Sharing Your Photos digital

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Sharing Your Photos (digital)

• Roger Thornburn

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Sharing Photos

• Why share your photos?
• Everyone enjoys seeing photos of friends and
  family
• Great way to keep in contact
• Many ways to do this
• From the simple to the exotic
• E.g. from email to MS Photo Story to DVD
• Assume that you know how to edit and organize
• Previous UG and Seminars
• Picasa
• MS Photo Story
• GCCLC graphics classes
• Only using Windows XP or Freeware

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Today Ill Show Four Basic Ways

• Email
• Easy
• Requires recipient to have email
• Can require multiple sends
• No control on viewing or presentation
• Burn a CD
• Easy
• Can be sent in mail
• Can contain a lot of hi-res files
• Viewed on computer or TV
• Possible to add music

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Today (cont.)

• HTML Slideshow
• Viewed using web browser no need for a graphics
  program
• Can control presentation, titling, comments and
  sequencing
• Can be more complicated user choice!
• On-line Album
• Only one upload to the website but then anyone
  can view
• Easy to maintain
• Recipients can order prints

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On With the Show!!
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Create Albums

• Creating albums
• Can be done in one of your Photo Editing Programs
• Picasa
• Adobe Photo Elements
• Microsoft Picture It
• One that came with your digital camera Canon,
  Camedia, Nikon
• However, we will use the simple method
• Windows Explorer
• First create new folders
• Name them for our Albums
• E.g. Grandkids, Wedding, Hawaii trip, etc
• Then copy pictures to these folders
• Then were ready to go!!

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Links to Freeware and Online Albums

• Picasa
• http//picasa.google.com
• Irfanview
• http//www.irfanview.com
• Microsoft HTML Slide Show (Windows XP PowerToys)
• http//www.microsoft.com/ and search for power
  toys
• YoPoW (Your Pictures on the Web) Do a google
  search for YoPow
• OnLine Photo Album
• Kodak (Ofoto) www.kodakgallery.com
• ClubPhoto www.clubphoto.com
• HP (snapfish) www.hpphoto.com / www.snapfish.com