This lesson will provide tips on managing your digital image files. 

Naming and Saving Your Image Files

Follow these steps to name, save, and manage your image files.

• Remove the disk from the camera and place in your computer’s floppy drive. 

• Start your image editing application. Go to File>Open and navigate to your image files as follows.  

• There will be two file types for each picture you have taken.  One has the file extension .411 and one has the extension .jpg    The .jpg  files are the images.  The .411 files are no longer needed or used after the disk leaves the camera.  You may ignore or delete these .411 files as you wish.
  

• The Sony Mavica names the image files Mvc-001f, 002s, etc.   If you would like to move your image files to another drive it is recommended that you first create a folder for each floppy disk of images that you have taken.  It is helpful to name this folder something that reminds you of what the images are from.  
  
  Storing/copying your image disks to separate folders also prevents the possibility of “overwriting” (erasing) other image files, since each disk from the camera has a Mvd-001, 002 etc., until the files have been renamed.

• Once you have highlighted (selected) one of the "mvc" files to open, then double-click or click the open button to view the image.

• To Rename your image file, go to File>Save As. You may rename each image file while in the "Save As" window. Name your file (image) something to help you identify it later. keep the file name short and do not use spaces or capital letters. Remember to leave the file extension “.jpg” You will find more file management details in the "image editing basics" tutorial.