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CNET
"It's a handy tool that can help you bring order
to your digital photo chaos."
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Getting pictures from a digital
camera to a PC should be a snap, but too often it isn't.
Smart Photo Import is an easy-to-use
tool that greatly simplifies the process of importing
and sorting digital images from a camera or other device
to a computer.
It automatically organizes image
files into folders for easy archiving, neatly avoiding
one of the biggest problems with digital photography:
immense catch-all folders packed with thousands of
images, and usually all jumbled up, too.
This neat little tool has a
Windows-style installer and opens with a clean, basic
interface that resembles a bare-bones media player.
There are File, Edit, and Help menus; navigation boxes;
a slider to control thumbnail size; some sorting and
display options; and Import, Preview, and Options
buttons, the latter giving access to the program's
configurations.
There's a handy space to enter photo
subjects for easy sorting, an interesting feature that
we especially like. Smart Photo Importer couldn't be
easier to use: browse to the source folder, select a
destination folder, and click Import.
The imported images start appearing
immediately in the main display. A click rotates the
image either way or calls up a dialog with detailed
image information.
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v. 1.8.5
- Fixed some problems with the drive sense and
with the windows "On Pictures Arrival" Dialog.
v. 1.8.4
- Added Support for newer digital cameras
formats - including Canon Eos 1d MK IV
v. 1.8.3
- Problem with writing to registry in Win7
solved
- Now the drive sense does not start the
program with every media connection, it checks
that it is a camera device or a card reader
- Restyling of Help file and some information
was updated
v. 1.8.2
- Fixed a bug with long names of files
containing numbers
v. 1.8.1
- Added ability to view several multimedia
formats thumbs (avi, mpg, wmv, etc..)
- Fixed bug about displaying wrongly oriented
thumbnails with Raw Files and in some cases with
jpeg files
- Improved speed reading RAW thumbnails
v. 1.7
- Now Displaying Raw Files always applies
in-camera White Balance by default
- Implemented support for sony SR2 and ARW raw
formats and Olympus ORW in picture browser. Also
it is possible now to have previews of Sigma
SD14 raw files (Still problems reading the SD14
actual raw data though - will be solved in next
versions)
- Now serial numeration starts from 1 rather
than 0
- Minor fixes
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The job of Smart Import is taking photos from your camera or any
other media device (flash, memory cards etc..), and copying/moving
them to your PC while the files are automatically renamed and
organized in folders by subject and by date.
Smart Import loads very quickly and doesn't make your computer look
like a dinosaur.
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In a comfortable browser you can view the pictures on
your media device or your hard disk. Small previews are available at
your preferred size.
Smart Import is able to display more than 100 different file
formats, plus other over 120 digital camera proprietary RAW
formats (Click
here for the list).
When you insert a new media device in your computer the program
sensor will detect it and will be ready to import pictures. Double
clicking on a thumbnail will open the picture viewer, that gives you
a bigger preview for each photo.
On the top is displayed the source
folder, while at the bottom you can select the destination folder
where the files will be imported.
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Digital photos coming from your camera have meaningless serial
names.
If you are a photographer who takes hundreds pictures in a week or
even in one day you may want to have a fast way to put your pictures
on your computer, organize them and give them meaningful names.
Smart Import makes all this possible: lets you customize the name of
the file and of the folders where the pictures will be imported.
Smart Import can use exif data to extract important details about
the shots like exact date-time and add it right into the name of the
imported files or folders. You can choose to automatically create
folders for each day or month or year of the shots, to specify the
subject of the photo-reportage and other rules to rename files.
Naming your pictures and folders with the year, month, day of the
shot will greatly help you to find them again, and will create a
perfectly organized archive on your pc. You will no longer need to
spend hours doing this.
With one click you can choose the import options and you can preview
how pictures will be imported.
Don't worry for mistakes! Even if you make a mistake you can undo
the last import operation and files will be taken back and renamed
in their original positions.
And remember at any time the program will let you to re-organized
the archived files in another way. (should you come unhappy with the
previous organization). In fact, you won't be limited to import
pictures just from your camera: you can do this from and to any
folder in your computer.
Just drag and drop files and folders from your Windows Explorer into
the program. Then import them just as you would normally do for your
card's pictures.
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To mark pictures that need to be rotated is
very easy: just click one of the two rotate buttons displayed for
each picture. All rotations are performed lossless, as Smart Import
never touches the pictures internal data and their exif information.
Pictures that cannot be rotated lossless will not be changed: a copy
will be rotated instead.
Smart Import also lets you to create a copy for each picture and
have it converted into another graphics format.
Finally you can print your picture collections, just like an album,
including most important file and exif information.
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