Chapter 16. Going Digital with Your Camera or Scanner

In This Chapter:

  • Get pictures onto your Vista computer
  • Use a network to transfer pictures
  • Transfer pictures from a camera to your PC
  • Import pictures to Windows Photo Gallery
  • Grab pictures from your scanner

Vista’s Photo Gallery program is a welcome addition. Windows XP’s My Pictures folder didn’t allow for digital photo editing or extensive picture management. Photo Gallery enables you to organize your pictures, perform routine edits, and perform common picture tasks with your digital photos such as sending them to friends and family via email.

Before Photo Gallery can work with pictures, you must get those pictures on your computer. You might already have some pictures on your computer, ...

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