. Image Capture This unsung little program is something of an orphan. It was designed to download pictures from a USB digital camera and then process them automatically | . Image Capture This unsung little program is something of an orphan. It was designed to download pictures from a USB digital camera and then process them automatically turning them into a Web page scaling them to emailable size and so on . Of course after Image Capture s birth iPhoto came along generally blowing its predecessor out of the water. Even so Apple includes Image Capture with Mac OS X for these reasons Image Capture makes it easy to download only some pictures from your camera Figure 10-11 . Until iPhoto 08 came along iPhoto could only download the entire contents of your camera s memory card. Image Capture can grab images from Mac OS X-compatible scanners too not just digital cameras Image Capture can download your sounds like voice notes from a digital still camera iPhoto can t. Figure 10-11. Top You can set up Image Capture to open automatically when you attach a USB camera to your Mac. One click on Download All transfers its pictures to your hard drive. Bottom If you click Download Some you get this slide-sorter window where you can choose the individual pictures you want to download rotate selected shots using the buttons at the top or delete shots from the camera. In slide-sorter view Shift-click the thumbnails of the individual pictures you want. In list view Shiftclick or -click as though they re Finder list-view files. Image Capture can turn a compatible digital camera into a Webcam broadcasting whatever it sees to anyone on your office network or the whole Internet. Similarly it can share a scanner with all the networked Macs in your office. You can open Image Capture in either of two ways. You can simply double-click its icon in your Applications folder or you can set it up to open automatically whenever you connect a USB digital camera and turn it on. To set up that arrangement openImage Capture manually. Choose Image Capture Preferences click the General tab and then choose Image Capture from the When a camera is connected open pop-up
