2. Schedule
Lesson 1
Sep 9
Lesson 5
digital images &
installing Picasa
Lesson 2
selecting photos, collages, tags, &
maps
Sep 11
know your camera &
file formats
Lesson 3
Lesson 6
Sep 25
batch edit, adding text, saving &
emailing photos
Sep 16
workflow, importing photos, &
basic editing
Lesson 4
Sep 23
Sep 18
advanced editing, camera 2 &
composition
Lesson 7
Sep 30
sharing your pictures
web albums & Flickr
Lesson 8
Oct 2
printing your photos, slide shows &
cloning with Faststone
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3. Lesson 1
Administrivia
Some of this class is based on
David Pogue’s Digital Photography:
The Missing Manual
In this lesson we will learn
What is a digital photo
How to get Picasa
What is a jpeg image
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4. What is a digital image
Millions of small blocks of color: pixel
Arranged in rows and columns: aspect ratio
Think of it as a modern day mosaic
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5. Pixels and Resolution
Block of color and brightness
Measured in Megapixels (millions)
Height x width = number of megapixels
(almost)
You can select resolution on camera
Pixelation occurs when the image is enlarged
so that the individual pixels can be seen
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6. Pixels – an example
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9. Or the Easy Way with Ninite.com
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10. Run the installer and Allow changes
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11. Where are your photos on the PC?
Windows convention
Every user has a Pictures folder
Use folders and file names to identify and
group photos
Picasa uses where your photos are stored
When you open Picasa, it looks at the folders on
your computer and displays the photos it finds.
Your original photos are always preserved
Picasa keeps the changes separately from the photo
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12. First time you run Picasa
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13. Picasa has a photo viewer (optional)
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16. Adjusting the size of the thumbnails
Click on the zoom control and slide it left/right
What happened?
This only changes the size of the thumbnails
on the screen, it does not change the size of
the photo
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17. Lesson 2
Review and questions from the last class
In this lesson we will learn
Get acquainted with your camera
Scene modes
Depth of Field
File Formats - JPGs
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18. Digital Camera
Lens
Aperture
Shutter speed
Focus
Flash
Image sensor
User interface (UI)
LCD
Memory card (CF, SD,
Battery
Same between digital and film
)
Unique to digital
Identify these features on your camera
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19. Scene Modes
Camera have settings to guide the exposure
Auto – camera to make all the choices
Sports – assumes there is fast motion in the scene
Portrait – optimizes for skin tones
Landscape – large aperture and no flash
Night – slow shutter
Macro – optimizes for close up
Fireworks – no flash and slow shutter (use a tripod)
Panorama – hold button down and pan, takes
multiple photos which are stitched together.
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20. Shutter speed/Aperture relationship
1600
Needs more light
Shutter Speed:
Less light
800
400
200
Needs less light
100
60
30
Number is
fractions
of a second, so
30 means 1/30 of
a second
f16
f11
f8
f5.6
Aperture: More light
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Each f-stop larger
allows half the
amount of light, so
f8 has twice the
light as f11
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22. Shutter speed and aperture
affects blur and depth of field
from www.photonhead.com
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23. Is more megapixels better?
Sorta – but not the whole story
Also important in a camera is
Accuracy of colors
Sensitivity to light
Lens distortion (lack of)
Focus accuracy
UI ease of Use
What resolution of your camera?
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24. Higher resolution = bigger photo
1 mega pixel
2 mega pixel
4 mega pixel
6 mega pixel
8 mega pixel
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25. Detail look from a
1 mega pixel photo
10 mega pixel photo
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26. File Formats (produced by camera)
JPEG – most common, standard, compressed
and lossy
TIFF – standard, large files not lossy
RAW – large, most editing flexibility but
manufacturer specific
Lossy means that some photo quality is lost in a
tradetrade-off for a smaller (compressed) file
What file formats does your camera
support?
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28. Example of lossy compression
Low compression
Medium compression
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29. Assignment
Take some pictures and bring them to the next
class
Indoors and Outdoors
Distance and close
Sun light, incandescent light and florescent light
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33. Lesson 3
Review and questions from last class
In this lesson we will learn
Workflow of digital photography
Importing photos and watched folders
Editing in Picasa
Auto correction
Undo and Redo
Rotate and Straightening
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34. Digital Photography Workflow
1.
Acquiring the image
3.
Camera
Scanner
Download
Sharing
2.
Editing with Picasa
Organizing your photos
Tags, Collections, Facial
recognition and places
Improving the image
Taking the photo
Automatic settings or
manual settings
Composition
Special techniques
4.
Displaying and sharing
On-screen
Web sharing
Print
Email
Media show
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35. Steps of importing your photos
Importing photos always involves
1.
2.
3.
Copying the photos to a folder in your computer
Naming the folder with a meaningful name
Picasa set to “watch” this folder
These steps can be done either by
Using Picasa import, or
Manually using Windows operations
[Optional] Rename each photo – replace the
arbitrary camera name with a meaningful one
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36. Connect memory card to computer
Use a memory card reader or
USB cable connected to your camera
(camera must be ON to act like a card reader)
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37. AutoPlay in Windows
Starts Picasa with import tool
Same as starting Picasa yourself
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39. Importing from your Camera
Import options
Start import manually
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40. What Happened (previous slide)
Picasa created folders based
on date taken
Placed those folders in
My Pictures
Copied the photos into the
created folders
Left the photos on the
memory card
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41. Watched Folders
Folders that
Picasa “watches”
for changes
If changed,
Picasa updates
its library
Example: Picasa only watches My Pictures
I suggest that you have Picasa only watch My Pictures,
you can easily control what is in the Picasa library by
what folders you keep in My Pictures
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42. Adding a folder to Picasa manually
Example is for adding a
folder from My Documents
to My Pictures.
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43. What happened
We moved the folder Example Images from
My Documents to My Pictures
Picasa was watching
My Pictures
It found a new folder
containing photos
It added the new
folder and photos
to Picasa’ Library
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44. Sort a folder and other library ops
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45. Editing a photo
Double click on the water skier (Example 01)
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46. Automatic Photo Correction
Click on “I’m feeling Lucky”
What happened?
Picasa analyzed the photo and
guessed that the strength of
the colors needed to be raised
An Undo button appeared
What didn’t happen?
The file containing the photo wasn’t changed,
Picasa will remember that it should perform this
change every time it uses this photo
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48. Why are there 2 views of the photo?
Picasa doesn’t automatically change the photo
What it does is keeps track what changes have
been made
In our example: photo named “Example 01”
had the “I’m feeling lucky” command done
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49. Undo and Redo
Click the Undo
button
Click the Redo
button
Repeat while
watching the
histogram
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50. Rotating a photo – Example 02
Some cameras will mark a photo as rotated
If yours does not, you can rotate it in Picasa
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53. Lesson 4
Review and questions from last class
In this lesson we will learn
Editing with Picasa
Retouch, Crop and Redeye
Camera
Zoom
ISO & White Balance
Composition
When to flash
Photos of people
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55. Adjust the slider so the size of the retouch
brush is a little bigger than the blemish
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56. Move the brush over the
blemish, click and hold the
left mouse button
Move the brush to a place where the
blemish disappears
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57. Cropping a photo – Example 05
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58. Aspect ratio
Crop to either:
Make the photo right for a certain sized frame, or
Improve the picture composition and balance, or
Both
This specifies relative shape, not absolute size
For example, “8 x 10” forces the crop so that
one edge 25% (10/8) larger than other
Manual does not constrain the shape
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60. What is Aspect ratio and
why is it important
You camera has a sensor of a certain size and
with a specific number of pixels wide and high
Conventional photos use a specific widths and
heights
Examples
My camera
Portrait frame
Desktop photo
Small Photo
HD TV
SD TV
3872 x 2592
10 x 8
7x5
6x4
16 x 9
4x3
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1.25 x 1
1.40 x 1
1.50 x 1
1.77 x 1
1.33 x 1
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61. Redeye
Occurs when light is reflected back
BTW on animals it is green
It is worse in low light when subjects eyes are
dilated
How to handle
Don’t use a flash
Use redeye reduction flash (double flash to un-dilate)
Move the flash away from lens (separate flash)
Fix in software
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62. Fixing Redeye in software
Double click on Example 06
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63. ZOOM on a camera
Optical zoom – uses camera optics to control
telephoto and wide angle
Digital zoom – camera takes a part of the picture and
expands the picture by adding missing pixels
(interpolating)
Larry’s rule (and probably everyone else): NEVER use
digital zoom. Instead use highest resolution and use
computer software to expand picture.
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64. Optical and Digital Zoom
From www.digitaltrends.com
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65. ISO and the digital camera
ISO rating indicates sensitivity to light
Higher ISO requires less light, but
Higher ISO results in more noise
ISO 100
ISO 800
From www.dpreview.com
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66. White Balance
Adjusts picture to take into account the “color
temperature” of the light
Which is picture looks better?
From www.cambridgeincolour.com
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67. White Balance Camera Settings
How do you set white
balance on your
camera?
Do you have prepresets?
From www.cambridgeincolour.com
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68. Image Stabilizer (Anti-shake)
Feature in some cameras (advisable if buying)
Good in low light, so slow shutter speed
Good in high zoom, so hard to steady camera
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69. To Flash
Flash if
The subject is in the shadows
There is not enough light to get a good exposure
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70. Or not to Flash
Don’t flash if
Subject is too far away, > 10 feet for most cameras
(flash doesn’t help but the camera doesn’t know)
In front of glass (all you will get is the flash flare)
At an event or museum (if cameras are allowed)
You CAN get a good photo without it
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71. Change Your Point of View
Getting low (good for pets and babies – their world)
Shoot upwards or downwards
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72. Face Recognition
Feature on some cameras (nice to have)
Camera recognizes faces and adjusts focus and
exposure accordingly
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73. Tips for portraits
It’s like porridge:
Not too close, not too far
Not too high, either
Framing – it’s all about the person
Easy lighting
Use a flash?
Camera settings?
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74. Fill the Frame
Which photo do you like better?
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77. Lesson 5
Review and question from last class
In this lesson we will
Practice our editing techniques
Learn how to use
Select photos and use the selected Photo Tray
Create a Collage and create a simple panorama
Use the Properties panel
Tags and Geo Tags
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78. Sorting a Picasa Folder
Open Folder Example Images 2
Sort the folder based on file names
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79. Selecting Multiple Photos: method 1
Pick photo in any order and in any folder
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80. Selecting Multiple Photos: method 2
If photos are adjacent in folder then
Can pick either the beginning or ending photo
as the first photo
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81. Selecting Multiple Photos: method 3
You can also select photos by drawing a box
that touches the photos
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82. Selected Photo Tray
Photos in the Photo Tray are used together
Rotate photo can rotate all at the same time
Share, Email, Print & Export works on all in the box
Tags and Geo data works on all photos in the box
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84. Practice our Editing
Select the folder Example Images 2
Edit the photos:
Example 001 through Example 012
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85. Create a photo collage
Select the 4 photos in folder Example Images 2
Example 013 thru Example 016
Go to the Menu bar and select Create
Then select Picture Collage
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86. Pick a collage layout in settings
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87. Set size and options for the collage
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90. Create a panorama
A panorama is a photo created by combining
two or more separate photos together
Picasa doesn’t do this automatically, other
software does a much better job
Locate the two photos of Mont Saint Michel in
folder Example Images 2
Use the straighten tool on each image getting
the abbey in each photo exactly vertical
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91. Create a panorama, cont’d
1.
2.
3.
4.
In the library view, select both photos and
select Picture Collage under Create
Rotate each photo if necessary to make
them perpendicular to the edge of the
paper.
You might also want to select both and
make the bigger by exactly the same
amount
Uncheck the Draw Shadows option
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92. Create a panorama, cont’d
5.
Click and hold one photo, drag it on top of
the other so the common features overlap.
I used the car for alignment
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93. Create a panorama, cont’d
6.
7.
8.
Click on Create Collage
Crop to improve photo
Try: I’m Feeling Lucky
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94. Panorama – using software
Microsoft has a free program for Windows (32,
(32,
64), & OSX
Find it with Google using:
“microsoft image composite editor"
Photos taken overlapping with the next
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95. Result using the Microsoft tool
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96. Properties of a photo
The camera records additional information
according to a standard called
Exchangeable image file format (Exif)
Exif)
Information includes
Date taken
Time taken
Camera settings (even if you used Auto)
Brand and model of the camera,
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97. Properties
1.
Click on Properties Button
2.
Click on the rotated photo
3.
Inspect the properties of
other photos
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98. Tags
Key words that are attached to a photos
Used to group photos with a similar subject,
regardless of where they are in the library
Tags panels displayed with:
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99. Applying a tag to a photo
Select the San Francisco skyline photo and
enter San Francisco in the tag name box, then
press the plus button
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100. Tags cont’d
Select Alcatraz photp, click San Francisco
photp,
We could have selected both photos and
entered a tag for both
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101. Tags cont’d
Select the 3 harbor scenes & place a tag:
tag:
Peggys Cove
Practice by tagging photos for
Flowers
Animals
California
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102. Using Tags
Enter a tag in the search box (upper right) to
find all photos that have that tag
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103. Geo Tags
1.
2.
Tag photos with a location, manually or GPS.
Open the Places Panel
Select Peggys Cove photos
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104. Geo Tags cont’d
In the search box a the bottom of the Places
Panel enter:
“peggys cove”
and press the search
button
If the search returned the
right location, press OK.
If not click and hold on the
peg and move it to the
right location
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105. Lesson 6
Review and questions from last class
In this lesson we will learn
Batch Edit
Adding Text to a Photo
Saving
Emailing
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106. Picasa Tags visible in Windows
Tags entered in Picasa can be seen in the
Details view of a folder
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107. Batch Edit – select multiple photos
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108. Batch Edit – Renaming your photos
1.
2.
3.
Select the photos
in the Photo Tray
Go to
Picture/Batch
Edit/Rename…
Use “-001” at end
“to start the
sequence number
at 001.
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109. Stars in Picasa
Stars are a feature that allows you annotate
favorite photos
The Stars button adds or removes stars from
the photos in the Photo Tray
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110. Library View – Photo Captions
Add captions/Title to
Photo thumbnails
Select:
Select:
View
Thumbnail Captions
Choose one of these
None
Filename
Caption
Tags
Resolution
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111. Adding text to a Photo
Select a photo
Select Text
button
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112. Adding text to a Photo cont’d
These are just
like in word
processing
Sets lettering
color
Sets outline
color
Transparency
Outline
thickness
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113. Adding text to a Photo cont’d
Click on the
colored dot to
change the
color
Moving your
cursor across
here will
select a color
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114. Adding text to a Photo cont’d
Or move the
cursor
anywhere in
the photo to
select a color
I picked the
color of the
boat
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115. Adding text to a Photo cont’d
Enter the text
anywhere
You can move
it, tilt it and
resize it
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116. Adding text to a Photo cont’d
When you are
done, click
on Apply to
save your
work
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117. Saving a photo
Picasa doesn’t change the photo when editing,
instead it remembers what was edited
When you see a photo in Picasa, Picasa
displays the photo with all the edits
When you see the photo outside of Picasa,
you will not see the changes
You can tell Picasa to update the photo so it is
consistent everywhere
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118. Saving all edited Photos in a folder
Picasa will make a backup of the original
(unedited photo)
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119. Save and Revert a specific photos
To Save specific photos select, right click & Save
To retrieve originals right click & Revert
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120. Changing the Date Taken of Photo
Change the Date Taken if the date was wrong
or was lost when copying from other source
How to add/change the date
1.
2.
3.
Select the photo(s)
Go to Tools/Adjust Date and Time…
Enter new Date and Time
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121. Emailing
Sends the .jpg files as attachments
But files might be too large – stay under 5 MB
(depends on your and recipients email service)
How to do it
(use one depending on how you do email)
Gmail – directly from Picasa
PC email (Windows Live Mail, Outlook, …) – directly
from Picasa
Web email (Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, …) –
1.
2.
Export to a folder (on the desktop makes it easy)
From your web mail, attach the photos
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122. Email from Picasa - configuration
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129. Lesson 7
Review and questions from last class
In this lesson we will learn
Sharing Photos on the Web
Picasa Web Albums
Flickr
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130. Sharing Photos on the Web
Web sharing, alternative to email sharing
No email size issues
You can share with many people, add more people
later or remove access later
Some sharing sites offer print services
There are many web sites (Wikipedia lists 30+)
Picasa Web Albums (built into Picasa)
Flickr (Yahoo property)
Shutterfly
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131. How to use Web photo sharing
To share you photos you must have an
account
Picasa – Google account (doesn’t have to be gmail)
Flickr – Yahoo account
Shutterfly – site account
To view someone's photos
You will be notified by email of a shared album
Depending of the site, you may be able to view
some or all of the senders albums
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132. Sharing with Picasa
Creates a web album and share from within
Picasa – requires a Google account
Steps
Sign into your Google account,
if not signed in you will be
prompted in the next step
Select the photos into the Photo Tray and click on
Share on Google+
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133. Sharing with Picasa, cont’d
When you filled out the dialog,
click on the Share button
If you shared to the public, you
are reminded that the photos
are included in search results
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134. Sharing with Picasa, cont’d
Email notification of shared photos
Email has a link to
the Picasa Web
Album
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136. Sharing with Flickr, Shutterfly or …
Decide on which service to use and create an
account
Flickr is from Yahoo,
so a Yahoo account
is needed
Flickr gives you a terabyte of space –
(over 200,000 5 MB photos)
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137. Steps of non Picasa Web Albums
Place photos into Photo Tray, click on Export
Fill out the Export
dialog (like we did
to email)
Click the Export
button
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145. Lesson 8
Review and questions from last class
In this lesson we will learn
Printing your Photos
Creating a Slide show and a Movie
Scanning a Photo
Cloning using Faststone
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146. Printing your photos
1.
2.
3.
Picasa has three ways to print
Home printer (Print)
Google partner (Shop)
Third party eg Costco (Export)
Before you start, think about what size you
want and crop your photos to that size (aspect
ratio).
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147. Home printer
Select the
photos, the
small
thumbnails
will be seen in
the Photo Tray
Click on the
Print button at
the bottom of
the window
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148. Print dialog box for printing at home
Print dialog for
using your
home printer
This will show
how prints
will be placed
on the paper.
Printer options
controls
printer
specific
choices.
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149. Print using a Google Partner (Shop)
Picasa/Google
has marketing
and sales
relationships
with print
companies.
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150. Print using a Google Partner
The Shop option
lets you
1
choose among
quite a few
online
vendors.
Besides prints,
these vendors
might offer
other products
such as
calendars,
mugs, print
books.
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151. Third party – eg. Costco (Export)
For a third party
vendor, we
export the
photos like we
did in web
email except
at full size.
Then we go
their web site
and upload the
photos
according their
process.
1
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152. Third party – eg. Costco (Export)
Picasa makes a
new folder.
Place it on the
Desktop or
other easy to
use location.
Specify original
size because
we want the
best print
quality
although the
upload might
take longer.
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153. Costco Photo Center
Costco has you
first upload
your photos
into their
albums.
Then you can
purchase
prints, mugs,
etc by
choosing
photos that
are already
uploaded.
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154. Costco Photo Center
You can create
a new album
or use an
existing one if
you have used
Costco before.
Open the folder
into which you
exported your
Picasa photos,
And drag the
photos to the
web page as
shown.
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155. Costco Photo Center
You can add
more photos to
the upload list
or remove
ones already
on the list.
When you are
ready press
the Start
Upload button.
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156. Costco Photo Center
You can print all
or part of the
album and
include photos
from other
albums.
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158. Slide Shows
Place the desired photos into the Photo Tray
Click the Play
button
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159. Making a Movie
Picasa can make a movie (playable slide show)
Place a few (4-8) photos in the Photo Tray
(4Click on
Create Movie icon
Add an audio track
and play
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160. Scanners
Digitizes photos, film, and documents
OCR converts text to a file
Photo and film scanners need hi res
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162. Open Faststone Viewer
Open Faststone Viewer
In the navigation panel, navigate to Example
Images 3 in Pictures
Double click on
any image
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164. Move to right edge
Shows image information
Shows camera settings
when the image was
taken.
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165. Move to the left edge
This menu allows you to
Copy/save/ print and have a slide
show
Rotate, resize and edit the image
Adjust the colors, lighting
Provides special effects
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166. Simple Slide Show
On the left edge menu,
select Slideshow
Pick play options
Play the show
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168. Set up the options to clone pixels
To remove the telephone wires, pick
Small brush (3-5 pixels)
Hard brush (.7-.9)
Magnify to 400%
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169. How to clone pixels in Faststone
1.
2.
3.
Decide where you want to repair first,
Find an area (source) on the photo that would
be a good replacement
With pointer over the source, press CTRL
4.
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170. Helpful Cloning Tips
Hardness indicates how much to blend, a hard
brush will give provide for sharp edges
Use ctrl-Z (undo) if you make an error, each
ctrlctrlctrl-Z will undo one brush stroke
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171. Special Effects
Pick a Peggy’s Cove photo
In the left edge menu, click on Oil Painting
Adjust the
Amount slider
to vary the
effect
Try other
effects
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