Post on 19-Aug-2015
MANAGING & SHARING YOUR TRAVEL PHOTOS
Mary Fiore
Photographer and PainterFundamentals of Design Instructor
Fioreart.com
WanderplexWanderplex.com
Cruising and Photography Contributor
Basics of Taking Better Travel Photos
Composing Better Travel Photos
Getting the Most out of Your Camera
Capturing a Travel Destination
Managing & Sharing Your Travel Photos
Photo Editing: Where the Magic Happens
This version is intended as a follow up to the live presentation and does not include the
voice narration.
Workflow
Organizing, renaming and retrieving your photosPreserving your photos
Sharing via print, video and the web
Image resolution and pixels
File formats
Topics to be Discussed
1. Take photos
2. Upload to your computer into a folder
3. Erase your memory card
4. Sort by a system into folders on your computer
5. Rename
6. Back up
7. Share and enjoy the memories via print, digital or web
Suggested Workflow
Organizing with Folders
Transatlantic Hamburg to New Jersey 9/2014
Norway Oslo Kristiansand
Scotland S Shetland
Denmark Faroe Islands
Europe
Norway Oslo Kristiansand
Scotland S Shetland
Denmark Faroe Islands
Cruise Continent, country, city
Copenhagen
Bergen
A. After you have copied the folder with your photos from the camera to your hard drive.
B. View using large icons.
C. Rename individually or in a group.1. Left click on
the photos to be renamed
2. Right click on one of the selected photos
3. Choose (left click) rename
4. Type the new name
5. Click away from the photos or hit enter
D. Create Sub Folders.
1. Right click in the window where you want the new folder2. Choose new, then folder3. Type a name for the new folder4. Click away or hit enter
1. Select the photos to go into the new folder2. Drag them to the folder
Take a photo of the name of the location.
This helps in recalling the location of a group of photos.
I was able to recall the location because it was in the Wales Cornwall folder.
This photo identifies the building
Back ups:
External hard drive
Flash drive
CD/DVD
Cloud
Don’t backup whatever you are willing to loose.
Safe Storage
Access from a device anywhere
Share across devices
Limited free or more for a monthly fee
Automatic uploads from your camera or computer
Google Drive and Google + photos -15 GB
Microsoft’s OneDrive 7GB
Cloud Storage
Consider creating working tiff files for photos you may edit and save several times.
Formats: Jpeg compresses and flattens
Web format (72 dpi) Easily opened by others and in Windows
Tiff does not compress and preserves layers Easily opened by others and in Windows
PSD (native Photoshop file) does not compress Need an Adobe product and special program to see in
Windows
Edit and Backup
2048 x1536 700kb8 x10 200 dpi
575 x 720 8 x 10 92 dpi
Image Resolution
When cropping to a part of a photo, then enlarging it the resolution decreases.
Pixels
Pixilated
Dpi = dots per inch
92 dpi200 dpi
After a x4 size increase
Walmart & Drug Stores Shutterfly and Mixbook photo books
Print Sizes
Digital picture frames
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Computer screen slide show screen saver
Digital Displays
Windows Live Movie Maker A sample video created in this program will play next.
iMovie
Adobe’s Premiere $$
Premiere Elements $
Apple’s Final Cut Pro $$
Video
1. Take photos
2. Upload to your computer into a folder
3. Erase your memory card
4. Sort by a system into folders on your computer
5. Rename
6. Back up
7. Share and enjoy the memories via print, digital or web
Workflow
The Best 10 Cloud Storage http://www.thetop10bestonlinebackup.com/online-backup-tips-and-information/is-online-backup-really-free
About Google Drive Storage https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2736257?hl=en
http://instagram.com/
References
Six slide presentations without voice narration available at:
wanderplex.com/cruiselectures
Basics of Taking Better Travel Photos
Composing Better Travel Photos
Getting the Most out of Your Camera
Capturing a Travel Destination
Managing & Sharing Your Travel Photos
Photo Editing: Where the Magic Happens