*) _Any_ program that can formulate a generic request to get an image
   (i.e. a request to get an image _without_ actually knowing from 
   where the image will come) can get images from _any_ image-making 
   hardware! 

*) Such programs issue the request in the widely-adopted TWAIN
   language. If your program understands TWAIN, and your image-making
   hardware came with a 'TWAIN driver' then we can do this:

 -----                 ------                 -------                  --------
|     | -"get pics"-> |      | -"get pics"-> |       | - "get pics"-> | camera |
| You |               | Prog |               | TWAIN |                |   or   |
|     | <--- pics --- |      | <--- pics --- |  drvr | <--- pics ---  | scanner|
 -----                 ------                 -------                  --------
                                  
*) This is important to understand because: _before_ transferring the
   pictures from the TWAIN driver to your program, the TWAIN driver
   normally asks you something - it is _not_ your program that asks, it
   is the TWAIN driver! It might ask "There are many pictures on this
   camera, do you want all of them?" or if it is a scanner it might
   ask "This is what the preview looks like, now do you want be to
   scan the whole thing?"

*) Okay, so getting down to practicalities, what are the possible
   programs you can use, and how do you use them?

IrfanViewer
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*) From the 'File' menu, select 'Select TWAIN source'. 

*) There then appears the 'Select source' window. This is where
   you say whether you want IrfanViewer to contact the camera's 
   TWAIN driver to get pictures from the camera, or the scanner's
   TWAIN driver to get pictures from the scanner. (Rather confusingly 
   the scanner offers _two_ TWAIN drivers - called 'VistaScan' and 
   'VistaScan 32' - but they are the same, so choose either of them.)

*) After that, from the 'File' menu, select 'Acquire'

*) Then, as exlained above, the TWAIN driver asks you for some details
   about what you want to get (which pics, what resolution, which
   area of the picture etc).  You must be familiar with these already
   since _whatever_ program you used to scan or get pics from the
   camera before would still have delegated the actual task of 
   transferring the images to the TWAIN driver.

*) After you got the image(s) the TWAIN driver will close.

*) Then you
   will be back in Irfan Viewer. There you can make some _simple_
   editing of the picture (cropping, rotating) as well as some
   simple file management activities (deleting, renaming).

GIMP
====

*) From the 'File' menu select 'Acquire' and from the next sub-menu
   select 'TWAIN'.

*) There then appears the 'Select source' window. This is where
   you say whether you want GIMP to contact the camera's 
   TWAIN driver to get pictures from the camera, or the scanner's
   TWAIN driver to get pictures from the scanner. (Rather confusingly 
   the scanner offers _two_ TWAIN drivers - called 'VistaScan' and 
   'VistaScan 32' - but they are the same, so choose either of them.)

*) After you got the image(s) the TWAIN driver will close.

*) Then you
   will be back in GIMP. There you can do a dauntingly large number
   of things to the image! 

Kodak Imaging
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* From the 'File' menu, select 'Select scanner'.

*) There then appears the 'Select source' window. This is where
   you say whether you want GIMP to contact the camera's 
   TWAIN driver to get pictures from the camera, or the scanner's
   TWAIN driver to get pictures from the scanner. (Rather confusingly 
   the scanner offers _two_ TWAIN drivers - called 'VistaScan' and 
   'VistaScan 32' - but they are the same, so choose either of them.)

*) After you got the image(s) the TWAIN driver will close.

*) Then you will be back in Kodak Imaging.

*) Advice: 
      use IrfanViewer for everything you can
      use GIMP for anything you can't do in IrfanViewer
      don't use Kodak Imaging

*) Advice:
      work out a good way to organise your pictures. You already
      have an 'images' directory under C:\Judith. Maybe you
      want to add 2003, 2004, 2005 etc under there? Or maybe
      sort them be subject? Or location? Renaming the pictures
      themselves can be painfully slow, so at least create
      sensibly named directories in which to store them and
      don't store too many in one directory: this will make
      finding the right image again much easier!