Looking at your digital photos
Digital photo frame
A lovely way to display your photos.
Mine is fiddly to set up.
You can upload photos from your computer onto a blank camera
memory card. I put the memory card into a card reader, and
then plug this into a USB port on my computer. I then add
a folder of photos onto the memory card by "drag & drop".
Windows Vista
Vista’s photo-gallery is brilliant & is a joy to use.
Click on “Views” on the top toolbar to see different views
(thumbnails, etc.). I find the view known as “List” very
helpful in picking out photos which I’ve renamed.
XnView
I think this is another brilliant way of looking at your photos.
You can download it free of charge from www.xnview.com
Select the English version when you do so.
Before downloading any program onto your computer, remember
to set up a RESTORE POINT, in case your computer were to crash
on program installation.
Start > Help and Support >> "Undo changes to your computer
with System Restore" It can take a while for your computer to
fully back itself up.
To start up the program, click on the XnView Desktop shortcut …
and then click on the filmstrip icon on the top toolbar
In the next window, you can browse & select your photos, set
the timer for a slide show, or view your photos one by one.
You’ll see the name for each photos in the top left hand corner,
(so you can jot down which photos to lob or keep), and you’ll
also see that there are no toolbars on each photo … you’ll get
a full screen view.
Flickr Photo-gallery
Go to www.flickr.com
This is a great way of displaying your photos and for sharing
them with your family and friends. The free version will allow
you to store up to 200 photos, whereas with the Pro version,
you can put on any number you like (you’ll pay about £12.50 a
year for this).
You can organise your photos into sets ~ for example you could
create a set of photos for a visit to Chatsworth. The free
version allows you to set up 3 sets, whereas you can have any
number of sets with the Pro version.
Worried about privacy?
You can set the privacy level you’d like.
You can comment on other people’s photos and allow others to
comment on yours, if you so wish.
You can join a Flickr group, eg the Nottingham one, and go on
photo-shoots with the members.
Signing up to Flickr is fairly easy. You will need to
create a Yahoo identity (if you haven’t already got a Yahoo
email address), a memorable password (eg hdhadagf77 … a
shortened version of humptydumptyhadagreatfall77), and a title
for your photo-gallery.
If you’re obliged to set an email address with Yahoo, you will need
to use it at least once every 1-2 months to keep it open. (When I
joined Flickr, this was optional).
Uploading photos is easy too.
Ideally use small sized photos (abt 700px across for landscape photos
and abt 100kb size).
Download a Flickr Uploader program, if you’re going to put on a large
batch of photos.
Here's a tip for you:
Put on photos in reverse order, if you wish to create a time sequence.
So if you’ve taken photos at a wedding, put on the wedding breakfast
photos first.
Later on, you can add titles & descriptions to your photos, change
the privacy levels, and delete any you don’t wish to keep.
Creating a new set …
Organise > Sets & collections > create new set.
Drag and drop photos from the photos below.
Go to “Account” … to change the title, to add a tiny photo of yourself,
to upgrade to a Pro account, or to enable/disable comments.
There is a useful Help section, and a slide show facility too, at the
top right hand corner.
Save your photo-stream webpage in your list of Favourites,
and copy and paste the website address (the URL) in an email to
yourself, and your family and friends. I’ll go over all this again,
in a later talk.
A few queries from our members:
Can I use Flickr if I own an AppleMac computer?
Well I think the answer is “yes”
If you have a look at the webpage for the Flickr Uploadr
http://www.flickr.com/tools/uploadr/
… you will see provision for AppleMac users.
“What is a Flickr Collection”?
If you check out the FAQ section on Flickr, you’ll see that
a collection is a set of sets.
This facility is available for those who pay for the upgrade
to Flickr Pro.
“I can’t find some of my photos".
Have a go with the following…
Do a search in Google for Picasa, and download this free
program onto your computer.
(Beforehand, remember to set up a Restore Point, just in
case your computer crashes on program installation).
After installation, Picasa will ask you if it’s OK to put
all your photos onto it. Picasa will then search your computer
for every photo on it, and will present them to you in a
structured way, folder by folder. So hopefully, you’ll be
able to see where your missing photos are. Later you can
uninstall Picasa if you so wish. (Start > Control Panel >
Add/remove programs > Picasa uninstall).
If anyone would like to see the Devonshire / Cavendish family
tree, here’s a link to it
http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/cavendish.htm
You will see that Georgiana (played by Keira Knightley in
The Duchess) was married to the fifth Duke of Devonshire,
and that the present duke is descended from her daughter.
I hope you'll have a lot of fun using Flickr.
PS ... For those of you who missed out on an earlier talk I
gave on how to move folders and photos around, you might like
to read my post for Thursday December 18th.
