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Digital Photo Basics
  • Pictures from Camera into Computer
  • Basic Terms: View Size vs Print Size, etc.
  • Virtually Free Photography - Naming Pics, Albums
  • When Digital Camera Photos Can't Be Found
  • Digital Photography for Not So Digital Seniors
  • Introduction to Irfanview
  • More about Irfanview


  • Crop, Resize, Align, Colors
  • How to Crop and/or Resize a Photo
  • Problem Enlarging Digital Pictures
  • Understanding CYMK & RGB Colors
  • How to Straighten (Rotate, Align) a Photo
  • Darkrooms Replaced by Computers
  • Be Your Own Photo Processing Studio


  • Text in Pictures
  • Adding Text to a Photo
  • Text & Picture In a Word Text Box


  • Displaying Your Pictures
  • Printing Multiple Photos on a Single Page
  • Displaying Your Photos as a Slideshow
  • Printing Photo Thumbnail Sheets
  • When Multiple Photos Don't All Fit on a Print-Out
  • Print Yourself or Have Pics Processed Elsewhere?


  • Online Images - Emailing Pictures
  • Reducing a Digital Photo's File Size
  • Red X Instead of a Picture
  • Reducing the File Size of a Video
  • Copying Images from a Web Site or an Email


  • Picture Formats - File Extensions
  • Digital Picture Formats (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, etc)
  • Difference Between "Drawing" & "Painting" Programs
  • Digital Cameras & Megapixelss
  • Choosing File Associations for Picture Files
  • Understanding "Animated GIFs"
  • Comparison of JPG and GIF Photographs


  • More Image-Editing Options
  • Irfanview Clone Tool
  • Convert WordArt to JPG
  • Irfanview Panorama
  • Merging 2 Graphics into One
  • Make Your Own Folder Icons
  • Crop, Resize, Compress JPG


  • A very handy free program for editing and organizing photos is Picasa from Google. Get it at picasa.google.com/download

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