Importing Photos

Plug one end of your camera lead into the camera and the USB end into the USB port in
your computer

Switch your camera on and the Autoplay dialogue box will appear
Click on Import pictures

 The next dialogue box will locate the pictures

 In the next dialogue box you can name the folder for your photos

 If you click on the Options button you can change where your photos will
be saved to and if you would like them to be deleted once they are
downloaded

 Click OK and then Import once they are downloaded

the Windows Photo Gallery folder will open

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 Go to Start button and select Pictures

Where are your photos? Click on Organise

Click on Layout to
make changes to how the Picture folder is viewed
Make sure that the Navigation pane is showing

Click on the More Options button to

change how you view your pictures.

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 Play a Slidehow of photos by clicking on a folder of photos and then clicking on

ExtrasSlideshow
with Photos
. The slideshow will start to play. To stop the slideshow press Esc on the
keyboard.
Email a folder of photos

Click on a folder, click on Email , then this dialogue box will appear

choose whether you want to send them at Medium or

Smaller, Small, Large or Original size

Burn a folder of photos

Click on a folder, click on Burn , insert a disk , name your CD

, the CD will start formatting. Once it is finished eject the CD out

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Edit Photos using Microsoft Picture Manager

Go to – All Programs – Microsoft Office – Microsoft Office tools –

Microsoft Office Picture Manager
 Your screen should look something like this
 If you cannot see your photos click on the + next to Pictures ,
they will either appear or a message will appear asking to search your
computer for photos, click Yes or Ok to search
 Or you can ask to do a search by clicking on in the Task
Pane
 If you haven’t got all the toolbars or side
menus then go to View and make sure all WARNING: before resizing or
of these are selected compressing your photos Save
o Thumbnails another copy of that photo, Click
o Task Pane on a photo, press Ctrl C on the
o Shortcuts keyboard and then press Ctrl V.
o Show File Names (this will mean that you have 2
o Show Pictures only copies of the same photo.) Do this
 If your Task Pane at the left is because when you have compressed
not visible then click on the or resized your photo you will be
asked to save at some stage and all
Shortcuts button changes will be saved, which means
the original quality of your photo will
be lost.

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Edit Photos
 This is your ‘My Pictures Folder’, to see all of it click on the Plus sign
 Click on a Folder and all of the pictures inside of it will appear

 Rename a picture by clicking once on it and once again then type in a new name

 Double clicking a picture will bring it into full screen and you can use the Zoom button
to zoom in and out
 Clicking on the AutoCorrect button will automatically correct colour, brightness and
contrast of your photo
 Click on the Edit Pictures button to make changes to the photos

To change Brightness

Click on Brightness and Contrast

Select Auto brightness or move the controllers to adjust it
manually. To go back to other options click on
the arrow

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Edit Photos
To change Colour click on Color
Select Enhance Color or move the controllers to adjust it manually. To go back
to other options click on the arrow

To crop the photos

 Click on Crop .
 Click on the Black handles in the middle or corners and drag
to the centre of the photo.
 Click OK.
 If you have made a mistake click on the Undo arrow
in the Toolbar.
 To go back to other options click on the arrow

To Rotate a picture
Click on Rotate.
Choose the option you want.

To go back to other options click on the arrow

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Edit Photos
To fix redeye

 Click on the Redeye removal button.

 Place your mouse over the eye and click, continue to click
on all the red eyes in the photo.
 Click OK when you have finished.
 To go back to other options click on the arrow.

To resize the photo

I recommend
 Click on Resize. To compress the photo Documents
Click on Compress
 Click in the
Pictures.
Predefined width x
height. Choose what you want to
 Select from those compress for (the email
choices or click on option is very tiny).
Percentage of original
width…, type in a See the difference in size
percentage like 50, under heading Estimated
click OK. total size, Click OK. To
 To go back to other go back to other options
options click on click on the
the arrow. arrow.

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More on Photos
 Go back to the beginning options by clicking on
the Home button .
 Rename pictures in this option by clicking on
Rename pictures .
 Click on the picture to be renamed and type in the
name of the picture and press OK.
 To go back to other options click on the
arrow .

Email pictures Find out the size

of your photo by
 In this option click on Email pictures. clicking on it and
 Click on Attached to the message, or Displayed as looking down at
previews. the bottom left of
 Choose a preview size and click on Create the information
Message. Outlook will open and you can type in bar
email address and message and press OK

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More on Photos
Quick Photo presentation

To go back to the Home menu click on

 Send a whole group of photos to PowerPoint or Word.
 Click on one photo or hold down the Ctrl key and click on multiple photos,
click on Send Pictures to Microsoft office
 Select PowerPoint and Send and they will all appear in a PowerPoint
presentation.

View Pictures
in different ways by
Send photos to another
clicking on the three
location on your hardrive,
choices available to
you Thumbnail
Filmstrip
Select photos, click on
Browse and select folder
you would like to send them Thumbnail view
to, change name and file
type if you wish and finally Filmstrip view
decided what size you want
Single picture.
to export them. Click OK.
Single Picture

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