... 11/27/07 9:29 AM Page 13 Chapter YourDigital Life T he first step in learning to simplify and protect yourdigital life is developing an understanding of what yourdigital life” actually is This ... other digital information that is important to you This chapter will help you develop an understanding of yourdigital life, and then help you develop a plan for how to better organize yourdigital ... digital information as it comes into your life Figure 2-1 shows a view of some devices that might be part of yourdigital life Yourdigital life is anything that can be stored on a computer and...
... Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, United States 101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using YourDigital Photographs Matthew Bamberg Publisher and General Manager, Course Technology PTR: Stacy L Hiquet ... United States of America 11 10 09 To Richard and Carl Acknowledgments I’d like to thank Todd Larson for his endless assessment of my photosand his support and encouragement during the writing process ... Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan Locate your local office at: international.cengage.com/region Cengage Learning products are represented in Canada by Nelson Education, Ltd For your lifelong learning...
... Each Service) .6 StoringYourPhotos Online StoringYourPhotosand Backups Properly OrganizingPhotos on Your Computer 11 Managing YourPhotos in iPhoto ... Framing Your Photo Online 115 Making a Frame for Your Photo in Photoshop 116 CHAPTER Making Big Bucks Selling YourPhotos (and Donating Them, Too) .119 Selling YourPhotos ... within Your Posts .99 Composing a Photo Essay for Your Blog .99 Choosing Photos That Tell a Story for Your Blog 101 Discussing Camera Settings for YourPhotos on Your Blog...
... make your framed photos on the ground; and sell them online and host photo shows on the ground—all using yourphotos that are online or on your computer Let’s not forget selling yourphotosand ... promoting yourself so people can find you andyour work This book details the best ways to make yourphotos a known commodity, and it brainstorms the best places to sell yourphotos online and on ... for your needs to finding the best paper to make yourphotos last nearly forever If you don’t want to print yourphotos yourself, the book shows you the most reasonable ways to outsource your...
... and online storage What you choose may affect how long yourphotos will last See StoringYourPhotosand Backups Properly” idea in this chapter to learn more about this 4 ■ Preparing YourPhotos ... Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup (Control Panel > System and Maintenance) Preparing YourPhotos for Use Figure 1.2 ■ Windows Vista gives you a report on how your system is functioning WHAT WILL YOUR IMAGES ... compressed, data is lost The most important drawback of keeping your images in JPEG format is that if you open them and then edit and save them, your image will lose quality If you repeat this process...
... to store yourphotos is to make backups from those on your computer and put them on an external hard drive If you want to make room on your computer for more photos, you can delete the photos that ... file size limit StoringYourPhotosand Backups Properly If you’re inclined to store backups for all your photographs on an external device, you’re off to a great start to preserving your photographs ... at a cost of $19.95/year StoringYourPhotos Online You can store photos on many sites The storage sites a number of other things, too, from making a webpage to display your images to creating...
... keep yourphotos for generations is to have them printed (see “Outsourcing Your Printing” in Chapter 4) or to print them yourself (For printing tips, see the ideas in Chapter 4.) 14 ■ Preparing Your ... Cardboard boxes contain acid and lignin (a complex polymer), which can cause yourphotos to yellow and deteriorate over time If you choose a box, there are acid- and lignin-free boxes you can ... presentation tools you’ll need to show off your photographs to galleries and other venues.There are presentation portfolio cases and portfolio books for displaying yourphotos that you can buy on the Internet...
... 1.11 shows the tools you can use to tweak yourphotos Figure 1.11 Flickr has teamed up with Picnik to let you edit yourphotos online Preparing YourPhotos for Use ■ 19 Picasa When you double-click ... variety of effects, from sharpening your photo to giving it a sepia tone Figure 1.12 Picasa has a variety of editing options Photoshop/Photoshop Elements Photoshop and Elements (for short) have to ... you this 18 ■ Preparing YourPhotos for Use Finally, you can create collages and slideshows with images from any one folder To make a collage, see Chapter To create and save a slideshow movie,...
... all you is select them from the Pictures folder and click and drag them to the desktop Another way to move your images from your cell phone to your computer is to use a memory card reader Note, ... with Photoshop to the job Photoshop alone doesn’t a great job with this task There’s a Photoshop plug-in program called Genuine Fractals by onOne Software that does a great job of enlarging photos ... workflow for Photoshop One such book is Photoshop CS4 Workflow: The Digital Photographer’s Guide (Sybex, 2008) If you don’t want to use a workflow (if you’re not making gallery-quality prints), and you...
... it says Your Photostream, there are options for Sets, Tags, Archives, Favorites, Popular, and Profile Sharing YourPhotos Online Figure 2.1 ■ 29 Flickr calls your uploaded photos a photostream ... you’ll be taken to your homepage On that page you have options to upload photos, or you can just view, organize, and share the ones you have To view your photos, you can click on Your Photostream After ... whistles of managing yourphotos on different photo sharing and social networking platforms 28 ■ Sharing YourPhotos Online Posting and Sharing at Flickr How easy is it to join and post to Flickr?...
... people in your albums From there, you can name the people who are in the pictures and send those people emails of the pictures Posting and Sharing at Shutterfly In terms of storingyour photos, ... sites, blogger sites, and sites such as www.Digg.com and www.StumbleUpon.com 34 ■ Sharing YourPhotos Online Figure 2.4 The View and Organize window of Shutterfly Posting and Sharing at Photobucket ... put your picture into blog templates (You’ll learn more about blogs in Chapter 6.) Sharing YourPhotos Online ■ 35 Also, on your Main Album page (My Albums tab), you have options to share your...
... Customize Profile Move your cursor over your picture and click the Edit Basic Information icon (It’s a picture of a pencil and paper.) Scroll down to where it says Photos You’ll see the photos you have ... 38 ■ Sharing YourPhotos Online NOTE One difference between ImageShack and other photo hosting sites is that it doesn’t provide an interactive window to move your image files and folders around ... Sharing YourPhotos Online Figure 2.6 ■ 37 You can click and drag pictures to different albums using Photobucket Posting and Sharing at ImageShack If you want a quick place to get a URL for your...
... more photos (taking you back to the interactive navigation), organize yourphotos (which gives you an interactive window to click and drag yourphotos around), edit the name of your album, and ... 42 ■ Sharing YourPhotos Online To view and share your photos, click on Profile > My Photos After you click on an album, the photos in that album will show up This is ... to yourphotos is automatic They get shared on the homepages of all your friends They’ll also be posted on the wall of your Profile page Your wall includes everything you’ve done, including your...
... end to your Mac and the VGA to the HDTV set, your Mac will automatically recognize what you’re doing and change your screen to presentation mode so that you’re good to go Sharing YourPhotos ... photography class and work with others to improve your photography skills as you share the photographs you have and new ones that you shoot 48 ■ Sharing YourPhotos with Family and Friends Hosting ... to save your slideshows and even a button that will create a movie and put it on YouTube for you For specific directions on how to this, go to Chapter 12 CONNECTING YOUR COMPUTER TO YOUR TV It’s...
... technicalities, and, finally, things you like and don’t like about the photo Figure 3.5 What’s wrong with this photo? Sharing YourPhotos with Family and Friends ■ 53 Okay, I’ll go ahead and critique ... there, input your name first After you’re finished, you’ll see the beginning of your family tree, with your name in the middle To add photos, click on the camera next to your name and then click ... of yourname.tribalpages.com My URL is bamberg.tribalpages.com Sharing YourPhotos with Family and Friends ■ 55 To make the website (see Figure 3.7 for an example) or add to it, you log in and...
... None, Remove, and Set as Background The Set as Background option is really cool—it takes a selected picture and makes it the background of your collage Sharing YourPhotos with Family and Friends ... Sharing YourPhotos with Family and Friends Figure 3.9 Photo collage made in Picasa NOTE You’ll notice three tabs at the top of the page: Library, Collage, and Import.You can toggle back and forth ... Sharing YourPhotos with Family and Friends Figure 3.8 ■ Making a photo website is a cinch on Weebly Making a Photo Collage At some point in your online life, you’ll probably...
... (about $150), and the paper and ink (about $40 for ink and the paper pack for 150 glossy photos) are rather reasonable, too HP’s Photosmart 375 is a three-pounder that can read yourdigital camera’s ... But if you have to have prints to hand out to your friends and family right away, with a portable printer, you know that yourphotos won’t end up stored in your computer for who knows how long ... terms of getting your images printed on demand It’s not only the printer you’ll want to consider if you’re in the market for having your pictures printed quickly The costs of paper and ink are surely...
... several ways to get yourphotos from color to black and white in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements More about those just ahead The next thing to think about is how to print in black and white The workflow ... black -and- white photograph in print is to get the image switched to black and white on your monitor To change yourphotos from color to black and white in the Camera Raw dialog box of Photoshop ... Page Setup from the Print window Locate and select your printer from the drop-down menu, select your paper size and orientation, and then click on OK and Print In the next Print dialog box that...
... Preparing YourPhotos for Use Many printing services require that you become a member of their site As part of membership, they host yourphotos For more about photo hosting, see the StoringYourPhotos ... access to photos For example, you can order the photos you have on Picasa from Snapfish.com Picasa will forward yourphotos to Snapfish, Walgreens, Shutterfly, and PhotoWorks To this, go to your Picasa ... mount and frame it after you get it enlarged and printed Figure 4.7 You can enlarge yourphotos using online digital imaging services Preparing YourPhotos for Use ■ 73 In Table 4.1, you can see...
... Scrapbooking old Florida photos Downloading Free Digital Kits for YourPhotos There are websites where you can get free digital scrapbooking kits, which include varied assortments of digital kits, embellishments, ... scan your prints or use the photos you have in your computer You just have to be a bit tech-savvy You’ll need a program with which to make a digital scrapbook The best bet for your money is Photoshop ... Elements You can also use Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, or Print Shop If you have Photoshop or Elements, you can pick and choose from the items in digital kits and put them on your scrapbook page...