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Tips For Taking Better Photos

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

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  1. Tips For Taking Better Photos

  2. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash.

  3. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash.

  4. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash.

  5. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash.

  6. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash.

  7. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash.

  8. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash. • Get closer to your subjects.

  9. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash. • Get closer to your subjects.

  10. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash. • Get closer to your subjects. • Work on composition.

  11. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash. • Get closer to your subjects. • Work on composition.

  12. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash. • Get closer to your subjects. • Work on composition.

  13. Tips For Taking Better Photos • Use your flash. • Get closer to your subjects. • Work on composition. • Take a lot of pictures!

  14. How do I get the images to my computer? • Internal Card Readers • Many computers today come with card readers built in. • Can be added to a computer with an open bay.

  15. How do I get the images to my computer? • External Card Readers • Camera connected via USB • USB / FireWire dedicated card readers • Printers / Multifunction devices

  16. How do I get the images to my computer? • WiFi • Some newer cameras have built in WiFi. • Camera phones. • WiFi SD cards

  17. Share Via E-mail or Web Pages • You can share photos with family and friends through email • Most photo programs have an email function. • Many will optimize the image for you.

  18. Share Via E-mailor Web Pages • You can also share your images via a web page. • Many programs like Picasa, Kodak EasyShare, Snapfish let you post online galleries. • Blogs are another way to share your images.

  19. What Applications Should I Use? • Free applications I’ve used …

  20. Picasa3

  21. Kodak EasyShare

  22. Snapfish.com

  23. What Applications Should I Use? • Programs you pay for…

  24. Adobe Photoshop CS4

  25. Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

  26. Corel Paintshop Pro 9

  27. I just Deleted all my photos! • Image Recovery • Don’t Panic! • Stellar Photo Recovery • MediaRECOVER 4.0

  28. Digitizing Prints & Film • Send them to a lab. • Scan them yourself. • Use your digital camera to copy prints.

  29. Using a Lab • Advantages • Saves you time in the long run. • At the best labs, trained technicians inspect and correct each scan. • Disadvantages • May take a couple of months to get your completed order. • Small risk of losing you photos and film. • It will cost you some hard earned money. On average $0.35 per scan.

  30. The Process • Organize you prints, negatives and slides. • Estimate, roughly, how many of each you have. • Fill out the order form. • Prepay required amount. • Pack you materials up and ship them as per the lab’s instructions.

  31. The Process • Preview your scans and determine which are keepers. • Pay the final tally. • Your materials show up at your doorstep.

  32. Some Recomendations • ScanCafe.com • DigMyPics.com • FotoBridge.com

  33. Scan Your Own • You need a flatbed scanner for prints. • Transparency adapter needed to scan negatives and slides. • Lots of hard drive space. • Even more patience!

  34. For Prints • Color or Grayscale. • Scan should have, at least, the dimensions of the original. • Minimum dpi should be 300. • Example: A 4x6 inch print should be scanned at 4x6 inches with a resolution of 300 dpi.

  35. For Slides and Negatives • Negative or Transparency. • Scan film at 100% of frame size. • Resolution for 35mm film should be 2000 - 3000dpi. • This will give you the option of making prints from the scan of 8x10 easily.

  36. How Do I Keep My Photos Safe? • Burn to CDs/DVDs • Keep photos on media cards • Use an incremental backup system • Copy to multiple Hard drives • Use a RAID 5 system.

  37. CDs / DVDs • Advantages • Inexpensive • Easy to store. • Reasonably stable. • Disadvantages • Slowest of the medias • Limited storage. • Will degrade over time.

  38. Media Cards • Advantages • Your images are already on the card. • Writes fast. • Solid state, no moving parts. • Very stable. • Disadvantages • Relatively expensive. • Limited storage. • Small size can make it hard to keep track of. • You need a card reader to access the card.

  39. Hard Drives • Advantages • Least expensive per MB. • Huge amounts of storage. • Very fast read / write speeds. • Disadvantages • Fairly fragile. • Moving parts can breakdown. • Some need external power.

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