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Tips For Taking Better Photos

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

Get closer to your subjects.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

Get closer to your subjects.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

Get closer to your subjects.

Work on composition.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

Get closer to your subjects.

Work on composition.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

Get closer to your subjects.

Work on composition.

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Tips For Taking Better Photos

Use your flash.

Get closer to your subjects.

Work on composition.

Take a lot of pictures!

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How do I get the images to my computer?

Internal Card ReadersMany computers

today come with card readers built in.

Can be added to a computer with an open bay.

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How do I get the images to my computer?

External Card ReadersCamera connected

via USBUSB / FireWire

dedicated card readers

Printers / Multifunction devices

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How do I get the images to my computer?

WiFiSome newer

cameras have built in WiFi.

Camera phones.WiFi SD cards

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Share Via E-mail or Web PagesYou can share

photos with family and friends through email

Most photo programs have an email function.

Many will optimize the image for you.

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Share Via E-mailor Web PagesYou 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.

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What Applications Should I Use?

Free applications I’ve used …

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Picasa3

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Kodak EasyShare

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Snapfish.com

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What Applications Should I Use?

Programs you pay for…

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Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

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Corel Paintshop Pro 9

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I just Deleted all my photos!

Image RecoveryDon’t Panic! Stellar Photo

RecoveryMediaRECOVER 4.0

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Digitizing Prints & Film

1. Send them to a lab.

2. Scan them yourself.

3. Use your digital camera to copy prints.

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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.

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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.

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The Process

Preview your scans and determine which are keepers.

Pay the final tally.

Your materials show up at your doorstep.

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Some Recomendations

ScanCafe.comDigMyPics.comFotoBridge.com

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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CDs / DVDs

AdvantagesInexpensiv

eEasy to

store.Reasonably

stable.

DisadvantagesSlowest of

the mediasLimited

storage.Will degrade

over time.

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Media Cards

AdvantagesYour 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.

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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.