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Want to know the best way to manage, edit and email digital photos? View this video guide and work with your digital photos with ease!

There are a lot of people out there who have a digital camera and once they put their digital photos on their computer they really don’t know how to manage, resize, or even send them over email.

I have had countless friends and family who send me digital photos in their high mega pixel glory, and that’s the ones who know how to compress them via a file archiver like Winzip, Winrar or7zip!

Others say they have tried to send me digital photos but it failed to send, they were unaware that their email provider has a limit on the size Of the files they can send per email.

In this video tutorial I will show you how to use two free programs to make managing our digital photos easy and effective.

The first program is FastStone Image Viewer which is created by FastStone Soft. In my opinion, it is the best free digital photo editor and viewer. Its low resource and has a wealth of tools for you to use to be a professional in managing your digital photos!

The second freeware program is 7-zip. It’s an open source file archiver, it’s a small powerful compression tool that can open a variety of formats such as ZIP and RAR.

Some things we will learn in this video guide:

  • We can do things like batch resize photos and also see how much the digital photos have been reduced in size!
  • We can even make our digital photos into wallpapers! How cool is that?! This is a thing most people have requested on how to do with their digital photos and now you’ll be able to do it in no time.
  • Also in this video I will show you the best way to organize your digital photos. I use a date – description format, so that when viewing the folders this way, alphabetized, I will always know when my digital photos were taken plus with the short description I will know instantly what kind of photos I took. Its just not productive to dump all your digital photos into a folder over time and just leave them there.
  • We also learn how to compress our images in a freeware archive program called “7-zip” so we can email our digital photos with ease. We will keep our archive file under 10 MB, since that’s the limit most free email providers provide.
  • Finally I will show a demonstration of emailing digital photos via Yahoo Email! One of the most popular email providers that most people use to send digital photos.

Ready To learn?!?! Lets GO!!!!!!! :D

Downloads Needed:

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Download, install, and run FastStone Image Viewer.
  2. Copy your digital photos from your digital camera to a folder or open a folder with existing digital photos on your computer for us to work with. We will now go to that folder using FastStone Image Viewer.
  3. Watch the video for how to maneuver through FastStone Image Viewer.
  4. We will download, install, and run 7-zip to compress our digital photos.

I will finally show an example of emailing photos by adding an attachment via Yahoo Email.

VIDEO TUTORIAL [Please View Fullscreen]

More information:

Words From FastStone Image Viewer Creator FastStone Soft:

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

System Requirements:
Works on Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003, and Microsoft Windows Vista.

You can find more information about FastStone
Image Viewer at http://www.faststone.org/

Words From 7-Zip Creator Igor Pavlov:
7Zip is an open-source file archiver, that offers a the highest compression ratio, using the new f 7z format, which delivers compression results that are usually 30-50% better than standard ZIP. We tested it with a server log file, which compressed with ZIP had a file size of 18 mb and using 7-Zip was reduced to 8 mb (results may vary, depending on file type). In addition, 7Zip also supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats, so it can be used with all popular archive files as well. The program offers a basic file explorer interface and also integrates into the Windows right-click menu. It can be associated with any of the supported formats and also offers command line support. Interface and additional features are fairly basic, but the compression ratio is outstanding.

System Requirements:
Works on Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003, and Microsoft
Windows Vista.

You can find more information about 7-Zip at http://www.7-zip.org/

What Is A Digital Camera?
A digital camera (or digicam for short) is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images on a light-sensitive sensor.

Compact cameras are designed to be small and portable; the smallest are described as subcompacts or “ultra-compacts”. Compact cameras are usually designed to be easy to use, sacrificing advanced features and picture quality for compactness and simplicity; images can usually only be stored using Lossy compression (JPEG). Most have a built-in flash usually of low power, sufficient for nearby subjects. Live preview is almost always used to frame the photo. They may have limited motion picture capability. Compacts often have macro capability, but if they have zoom capability the range is usually less than for bridge and DSLR cameras. They have a greater depth of field, allowing objects within a large range of distances from the camera to be in sharp focus. They are particularly suitable for casual and “snapshot” use.

Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photograph.

Mega Pixel And Resolution: The resolution of a digital camera is often limited by the camera sensor (typically a CCD or CMOS sensor chip) that turns light into discrete signals, replacing the job of film in traditional photography. The sensor is made up of millions of “buckets” that essentially count the number of photons that strike the sensor. This means that the brighter the image at that point the larger of a value that is read for that pixel. Depending on the physical structure of the sensor a color filter array may be used which requires a demosaicing/interpolation algorithm. The number of resulting pixels in the image determines its “pixel count”. For example, a 640×480 image would have 307,200 pixels, or approximately 307 kilopixels; a 3872×2592 image would have 10,036,224 pixels, or approximately 10 megapixels.

The pixel count alone is commonly presumed to indicate the resolution of a camera, but this is a misconception. There are several other factors that impact a sensor’s resolution. Some of these factors include sensor size, lens quality, and the organization of the pixels (for example, a monochrome camera without a Bayer filter mosaic has a higher resolution than a typical color camera). Many digital compact cameras are criticized for having excessive pixels, in that the sensors can be so small that the resolution of the sensor is greater than the lens could possibly deliver.

Types Of Digital Cameras?

Point-And-Shoot Models
Point-and-shoot cameras are the most inexpensive type of digital camera. These basic cameras can do anything that a simple film camera can do. Most will have 2 to 3.2MP resolution; a built-in flash; some sort of removable storage; and either a fixed focal length, nonzooming lens (in the ultracompact models) or a modest 3:1 to 5:1 zoom that provides a little magnification. Expect automatic exposure and no manual controls.

Intermediate Models
Intermediate digital cameras are the most widely used. As such, they have the best compromise of features to suit most consumer needs. Look for 3.2 to 5MP resolution; a 3:1 to 4:1 zoom lens; either CompactFlash or Secure Digital (SD) storage; and at least a few special options, such as different exposure modes, close-up focusing, or manual controls.

Advanced Consumer Models
If you’re willing to spend a few hundred dollars more than most point-and-shoot or intermediate models, you might be interested in digital cameras with some special features, extra resolution, or a longer zoom lens. These are 4 to 6MP models with 4:1 to 10:1 zooms (or better) and plenty of add-on accessories, such as wide-angle and telephoto attachments, filters, external flash units, and more. You can also find lots of optional exposure modes and customizable settings. Advanced consumer cameras usually require a session or two with the instruction manual to master all their capabilities, but they have few limitations.

Prosumer Models
Prosumer (falling between consumer and professional level) digital cameras are the models that photo buffs and even a few professional photographers favor. The avid photographer is willing to spend a few thousand dollars or more for these cameras in order to get the advanced features.

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