Digital Imaging Course

Digital Imaging: Acquiring, Enhancing, & Using Digital Images.

http://home.swfla.rr.com/ohaver/ImageWorkshop/

Last revised April, 2006
Presented by Tom and Mary O'Haver
toh@umd.edu ohaverma@verizon.net
Other courses taught by the O'Havers

Brief Course Description

Selecting a digital camera. Using Windows to download pictures from a digital camera, organize photo files, print your pictures, send pictures via email, copy pictures to CD-R. Using a scanner to scan prints. Installing and using Picasa 2. Installing Paint Shop Pro X at home. Rotating, cropping, sharpening, adjusting brightness and contrast, setting exact photo size for print-outs, color correction, recovering faded and dark photos, "one-step photo fix". Using Paint Shop Pro to repair old and damaged photos; redeye removal; printing several pictures on one page; selective adjustment to portions of a photo. Adding text labels and captions to photos; importing images into other computer programs; making a photo collage; artistic and creative effects. Free Web-based photo album sites. Introduce Shutterfly on line (uploading your pictures to a website for free so that others can view them). Using layers: how to cut out a portion of one photo to paste into another photo. Making slideshows of still images. Making video slide shows to show on TV with a DVD player. Introduce creative projects to do (newsletter, greeting card, etc.); HP website projects.

This course can be given as one 6-hour workshop, two 3-hour workshops, or as 6 or 7 two-hour classes.

The complete set of current workshop handouts are available here in PDF format: Section A (6 pages) ; Section B (11 pages) ; Section C (7 pages) ; Section D (2 pages) ; Section E (4 pages) ; Section F (5 pages) .

Contents of the workshop CD-ROM (version 21)

Individual Handouts

How to use the CD-ROM.rtf: How to use the CD-ROM distributed in this course. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
DigitalCamera.rtf: Choosing a Digital Camera. (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
Photo File Basics: Photo File Basics. Downloading pictures from your digital camera. Organizing and re-naming your photo files. Printing your pictures. Sending pictures via email. (4 pages - Adobe Acrobat PDF format)..
CommonTasks.rtf: Using the Common Tasks menu in Windows XP. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word document)
FreeSpace: How many digital photos can you fit on your hard disk? (1 page - Adobe Acrobat PDF format).
Picasa Photo 2 Organizer.rtf: Using the Picasa Photo Organizer, a free photo organizer that finds all the photos on your computer (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word).
Photo Downloading and Organization in Picasa 2: Step-by-step workshop activity - downloading photos from a CD and organizing them in Picasa 2 (1 page - WordPad or MS Word).
Task1forPicasa.rtf: Practice tasks for Picasa 2. Step-by-step workshop activity - basic photo fixes in Picasa 2. (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word).
OrderingPrints.rtf: Step-by-step workshop activity - How to Order Prints from Walmart from within Picasa 2 (1 page - WordPad or MS Word).
How to Install PSP X.rtf: Step-by-step instructions for installing Paint Shop Pro X on your Windows computer. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Getting Started: Getting Started with Paint Shop Pro X. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word document)
Summary.rtf: Summary of Common Paint Shop Pro X Operations (1 page - WordPad or MS Word document)
Paint Shop Pro Reviews.rtf: Critics reviews of various versions of Paint Shop Pro (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Problems using Paint Shop X.rtf: Common Problems using Paint Shop Pro X Operations (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Scanner.rtf: Choosing and Using a Scanner. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Epson Perfection 4870 Scanner.rtf: Review of a high-quality scanner suitable for prints, text, slides, or negatives. (1 page - WordPad or MS Word)
Tasks1.rtf: Paint Shop Pro Practice Tasks for Part I (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
Tasks2.rtf: Paint Shop Pro Practice Tasks for Part II (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
What Program.rtf: What Program Should I Use? - Digital photo tasks and how to do them.(2 pages - WordPad or MS Word).

Overview.rtf: Overview of Digital Imaging and Photography (WordPad or MS Word)
Tasks3.rtf: Paint Shop Pro Practice Tasks III (WordPad or MS Word)
Making slideshows.rtf: An overview of various ways to make sideshows of digital still images, both for viewing on the computer screen and on the television screen. (WordPad or MS Word)
MemoriesOnTV3: Using Memories On TV 3.0 to make Video Slide Shows of your Digital Pictures. Memories On TV is a commercial ($50) program that you can use to make professional-quality Ken Burns-type documentary video slide shows of digital pictures with background music and narration that can be played on a DVD player. The CD-ROM contains a fully-functional evaluation version of this software. There is also a handout for the older version 2. (2 pages - WordPad or MS Word)
Type of disks table.pdf: Types of 5" disk media, how to read them and how to make them. (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
CDs and DVDs.rtf: Comparison of CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, audio CD, and DVDs (WordPad or MS Word)
Ripping and burning WMP 10.rtf: Copying and burning audio CDs using Windows Media Player 10 (WordPad or MS Word document)
Layers.rtf: How to take people and things out of one picture and put them into another picture, using Paint Shop Pro (WordPad or MS Word).
ChangingBackgrounds.rtf: How to change the background of portraits and group photos, using Paint Shop Pro X (WordPad or MS Word).
AddressLabels.rtf: How to make photo address labels using Paint Shop Pro X (WordPad or MS Word).
Painting.rtf: Converting a Photo into a Painting in Paint Shop Pro (WordPad or MS Word).
Colorizing.rtf: Adding Color to Black and White Photos. (WordPad or MS Word).
It's All About Color: Color extraction and manipulation in Paint Shop Pro X: (WordPad or MS Word).
Automating Repetitive Actions in Paint Shop Pro X: (WordPad or MS Word).
Summary of Common Adobe Photoshop Elements Operations : (WordPad or MS Word). For Adobe Photoshop Elements only.

Pictures, software, and Interent Links

Software Installers folder: On the CD-ROM. Image editing software for Windows and Macintosh. See the ReadMe file in this folder for a list of software and instructions. The main software that we use in the course is Paint Shop Pro X.
Example pictures folder: On the CD-ROM. Pictures used in the demo portion of the workshop and for the Practice Tasks.
Links to related topics and activities: On the CD-ROM. Web shortcuts to topics and activities related to digital imaging, including: Art and Drawing lessons, Cameras and scanners, Color, Classroom activities, Symmetry, Reviews of Photo Editors, Web Photo Album sites, Creative and craft projects, and other topics.
Layer demo folder: Examples of the use of layering to produce composite photographs. See the handouts "How to take people and things out of one picture and put them into another picture in Paint Shop Pro X" and How to change the background of portraits and group photos, using Paint Shop Pro X.
Photos to Colorize: Collection of black-and-white photos (mostly portraits) to practice colorizing. See the handout Adding Color to Black and White Photos for detailed instructions.
Artistic effects folder: Examples of the use of the Brush Strokes effect combined with layering to produce painting-like artwork from photographs. See the handout Converting a Photo into a Painting in Paint Shop Pro X :
FreeClipArt folder:On the CD-ROM. Royalty-ree clip art downloaded from the Internet, in various file formats.

Where to download the latest versions of graphic software:

Paint Shop Pro software (Free evaluation versions, for Windows):

http://www.jasc.com/

Graphic Converter (shareware, for Macintosh):
http://www.lemkesoft.de/

Tutorials

Presentation slide show: Illustrated introduction to basic digital photographic terms and concepts.
Digital Image Literacy: Questions and Answers about Digital Imaging. (Approx. 6 pages)
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials folder: On the CD-ROM. Large collection of tutorials developed by the publishers and customers of Paint Shop Pro.

For Teachers

DigitalCameraUses.doc: A collection of ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom, collected from teachers. (WordPad or MS Word)
Large collection of student projects using scanned and photographed student-drawn artwork.
Fairland Elementary School, Montgomery County, Maryland (Mary O'Haver)
Introduction to IrfanView.doc: Introduction to IrfanView 3.85, a basic freeware picture viewer and editor that you can legally install on all the computers in your classroom or computer lab. (WordPad or MS Word document)
IrfanView Summary.doc: Summary of Common IrfanView 3.85 Operations (WordPad or MS Word)

Last revised April, 2006. This page is maintained by Prof. Tom O'Haver , Professor Emeritus, The University of Maryland at College Park. Comments, suggestions and questions should be directed to Prof. O'Haver at toh@umd.edu.