Paint Shop Pro 7 & Nikon Coolpix 995

Jasc advises PSP isn't directly supported but may work with TWAIN compliant cameras. The CP 995 isn't TWAIN compliant (per Nikon). I liked what I saw about PSP while researching image editors. JASC says I will need to use what came with the camera; however, poor documentation leads me to seek a different alternative.

Maybe Photoshop Elements? Any help will be appreciated.--juswes

Al West said:

Jasc advises PSP isn't directly supported but may work with TWAIN
compliant cameras. The CP 995 isn't TWAIN compliant (per Nikon). I
liked what I saw about PSP while researching image editors. JASC
says I will need to use what came with the camera; however, poor
documentation leads me to seek a different alternative.

Maybe Photoshop Elements? Any help will be appreciated.
--
juswes

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A second thought-once I load the images through my card reader to the Nikon browser, maybe they can be loaded into any editor. You can undoubtedly tell that I am a "newbie".--juswes

You can just use PSP's image browser and direct it to any image folder you wish. Just download the PSP Demo and try it out.

Al West said:

Al West said:

Jasc advises PSP isn't directly supported but may work with TWAIN
compliant cameras. The CP 995 isn't TWAIN compliant (per Nikon). I
liked what I saw about PSP while researching image editors. JASC
says I will need to use what came with the camera; however, poor
documentation leads me to seek a different alternative.

Maybe Photoshop Elements? Any help will be appreciated.
--
juswes

Click to expand...

A second thought-once I load the images through my card reader to
the Nikon browser, maybe they can be loaded into any editor. You
can undoubtedly tell that I am a "newbie".
--
juswes

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Download the images with whatever software came with your camera. Once they are on the computer (as .jpg files) you can open them in any editor, including PaintShopPro. Also, if you invest in a card reader, it doesn't matter what software came with the camera. You can get some of them from about $29. There are probably tips in the Nikon forum for the best ways to download images.--Mary

Al West said:

Jasc advises PSP isn't directly supported but may work with TWAIN
compliant cameras. The CP 995 isn't TWAIN compliant (per Nikon). I
liked what I saw about PSP while researching image editors. JASC
says I will need to use what came with the camera; however, poor
documentation leads me to seek a different alternative.

Maybe Photoshop Elements? Any help will be appreciated.
--
juswes

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To all who responded: Thanks for your help. Just needed a bit of prodding, and your answers were just what I needed.--juswes

Al,

Since you're a self-confessed newbie, may I make some suggestions:

1. Once camera is attached to your computer and its basic USB connection established, the magnetic media in the camera is treated by your computer as just another "removable drive" and you can access it as you would any other folder on your hard disk, on a zip or floppy disk, etc. As has been mentioned above, the key objective at stage 1 is to transfer the jpg files on to your hard disk; and once that's completed successfully, only then should they be deleted from the camera's magnetic storage media. And by the same token, as standard jpg files, they can now be edited by any approriate software, and not just the stuff that came with your camera.

2. Once on your hard disk, you should immediately copy the images to some form of (really) removable medium, preferably a CD-Rom if you have a CDRW installed. This will ensure that you have a back-up "virgin" set of your precious digital negatives. In fact a second CD-Rom for off-site storage might also make sense if your negs mean a lot to you.

3. If you're using Paint Shop Pro (as I do), you should consider using its batch-convert facility to convert the images to its proprietary .psp file format before doing anything else. This creates copies of the jpg files but with a psp extension, and the advantages of doing so are:

a. The jpg file format is very useful as regards space saving, but it is notorious for the degradation in image quality it causes; and what's worse, this degradation is progressive, so each time you open, edit and re-save a jpg file, the saved file is worse that its predecessor. The psp format, which is also compressable, however, is "non-lossy" and thus does not degrade the source image. Once retouched and re-saved as a psp file, you can print directly from PSP in that format; and if you need to upload to a web site or send someone a copy by email, you can use PSP's "Export as JPG" function, that now creates a jpg copy of the retouched psp source file.

b Secondly when you've become more conversant with PSP you'll discover that layers and channels are two of the most important features available in your new digital darkroom, and the psp format saves these with the file itself.

HTH--Regards,Robin [Redbreast]