Selecting a digital camera. Using Windows to download pictures from a digital camera, organize photo files, print your pictures, send pictures via email, copy pictures to CD-R. Using a scanner to scan prints. Installing and using Picasa 2. Installing Paint Shop Pro X at home. Rotating, cropping, sharpening, adjusting brightness and contrast, setting exact photo size for print-outs, color correction, recovering faded and dark photos, "one-step photo fix". Using Paint Shop Pro to repair old and damaged photos; redeye removal; printing several pictures on one page; selective adjustment to portions of a photo. Adding text labels and captions to photos; importing images into other computer programs; making a photo collage; artistic and creative effects. Free Web-based photo album sites. Introduce Shutterfly on line (uploading your pictures to a website for free so that others can view them). Using layers: how to cut out a portion of one photo to paste into another photo. Making slideshows of still images. Making video slide shows to show on TV with a DVD player. Introduce creative projects to do (newsletter, greeting card, etc.); HP website projects.
This course can be given as one 6-hour workshop, two 3-hour workshops, or as 6 or 7 two-hour classes.
How to use the CD-ROM.rtf: How to use the CD-ROM distributed in this course. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
DigitalCamera.rtf: Choosing a Digital Camera. (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
Photo File Basics: Photo File Basics. Downloading pictures from your digital camera. Organizing and re-naming your photo files. Printing your pictures. Sending pictures via email. (4 pages - Adobe Acrobat PDF format)..
CommonTasks.rtf: Using the Common Tasks menu in Windows XP. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word document)
FreeSpace: How many digital photos can you fit on your hard disk? (1 page - Adobe Acrobat PDF format).
Picasa Photo 2 Organizer.rtf: Using the Picasa Photo Organizer, a free photo organizer that finds all the photos on your computer (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word).
Scanner.rtf: Choosing and Using a Scanner. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Epson Perfection 4870 Scanner.rtf: Review of a high-quality scanner suitable for prints, text, slides, or negatives. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Tasks1.rtf: Paint Shop Pro Practice Tasks for Part I (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
Tasks2.rtf: Paint Shop Pro Practice Tasks for Part II (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
What Program.rtf: What Program Should I Use? - Digital photo tasks and how to do them.(2 pages - WordPad or MS Word).
Overview.rtf: Overview of Digital Imaging and Photography (WordPad or MS Word)
Tasks3.rtf: Paint Shop Pro Practice Tasks III (WordPad or MS Word)
Making slideshows.rtf: An overview of various ways to make sideshows of digital still images, both for viewing on the computer screen and on the television screen. (WordPad or MS Word)
MemoriesOnTV3: Using Memories On TV 3.0 to make Video Slide Shows of your Digital Pictures. Memories On TV is a commercial ($50) program that you can use to make professional-quality Ken Burns-type documentary video slide shows of digital pictures with background music and narration that can be played on a DVD player. The CD-ROM contains a fully-functional evaluation version of this software. There is also a handout for the older version 2. (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
Type of disks table.pdf: Types of 5" disk media, how to read them and how to make them. (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
CDs and DVDs.rtf: Comparison of CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, audio CD, and DVDs (WordPad or MS Word)
Ripping and burning WMP 10.rtf: Copying and burning audio CDs using Windows Media Player 10 (WordPad or MS Word document)
Layers.rtf: How to take people and things out of one picture and put them into another picture, using Paint Shop Pro (WordPad or MS Word).
ChangingBackgrounds.rtf: How to change the background of portraits and group photos, using Paint Shop Pro X (WordPad or MS Word).
AddressLabels.rtf: How to make photo address labels using Paint Shop Pro X (WordPad or MS Word).
Painting.rtf: Converting a Photo into a Painting in Paint Shop Pro (WordPad or MS Word).
Colorizing.rtf: Adding Color to Black and White Photos. (WordPad or MS Word).
Software Installers folder: On the CD-ROM. Image editing software for Windows and Macintosh.
See the ReadMe file in this folder for a list of software and instructions. The main software that we use in the course is Paint Shop Pro X.
Example pictures folder: On the CD-ROM. Pictures used in the demo portion of the workshop and for the Practice Tasks.
Links to related topics and activities: On the CD-ROM. Web shortcuts to topics and activities related to digital imaging, including: Art and Drawing lessons, Cameras and scanners, Color, Classroom activities, Symmetry, Reviews of Photo Editors, Web Photo Album sites, Creative and craft projects, and other topics.
Photos to Colorize: Collection of black-and-white photos (mostly portraits) to practice colorizing. See the handout Adding Color to Black and White Photos for detailed instructions.
Artistic effects folder: Examples of the use of the Brush Strokes effect combined with layering to produce painting-like artwork from photographs. See the handout Converting a Photo into a Painting in Paint Shop Pro X:
FreeClipArt folder:On the CD-ROM. Royalty-ree clip art downloaded from the Internet, in various file formats.
Where to download the latest versions of graphic software:
Paint Shop Pro software (Free evaluation versions, for Windows): http://www.jasc.com/
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials folder: On the CD-ROM. Large collection of tutorials developed by the publishers and customers of Paint Shop Pro.
For Teachers
DigitalCameraUses.doc: A collection of ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom, collected from teachers. (WordPad or MS Word)
Large collection of student projects using scanned and photographed student-drawn artwork.
Fairland Elementary School, Montgomery County, Maryland (Mary O'Haver)
Introduction to IrfanView.doc: Introduction to IrfanView 3.85, a basic freeware picture viewer and editor that you can legally install on all the computers in your classroom or computer lab. (WordPad or MS Word document)
IrfanView Summary.doc: Summary of Common IrfanView 3.85 Operations (WordPad or MS Word)
Last revised April, 2006. This page is maintained by Prof. Tom O'Haver , Professor Emeritus, The University of Maryland at College Park.
Comments, suggestions and questions should be directed to
Prof. O'Haver at toh@umd.edu.
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