<p>This kind of thing is so frustrating! I’ve reached my limit and I’m ready to scream! How does one learn this kind of thing? The camera manual is useless.</p>
<p>I uploaded vacation pictures from a new camera. The thumbnails on the computer don’t show the picture–just a JPEG logo and a number. Can’t find a picture to email, for example, without opening a ton of pictures first? </p>
<p>Can anybody enlighten me???</p>
<p>Not an expert but it doesn’t seem like you are getting any help, so I will at least hope to get someone started. Do you have the right software/driver installed for the camera? I have all Canon cameras but have used them with both Windows and Mac computers and have never had that happen. Although I will admit that every time I get something new it takes ages to get everything updated so that the camera and computer and printer all have up-to-date drivers.</p>
<p>What kind of photo storage are you using on your computer? PC or Mac? I use iphoto, and photos load directly into that program. This program is very easy to use.</p>
<p>Let us know what kind of photo system you have on your computer and maybe we can help you figure out what is going wrong.</p>
<p>Can you go to “View” in the window and select “thumbnails,” or “large icons,” or something to indicate that you want it to show the pictures? It may just be that you have it in list view or something. I don’t use any kind of a special photo program, I just upload it straight into my pictures folder on my windows computer. Yours may be different.</p>
<p>If you have windows XP if you open “my pictures” there are options of how to view them. In the bar across the top there is search, then folders, then a little icon with a pointing down arrow. If you click on the arrow it gives you options that allow you to view the pictures in different ways. Select on ‘Thumbnails’ or ‘filmstrip’ to show mini previews of the pictures. The other options do not show pictures. </p>
<p>This is the way it is on my computer anyway (I know I have tried to talk a not very computer literate friend that lives 600 miles away through some stuff and have come to think her computer and mine are from a different planet).</p>
<p>Your problem is not with the camera but with the uploaded pictures having a good place to be stored. Frustrating for photos to end up in folders you have to open. I like the free Picasa program for a photo album- shows all photos, you can group them and scroll down the array. Can also do select slideshows, edit- redeye et al, email, etc. Liked Adobe as well when it was the free program, snafus with my recently paid version for Windows 7, though, when trying to email photos- but great for its by date organization. You can get some programs to capture all photos from other folders on your computer.</p>
<p>“Uploading” means to send a picture from your computer onto a remote website on the internet for sharing. This could mean ‘uploading’ a picture as an attachment to a email, or ‘uploading’ a picture onto a photo sharing site like Flickr or Photobucket. I’m not sure if this is what you meant. It seems you just need some help transferring your photos from your camera’s SD card into your computer’s hard drive. </p>
<p>If you use Windows - you can simply double click any photo and it will open in Windows Photo Viewer. Handy simple little device which you can use the left and right buttons on your keyboard to scroll through.</p>
<p>Shutterfly is another good photo storage location on the web that is free and unlimited. I use it often to share pictures with friends and family. They can add photos and get prints developed very easily.</p>