DIGITAL PHOTOS & YOU

1. DIGITAL PHOTOS & YOU Created for WHIDBEY ISLAND GENEALOGICAL SEARCHERS September 13, 2016

2. TYPES OF PHOTOS • OLD IMAGES • SCANNING • USING A CAMERA TO SAVE • SCANNED PHOTOS • DOWNLOADED PHOTOS • Existing digital photos • From your camera • From your smartphone

3. CREATING A PLAN • STEP ONE – CREATE ONE LARGE REPOSITORY • Folder on your hard drive • One dedicated external drive • Cloud storage • Step two – start organizing your photos • CREATE SUB-FOLDERS IN YOUR MAIN REPOSITORY • ESTABLISH A NAMING METHOD • FAMILY GROUP • DATE • SPECIFIC PEOPLE • WORK WITH ONE SUB-folder at a time

4. STEP THREE – IMPORT YOUR CHOSEN PHOTOS • BE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR NAMING METHOD • If you use photo-management software, make all changes to file names or folders within the software. If you use Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder window to move or rename files, the software MAY NOT BE ABLE to locate the image. • CONSIDER USING MORE THAN ONE COPY OF EACH • .tiff vs. .jpg vs. raw • Cloud storage • DROPBOX; GOOGLE DRIVE; SHUTTERFLY • Step FOUR – BACKUP • BACKUP OFTEN • BACKUP TO A DUPLICATE OF YOUR MAIN REPOSITORY

5. STEP FIVE – USE TAGS OR KEYWORDS ON EACH PHOTO • TAGS HELP FIND THINGS ON YOUR OWN SYSTEM • Facebook • WEBSITE • KEYWORDS HELP FIND THINGS VIA SEARCH ENGINES • STEP SIX – BACKUP vs. ARCHIVE • BACKUP – a copy of current data to be used if the original data is corrupted • ARCHIVE – stores an original copy of the data for long-term, future use

6. Step SEVEN – EDIT • You are now ready to work with each individual photo • START WITH YOUR EDITING OPTIONS • Scanning • Taking a high resolution image with a digital camera • Ensure EACH PHOTO IS AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE

7. WORKING WITH OLD IMAGESSCANNING • Check for dirt and other such issues • Canned air useful for slides • a soft brush works best with fragile photos • Check the scanner glass • Clean with glass cleaner sprayed on a soft cloth – NOT the glass • Use cotton gloves to prevent leaving skin oils • Determine type of scan • Black & white • Color • DECIDE THE SCAN RESOLUTION • PRINT OR STORE OR WEB • 600 DPI or greater

8. SCANNING STEPS • CHECK THE FILE RESOLUTION TO ENSURE THE END SIZE IS NOT TOO LARGE FOR YOUR COMPUTER • POSITION YOUR PHOTO ON THE SCANNER AND PREVIEW (PRESCAN)

9. MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL ADJUSTMENTS • CONSIDER PUTTING MORE THAN ONE IMAGE ON THE GLASS • CORRECT AFTERSCANNING • START THE SCAN

10. USE A HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL CAMERA TO CREATE A NEW IMAGE • ELIMINATE GLARE BY PLACING YOUR LIGHT SOURCE OUTSIDE THE FAMILY OF ANGLES • PLACE your camera IN THE direct center of the image you want to copy, with lights of equal power at 45 degree angles from the image and at equal distance TO minimize glare

11. SET YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA FIRST • USE A TRIPOD • CONSIDER USING POSTERBOARD AS A BACKGROUND FOR EACH PRINT • TURN OFF THE FLASH • SEE THIS LINK FOR MORE HINTS: • http://www.subchaser.org/photographing-documents

12. SMART PHONE APPS FOR TAKING PICTURES OF PICTURES • New apps allow you to quickly scan photos and documents right from your SMART phone. Here are a few of our favorite scanning apps that are free to download: 1. Pic Scanner — Photo specific and gives you the ability to batch scan. 2. Shoebox — Detects the edges of your photo and auto-corrects the perspective. 3. Heirloom — Simple to use with an intuitive design.

13. FIX SCANNED IMAGES To divide PHOTOS YOU HAVE SCANNED IN TOGETHER (AS FROM THE PAGE OF A PHOTO ALBUM), use PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE TO drag a square or rectangle around one photo.  Go to Edit/Copy to copy the photo inside the marquee, and then paste into a new file.  Repeat for each photo in the scan.

14. SCANNING SLIDES SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR SCANNING SLIDES • FLATBED SCANNER • OPTICAL RESOLULTION SHOULD BE 2400 dpi or greater (NOT DIGITAL RESOLUTION • MAY REQUIRE AN EXTRA ADAPTER • SLIDE DUPLICATOR • ATTACHES TO YOUR DSLR CAMERA • MAY NOT OFFER THE SAME DIGITAL RESOLUTION • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • DEDICATED FILM SCANNER

15. SLIDE SCANNING TIPS • start with clean slides. • Dust both sides of each slide off with a quick hit of compressed air and be careful not to touch the emulsion. • Make sure your computer is fairly new with a fast processor and plenty of memory and hard drive space to store all of the digital images. • scan directly into a good photo organization/editing program such as Photoshop Elements.

16. SCANNER TYPES • FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCANNERS • PHOTO SCANNERS • DOCUMENT SCANNERS • ALL-PURPOSE SCANNERS • PORTABLE SCANNERS

17. HOW TO DETERMINE WHAT SCANNER TO BUY LINK TO BEST SCANNERS FOR 2016 FROM PC MAGAZINE • FLATBED • GOOD FOR PHOTOS • BOUND MATERIAL • 3-D OBJECTS YOU WANT TO SCAN TO 2D • SHEET FEEDER • GOOD FOR DOCUMENTS • BET FOR MULTIPLE COPIES • AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER? • DUPLEX? • WHAT RESOLUTION? • 300 ppi (PIXELS PER INCH) MINIMUM • SLIDES REQUIRE HIGHER

18. EDITING YOUR PHOTOS • DETERMINE THE FILE TYPE YOUR FINISHED PHOTO WILL BE • Tiff/tif – TAGGED IMAGE FILE FORMAT for best quality – the largest type • Jpg/jpeg – most popular for file sharing and web pages • Save an archive copy of the original as a tiff and place it in another location • Create a working copy • Consider adding -1 or –A to each new edited version • Leave your original working copy alone

19. cropping EACH photo editing software package works slightly differently. For this presentation, we have used adobe Photoshop elements. The crop tool allows you to eliminate extra space. We are using Photoshop elements tools to crop this image.

20. SEPARATE MULTIPLE SCANS

21. FIX PHOTO FLAWS • CLONE STAMP TOOL • The Clone Stamp Tool paints with a sampled pixels of an image. • Open an image to your choice. • From the Toolbox, choose the Clone Stamp Tool. • In the Options bar, set the tool's tip size and hardness as we did it for the Brush Tool. • Point the cursor at the image area you want to paint with, hold down [Alt] key, then mouse-click. You have just selected the source point for cloning. • Paint with the copied pixels. • The "Aligned" gadget in the Options bar (checked by default) forces the source point to follow your mouse, even after you complete a stroke. In other words, every new stroke continues the image started by the first stroke. • Deselecting the "Aligned" option starts the sample point back to its original location every time you release the mouse button. That is, every new stroke re-starts cloning your image from the source point.

22. ADJUST THE lighting of the image Consider making your image lighter or darker In Photoshop elements, select enhance | brightness & CONTRAST

23. USE LEVELS ADJUST SHADOWS & HIGHLIGHTS

24. TONING & DESTURATING USE HUE & SATURATION TOOLS TO MODIFY YOUR IMAGES

25. USE COLOR CURVES

26. PHOTO EDITING TUTORIALS • 18 quick fixes • 16 photo editing tips • PINTEREST PHOTO EDITING TIPS • EDIT PHOTOS WITH YOUR iPHONE or ipad

27. Free desktop photo editors • Gimp • NEARLY EVERYTHING PHOTOSHOP OFFERS – AT NO COST • SUBSTANTIAL LEARNING CURVE • PAINT.net • Simple and free • You can use layers and a number of filters • Great for older desktops • PHOTOSCAPE • Great functions • Good filters

28. FREE ONLINE PHOTO EDITORS • PIXLR • Use your browser to edit your photos • Clean interface • FOTOR • A photo enhancer • offers batch processing • IRFANVIEW • Batch processing • Basic image viewer

29. AS ALWAYSTHANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, YOUR ATTENTION, AND YOUR SMILES!!