From the course: iPhone Photography: Capturing and Editing Raw Photos

Transferring RAW files to your computer with Windows

From the course: iPhone Photography: Capturing and Editing Raw Photos

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Transferring RAW files to your computer with Windows

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- Now one way to transfer to your PC is the old fashioned way. And that's to physically plug your device in. What you could do is take the USB cable and connect it to your computer. Now you may be prompted to trust the device when you do this. So if your phone asks you, click the trust button, so it knows to see it. Other applications may try to open on your computer like iTunes and other things. This is because it thinks that you want to manage the music on your phone. Don't have to worry about that at this time. Instead, you could just go to your regular file browser and go to the actual file browser itself. I'll just go up here to documents and choose this PC instead. And if it's connected and unlocked, you will likely see your phone. It might show up as an external hard drive. Now you'll see the storage in DCIM, and this is treating it like it is an actual memory card. What you can now do is browse through. Let's select the folder for this month. I'll right-click and choose copy. I can now navigate to internal storage like the desktop and paste that folder. Now this may take a little bit of time, particularly if you have a lot of video or other things in this, but you can also go in and browse the individual files. This will allow you to access those images and then transfer them to your machine for editing. You can also take advantage of other things like iCloud. If you want to sync things in a more permanent basis, just download and install the iCloud utility from Apple. This will then take advantage of the cloud storage that you could have on your phone and the syncing. From the start menu launch iCloud. What you'll want to do is once it's launched is tell it that you do want to keep photos in sync. Now, this does take some time when you first go to sync your entire photo library. So it may take a few hours before it is available and ready. If you haven't installed it before. What you can then do is actually access here and make sure that photos is turned on. If you look at the options, you could decide what it's going to download and keep in sync. Now from your menu here, you have the ability to just go to iCloud and select iCloud photos. This will give you access to everything that you've downloaded on the machine. You could see that it's begun to synchronize my library and pull those images down. It will take some time to go all the way through, and it's going to go from oldest to newest. So be prepared that this will take a while for the transfer, but eventually everything will become in sync on your computer and whatever you shoot to the cloud will transfer in mirror on your PC. Both of these methods work well, but do have some drawbacks in that they tend to be more about browsing files or syncing. If you want to use individual files, what you can take advantage of are cloud utilities. Where you could select individual images and then sync those to the cloud for easy download on your computer. Let's look at that next.

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