Showing Off Your Photos

Showing Off Your Photos
Handout
Saving / Downloading an image
Saving an image from a website, such as Flickr
1.
Right-click your mouse.
2.
A menu will appear. Choose “Save image as.”
A window will appear asking you to supply a name for the image file and to choose where on your
computer you want to save it. Once you have provided that information, click [Save]. This will save
your image into your Pictures folder on your computer. You can find this by clicking on the Start
Menu, or by clicking on the little folder icon you have on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen.
Saving images from an email
In Yahoo mail, you’ll see something like this: Click the
then Save to My Computer. When the
next box pops up at the bottom of the screen, click save again, and this will save the picture in the
Picture folder.
This is what it looks like in Gmail: Click on the image, and this box will open up. Click on the
“Download” button. If you are using Internet Explorer, you would click on “Save” at the bottom of
the page. If you are using Chrome, you would click on the file at the bottom of the page, which
will open it up.
It will be in your “Downloads” folder. You can click on “Edit, Organize, or Share”. The following
menu will open up, then you can just move it over into the “My Pictures” folder.
Editing images:
Free image editing programs
Below are some suggestions for free image editing program. Download the program’s EXE file and
double-click it to install it on your computer. These programs range from the very powerful, allowing
you to do sophisticated image editing, to more user friendly with simpler abilities. Play around and
see which program fits your needs best.
GIMP
Many capabilities: a simple paint program, expert quality photo retouching
program, online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an
image format converter, etc.
http://www.gimp.org/
Paint.net
Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows,
it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and
image editing.
http://www.getpaint.net/
Picasa
For organizing, editing and sharing your photos
http://picasa.google.com/
Windows Live Photo Gallery
This program is on all PC computers. You can search for it on the
Start Menu.
Showing Off Your Photos: Online Programs:
Smilebox: Smilebox (www.smilebox.com) is a website where you
can make Slideshows of your pictures. You can choose to make free
slideshows with their program, or you can pay $6.99 a month billed monthly or $3.99 billed annually
for the “Premium” membership, which gives you more style choices and more ways of sharing and
creating your “creations.” You just create an account on the main page, click on “Slideshows,” and
then get creating. Free accounts can send a created slideshow through email, and they can also be
posted on Facebook. You can also create collages, invitations, cards, and other printables (calendars
and photobooks).
Picturetrail: Picturetrail (www.picturetrail.com is a website that allows you to
upload and store your photos, but it also has a flash-based slideshow tool
called “Photo Flicks.” When you first visit the website, you will click on the
“Free Signup” button. You fill in your information (it will ask if you want to get emails from other
business, but you can skip this part, though) and create a login. After creating your “Photo Flick,” you
can save it on Picturetrail, or you can get the code to embed it to a website or blog.
PhotoPeach: PhotoPeach (www.photopeach.com) is a website that is
strictly for creating slideshows. There is a free use of PhotoPeach, but you
can also sign up for Premium service ($3 a month), which would allow
you to burn your slideshow to a DVD and upload your own music to add
to your slideshow.
Power Point: With Power Point you can make presentations of your pictures and add
information to them. There are also transitions that you can add to each page, and you can
add your own music. There is a class on Basic Power Point, if you want to learn more about this.
The program that we are going to be working with today is
Windows Live Movie Maker, and this program is one that will
already be on your PC computers. You can search for it (on
your own computer), as you did for the Windows Live Photo
Gallery (on the Start Menu). Go ahead and open the program.
We can start by adding some pictures to our new “movie.” Click on “Add Videos and Photos
Go to the “Pictures” folder and click on several of the photos. To add more than one at once, hold the
“Control” button down and click on all the pictures you want to add, or click on the first picture, then
while holding the “Shift” button down, click on the last picture in the group. You will see all of the
pictures there together. You will want to upload them in the order that you want to show them in
your “movie.”
To add a title or caption to each of your pictures click right before the picture, then click on “Title” or
“Caption.” A box will pop up at the top (title) or bottom (caption) of the picture, where you can tell
what the picture is, who it is, or when it was taken. You can also add music to your “movie” by first
clicking in front of the first picture so that the little bar shows. Then click on “Add Music.” This will pop
open a box. If the Music library is not chosen, you can click on it, and then you can add any music
from your computer into your “movie.” The name of the song will appear above your “movie.” If your
movie is long enough, you can add more than one song. *Note* There are issues with copyright once
you add music to your movie. Showing the finished project off to your friends/family is okay, but
posting it online to a website could get you into trouble with the singer/record label of the song/s.
You can add transitions and effects to each of your pictures/videos through the “Animations” tab.
This will change how the slides come onto the screen, and you can use the “Apply to all” button to
make all of the images and videos come onto the screen in the same way.
Viewing Your “Movie”:
To check on what your “movie” will be like, you can click on the little play button beneath the big
picture on the left side of the screen. You can also see how long your “movie” will last beneath this
image. Clicking on the
symbol will show you the “movie” in full screen. Don’t forget to save all of
the hard work you have done on your movie by clicking on the “Save Movie” button on the “Home”
tab. You will want to click on the arrow next to the words “Save Movie.”
Choose “For high-definition display” or “for computer.” This will allow you to play the movie outside
of the Windows Movie Maker. You can also burn the movie onto a DVD, but only if you have a
program on your computer that allows you to burn DVDs. When it finishes saving the file, you can
open the movie in the “Window Media Player” and show it off to your friends and family.