Acquire Images from a Variety of Sources

Zoner Photo Studio makes it easy to acquire source photos from a variety of sources - not just digital cameras, but also scanners, web galleries, and the Clipboard.

1. Support for all types of digital cameras

After you connect your digital camera, Zoner Photo Studio will let you download pictures from it. All it downloads by default are the thumbnails that the camera gave the pictures, so the first displaying of content will be faster than you are used to. The program supports both cameras/card readers that present themselves to a computer as if they were another hard drive (USB Mass Storage) and those that do not (Canon cameras). The latter are supported over the WIA (Windows Image Acquire) interface*.

*) On some camera types, PTP transfer must be activated.

In version 9 and earlier of Zoner Photo Studio, it was possible to download from Canon cameras using special libraries. Starting in version 10, that option is fully replaced by communication over the WIA interface.

More on expanded support for Canon cameras

2. Scanning Directly into Zoner Photo Studio

You can use the TWAIN interface to scan images into Zoner Photo Studio directly. It’s also easy to connect a scanner that supports batch scanning.

3. Acquisition from the Windows Clipboard

There are countless programs that let you cut or copy images to the Windows Clipboard. Zoner Photo Studio can paste such images in from the Clipboard and save them without your needing to open another graphics program.

4. Screen Captures

Press PrintScr nebo Alt+PrintScr to send the current contents of the screen to the Clipboard, as usual. After that, thanks to Zoner Photo Studio, you can automatically save screen shots to separate files and choose whether or not screen shots should include the mouse cursor.

5. Batch Downloading of Images from the Web - “Web Spider”

The Acquire | From Web Site function saves to your computer all images that are located at or under a Web address of your choice. You can choose how many links deep you want the program to search, what type of images it should download, and enter a name and password for authorized access.

6. Acquiring RAW data

One way of acquiring digital photos is to obtain them (to "develop" them) from original RAW data from digital cameras. Zoner Photo Studio enables you to do this using either the original libraries for Canon cameras, or using an external DNG convertor, which will develop photos both in DNG and in the RAW formats of over 150 digital camera models.

More on processing images in RAW format

Certain functions for acquiring images are not contained in the Classic version and may also not be in the Home version; for details, see the version comparison table.

Every function for acquiring images is in the Acquire menu in the Browser. You can also open files in the Editor in the traditional way, using the Open command in the File menu. Zoner Photo Studio fully supports drag & drop work, i.e. you can open or move a file by dragging and dropping it into ZPS with the mouse.