Week 10 - Digital Photography1 Rainey Community ICT Classes ICT – The Basics

Week 10 - Digital Photography2 Please log onto your computer

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Week 10 - Digital Photography4 Lesson Objectives What is a digital camera? Connecting your camera to your computer Transferring images Viewing your images Editing your images Printing images

Week 10 - Digital Photography 5 What is a Digital Camera? A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs.

Week 10 - Digital Photography 6 How does the camera store pictures? A digital camera contains a memory card. When you take a picture on your camera it will be stored on the memory card. Memory cards are available in different sizes. The bigger the memory card, the more pictures you can store.

Week 10 - Digital Photography7 Exercise Everyone take a picture on your camera Find the picture on the camera

Connecting your camera To connect your camera to your computer you need a USB lead. Put the USB lead into the camera and then put the other end into the USB port on the computer Demonstration Week 10 - Digital Photography8

9 Exercise Everyone try connecting your camera to your computer

I have no USB lead! Many people loose their USB leads and think their camera becomes obsolete. This is not the case, we can then use a memory card reader to connect to the computer. You place the memory card from the camera into the reader and then plug this into the USB port on the computer. Demonstration Week 10 - Digital Photography10

Week 10 - Digital Photography11 Exercise Locate the memory card in your camera

Transferring the images To find your images on the computer select my computer Your camera will appear as a “Removable Storage Device” or the name of your camera. Double click on this and you will see all your pictures. Week 10 - Digital Photography12

Transferring the images Select the pictures you want to copy to your computer To make multiple selection hold down the shift key and click on each photograph Then go to the edit menu and select copy Go to the N drive and double click on “my pictures” folder. Go to the edit menu and select paste All your pictures will now appear in this folder. Demonstration Week 10 - Digital Photography13

Week 10 - Digital Photography14 Exercise Transfer the pictures from your camera to your computer

Viewing the images Locate your “My pictures” folder. Find your pictures Double click on one of the pictures Windows picture viewer will open. This is the default picture viewer on Windows computers. Scroll through the pictures Demonstration Week 10 - Digital Photography15

Week 10 - Digital Photography16 Exercise View the pictures you have just transferred to the computer

Editing your pictures Windows picture viewer will enable you to edit your pictures. A toolbar is available which consists of the following tools: Demonstration Week 10 - Digital Photography17

Week 10 - Digital Photography18 Exercise Try to edit some of your pictures

Printing your pictures Open the picture you wish to print Click on the print icon on the toolbar Follow the on screen instructions Demonstration Week 10 - Digital Photography19

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