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Mar 8, 2007 Terence SullivanAlice’s Restaurant Media Library

Alice’s Restaurant Media Library “Working with Digital Images”

Illinois Technology Conference for Educatorswww.roe21.k12.il.us/showcase.htm

Mar 8, 2008John A. Logan Community College

Organizing and ManagingDigital Photo Collections

A picture with “circles, arrows, and a paragraph

on the back” is worth more than a 1000 words!

All software and tools discussed will be free or typically available with a standard computer configuration.

AbstractThis session will use Windows XP as a basis for examples and discussion. Most of the information can apple to Macintosh and Linux with some adaptation.

• Tools– MS Fax/Print viewer– Office Applications– Microsoft Powertoys– IrfanView– Picasa-2

• Organizers– SyncToy– RoboCopy– SyncBack– IrfanView– Picasa-2

With digital photography pushing the button is the easy “BIT”

Basic View Print/Edit

• Picture View

• Thumbnail View

• Print – size, # pict/page, fit to page

• Basic Edit– Adjust light/dark/contrast– Remove red-eye– Rotate or straighten– Crop

Tools• XP – Fax/Print viewer

• MS - Paint

• MS Office– Picture Manager

• Included in All Office Apps– Format - Picture – Compress

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain

Digital Photography• Resolution

– Monitors use Pixels across the screen or pixels per inch (ppi)

• Pixels (picture elements) • Pixel Size, Dot Pitch

– 640x480, 1024x768, 1280x10246 • Color Depth – 16 bit, 24 bit

– Printers/paper uses dots per inch (dpi)• Scanner resolution 600x1200 • Dots per Inch from scanning • 75, 300, 600, 1200

• More detail LARGER Files

Picture Formats

• TIFF - little compression, but lossless

• GIF - lossey

• JPEG - high compression, but still lossey

• PNG- compression, newer but still loss

• BMP - legacy Windows native format

“You can observe a lot by watching” – Yogi Berra

Re-Size v Re-Sample

• Change display size (rescaling) – Only resize on the screen – Still contains the same detail – Still requires as much space to store

• Change true picture information “resample” – Truly change the "size" of the file – Will lose some detail (lossey v. lossless) – Will actually change storage space requirements

Life is short, the art is long – Hippocrates c. 450 BC

laptop

Microsoft Image Resizer

Microsoft Powertoy – adds right click context menu• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Transferring Pictures from Camera• Disk/CD/DVD media - save to

media and transfer to computer• Card Readers - save to flash

memory card and transfer to computer

• USB Cable - direct connect camera to computer (battery hog)

• Dock devices - camera dock interface to computer

Storage DevicesWays to store for backup and long term storage• Hard Drive in folders on computer• External Hard Drives (USB, Firewire)• CD-RW / DVD-RW• Network Drives - long term access issues and

huge file sizes• NAS (Network Attached Storage)• USB Drives (flash, jump, thumb, ...)

Camera, memory cards or DV Tape

Network Storage Options

• NAS Lite – free version has 4 Gig limit – http://www.serverelements.com/

• FreeNAS – still early versions but free, no limits, and

integrates with most OS security – http://www.freenas.org/

File Synchronization Tools

Even if a storage device is found for archiving and storing images, the volume and size of the files becomes a challenge. How do you keep track of which images are backed up and which are not?

•Microsoft SyncToy - PowerToy – http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/pr

ophoto/synctoy.mspx

•Microsoft RoboCopy - Windows Resource Kit – http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/11/

UtilitySpotlight/default.aspx •SyncBack - check freeware page

– 2Bright Sparks – http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html

SyncToyfor WinXP

• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

SyncBack Interface

IrfanView

by Irfan Skiljan, current version is 3.99

http://www.irfanview.com/

The Swiss Army Knife of image managing utilities

IrfanView• Irfanview

• Rename – batch rename

• Resize – truly resample

• Convert format

• Mini image editor

• Slideshow options

• HTML thumbnail pages

IrfanView• Batch Edit/Convert/Rename

– identify pictures rather than just default name## – convert format of images – resize images

• Batch convert with GUI or with command line options• Image Edit

– basic image editing

• Thumbnail viewer and manager• HTML page creation

– create a page of thumbnails automatically

• Tips/tricks - http://malektips.com/irfanview_3_help_and_tips.html

IrfanView - additional

• Open Picture from HD, CD, or Internet• Have IrfanView open when digital camera or

memory card is connected – Right click – context options to be a send-to choice

• Picture properties– Detailed information on the picture

• Plugins– Play mp3s– E-mail pictures– Add more filters

Picasa-2 by Google

• Organize

• Edit

• Share

• Print

• Backup

• Create

•Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. -Albert Einstein

http://picasa.google.com/

Picasa - Organanize

• Move/Rename pictures

• Label media electronically

• Star rating to flag importance

• Create “instances” of picture in multiple folders

• Password Protect

Picasa - Edit

• Basic image fixes (clean up and improve)

• Add special effects• Write captions (which stay with picture)

• Zoom – pan – tilt image for viewing

• Detailed info on picture learn how to use the manual mode on your camera

Picasa - Share

• E-mail

• Upload to website or blog

• Use “Hello” chat feature optimized for pictures sharing

• Create slide shows of images

• Copy pictures/media to any device or folder

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.-Dorthy Lange

Picasa - Print

• Custom fit to specialty papers

• Upload images to commercial sites for storage and printing

If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothesif you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul. ~Author Unknown

Picasa - Backup

• Copy media to any device/folder– burn CD/DVD– copy to network share– copy to USB or external HD

• Will identify those images not yet archived.

• Create gift CDs with Slide Shows

Picasa - Create

• Create “movie” from pictures

• Create personalized desktop or screen saver

• Create poster up to 1000% size of the original

• Create photo collage of selected images

• Export to any TiVo DVR

Google Desktop

http://desktop.google.com

Index and catalog every file on your computer. Will even catalog the contents of files such as e-mail. Creates a search engine for your personal files.

Presentation slides:www.shiloh.k12.il.us/Presentations/AliceRestaurantShowCase2007

Remember: “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant”

Terence Sullivan ( tsulliva@comwares.net)Technology DirectorShiloh CUSD#1 & Edgar CUSD#6

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