How to Email Your Digital Photos
Emailing Your Digital Photos
A few things to remember:
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Always save a copy of the ORIGINAL photo
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You can always go down on resolution, but you can never go up.
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72 dpi for email and web – 300 dpi for printing
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Photo Restoration
Digital Photo Restoration
Restoring old photos is one of the coolest things you can do in digital photography. The best part is that anyone can do it. All it takes is a scanner and a nice image editing program.
Important Photo Restoration Tools
There are many several tools that you just can't do without when it comes to restoring photos.
Cloning tool
Organizing and Viewing Digital Photos
Organizing and Viewing Your
Digital Photos
The key to organizing your digital photos is sorting them from the beginning.
I begin by saving a folder to my desktop called "Camera pix," but it can be named anything. Inside this folder, I put a folder for each month. Inside each of those folders I make new folders as I need. For example, In my Camera Pix folder for last year I had a folder called December. Inside my December folder I have three other folders, "POL" for Parade of lights, Christmas, and "Misc."
Organizing and Backing Up Photos
Getting organized:
The best way to get your photos organized is to start with a system that works for you.
My system is to create a single folder for all my digital photos on my hard drive. Inside that folder, called "Digital Pictures," I place a sub-folder for each month of the year. In each month's folder I may place more folders for each activity held during that month.
For example: Digital Photos –> April –> Easter –> Grandmas
I then place the digital pictures into their respective folders.
File Management: Why is it so hard to figure out?
As I have mentioned before on the show and in these articles, I teach the local basic computer classes for the Parks and Rec. department. I teach the classes as a four-part series in which I dedicate an entire two hour session to file management.
Teaching the concept of how your computer organizes information is a huge struggle for me. I don't think it is because if my teaching technique or the inability of my students to comprehend the topic.
The reason that file management is so difficult to teach and comprehend is that it isn't sexy, it isn't tangible and it is isn't universal in it's use. By the latter, I mean that each person can apply the concept differently.
Take the stickers off
I setup a new printer today and the thing was covered with stickers. I am not talking about the pieces of tape that hold all the parts in place for shipping – there were a lot of those too. I am referring to the stickers that advertise the fact that this printer prints. Or that this printer is "Great for photos!" There was even a sticker that said that it was. "Easy to use and setup!"
Why do they put these stickers on the printer? They also put them on new computers. If the computer or printer is in a box then wrapped in two layers of styrofoam and plastic bags, why do you need all these stickers?
What do Rick and Adam do during the week and what is their phone number?
A common misconception is that Adam and I spend our week sunning ourselves with our families on some exotic beach before returning to our mansions and counting our stacks of $100 bills.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. I own and operate a business called Grand Valley PC Partners in Grand Junction, CO. All my business is onsite home and office calls to help computer users get out of trouble, setup up new systems or Internet service, and teach users how to get the most out of their computer. I have been doing this for more than 10 years (the radio show is 7 years old).
Picasa 2 Revisited
We discussed Picasa 2 late last year, but since then I have discovered many more wonderful things that can be done with the program. In fact, I now use it more often than any other program for my day-to-day digital photography.
HOW TO GET PICASA:
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Either click on this button, or go to www.picasa.com and click on the Free Download button.
Sending pictures via email
Computer users are always grateful to learn new tricks of the trade. One ‘trick’ that was implemented with Windows XP more than five years ago continues to escape many computer users…send pictures via email efficiently. Sure you might be sending digital photos as attachments, but can you send more than one at time? Are you resizing your photos before sending them so they don’t require horizontal and vertical scrolling? Do they travel quickly through the Internet or do they take a long time to transmit?
No matter now…this tip will get you sending multiple, appropriately sized photos quickly with Windows XP.
Give Picasa a try!
I just put that picture there to get your attention.
I’m not trying to brag, but I know more about digital photography than the average computer user. This is partly due to the fact that I took Photoshop classes in college for about three years.
I love Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, but I can also appreciate that not everyone needs such a powerful program.