Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

What’s in This Book?

Conventions Used in This Book

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Sending, Posting, and Copying Photos to Disk

Preparing to Share Photos

Choosing a photo organizer program

Transferring photos from your camera to your computer

Copying photos from a memory card to your computer

Adding descriptions to your photos

Adding tags to your photos

Sending Photos by E-Mail

Inserting a photo into an e-mail

Attaching a photo file to an e-mail

Posting Photos Online

Uploading to a photo-sharing site

Adding photos to a blog

Following basic Web rules

JPEG: The photographer’s friend

Sharing Photos on Removable Media

Copying photos to a disk or drive as data

Burning photos as a slide show

Creating a photo video

Chapter 2: Printing and Scanning Your Photos

Printing from a Lab

Buying a Photo Printer

Inkjet printers

Laser printers

Dye-sub (thermal dye) printers

More printer-shopping tips

Choosing Photo Paper

Setting Print Size and Resolution

Sending Your Image to the Printer

Getting better results from your printer

Comparing your monitor to your prints

Seeing Things in Black and White

Publishing Your Own Coffee Table Book

Scanning Prints

Chapter 3: Enjoying Digital Picture Frames

Selecting a Digital Picture Frame

Setting Up Your Picture Frame

Displaying Photos from Your Camera’s Memory Card

Changing Frame Settings

Editing Photos for Frames

Copying Photos from Your Computer

Chapter 4: Ten Benefits of Using Flickr

Setting Up an Account Is Easy

Uploading Photos Is a Breeze

Several Layouts to Choose From

Tag Your Photos

Organize Sets and Collections

Share Your Photos on Flickr

Keep Up with Recent Activity on Flickr

Edit Your Photos in a Flash

Explore the World of Flickr

Go Beyond the Basics

Chapter 5: Ten Projects for Home and Office

Create a Photo Business Card

Add Pictures to a Text Document

Turn a Portrait into a Coloring Book Page

Shoot and Stitch a Panoramic Image

Change the Color of an Object

Create a Web Photo Gallery

Create a Slide-Show Screen Saver

Putting together a screen saver in Windows 7

Creating a photo screen saver on a Mac

Blur Your Way to an Abstract Image

Print a Contact Sheet

Creating One-of-a-Kind Photo Gifts

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Introduction

Welcome to Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, Pocket Edition. It’s official: Digital photography is no longer considered a fleeting fad or solely a game for techno-types. Today, everyone from preteens to great-grandmothers is recording their memories with digital cameras, abandoning their old film models to the attic, the basement, or worse.

This growing enthusiasm for digital photography is for good reason, too. The features and quality packed into today’s digital cameras are nothing short of astounding. Tiny, fit-in-your pocket cameras are now capable of producing images that, in some cases, surpass those of professional models from five or six years ago — and at prices that were unheard of in years past. Digital SLR models, which accept interchangeable lenses, are now remarkably inexpensive, too, making the step up to semi-pro features much more accessible to enthusiastic shutterbugs.

For many people, though, figuring out how to use all the features offered by today’s cameras, let alone how to download, organize, and share digital photos, is an intimidating proposition. Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, Pocket Edition answers all your questions about sharing photos in easy-to-understand language, with a dash of humor thrown in to make things more enjoyable. This book spells out everything you need to know to make the most of sharing your digital photos with friends and family.

What’s in This Book?

Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, Pocket Edition covers all aspects of sharing your photos. Whether you want to learn how to post your photos online (with a service like Flickr) or email your photos to friends, this book will help you get started. There are also chapters on printing and scanning your photos as well as how to set up a digital frame.

Conventions Used in This Book

When you need to choose a command from a program menu, you see the menu name, an arrow, and then the command name. For example, if you need to choose the Print command from the File menu, you see this instruction: Choose File⇒Print.

Sometimes, you can choose a command more quickly by pressing keys on your keyboard than by clicking through menus. These keyboard shortcuts are presented like so: Press Ctrl+A. This simply means press the Ctrl key and the A key at the same time, and then let up on both keys. When shortcuts differ depending on whether you’re a Windows or Mac user, the PC shortcut appears first, followed by the Mac shortcut.

Icons Used in This Book

Like other books in the For Dummies series, this book uses icons to flag especially important information. Here’s a quick guide to the icons used in Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, Pocket Edition:

This icon represents information that you should commit to memory. Doing so can make your life easier and less stressful.

The Tip icon points you to shortcuts that help you avoid doing more work than necessary. This icon also highlights ideas for better ways to share your pictures.

When you see this icon, pay attention — danger is on the horizon. Read the text next to a Warning icon to keep yourself out of trouble and to find out how to fix things if you leaped before you looked.

Where to Go from Here

That’s all you need to know to get started. Whenever you hit a snag as you try to share your photos with friends and family, just look up the topic in the Contents at a Glance and turn to the coverage you’re looking for. For Dummies books are designed so that you can dip in anywhere that looks interesting and get the information you need. This is a reference book so don’t feel like you have to read an entire chapter (or even an entire section for that matter). You won’t miss anything by skipping around. So find what interests you and jump on in!

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Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies®, Pocket Edition

Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies^®, Pocket Edition