1. Pictures from Camera into Computer
2. Getting Acquainted with Irfanview
3. Basic Terms: View Size vs Print Size, etc.
4. Virtually Free Photography - Naming Pics, Albums
5. When Digital Camera Photos Can't Be Found
6. Digital Photography for Not So Digital Seniors

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

1. Adding Text to a Photo
2. Text & Picture In a Word Text Box

1. Printing Multiple Photos on a Single Page
2. Displaying Your Photos as a Slideshow
3. Printing Photo Thumbnail Sheets
4. When Multiple Photos Don't All Fit on a Print-Out
5. Print Yourself or Have Pics Processed Elsewhere?

1. Reducing a Digital Photo's File Size
2. Red X Instead of a Picture
3. Reducing the File Size of a Video
4. Print Yourself or Have Pics Processed Elsewhere?
5. Copying Images from a Web Site or an Email

1. Digital Picture Formats (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, etc)
2. Difference Between "Drawing" & "Painting" Programs
3. Digital Cameras & Megapixelss
4. Choosing File Associations for Picture Files
5. Understanding "Animated GIFs"
6. Comparison of JPG and GIF Photographs

Free - Picasa2 !
• A very handy free program for editing and organizing photos is Picasa2 from Google. Get it at picasa.google.com/download

Free - Irfanview !
• Another handy free program for editing and organizing photos is Irfanview. Get it at Irfanview.

Help with Email

Moving Outlook Express DBX Files to a New PC Moving Email Address Book Names from one PC to Another Using BCCs (Blind Carbon Copies) to Protect Privacy Pictures, Attachments, Senders Blocked in Outlook Express More PC Help & Other Free Programs Can Be Found Here. Some Favorite Links

Displaying Digital Photos as a Slideshow

A reader wrote to ask how to display photos on her PC as a slideshow. Well, this can be done with many programs, including one that comes with WinXP. Open a folder containing photos, right-click any picture's filename, click Open With, and choose Windows Photo & Fax Viewer, whereupon the clicked photo will appear in the center of your screen.

Click the Monitor icon in the toolbar and a Play, Pause, Forward, Back, and Exit button will appear in your monitor's upper right corner. Also, clicking any picture will advance the display to the next slide, while pressing ESC will end the show.

Irfanview users need only launch the program and open any photo, whereupon clickable Left and Right toolbar arrows will appear, which provide a sequential display of the folder's pictures. Irfanview is a great image-viewer/editor and is free from www.irfanview.com. (I use Irfanview constantly and can't imagine handling image files without it.)

Picasa2 users can click on Tools>Options>Slideshow to begin a presentation, and can even choose MP3 music files to play along with it. For instructions in using other image-editing programs, click Help and type SLIDESHOW into the Find box. Picasa2 is available at picasa.google.com/download.

WinXP users can also create a Screen Saver Slideshow by right-clicking their Desktop, choosing Properties, and clicking Screen Saver. Click the down-arrow to find the My Pictures Slideshow option, along with various timing choices.

Many Various "Photo-Sharing" Services Available

For making pictures available to remote viewers, there are many free "photo-sharing" services that invite us to post snapshots on their Web sites, which then make them accessible to anyone to whom you send a link. Some display thumbnails of each photo so you can pick and choose those you may wish to enlarge, copy and/or print, while others offer only a sequential view, meaning you are expected to click through an entire gallery to see if there is something you like. Not surprisingly, these services are free because of all the advertising that accompanies your pictures.

However, a new photo-sharing site by Google lets Gmail users post albums of photos with no apparent advertising in view. The site includes Picasa2 software that lets users edit their photos, as well as display them.

To many digital camera users, the whole concept of image-editing can be a unique challenge which was never offered with traditional film photography. Programs are available that allow us to edit our photos in ways limited only by our imaginations. These programs, however, have tools that range from wonderfully simple to frustratingly complex. How can we learn to use them?

Well, many high schools and community colleges now have evening courses on Adobe Photoshop, as well as on a few other image-editing programs.

North San Diego County residents can sign up for classes conducted by Al Roller at MiraCosta College. Space here doesn't allow for itemizing their schedules, but information is available at Classroom 3201 on the Oceanside Campus, or by calling (760) 795-6820. Al is a long-time resident who specializes in teaching senior citizens.