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How to Bring Your Photographs to Class

If you've never downloaded, transferred, photographs from your camera to your computer, go to How to Download Your photographs.

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.

1 - Prints 2 - USB Flash Drives 3 - CDs 4 - Flash Memory Cards 5 - Laptops

1 - Prints

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

Go to Labs.

2 - USB Flash Drives

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.

Sandisk

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.

Go to How to Transfer Photographs to a Flash Drive.

3 - CDs

CDs Only at the 92nd St. Y

The class computer at the 92nd St. Y has a CD drive only.

There's no DVD drive.

CD-R or CD-RW

You can use CD-R or CD-RW discs.

Difference Between CD-R & CD-RW Discs

Both CD-R or a CR-RW discs can be burned (written to, recorded on) until they're full.

Unlike a CD-R disc, a CD-RW disc can be erased and overwritten.

Burning a CD

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

If you're unfamiliar with burning a CD, go to How to Burn a CD.

Why Is it Called Burning?

In a CD-R, the laser in the CD drive heats a dye layer, which melts pits into an adjacent plastic layer.

In a CD-RW, the heat produced by the laser changes a polycrystalline silver-alloy layer into a non-crystalline phase, creating a pitted pattern.

4 - Flash Memory Cards

The class computer has a card reader.

If you have one, 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.

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.

5 - Laptops

You can use your laptop.

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