Guide to Exporting and Storing Digital Photographs

By Shaun Watkiss

SD Card

• An SD card is a type of memory card typically used in digital camera and other portable devices.

• SD stands for “Secure Digital”

Memory Stick

• A memory stick is a type of memory card used to transport files to different places like different computers/laptops via USB.

External Hard Drive• An external hard drive is a

portable storage device that can be attached to a computer through USB or FireWire connection, or wirelessly.

• They typically have high storage capacities and are often used to back up computers or serve as a network drive.

Transferring images from Digital Camera SD Card to a computer

• Open the battery compartment where the SD card is located. Remove the SD card and put it in the SD card slot in the computer. Push the card until it clicks then wait for the window to appear with all the file inside.

Transferring images from a Computer to a Memory Stick

• Put the memory stick in the USB port and wait for the memory stick’s interface to appear. Then select the files that you want to add to the memory stick. Copy the files and drag into the memory stick file.

What is JPEG?

• A format for compressing image files. It’s the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images over the internet.

What is RAW?• A camera raw image file

contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. RAW files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor.

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