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Managing Your Digital Photos

Managing Your Digital Photos. Jane Francis, Personal Computer Training. Objectives. Photos have data associated with them. We can edit some of that data. Photo software helps us manage and edit our photos

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Managing Your Digital Photos

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  1. Managing Your Digital Photos Jane Francis, Personal Computer Training

  2. Objectives • Photos have data associated with them. We can edit some of that data. • Photo software helps us manage and edit our photos • Picasa (FREE, affiliated with Google and its Picasa Web Albums where you can share your photos online) • Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery (FREE) • FastStone Image Viewer (FREE) • GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is FREE software for such tasks as photo retouching and image composition.) • Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 8 (on Adobe web site: Current price reduction from $99.99 to $69.99)

  3. Assumptions • You can transfer photos from your camera to your PC. • With USB cable • With card from camera • You understand folders and subfolders. • You can find all your photos somewhere on your PC.

  4. Advantages of Photo Mgmt Software • A single photo can be found in many ways, not just by its location in a folder. • “Jack is in this photo we took on our Yellowstone vacation. Do I file it under Jack or under Yellowstone?” • I want to find all the photos of Jack and me. • Without duplicating photos, you can create slideshows with selected photos. • Easily share on-line.

  5. Picasa Libraries • Albums • You create most of them. • Others are created automatically: E-mailed Photos, Recently Updated, etc. • People • Unknown Person(s) • Named People • Folders (To change view, choose menu View/FolderView) • Flat Folder Structure • Folder Tree Structure • View sorted by Creation Date, Recent Changes, Size, or Name

  6. Picasa enhances your photo This photographer used several Picasa tricks to make his photo better. I’m Feeling Lucky – Picasa, go ahead and use your technical judgment Saturation – like adding another coat of paint Sharpen Shadows

  7. Data associated with photos Exchangeable image file format (Exif) Camera Make Camera Model Camera Date Resolution Flash Aperture ISO IPTC Keywords IPTC = International Press Telecommunications Council

  8. IPTC Keywords (called “Tags” in Picasa) IPTC Keywords: kite festival kite colorful trio sky kite Long Beach Washington recreation sport

  9. IPTC Keywords for Stock Photo IPTC Keywords: adorable, baby, background, beautiful, behavior, boy, care, caucasian, child, childhood, cry, cute, emotion, expression, eye, face, human, infant, innocent, isolated, kid, life, little, male, mouth, one, pain, people, person, portrait, sad, sadness, screaming, small, son, sweet, tantrum, tear, toddler, unhappy, upset, white, young

  10. Original Photos as Stored on Computer

  11. Picasa can rotate and crop your photo

  12. Photos as Viewed in Picasa Rotated Cropped Rotated Rotated

  13. Albums

  14. Album: “Scenery”

  15. Album: “Design Ideas”

  16. Album: “People” The same photo can be chosen for any number of albums.

  17. Search via Tags: astoria

  18. Portrait Photography • If you want to flatter your subject, you'll probably want to deemphasize his nose. That means you want to stand at 10 or 15 feet away from him so that his nose isn't significantly closer to you than the rest of his face. However, at such a large distance from the camera, filling the frame with just your subject's face will require a high magnification (i.e., telephoto) lens. Typical "portrait" lenses are therefore between 85 and 120 millimeters long (for 35mm cameras).

  19. Focal Lengths of Lenses • Fisheye lenses (8-16 mm) • Wide-angles (14-35 mm) • Normal lenses (50-58 mm) on standard SLR (Single Lens Reflex) cameras • Medium long lenses (80-200 mm) • Telephoto lenses (300-1200 mm) • Zoom lenses (12-400 mm)

  20. Focal Lengths Compared • Lens on my “snap-and-shoot” camera: Fujinon 4x optical zoom lens • Focal length: f = 7.2mm to 28.8 mm(Equivalent to approximately 32 mm to 128 mm on a 35 mm camera)

  21. Point-and-Shoot Lenses Portraits Standard Lens SLR 55mm Zoom 75mm 150mm My Digital Zoom Indicator 7.20 11.90 18.50 28.80

  22. Picasa Tools Folder Manager Upload Manager People Manager Configure Photo Viewer Configure Screensaver Back Up Pictures Adjust Date & Time Download Name Tags from Picasa Web Album Uplaod Geotag Experimental Configure Buttons Options

  23. Picasa Options: General

  24. Picasa Options: E-mail

  25. Picasa Options: File Types

  26. Picasa Options: Slideshow

  27. Picasa Options: Web Albums

  28. Picasa Options: Name Tags The lower the Suggestion Threshold, the fewer faces will be recognized. Only the more clear. Picasa then groups together the faces it thinks are maybe the same person.  These are the Clusters.

  29. Backup Options

  30. Filters Show starred photos only Show uploads to Web Albums only Show only photos with faces Show movies only Show only photos with geotag You can use several filters at once

  31. Glossary • Optical zoom. This is the zoom that matters. Optical zoom is provided by the lens (i.e. the optics) and does not lose image quality. The zoom is provided by a telephoto lens. • Digital zoom. Digital zoom works by magnifying a part of the captured image using digital manipulation. This is the same as how a graphics program resizes an image to a larger size. Quality degrades as the zoom increases.

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