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Complete Digital

Photo Projects

After you have taken a few good photos andedited them, you are ready to use yourphotos in digital photo projects. Two gooddigital photo projects to start with areorganizing your digital photo collection withan image manager and archiving your valuabledigital photo collection to external drives oroffline storage media. After you haveorganized and archived your digital photocollection, you are ready to complete moredigital photo projects.

One of the most exciting aspects of digitalphotography is that you can easily share andenjoy your digital photos in so many ways. Youcan attach one or more photos to e-mail,create slideshows to show on your computerscreen or even on a TV screen, publish online

photo galleries, create digital photo albums,make collages, and more.

Many digital photo projects require softwarebeyond what you use to edit photos. Withincreased interest in digital photography, themarketplace offers an incredible number ofproducts from which to choose. Often you canchoose one software product that enables youto complete most or all of your projects. Someof the more feature-rich and easy-to-useproducts include Adobe Photoshop Elements(www.adobe.com), Apple iPhoto (www.apple.com), Corel Paint Shop Pro (www.corel.com),Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator (www.roxio.com), Roxio PhotoSuite Platinum Edition(www.roxio.com), and Ulead PhotoImpact(www.ulead.com).

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Organize Your Digital Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Share Digital Photos with AOL Instant Messenger . . . . 188

Archive Your Digital Photo Collection to a DVD . . . . . . 190

Create a PDF Slideshow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Create a Digital Photo Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Create a Web Photo Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Create a Video Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Create a Photo Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Create a Photo Greeting Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Create a Photomontage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

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VIEW IMAGES AND IMAGE INFORMATION

1 Click a folder to view the imagesthat it contains.

l The Preview and Info tabsdisplay details about the selectedimage or images.

l Thumbnail images display user-selected information below.

ORGANIZE your digital photos

After you have stored a few hundred of your digitalphotos on your computer, you will need an effectiveway to organize and manage your growing digitalphoto collection. Software products that enable youto easily manage large digital photo collections arecalled image managers, and there are a number ofgood ones available. One of the more powerful andeasy-to-use image managers is Cerious Software’sThumbsPlus, which you can download fromwww.cerious.com.

After you pick one or more folders or a drive tomanage, ThumbsPlus automatically creates thumbnail

images for every digital photo file in the selectedfolders or drives. In addition to viewing the imagesquickly by looking at the thumbnails, you can alsoview a variety of textual information, such as theEXIF data that image files may contain. To learnmore about working with EXIF data, see Task #46.

ThumbsPlus not only keeps a database of thefilenames and thumbnail images, but also acts asa repository for a variety of other useful textualinformation. You can add keywords to photos, savelocation information, add annotations, copyrightinformation, and much more.

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The user-selected informationshows camera settings such as f-stop, shutter speed, ISO, andfocal length.

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VIEW EXIF DATA

1 Right-click a thumbnailimage and clickProperties on the menuthat appears.

The Properties dialogbox appears.

2 Click the Info tab.

3 Click EXIF.

The EXIF data appears.

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Did You Know?ThumbsPlus offers many features for viewingdigital photos. Besides being able to scale thethumbnails and view more or fewer of them at atime, you can also choose a list or report view,which you can customize to show just the textualinformation that you want. You can also openmore than one copy of ThumbsPlus at a time.This enables you to drag and drop photos fromone folder to another while viewing the contentsof more than one folder.

Did You Know?When you want to carefully compare twoor more digital photos side by side, youcan click File ➪ View Synched. The synchview enables you to scroll right or left inone image and simultaneously scroll inthe other images.

ANNOTATE AN IMAGE

1 Right-click a thumbnail image and clickProperties on the menu that appears.

The Properties dialog box appears.

2 Click the Database tab.

3 Type your comments.

4 Click OK.

Your annotation is saved with the image’sinformation.

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SEARCH FOR FILES BY NAME

1 Click Edit.

2 Click Find by Query.

The Find Files dialog boxappears.

3 Type a filename or a filenamemask.

4 Click OK.

ThumbsPlus searches formatching files and displays thethumbnails of the files that itfinds.


Many software vendors who initially created imagemanagers have realized the value of adding featuresthat not only increase your ability to organize andmanage your digital photo collection, but also takeadvantage of a considerable number of projectfeatures such as slideshows, Web galleries, contactsheets, printed image catalogs, and much more. Afew of the more feature-rich and easy-to-use imagemanagers with useful project features are thefollowing:

ACDSee (www.acdsystems.com)

Adobe Photoshop Elements (www.adobe.com)

Apple iPhoto (www.apple.com)

Cerious Software ThumbsPlus (www.cerious.com)

Corel Paint Shop Pro (www.corel.com)

Ulead PhotoImpact (www.ulead.com)

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ASSIGN A KEYWORD FOR SEARCH QUERIES

1 Click Thumbnail.

2 Click Assign Keywords.

3 Click the keyword that you wantto assign to the image to use forqueries.

l Alternatively, you can click Otherand add other keyword choices.

The keywords are written to theThumbsPlus database.

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FIND AN IMAGE CONTAINING

KEYWORDS

1 Click Edit.


The Find Files dialogbox appears.

3 Click the Keyword tab.

4 Type keywords,separated by commas.

5 Click OK.

A window displaysall images with theselected keywords.

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Did You Know?One of the most useful features foundin ThumbsPlus is the Edit ➪ FindSimilar Images command. You can usethe Find Similar Image dialog box tofind images that look similar based ona number of metrics, including colorand image shape.

Did You Know?You can automatically rename a batch ofyour digital photo files using ThumbsPlus’sAuto Rename command. You can choosea prefix and a suffix as well as addincrementing numbers. This useful featureenables you to add more meaning to yourfilenames. You can also set the filename tobe automatically used as a keyword, whichenables you to perform keyword queriesusing just parts of the filename.

FIND A SIMILAR-LOOKING IMAGE

1 After clicking on an image to select it,click Edit.


The Find Files dialog box appears.

3 Click the Image Similarity tab.

4 Specify similarity settings here.

5 Click OK.

ThumbsPlus displays a folder with imagessimilar to the one that was initiallyselected.


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VIEW FILES IN OFFLINE STORAGE

l After creating thumbnails forremovable media such as aCD-ROM, ThumbsPlus savesthe thumbnails and associatedinformation in an offlineCD-ROMs folder.

l You can view thumbnails foroffline media without insertingthe media in a drive.


One of the greatest challenges in organizing yourdigital photos is to manage images that are storedon multiple drives, on networks, and on removablemedia, all from the same image manager — andto have all the images accessible at the same time.Using ThumbsPlus, you can manage images onmultiple drives on one PC or one or more driveson some networks.

You can also create thumbnail images and buildThumbsPlus database information on digital photosstored on removable media and external drives.

When you remove an external drive, the thumbnailsand database information remain inside the OfflineDisks folder. Likewise, you can create thumbnailimages and database information for digital photoson a CD-ROM. When the CD-ROM is not in thedrive, you can view the thumbnails and databaseinformation in the Offline CD-ROMs folder.

As the storage requirements for digital photographersgrow, these features become more useful formanaging, organizing, and archiving digital photoson a variety of drives and media.

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CREATE A WEB PAGE

OF SELECTED IMAGES

1 Click Image.

2 Click Web PageWizard.

An easy-to-usewizard appears,which enables youto customize a Webpage to suit yourneeds.

3 Follow the steps ofthe wizard to createyour Web page.

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Did You Know?ThumbsPlus’s Gallery feature enables you to save disk space while beingable to view thumbnails of the same digital photo in multiple folders. Forexample, you can save all the digital photos from a trip to Europe in asingle folder. You can then create separate gallery folders for landscapes,cities, seascapes, and castles. By right-clicking a group of landscape photosin the Europe folder, you can add them to the landscape gallery. You cando the same for all the city, seascape, and castle photos in the Europefolder. This lets you open a single folder and view all the thumbnails fora single subject, no matter what folder contains the original digital photofile — all while having only a single copy of the file.

CREATE A CONTACT SHEET

1 Click Image.

2 Click Contact Sheets.

An easy-to-use wizard appears, whichenables you to customize the contactsheet’s size and layout to suit your needs.

3 Follow the steps of the wizard to createyour contact sheet.


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1 Sign in and initiate a chat with abuddy.

Share digital photos with

AOL INSTANT MESSENGERInstant messengers (IMs) are software applicationsthat enable you to exchange text messages in realtime with other people on the Internet who havecompatible IM software. As soon as you type amessage and click the Send button, the messagedisplays on the screen of those with whom you arechatting. They can then type messages and sendreplies back to you. IMs allow a much moreinteractive way to communicate than the slowere-mail. You can also create a chat room where youcan invite multiple people to join in the chat.

Besides messaging capability, many of the morepopular IMs have features that enable you to send afile, which means that you can easily send digitalphoto files. Sharing your digital photos while chattingabout them is a wonderful way not only to shareyour photos with others, but also for you to getfeedback.

Although AOL’s Instant Messenger is one of themore popular IMs, you can use other versions likeICQ (www.icq.com) and MSN Messenger (www.microsoft.com).

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2 Click File.

3 Click Send File.

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The Send File dialogbox appears.

4 Click File to launch thefile browser, in whichyou select the digitalphoto file.

5 Type in any messagethat you want to sendwith the digital photo.

6 Click Send.

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Did You Know?AOL Instant Messenger is availablefor those that have paid for and havesubscribed to the AOL service. Plus,AOL offers a free version that isavailable to non-AOL subscribers. Youcan download the free version fromthe AOL Web site (www.aim.com). Afterdownloading the software, you caninstall it, register a screen name, andbe chatting within a few minutes.

Caution!You should be careful whom youaccept digital photos from whilechatting; you may accept and view afile that you would rather not haveseen. The Preferences dialog box offersoptions to prevent others from sendingyou digital photos unless you acceptthem.

l The AOL Instant Message text windowshows that the digital photo was sent.


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1 Click the drive and foldercontaining the files that youwant to archive.

ARCHIVE your digital photo collection to a DVD

Occasionally, a hard drive fails. The older yourhard drive is, the more likely it is to fail. To avoidlosing all or part of your digital photo collection,you should keep your photos well organized withan image manager and have a procedure in placefor periodically archiving, or copying, them toanother hard drive or to removable media suchas a CD or DVD.

One of the easiest and safest ways to archive yourdigital photos is to burn, or write, them to a DVD.To do that you need a DVD burner — a DVD

drive that both reads and writes DVD discs — andyou will need software to manage the process.One excellent software product for archiving digitalphotos to a DVD is Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator.It is a feature-rich product that enables you toeasily archive just a few files or many files thatrequire multiple DVD discs. It also comes withsoftware for printing disc labels and jewel andDVD case inserts.

Turn to Task #91 to organize your photos with animage manager.

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2 Click the Data tab to select therecord mode.

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3 Click the DefaultRecorder button andselect the DVD drive.

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Did You Know?A DVD holds 4.7GB of digital photos orslightly more than seven CDs. Using a 3-megapixel camera to shoot in the RAWformat, you can archive around 1,500 digitalphotos or the equivalent of about 40 rollsof 36-exposure film on a single DVD.

Caution!Because it is not certain how long a DVDdisc will safely store your digital photos andbecause a single scratch can prevent youfrom retrieving your photos, you should takeall precautions to protect your archives. It iswise to purchase two different brands ofquality DVDs and make two copies whenyou archive your photos — using one of eachbrand. This procedure may help prevent youfrom losing photos on defective media.

4 Drag one or more folders or files from theSource window to the Project window.


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l The Disc Info bar shows howmany discs are needed andthe available space.

Note: Large digital photocollections may need to bearchived to more than one disc.

l You can click a folder or fileand then click the Remove fromProject button to remove thatfolder or file from the listof items to be copied.

ARCHIVE your digital photo collection to a DVD

When choosing a DVD burner and DVD discs, youmust be careful to choose the right format. What isthe right format? Unfortunately, drive and mediamanufacturers are engaged in a standards war, sothere are multiple competing formats in themarketplace. Some of the more common formatsinclude DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW;then there are also DVD-Video and DVD-RAM.

When choosing a format to archive your digitalphotographs, you may want to make sure that youchoose a drive that allows you to write digital video

slideshows to view on your computer or TV screen.Several manufacturers are making the choice easierby offering DVD burners that can write in multipleformats. To learn about creating a slideshow to viewon a DVD player, see Task #97.

Even though there are competing DVD formats, thereis not a good reason not to buy a DVD burner forarchiving your digital photographs. DVD burners arecurrently one of the best ways to archive your digitalphotos for safekeeping.

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The Record Setupdialog box appears.

6 Click here andselect a write speed.

7 Click here to set thenumber of copies.

8 Make sure thatyou have a DVD-Rin your DVD-ROMdrive.

9 Click OK to beginrecording.

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Caution!Some early DVD drives and DVD-burningsoftware may write to discs in a formatthat cannot be read by some of the morecurrent DVD drives. Be careful to use aDVD drive and software that will enableyou to read your discs in new DVD drivesand on computers with current operatingsystems.

Did You Know?DVD drives require firmware and a driver.If you are having problems with yourDVD drive, you should check the vendor’sWeb site for new drivers or firmware.Vendors usually provide easy-to-followinstructions for downloading andinstalling both the drivers and firmware.When downloading the drivers, makesure to select the correct one for youroperating system.

The Burn Disc Progress dialog box showsthe percentage of completion and theestimated time to complete recording.


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CREATE A SLIDESHOW

1 In Elements Organizer, clickCreate.

The Creation Setup dialog boxappears.

2 Click Slide Show.

3 Click OK.

Create a

PDF SLIDESHOWOne of the more fun ways to share photos is tocreate and view them in a slideshow on a computerscreen. You can use many applications to createslideshows. Adobe Photoshop Elements enables youto quickly and easily create a PDF slideshow. A PDF

(portable document format) is a special file that canbe read only using Adobe Acrobat or the free AdobeAcrobat Reader. You can view PDF files on just aboutall computers, including PCs and Macintoshes. So,you can create a slideshow using a PC or Mac and

share it with anyone, no matter what computer he orshe is using.

After you have created a PDF slideshow, all thephotos and the settings that you selected forplayback are contained in a single file. One of thesignificant advantages of sharing your digital photosin PDF format is that there are a number of usefulfeatures built into Acrobat Reader that allow theimages to be exported, edited, printed, and so on.

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The Select a Slide Show Formatpage appears.

4 Click Simple Slide Show.

5 Click OK.

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The Simple Slide Showdialog box appears.

6 Click Add Photos.

The Add Photos dialogbox appears.

7 Click to select thesource of the photos.

8 Click Select All to selectall the photos.

9 Click Done.

You are returned to theSimple Slide Showdialog box.

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Did You Know?An Acrobat-based slideshow is easy to create andeasy to share because there is only a single fileinstead of one file for each photo plus additionalfiles for a slideshow program and slideshowsettings.

0 Click here and select the transition styleto determine how a slide replaces thepreceding slide.

! Click here and select the slide duration time.

@ Click here and select the photo size.

# Click Save to choose a folder and filenameto use to save the slideshow.

The slideshow is generated and displayed inAdobe Acrobat.

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1 Click Folder ➪ Open Folder.

The Open Folder dialog boxappears.

2 Select a folder of photos to bemade into a digital photoalbum.

3 Click OK.

FlipAlbum automatically createsa flip album based on thedefault settings.

l You can add cover title text withthe Annotations tool.

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DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUMYou can create the digital equivalent of a photoalbum with realistic flipping pages with one of E-BookSystems’s FlipAlbum products, available atwww.flipalbum.com. You can choose from multipleversions of FlipAlbum. FlipAlbum Standardautomatically organizes your photos into realisticpage-flipping albums that you can view on a PC andshare on the Internet. FlipAlbum Suite has extrafeatures that enable you to share your albums onCDs or to play them on some DVD players. FlipAlbumPro offers all the features of the other two products

plus a few more features, including a CD passwordoption, image encryption, watermark capabilities, anda print lock feature to control how images areprinted. Mac FlipAlbum is for a Macintosh.

When you create an album, FlipAlbum automaticallycreates a front and back cover, thumbnail imagepages to be used as a table of contents, and anindex. Images can be ordered based on thefilenames, or you can click and drag the thumbnailimages to order them as you want them.

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l To change the viewing order ofthe images, you can click anddrag and drop the thumbnails.

4 To view a full-size image on analbum page, click its thumbnail.

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To add a tab, youcan right-click theselected page, clickBookmarks ➪ Add,and then type in thetab text and choosea color.

5 To turn a page, click inthe upper corner of thepage to view a flippingpage effect.

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Did You Know?You can further customize a FlipAlbum byselecting a different cover style or by choosingyour own cover color, cover image, texture, andbinding. You can also choose the color andtexture of the pages, the margins, and how thepages “flip.” You can add background musicand set the entire album to flip automatically.You can add text to each page in the fontstyle and color of your choice, and you caneven add a link to a specified Web page.

Apply It!You can upload your FlipAlbums to E-BookSystems’s Web site specifically for sharingFlipAlbums at www.fliplibrary.com.

6 To view the index, go to the back of thealbum.

FlipAlbum automatically creates a clickableindex at the end of each album when afolder is opened.


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CREATE A WEB GALLERY

1 In Photoshop ElementsOrganizer, click Create.


2 Click Web Photo Gallery.

3 Click OK.

Create a

WEB PHOTO GALLERYIf you want to make your photos available to anyonein the world who has a computer and a connectionto the Internet, you can create an online photogallery. To create an online photo gallery, youtypically need digital photos sized and optimized foruse on the Internet, thumbnail photos sized andoptimized for use on the Internet, and HTML-basedpages (Web pages) with links to the digital photosand thumbnails. Creating all of this without a toolsuch as Adobe Photoshop Elements is a tedious andtime-consuming process.

Using the Adobe Photoshop Elements Web PhotoGallery feature, you can have your online gallery upand running in just a few minutes. Before you run theWeb Photo Gallery feature, you should first prepareyour digital photos and create a folder in whichto put all the images. You should then select theseimages in Elements Organizer. Although you can usethe Web Photo Gallery feature to automatically sizeand compress each digital photo, you may get betterresults sizing and compressing each digital photowith the Save for Web command (see Task #71).

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The Adobe Web Photo Gallerydialog box appears.

4 Click Add.

The Add Photos dialog boxappears.

5 Click Photos Currently inBrowser.

6 Click Select All.

7 Click Done.

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8 Click the Banner tabif it is not active.

9 Type in any bannertext that you wantto use.

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Did You Know?The Adobe Photoshop ElementsWeb Photo Gallery feature canautomatically place a caption undereach photo on each Web page.Use the File ➪ File Info commandin Photoshop Elements Editor to adda caption in the Caption box foreach digital photo file.

@ Click the Thumbnails tab to selectthumbnails.

# Click here and select a thumbnail size.

$ Click here and select the font.

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^ Click the Large Photos tab.

& If you want your digital photosresized, click to check the ResizePhotos box and enter the sizeand quality.

* Click to check the Filename boxif you want to display thefilename.

l You can also add a caption andthe date.

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WEB PHOTO GALLERYMany photographers worry about having theirdigital photos stolen from online photo galleries andused without payment or permission. Although this isa reasonable concern because it does happen, smalldigital photo files are not all that useful for mostcommercial purposes. If you keep all your postedimages small, with the maximum size of less than400 pixels, you are not likely to suffer any great loss.

You can take steps to prevent an image from being

copied, or you can add a copyright or watermark toonline images so that they can be tracked andidentified. However, the effort that it takes to addthis extra protection is generally not worth it becausethere are ways around each different approach. Ifyou have good reasons for not wanting your digitalphotos copied, you should not post them to a Webpage on the Internet.

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Elements begins the automaticgeneration of the Web pages,thumbnails, and any imageresizing that is required.

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Your Web galleryappears likethis when usingMicrosoft InternetExplorer.

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Did You Know?GlobalSCAPE’s CuteFTP (www.globalscape.com)is one of the most popular file-transfer softwaretools used for uploading Web pages and imagesto an Internet sever. You can download a trialversion from the vendor’s Web page.

Did You Know?You can change the graphics and the layout of anyof the more than 30 preset Web page styles thatare supplied with Adobe Photoshop Elements.You can find a separate folder in the \PhotoshopElements 4.0\shared_assets\webcontactssheetfolder for each of the styles. To modify a style,first copy the contents of the folder containingthe style that you want to a new folder witha different name. Then edit or replace the imagesor modify the HTML code with an HTML editor.

TRANSFER THE FILES

To upload the folders, images, and HTMLpages to the Internet, you need to use filetransfer software such as WS_FTP Pro orCuteFTP.

1 Click the folder to upload.

2 Click the destination folder on yourWeb site.

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1 In Photoshop ElementsOrganizer, select all the imagesthat you want to use.

2 Click Create.

Create a

VIDEO SLIDESHOWPeople create slideshows for many reasons. Maybeyou have just returned from an overseas trip withlots of great photos, and you want to share themwith friends and family. Or maybe you have dozensof flower or antique car photos that you would like toshare. You may even want to create a slideshowfeaturing your children or your parents over theyears. Whatever the reason, there are many ways toboth create and present slideshows.

One of the most useful software products to use tocreate slideshows on CDs and DVDs is Adobe

Photoshop Elements. Using the Photoshop ElementsSlide Show Editor, you can create slideshows thatyou can view on a computer screen or on a TV that isconnected to a DVD player if you have used anappropriate disc format.

An advantage of using a DVD player and a TV forviewing your slideshows is that you can control eachslide with the DVD player control, which enables youto go forward or backward, or go to a main menu toselect another slideshow.

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The Select a SlideShow Format pageappears.

5 Click Custom SlideShow.

6 Click OK.

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Did You Know?Video CDs (VCDs) are CD-recordable discs containing audio, video, and still images encoded in thehighly compressed MPEG (moving pictures experts group) format. The VCD format offers lower-qualityimages than either the SVCD or DVD formats. Image resolution of full-motion video typically falls belowstandard VHS videotape, but still images display clearly.

Super video CDs (SVCDs) offer better image and sound quality than VCDs, but are not as good asDVDs. However, SVCDs are a good choice for photographers because they represent an acceptablecompromise between inexpensive media and high-resolution images.

A DVD is a DVD-recordable disc that can be played in most standalone DVD players and computer DVD-ROM drives. The DVD format holds the most content and has the highest image quality.

The Slide Show Preferences dialog boxappears.

7 Click here and select how long eachimage will be displayed.

8 Click here and select a slide transitioneffect.

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The Slide Show Editor appearswith the photos that wereloaded from Organizer.

0 Click in the Extras palette to addeffects, clip art, text, or voicenarration.

! Click here to change the timethat the slide is displayed.

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VIDEO SLIDESHOWJust because CD burners, DVD burners, and set-topDVD players are an evolving technology, there isno reason why you should not enjoy the benefitsof this new technology now. Carefully checkdocumentation and consult knowledgeable salesstaff when purchasing new hardware and media andread the documentation that came with productsyou already have.

Each of the many types of discs and file formats hasadvantages and disadvantages. If you have only aCD burner, it is possible that you can use it to create

a VCD or SVCD featuring a photo slideshow that canbe viewed on a computer with a CD-ROM reader oron a newer DVD player.

To output a DVD slideshow, you must have a DVDburner and DVD-recordable discs (DVD-R/RWs orDVD+R/RWs). For a VCD or SVCD slideshow, you willneed a CD burner and CD-R/RWs. Picking the rightdisc for the CD or DVD reader or set-top DVD playeris as easy as reading the manuals or checking withthe vendor.

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# Click one of the handles to dragthe start box to where you wantthe pan or zoom to begin.

$ Click here to set the end box.

% Click Preview to preview theresulting effect.

^ Click Output Slide Show to viewall the output options.

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The Slide ShowOutput dialog boxappears.

& Click Burn to Disc.

* Click DVD to createa DVD slideshow.

( Click OK tobegin the processof writing theslideshow to thedisc.

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Caution!Older set-top DVD players may notbe able to play either the VCD or SVCDdiscs. Some of the newer model set-topDVD players may have problemsplaying a CD-R disc, but will play a CD-RW disc.

Did You Know?When you create a video slideshowusing Adobe Photoshop Elements SlideShow Editor, you can add digital videoclips, music, and multiple slideshows.You can also create your own titlescreen with selectable menu optionssimilar to those generally found incommercially produced DVD movies;this enables you to have more thanone slideshow on a DVD.

The Burn dialog box appears.

) Click OK.

l The burn-to-DVD process begins, and astatus bar indicates the percentage thatis completed.

After the disc has been burned, it willeject and be ready to be played in aDVD player.


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1 In Photoshop ElementsOrganizer, select 13 photos thatyou want to use.

Note: You need 13 photos if youwant to have an image on thecover.

2 Click Create.

Create a

PHOTO CALENDAREveryone needs at least one calendar. Using AdobePhotoshop Elements, you can easily create calendarsthat display your photographs while providing 12months’ worth of calendar pages for keeping track ofevents. Creating a calendar is as easy as followingthe steps in the Create a Wall Calendar Wizard. Youhave a choice of several different styles, includingstyles for both horizontal and vertical pages, and youcan display up to 13 photos, including one photo forthe cover and one for each month. If you choose to

add captions below each photo, you can do so byadding the captions that you want to the image file.

After you have created your photo calendar, you canprint it out on your own desktop photo printer, or youcan use an online printing service.

Photo calendars make excellent gifts. The next timethat you need to give a gift, consider making a photocalendar customized for the recipient using yourphotographs.

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3 Click Wall Calendar.

4 Click OK.

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The Create a WallCalendar Wizardappears.

5 Click to select a style.

6 Click to check theboxes to include a titlepage or captions.

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Did You Know?You can have photo captions printed beloweach photo. Place a check mark in the Captionsbox in the Creation Set-up step of the Create aWall Calendar Wizard and then enter captionsin the digital photo files. To enter captions intothe digital photo files using Photoshop ElementsEditor, click File ➪ File Info to open the File Infodialog box. Then type the caption in the Captionbox and save the file.

Did You Know?You can use other software products to createa photo calendar, including Microsoft Word.You can download several Microsoft Wordstyle sheets from the Microsoft Web site atofficeupdate.Microsoft.com/templategallery.You can also download the Snapfish PhotoWizard at www.snapfish.com/photowizardand use the wizard to order prints online fromSnapfish. Shutterfly (www.shutterfly.com) alsooffers a service for printing photo calendars.

The Step 2: Arrange Your Photos pageappears.

9 Click and drag the photos to place themin the order that you want.

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The Step 3: Customize pageappears.

! Click Add Text to add text.

@ Click here to change pages.

# Click Next Step.

Create a

PHOTO CALENDARAdobe Photoshop Elements enables you to create awide variety of photo-based print projects. Inaddition to creating calendars, you can makegreeting cards, photo albums, and much more with asimple click of a button. Adobe Photoshop Elementsalso enables you to retouch, crop, and resize photos.This relatively low-priced software even providestools for sharing your favorite photos with friendsand loved ones online, including built-in templates forcreating a Web photo gallery.

You do not have to use Adobe Photoshop Elements tocreate your own photo calendars. Most imagingsoftware vendors sell similar software, includingUlead Photo Explorer, Broderbund Calendar Creator,and Microsoft Picture It!. The market offers programsthat are as basic or as sophisticated as yourparticular needs. So now that you have taken,enhanced, and archived wonderful digital photos, youcan invest in a calendar application and share themin a way that is not only fun but very practical.

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$ Type a name for your wallcalendar.

% Click Save to save the project.

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The Step 5: Sharepage appears.

^ Click Print.

The Print dialogbox appears.

l You can clickPreferences tochoose anyadditional settingsthat are appropriatefor your printer.

& Click Print.

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Did You Know?You can create a PDF file instead of printing the calendar to your owndesktop printer. In the Step 5: Share part of the Create a Wall CalendarWizard, click Create a PDF. Then you can select settings to optimize thefile for viewing onscreen, for printing, or for full resolution. This is a nicefeature if you want to create a calendar, add events to it using AdobeAcrobat, and share it with others. If you use the Optimize for Printingsetting, you can add dates and then provide the file on a CD to othersso that they can print out their own calendar using high-resolutionimages. Or you can create a 2.5MB file that is optimized for viewingonscreen and can be downloaded from a Web page.

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1 Select an image that you wantto use using PhotoshopElements Organizer.

2 Click Create.


3 Click Card.

4 Click OK.

The Create a Card Wizardappears.

5 Click a style to use.

6 Click Next Step.

Create a

PHOTO GREETING CARDThe next time that you need a greeting card, you canmake your own personalized card especially for therecipient using one or more of your photos. As youwork through each step of the Create a Card Wizard,your steps are automatically saved in a file so thatyou can quickly make another copy or modify anexisting card to create a new one.

One of the strengths of Adobe Photoshop Elementsis that the product is designed so that you candownload new templates or styles for many of the

creation types when they become available. You canalso use various online services such as MyPublisherprint services and Shutterfly. After you have signedup for one of these services, you can use them asquickly as you can complete your digital photoprojects. To see if new services are available, clickEdit ➪ Preferences ➪ Services and then click UpdatedCreations. If new services are available, they will beintegrated into Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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The Step 2: Arrange Your Photospage appears.

7 Click Next Step.

The Step 3: Customize pageappears.

8 Double-click on the text to openthe Title dialog box.

9 Type your greeting.

0 Click Done.

! Click Next Step.

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The Step 4: Save pageappears.

@ Type the card name.

# Click Save.

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Did You Know?The Adobe Photoshop ElementsCreate a Card Wizard makes it easyfor you to print greeting cards withyour own desktop printer. You can alsopublish a card as a PDF file or as anattachment for e-mail; plus, you cansave the card to a CD or order thecard to be printed professionally froman online service vendor.

Did You Know?Many stationery vendors makegreeting card paper and matchingenvelopes especially for use withinkjet printers. You can find tinted,glossy, embossed, mat, and manyother varieties in a pre-scored formatfor easy and accurate folding. Checkyour local office supply store or orderonline from www.staples.com orwww.officedepot.com.

The Step 5: Share page appears.

$ Click Print.

The Print dialog box appears.

l You can click Preferences to choose anyadditional settings that are appropriatefor your printer.

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CREATE A PHOTOMONTAGE

1 Click File ➪ New.

The New dialog box appears.

2 Type in the width, in inches,that you want for the finishedphotomontage.

3 Type in the height, in inches,that you want for the finishedphotomontage.

4 Specify the target printer’soptimal resolution.

5 Click OK to create a newdocument.

Create a

PHOTOMONTAGEA popular thing to do with printed photographs isto cut them up and creatively place and glue themon a single board, making a photo collage. Thecollage technique is good for assembling a group ofphotos taken on a vacation, a family get-together,or a sporting event. However, the process of creatinga collage in this manner takes some skill and lotsof time.

In sharp contrast, making a photomontage withAdobe Photoshop Elements is both easy and fun.Not only are all the photos printed on a single page,

which is why it is called a photomontage instead ofa collage, but the process enables you to size andeasily crop each image as needed.

Before you begin placing the digital photos on anew blank document, you should first roughly sizethe photos so that you minimize the work that ittakes to resize them as you place them. When youhave resized each photo, you can begin the simpleprocess of dragging, dropping, placing, and sizingeach digital photo.

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7 Click the Move tool.

8 Drag the images to the newdocument.

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Did You Know?When you have completedplacing, sizing, and ordering all theimages in a photomontage, youcan easily add a shadow line toeach photo to add depth to yourwork. Simply click each layer inthe Layers palette and then clickyour choice of shadow from theDrop Shadows styles found in theLayer Styles palette.

PLACE AN IMAGE IN FRONT OF ANOTHER

1 Click the image to highlight it in theLayers palette.

2 Click the highlighted layer in the Layerspalette and drag it up or down until thelayer order is as you want it.


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