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How to Bring Your Photographs to Class

If you've never moved your photographs from your camera to your computer, go to How to Move Photographs from Camera to Computer: Downloading.

There are five ways you can bring your photographs to class.

The most reliable way, besides prints, is to use a USB flash drive.

And, if you're taking a Photoshop Elements class, you can save your work easily with a USB flash drive.

If you want to show prints, use the lab you normally use.

You can transfer your photographs from a file on your computer to a USB flash drive.

These devices are also called thumb or keychain drives.

A common size is 2 GB (gigabyte).

You may want to create a file on your computer, and on the USB flash drive, called Class photos.

Use the synchronization software that came with your USB flash drive to keep the two folders in sync.

If you don't have synchronization software, download the free Microsoft program SyncToy.

Transferring your photographs from a folder on your computer to a CD is called burning.

If you're unfamiliar with burning a CD or DVD, go to How to Move Photographs to a Disk: CD & DVD Burning.

The class computer has a card reader.

If you have a card reader, you can put an empty (repeat, empty) flash card into your card reader.

The flash card/card reader combination is like a hard drive.

You can find the card reader on your computer in My Computer or Computer (Windows) or Finder under Devices (Mac).

Transfer photographs from a folder on your computer to the empty flash card.

During the class, dedicate a flash card for this purpose, and label it as such.

Then, when class ends, reformat the card.

Do not transfer photographs from your computer to a flash card that's in your camera.

You can use your laptop.

However, the screen is hard for a class to see.