presents
Grand Junction Computer
User Group and Seminar
Digital Photography
Special Interest Group

Next Meeting:  Wednesday, August 28, 2002

TOPIC: Digital Camera Mini-lab

Come out and learn how to use the various features of your digital camera.


We meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month from 
7-9 PM at the same place as the Computer Users Group. 
For more information about the Users Group and meeting place,

please refer to our Information Page.


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The Grand Valley Digital Photography Users Group is for all people
interested in digital photography. Each month we meet to discuss topics and
see live demonstrations related to digital photography. The class is headed
up by Adam Cochran owner of PCs & Pixels and is a Special Interest Group of
the Grand Valley Computer Users Group.

Cost for this class will be $10/person or $15/couple


Emailing Your Digital Photos

A few things to remember:

  • Always save a copy of the ORIGINAL photo

  • You can always go down on resolution, but you can never go up.

  • 72 dpi for email and web - 300 dpi for printing

  • Never email more than 150k of attachments

  • Black & White takes up less space

How to do it:

 

Outlook Express

  1. Create a new email message.

  2. Click on the paperclip icon on the top toolbar.

  3. Browse for the file your photo is located in.

  4. Double click on that file.

Netscape

  1. Open Netscape Communicator.

  2. Create a new message.

  3. Click on the big paperclip "Attach"

  4. Select FILE.

  5. Navigate to the file you want to attach.

  6. Double click.

AOL

  1. Start your AOL program.
    Click on mail center.

  2. Go down menu to write mail.

  3. Open it with the left mouse button.

  4. In the lower left corner is an attach button. Click it.

  5. It will open an attach window.

  6. Click on the attach button.

  7.  Another window will open and at the top you will see a look in box.

  8. Click on the arrow to the right and go to, C:\.

  9. Below that, in the larger window, select the My photos folder.

  10. Select it and click on open.

  11. Select the photo you wish to send and hit the open button.

  12. It will attach the photo, or photos, and take you back to the attach box.

  13. Click on okay and it will be added to your email.

  14. Once you have composed your message, just hit the send now button to complete.

Resize Using Pic2Mail

  1. Double click on the Pic2Mail icon (looks like an envelope).

  2. Click the BROWSE button at the top left.

  3. Find the folder where your pictures are located.

  4. Picture files should show up in the PHOTOS window.

  5. Select the photos that you want to resize. Select the photos you want to resize one at a time and click ADD. Click ADD ALL to . . . um . . . add all.

  6. Click the PROCESS button at the bottom right to resize the selected photos.

  7. New copies of the resized photos can be found in the Pic2Mail coy folder or as a Pic2Mail file on your desktop.


Links from this month's meeting

Links added after the meeting


IMPORTANT LINKS

 

The article to end all articles on Digital Photography

 

Digital Photography Review

 

Scanner help


 

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