Digital Photography How to Take and Display Great Photographs Lesson 6 Lesson 6 Showing Your Pictures Critique the light & color images. Printing with your computer. Printing from an outside service. Simple drugstore. Photographic labs. Organizing your prints. Variety of presentation. Sending your images: e.mail & CDs. Doing a slide show on the computer. Lesson 6 Objectives Understand the printing options. Be able to display your work on monitors. Explain how to organize your images. Document alternative media and know how to find them. 1
Homework Review Read Wignall pages 68 101. Get more abstract with your pictures. Go on a color scavenger hunt. Do at least four shots with each major rainbow color: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. Printing With Your Computer Windows Picture & Fax Viewer. Windows Paint program. Image processing programs: Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc. Printing From Photoshop 2
Page Setup in Photoshop Your Printer s Setup Service Printing Photo kiosk. Custom lab printing by e.mail. Custom lab by memory card or CD/DVD. 3
Using Your Computer Alternative to prints. Using Viewer. Using PowerPoint. You have control. It is like slides. Note: 72 ppi. Slide Show With Viewer Slide Show With PowerPoint 4
Title Shot It is usually a sign. But, a flag will do. Could be text on shot. Starting the story. The story sequences. Moving the Story Along Tell your story in sequence Usually. Use pictures to define the story flow. How does this picture move the story along? 5
Volume Counts Take lots of shots. You can edit later. Tell your story. Carry your camera. How do you know it is Greece? Pat always wears red. Add Interest to Your Story Most of the story is about people & vistas. Cute abstracts help. Food is life for us! Compare 2 trips. What events mark your travels? Varying Kid Shots How do you tell the story of your kids? Where will it fit into a sequence? The lunchbox. Beyond snap shot. 6
Organizing Your Life I am compulsive. My slide collection. Files on my computer. Collections notebook. Directories. Wignall s suggestion. CDs and DVDs. My Slide Collection Tackle boxes. Down to the group. Excel listing. Collections notebook. Index picture. Printed very few. Files On My Computer I have four machines. Beowulf, my base computer. Snowdancer, this laptop. Anubis, my server. Elizabeth, Pat s laptop. Nikon, Olympus, & Pictures. Nikon\2006 Feb Park City. Pictures\Film Scans. 7
Windows Attributes Windows searching. Properties. Right click. Wignall s Suggestion Assign keywords. Burn a CD. Duplicate working file. Version number. Write on print. Edited in folder & CD. Label both CD and envelope. Variety of Presentation Beyond prints/slides. Photo albums. Amazing Mail. Mugs, pads, etc. T-shirts. Labels. Christmas cards. Household inventory. 8
Old Fashion Photo Album Still a great way. In a person s hand. Finished look. Ease of access. Organize by time. Event organization. Drawbacks. AmazingMail Amazingmail.com. What to take with you. Laptop & Internet. Cost. Send many more. Business uses. Of Mugs and Mouse Pads Photographic gifts. Lighthouse calendar. www.discountphotogifts.com. It s all about them! Range from the tasteful to the tacky. 9
T-Shirts Iron on designs. Better for small items. www.designsondemand.com. Style I like. CD labels with Word. Edit picture. Save as a.jpg. Copy picture. Paste into Word. Mailing labels. Notebook covers. Picture name tag. Images in database. Labels Cards, Christmas and Other Use Avery card stock. Mount on card stock. Print directly on card. Makes great notes. Lighthouse calendar. Sending by e.mail. 10
Household Inventory Keep records in safe. Open drawers. Close up on jewelry. I used this for rehab. Document work. PowerPoint Presentation Pictures are 72 ppi. Resize in Photoshop. Landscape 13.5x10.1 Portrait 7.483x10.0. Background is black. 11