Is your digital photo collection out of control? Do you want to know how to email photos easily?
In this one day workshop, we will look out how best to manage your digital photos, and also how to retouch, resize and send them.
Outline
- Getting photos onto your computer
- USB cable
- Memory stick
- Bluetooth
- Managing your photos
- Naming your files
- Manual organisation
- Available software
- Manage online
- Backup
- Retouching your photos
- Pixels & resolution
- Removing red eye
- Cropping
- Brightness & contrast
- Hue & saturation
- Resizing your photos
- Resize
- Sharpen
- Which file format?
- Printing your photos
- At home
- In the shop
- Online
Who should attend
Beginners who want to bring order to their digital photos, free up their camera and learn how to send photos.
Skills required
Basic computer literacy. An interest in taking photos would also help.
Learning outcomes
- Camera operation: You will learn how to transfer files from your camera to your computer.
- File management techniques: You will learn essential techniques to manage your image files, both locally and online, and how to backup files.
- Retouching photos: You will know how to do basic image editing.
- Resizing photos: You will learn about the relationship between pixels and resolution, and how to resize and print bitmap images.
All techniques will be taught using Free Software that will be made available free of charge to all students.