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How to handle digital photos
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Abstract-- You use your digital camera. Your digital pictures are
spread all over your hard drive and you don't have a clue where anything
is.
Here's some tips on how to organize them and some suggestions for software
that will help you edit and manage your photos.
Photoshop for pennies
When it comes to simple photo management, use the right tools for the
job. Fire up Adobe
Photoshop Elements for your personal photo projects. The streamlined
image editor offers many of the tools found in Adobe
Photoshop CS, but at a fraction of the price. All the must-have features
are here, including image acquisition and cataloging, powerful photo editing,
image layering, automatic color correction, unique drawing tools, and
several special-effect filters. There also are many Web-minded tools for
creating optimized graphics, animated GIFs, and online photo albums. This
software is a no-nonsense interface. The smart collection of user-definable
palettes, contextual help windows, and tabbed tool menus help get any
digital-photo task done in a flash.
Manage your mug shots
You have tons of photographs all over your computer, so finding older
ones can be difficult. Stay on top of this organizational problem with
Picasa,
media-management software that searches the folders you select, presenting
them as albums of digital images. It installs a media monitor to keep
track of any new pictures you put on your computer. The interface displays
all images as thumbnails, which you can dynamically resize for easier
viewing. You can scroll through a listing of albums or view them according
to the year the pictures were taken. Picasa also includes minor image-editing
and slide-show capabilities.
Process your pictures
Having a picture of every last detail is handy, however, processing all
those photos can take an eternity. With OfotoNow,
however, you can get the photos from your camera edited and uploaded to
the Web in minutes. The software has easy-to-use tools for every step
of the process. A simple cataloging tool transfers images from your camera
to your hard drive, creating easy-to-sort thumbnails along the way. Basic
editing tools can crop, rotate, and resize dozens of images simultaneously.
You can then upload entire image collections to your space on Ofoto.com
and even order prints of his most important shots. Have some fun with
the free utility, using its slide-show and screensaver tools to create
some homespun eye candy.
Arrange photos into albums
You'll find that a Web album format will work perfectly for publishing
any gallery, but putting together a Web album requires the tedious work
of creating thumbnails and writing code. To get your Web albums up quickly,
use JAlbum, which will make
the process effortless. This free utility lets you choose a folder full
of original photos and an output folder. You can select a style for the
gallery, then simply push a button. JAlbum copies all your photos, creates
thumbnails, and displays them in easily navigable Web pages. Finally,
if you really wants to fine-tune things, JAlbum includes many options
that lets you do things such as customize the thumbnail size, the layout,
and the order in which the images are displayed. This is the place to
view your photo collection and albums your friends have shared with you,
all stored for free on our secure web site.
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