays image files with sound or 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 on page 31.
2. Select the library to be deleted. Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. The images in the library selected are displayed. 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.
H Back] or [Next J] button to display the image file to 3. Click [H be deleted. The images in the library selected are displayed. 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.
6. Click the [OK] button. • Image files marked with are deleted. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel deletion. • When all image files within a library have been 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.
2. Select the library to be copied. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images(P)” displays the images in the library selected. The images in the library selected are displayed. The capacity of the selected library 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. • “HTML folder”, “Library folder”, “autorun.inf”, and “Library.htm” are copied to the specified folder. If you copy these four folders and files to the root directory (topmost layer) of a CD-R, the CD-R enables the libraries to be displayed automatically. ■ Moving a library This sub-section describes how to move a Photo Loader library.
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. 3. Click the [Move...] 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 moved to the specified folder. • Click the [Cancel] button to cancel moving. • “HTML folder”, “Library folder”, “autorun.inf”, and “Library.htm” are copied to the specified folder. If you copy these four folders and files to the root directory (topmost layer) of a CD-R, the CDR enables the libraries to be displayed automatically. • Photo Loader is not able to restore libraries automatically once they have been moved.
2. Select the library to change the title. • Titles cannot be changed if multiple libraries are selected. • Checking “Display preview images(P)” 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.
Note The rebuilding process takes a significant length of time if the library contains a large number of files. If the 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 [Setting] button from the function buttons.
3. Select the library to be rebuilt. • Clicking the [Select all] button selects all the libraries. • Checking “Display preview images(P)” displays the images in the library selected. • When clicking the date, title, number of image, template or location in the “Library list(L)”, sorting is performed accordingly. • When you select multiple libraries, hold down the [Ctrl] key and click on a library you want to select. Images within the library selected are displayed. 4. Click the [Rebuild...] button. 5.
Changing Photo Loader preferences This sub-section describes the various Photo Loader preferences. Photo Loader preferences are broadly divided into following four types. ● General ● Load images ● Options ● 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 Specifies the folder for loading images to. Click on [Browse...] button and specify the folder for loading to. Libraries previously loaded will all be transferred to the new folder once specified. • If you specify a library located on the hard drive other than internal one, the application may not work properly. In order to the Photo Loader to work properly, avoid specifying a library located in the removable disk drive or CD-ROM drive. Also do not specify a library on the internet.
Select Display Style Specify how libraries are displayed. For details of how to change the display, see page 15. • List Style ······ displays five images at a time based on date. • Calendar Style ······ displays the first image shot on the corresponding date in the monthly calendar. ■ Load images 1. Click the [Preferences] button from the function buttons. 2. Click the tab. 3. Set the preferences as required. includes the following preferences.
Convert image aspect based on rotation information Sets whether or not to convert the image aspect when loading images. If “Convert aspect(C)” is selected, a portrait image will be loaded as portrait image based on the rotation information, where applicable. ■ Options 1. Click the [Preferences] function button. 2. Click the
Selecting the e-mail software Set the mailing software with which an image file is to be attached. If you do not use the mailing function, select “Do not set mailing software”. Compatible e-mail software: Outlook Express (IE5.5 or 6.0), Outlook 2000 Important! • You need to install e-mail software compatible with this function on your PC to use the mailing function. • If an e-mailer (such as Netscape Messenger) that is not set as the e-mail software launches, select [Edit] → [Preferences...
Adding/Removing the optional buttons to the Library Adds the [PRINT] button used when printing an image in “Retouching and Printing Images/Attaching with E-mail” on page 32. Also, adds or removes the [MAIL] button used when attaching an image to an e-mail. 1. Click the [Rebuild...] button. • If [Yes(D)] is selected in “Adding Print button” on page 47, the [PRINT] button will be added. If [No(O)] is selected, the [PRINT] button will be removed.
Starting the Photohands retouching/printing software Photohands must be installed on your PC before it can be started. There are three methods for starting Photohands from Photo Loader: • Start from the function button • Start from the library index • Start from the image viewing screen This section describes how to start Photohands from the function button. 1. Click the [Print] function button. Photohands starts up.
Viewing help 1. Click the [Help] button 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”.
Glossary This section describes terms used in this document that are especially difficult to understand. ● DCF This stands for Design rule for 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”.
