Alices Restaurant Photo Gallery Working with Digital Images

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Alices Restaurant Photo Gallery Working with
Digital Images

• Illinois EdTech Conference
• Nov 16-17, 2006

With digital photography pushing the button is
the easy BIT
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Organizing and ManagingDigital Photo Collections

• A picture with circles, arrows, and a paragraph
  on the back is worth more than a 1000 words!

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Abstract

• Tools
• MS Fax/Print viewer
• Office Applications
• Image Resizer
• irFanView
• Organizers
• SyncToy
• SyncBack
• irfanView
• Picasa2 - Google

You can observe a lot by watching Yogi Berra
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Basic View Print/Edit

• Picture View
• Thumbnail View
• Print size, pict/page, fit to page
• Basic Edit
• Adjust light/dark/contrast
• Remove red-eye
• Rotate or straighten
• Crop

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Tools

• XP Fax/Print viewer
• MS - Paint
• MS Office
• Picture Manager
• All Office Apps
• Format - Picture Compress

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination
is out of focus. -Mark Twain
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Digital Photography

• Resolution
• Pixels
• Pixel Size
• Dot Pitch
• 640 x 480, 2048 x 1536
• Color Depth 16 bit, 24 bit
• Dots per Inch from scanning
• More detail ? LARGER Files

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Picture Formats

• TIFF - little compression, but lossless
• GIF - lossey
• JPEG - high compression, but lossey
• PNG - compression, but minor loss
• BMP - Windows native format

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Re-Size v Re-Sample

• Change display size
• Still contains the same detail
• Still requires as much space to store
• Change true picture information size
• Will lose some detail (lossey v. lossless)
• Will require LESS storage space

Life is short, the art is long Hippocrates c.
450 BC
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Microsoft Image Resizer

• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/power
  toys/xppowertoys.mspx

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MS Image Resizer
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Transferring Pictures from Camera

• Disk/CD/DVD media
• USB Cable
• Dock devices
• Card Readers

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Storage Devices

• Hard Drive folders
• USB Drives
• External Hard Drives
• CD-RW / DVD-RW
• Network Drives
• Network Storage Devices
• Camera and memory cards

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NASLite free version has 4 GIG limit

• http//www.serverelements.com/naslite.php

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SyncToyfor WinXP

• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalph
  otography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

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Create Folder Pairs to Keep Synchonized
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SyncBack 2BrighSparks

• SyncBack V3.2.11
• 100 Freeware from 2BrightSparks
• Our freeware is free for personal, educational,
  charity, government, and commercial use.

• http//www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub
  .html

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SyncBack- by 2BrightSparks

• SyncBack Freeware V3.2.11 1.7 MB SyncBack is
  our freeware program that helps you easily backup
  or synchronize your files to the same drive a
  different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash,
  etc) an FTP server a Network or a Zip
  archive.The' No Install' version will not
  install files into Windows or other PC system
  directories there is no uninstaller and you will
  need to create shortcuts to the folder where you
  locate the program files.

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SyncBack Installation
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SyncBack Interface
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Simple
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Advanced
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irfanView

• http//www.irfanview.com/

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irfanView

• Irfanview
• Rename batch rename
• Resize truly resample
• Convert format
• Mini editor
• Slideshow
• HTML thumbnail pages

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irfanView

• Batch Edit/Convert/Rename
• Convert with GUI or command line options
• Image Edit
• Thumbnail viewer
• HTML page creation
• Tips/tricks - http//malektips.com/irfanview_3_hel
  p_and_tips.html

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irfanView - additional

• Open Picture from HD, CD, or Internet
• Have irfanView open when digital camera or memory
  card is connected
• Right click context options to be a send-to
  choice
• Picture properties
• Detailed information on the picture
• Plugins
• Play mp3s
• E-mail pictures
• Add more filters

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Picasa - Google

• Organize
• Edit
• Share
• Print
• Backup
• Create

• Memory is deceptive because it is colored by
  today's events. -Albert Einstein

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Picasa - Organanize

• Move Rename
• Label
• Make Star Rating
• Create instances of picture in multiple folders
• Password Protect

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Picasa - Edit

• Basic fixes
• Add effects
• Write captions (stay with picture)
• Zoom pan tilt
• Detailed info on picture ? learn to use the
  manual mode

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Picasa - Share

• E-mail
• Upload to website or blog
• Use Hello chat optimized for pictures
• Create slide shows
• Copy to any device or folder

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Picasa - Print

• Custom fit to specialty paper
• Upload to commercial sites for storage and
  printing

If you're photographing in color you show the
color of their clothes if you use black and
white, you will show the color of their soul.  
Author Unknown
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Picasa - Backup

• Copy to any device/folder burn CD/DVD, copy to
  network share, copy to USB or external HD
• Will identify those images not yet archived.
• Create gift CDs with Slide Shows

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Picasa - Create

• Create movie from pictures
• Create personalized desktop or screen saver
• Create poster up to 1000 size of original
• Create photo collage
• Export to any TiVo DVR

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Google Desktop

• http//desktop.google.com

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Q A

• Materials
• www.shiloh.k12.il.us/tech/ietc2006

Terry Sullivan ( tsulliva_at_comwares.net) Technology
Director Shiloh CUSD1 Edgar CUSD6
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