Talk on Blogger
JH writes:
I gave a talk on how to use Blogger today, and briefly mentioned how to
use Open Office, & various ways of reducing the size of your photos
(for use in blogging, putting onto Flickr, or for emailing to people).
One of our members asked about red-eye reduction also, so I will briefly
mention this also.
Using Blogger
1. Below is a link to the sign-up webpage for Blogger
2. See the introductory video on the Blogger website …
3. Have a look at my blogsite “Simply Not 0007” (especially the post for
Sept. 2007) I've listed some of my favourite blogsites, just below
my photo.
http://tinyurl.com/62u3td9 (for Blogger)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY
http://simplynot0007.blogspot.com/
Open Office
I've written several posts on using Open Office, on our Computer Club
blogsite.
Here are links to my articles in Feb and Jan 2011.
http://nottu3a.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
http://nottu3a.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Reducing the size of a digital photo.
For Blogger, I think the optimal size of a photo is about 500 pixels across.
For Flickr, it's about 700 – 800 pixels across (for images in landscape format)
The overall size for use on a webpage should be around 100 kilobytes
or less.
I can recommend using Gimp, Photoshop and PIXresizer.
For Gimp, have a look at my web design website …
http://jwebdesigns.angelfire.com/
Gimp is quite easy to use, really ....
click on Image (on the top toolbar) > Scale image
When saving the reduced-sized image, I usually add the letters: “min”
after the image number. Keep a copy of your original image somewhere
else on your computer, or you might lose it. Never, never use someone
else's photo or logo without the copyright owner's permision or
payment to him / her. You could face legal costs of £3,000+ if you
were to publish another person's image.
For PIXresizer, again have a look at my web design website (the last page)
http://jwebdesigns.angelfire.com/flickr.htm
Red-eye reduction in a photo.
Have a look at the Picasa website & video (on how to use Picasa).
I've written a bit on Picasa on my web design website …
http://jwebdesigns.angelfire.com/flickr.htm
Here's a link to the Picasa website … http://picasa.google.com/
Click on the link to the introductory video (in the middle of the home
page). Picasa is wonderful to use for red-eye reduction.
