The Free CD That Ships With Your Digital Camera

Canon digital cameras include a CD offering free software, such as EOS Utility, Digital Photo Professional, Picture Style Editor, and Zoombrowser EX. The chance are endless with this software – copy pictures onto your desktop, sort your images, edit your pictures. If you can’t find your CD, you can replace the software using this guide. it ain’t equally nice as having the full suite of Adobe’s image manipulation and sorting software, but it also ain’t above a thousand bucks. Free is great.

EOS Capture Utility. This software enables you to connect your camera to your PC and control it remotely. You can use your machine to see a live preview from your camera. Any of the camera’s specs can be changed with the click of a mouse. You can snap pics, and have the files stored on the desktop in lieu of or in addition to the SD card. There are many great things to do if you download Canon EOS Utility.

Digital Photo Professional. Digital Photo Professional (DPP) allows you to process RAW images and alter photos. Everything that you could do with Lightroom or Photoshop – i.e. curves, color balance, etc – can be accomplished with DPP. It ain’t as powerful as either Lightroom or Photoshop, but if you’re not ready to dump hundreds of dollars into the Adobe suite you can begin with this free Canon software. Lightroom is a big investment to begin with, and Photoshop is even more. Install Digital Photo Professional and get started with that.

Picture Style Editor. If you have to work with RAW photo files, then Picture Style Editor is an alternative way to play with the development settings of RAW photos. It’s great for batch developing RAW images. Install PSE yourself and work with it to see all that it can do.

Zoombrowser EX. You can get your digital photo portfolio well sorted with Canon’s Zoombrowser EX. It allows you to copy your pictures from your SD card and save them on the computer. You can order and view images, and you can also do some uncomplicated editing stuff. Download and install Zoombrowser EX to witness all that it can do for you.

These tools can be very productive, especially if you haven’t invested in professional level applications. Use the free stuff you can, and if you instinctively tossed your Canon utilities CD read this article to help you download and install every one of the software for free.