Communications Through Technology

Lesson Three: Editing and Sharing Photos

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Objectives

Objectives: 1. Find and store photos on computer 2. Transfer pictures from camera into computer using USB 3. Edit photos using free software on Win-dows or Picasa 4. Share pictures to friends and family us-ing E-mail 5. Upload pictures to the web using Picasa

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Finding & Opening Photos

May be anywhere in your files Photos are files with different extensions

at the end (such as .jpg and .gif) Organize photos into folders. Save in

photo library Photo will open in the program that you

have defined under default (can be Win-dows photo viewer, Picasa or other)

To change default, Control panel to pro-grams to default programs to set default programs

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Transfer pictures from cam-era to computer

Memory card from camera: Insert card, wait, choose option from pop up window

USB cable: Turn off camera, connect ca-ble to computer, may see a pop up win-dow (select “import pictures using win-dows”), or if no pop up, use photo soft-ware like Windows Photo Gallery, and “import from camera or scanner”.

Can’t find pictures? Might have to find camera on My Computer. Look for DCIM folder & keep clicking until you find the pictures.

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Print and Share photos from your phone

Connect phone to computer with memory card or USB cable

Or, send picture from phone. Phones vary. If you don’t know how, try googling your phone for sugges-tions

Try this: Take picture with phone, e-mail it, open and save it to desktop, send to someone else from your computer

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Edit photos with Windows Photo Gallery• Download Windows Photo Gallery if you

don’t have it• Open Windows Live Photo Gallery (use

search to find program)• Double click on photo• Try out the different options for editing• Hate what you did? Click “revert to orig-

inal” at top

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Edit photos with Picasa

• Download Picasa (picasa.google.com ) • Open Picasa • Double click on picture to edit• Try out the different options for editing• Hate what you did? Right click on

picture, click “undo all edits, remove edits”

• Use Help menu for more information

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Upload photos to online Picasa

• Click “upload” on bottom of screen• Determine which album you are sending

picture to. Can change album using drop down menu or create new folder

• Choose size for picture (smaller for blogs)• Choose visibility (anyone, anyone with

link or private)• Can share with groups on Google contacts

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Other ways you can share photos & videos

Upload videos to YouTube Upload photo to Facebook, Twitter

or Gmail Upload a photo to your blog Upload slideshows to Slideshare.net Create a photo book on MyPublisher

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Next week: Social Networking