Image Capture: Connect. Download.
From the moment you connect your digital camera, Image Capture — the technology in Mac OS X that transfers images from your digital cameras to your Mac — gets to work.
Hello, Camera
Image Capture instantly recognizes what camera it’s dealing with and proceeds accordingly — whether your connected via FireWire, USB, Bluetooth, or wirelessly using 802.11. Based on your settings, Image Capture can download all or any portion of the contents of your camera, scale images to a variety of sizes, place them in customised download folders, and more.
Mac OS X technologies are tightly integrated to maximise your experience. Image Capture works with ColorSync and can be set to automatically embed custom colour profiles in each image file. With ColorSync — Mac OS X’s integrated colour management system — your images maintain consitent colours as images proceed from capture through editing and output.
Automate Away
Add a custom Automator Workflow to your Image Capture menu and you have even more control. For example, you might create a Workflow to automatically place images in appropriate folders. Or build a Workflow that transforms voluminous RAW files into more easily shared JPGs, then copies them to a networked public folder for file sharing with colleagues, or posts them to a website for viewing by clients.
Powers to Share
Image Capture is more than a stand-alone application. It’s a software architecture that developers can easily call on to add powerful camera connectivity to their photo applications. Aperture and iPhoto both use Image Capture’s architecture to download image files.
Want to share the bounty of your digital images? No problem. Image Capture lets others access the contents of your digital camera or scanner over a Bonjour network. It even allows you to control a camera with its own built-in web server.
With Image Capture, your camera and your Mac will work together as one, with plug-and-play ease. Image Capture can even wirelessly import images from digital cameras via WiFi. So these days, you may not even need a plug.
Tip
Share your camera across a network. When a camera is connected to your Mac, you can use Image Capture to remotely browse its content via an internet connection. Go to Preferences and click the Sharing Tab to control your settings. Cameras supporting the standard PTP/IP protocol can even be controlled remotely.
