Using Adobe Photoelements. Skipping Zoombrowser Canon S300

[CWoolcottCanon]

My Canonn S300 came with Adone Photo Elements. ArcSoft Pothotoimpressions and Zoombrowser 2.6.

The Zoombrowser database get easily corrupted and cannot be fixed once corrupted. I managed to recreate it but it is a tedius process and much of the original data was lost. What will I loose if I upload images directly into APE?

Will I be able to photo stitch?
Add and change image Attributes?
Create a slide show to play on the computer?
Group image files in folders and sub-folders?
View images as thumbnails with captions in the Browser Display Area?
Import image attributes from the camera?

Tx, Carlos

[ega1]

I would not copy the files from the camera to your computer with the TWAIN driver. This involves expanding and then recompressing the image. It's better to copy the files directly, and an easy way to do that is with the free Breeze Downloader from http://www.breezesys.com/. This will copy the jpeg files from the camera and place them in folders on your computer. It is quite flexible in how it creates the folder structure and it can extract all the EXIF information into separate files.

Photo Stitch is a separate program, not part of ZoomBrowser. You can install and use it even if you do not install ZoomBrowser. There are other stitching programs, and I believe PhotoShop Elements has a stitching function built-in.

As for viewing, thumbnails, and slide shows, there are many shareware and even freeware programs available. Irfanview from http://www.irfanview.com/ is very popular.

I like BreezeBrowser because of its Canon-specific capabilities in the EXIF interpreting area. It's reasonably priced shareware.