Working with photos online (1).
Workshop: Tuesday 26 April 2011 (3 to 4.30 pm).
At this workshop we will carry on from what we have been doing with online images recently (for example – designing Valentine cards online, photo-editing, storing images online). This time we will focus on using web-based photo editing sites to prepare digital photographs for typical Internet use, for example …
- Reducing to a good size for attaching to an email.
- Creating a profile photo for Facebook.
- Editing a photo to be placed on a blog or other website.
- Illustrating something you want to sell on eBay.
As you will see, they are all quite easy to do – you just need to know how to do it. By the end of the workshop you probably will have done at least one of those things!
We use online photo editing software because you can get to it wherever you are, whatever computer you are using. It’s true that you can get better results from free programs like Irfanview (installed on all our Agewell computers), but doing it online makes you more independent. Picnik is the most popular photo-editing site at the Agewell Computer Club, so we will use it again.
Look at the slideshow here. They all started out as full-size photos. They have been cropped, resized, and some have had subtle transformations to sharpen them up, brighten them, and improve them in other ways. You can do it too!
Also on the same day …
- Drop-in from 1.30 to 4.30 pm, as usual.
- First Click course for new beginners, 1.15 to 2.45 pm.
