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Picture & Video Importing, Editing and CD Creation
Using Picasa and Movie Maker
By John Gontowicz609-668-0695
www.yourpcguide.com/photo.pdf
Download Picasa http://picasa.google.com
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Click on the Run Button – 2 Times
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Accept License & Default Location
Setup and Select Options
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Select the Second Scan Option
You can select what types of pictures to show.• Cameras are usually jpg and bmp.
• Clip Art is usually jpg and gif
• Tiff is usually faxes, Apple Mac images.
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Before We Begin Using the Product
Overview
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Folder List
•This Folder list displays all the folders in My Documents, My Pictures or on your Desktop that contain images or movies, sorted by date, with the original folder names as they appear on the hard drive.
•The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of image files Picasa found in that particular folder.
Small versions of Your Pictures
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Bottom of the Screen
• Increase Size of Pictures in View Box
Importing More Pictures
• From CD
• Another Folder on Your Computer
• External Drive
• Flash Drive
• Network
• Camera
• SD Card
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• The Folder Now Appears in the Folder List:
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Importing From Your Camera
• WITH Picasa Installed, connecting with a cable or SD card, the following window opens:
At the bottom of screen are options
• Importing pictures into your Pictures Folder is a Default
• Give a name for the pictures you are importing (event, place, date, etc.
• Select delete only copied pictures
• Select All or Individual Pictures
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Selecting A Folder
• Whatever Folder you are in, you can create
– A Slideshow
– A Collage
– A Movie Presentation
• Select the Icons on the top left of window shown below
Renaming a Folder
• Double Click on Any Folder to Display the Window Below
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Creating a New Collection
• Folder Theme
• Gather Pictures from Various Sources, etc.
• Right click on any folder name and select Add Collection
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After You Created A CollectionShown as a bar in the folder list
Move folders, or photos to the Collection
Starred Collections
• You can click on any picture and Star it
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Starred Photos• Favorite Photos
• Create a photo Album
• Create a Collage
• Create a Shared Web Page
Create Keyword for Pictures, Photos
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Un-Named Folder
• Used to Put Friends into Separate Folder• Picasa will guess other photos and place them in
the folder• Import New Pictures
Picasa Scans Again
Right Click On Picture to Place Names
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Searching for a Picture
Creating a New Album
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You can Select Certain Pictures in a Folder by Holding Down The Ctrl Key on the Keyboard and Clicking with the Left Mouse Button. (The also appear on the bottom Left)
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Collage
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Editing Photos• Select The Photo You Want to Edit by Double
Clicking on It with the Left Mouse Button
• Here is the Picture I am Editing:
Cropping• Cropping is Used to Eliminate Backgrounds
and Focus on What You are Trying to Show.
• Click on the Crop Button and move your mouse while holding down the left mouse button across the are you want to crop, then Click Apply
Before After
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Other editing features• Straighten – Fix a
crooked photo
• Redeye – eliminates redeye from photo
• I’m Feeling Lucky –Picasa attempt at fixing photo
• Auto Contrast
• Auto Color
• Retouch area
• Text
• Fill Light
Adding Text• Clicking the Text
Icon changes the screen to the following
• You can select fonts, color, alignment, size, transparency
• Text Can be Placed anywhere.
• Text can be rotated
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Tuning & EffectsHere are the effects you can use to improve your pictures in Picasa:• Use Sharpen to make the edges of objects in your pictures crisper and less fuzzy.• Sepia will create an old-fashioned effect by changing the picture to a reddish brown tone.• Click B&W to turn any color photo into a black and white picture.• Warmify warms up a cool photo, improving skin tones.• Add a grainy film look to any picture using Film Grain.• Tint – Use the dropper to pick a color and apply that duotone or tint to the entire picture.• Saturation – Increases color saturation.• Soft Focus softens the focus around a center point that you select.• Give images a gauzy glow using the Glow effect.• Filtered B&W – Make a picture that looks like it was taken with black and white film and a color filter.• Focal B&W – De-saturate color around a center point with adjustable size and sharpness sliders.• Graduated Tint – Add a graduated filter from a color you select. This is useful for making gray skies blue.
Crop & Remove Redeye
• Original Cropped
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Draw a box around the red eye and Click on the Apply
Button
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Printing
• Click on the File menu and Select Print, or Click on the Print Icon on the Bottom of the Screen
• The window to the right will open.
• Select what options you would like
Creating a Slideshow:Click on this button:
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TimeLine:
• Click on the View Menu and Select Timeline
Creating a Movie
• Select the folder that you want to create a Movie using the Pictures in that Folder
• Click on the Create Movie Presentation Icon as shown here:
• The Screen Changes to the Following
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Exporting Pictures
• You can transfer a picture, or a group of pictures to another device on your computer, such as an external drive, or USB Flash Drive
• Click on the Export button and the following window will open:
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Batch Edit
• You can rename all pictures in a folder.
• You can do automatic settings.
• You can auto Red Eye
• Rotate a batch of photos
• Change them all to B&W
• And more…
Exporting Photos for a Web Page
• You can send the page to your own website, blog, shared site, or on a CD
• Click on the Folder Menu and select Export as HTML Page
• You can have a single pictureor folder
• Anyone can open the web pagewith Internet Explorer orFirefox
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• Click on Any Picture to enlarge it:
Changing Desktop and/or Screensaver
• Click on the Create menu
• Select your Menu Option
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Creating a Gift CD• Click on the Create Menu and Select Gift CD
• The following window will appear at theBottom of the screen:
• Step 1 is to Select the Pictures if you have not selected a folder already. You can select Include Slideshow, and you can select different sizes:
• Step 2 is to Name The CD and Include PicasaIn case the Recipient does not have it installed
• Step 3 is to Burn the CD
Backing Up Your Photos• You can select all photos or just pictures you want
to back up.
• Go to the Tools menu and select Back Up Pictures.
• The following window will open
• Select what pictures to Back Up by Checking the Folder
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Picasa Web Albums
• You can also share your albums online with your family and friends.
• Select the Tools Menu, Select Upload and then Picasa Web Albums
You Must Have a Google Account
• Sign In. Select the Picture / Folder. Make Public or Private. Upload
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• Click View Online
• You can store up to 1Gb of Pictures
• Link toSend toFriends
You can also search for Duplicate Photos
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Making a Slide Show In PowerPoint
• Click on the Picture Icon on the slide page
• Each slide can be a picture
• You can also create a collage in Picasa and import that as a picture.
MICROSOFT MOVIE MAKER 2.0
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Movie Maker Main Screen
Preparation• This is the most important and often neglected aspect of
the whole procedure, if your photos are not arranged, named and numbered correctly it can cause some major headaches.
• First, make sure all your photos are contained within the one folder.
• If you wish to use photos from a number of different folders then you should start off by creating a new folder in ‘My Pictures’.
• To do this; open ‘My Pictures’ and right click on any blank space, select ‘New’ and then ‘Folder’.
• Type an appropriate title into the dialogue box under the new folder and then hit ‘Enter’.
• Now just drag and drop or copy and paste all the required photos into the new folder.
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• We need to arrange the photos in the same order as you would like them displayed in the slide show.
• Just drag and drop them around the folder until you have them in the desired sequence.
• Now we have to make sure they retain that order, Windows has a nasty habit of jumbling them all back up again.
• Select all the photos in the folder by either pressing the ‘Ctrl and ‘A’ keys simultaneously or left click on the first photo and then on the last photo while also holding down the ‘Shift’ key*.
• With all the photos now highlighted, right click on the first photo and select ‘Rename’. Type in an appropriate title followed by the number 01 in parenthesis, e.g.
• Now just left click on any blank space or, alternatively, hit ‘Enter’.• You will see that all the photos now bear the same name and are
numbered sequentially…..we are ready to make our slide show.
Step 1: Import Pictures, Videos and Audio or Music
• Click on the Import Pictures Link and the following Window will open:
• Select the Location ofthe Pictures you wantto use for this movieand Click on the Import Button
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Select all pictures in a folder
• You can do this by pressing the Ctrl key down and pressing the letter A (Select All).
• Click on the Import button
Your New Window
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Creating the movie• You can drag one picture at a time to the bottom of
the screen in the Video area.
• If they are already in order, you can Select All and drag them into the video area.
Step 2: Edit Your Movie
• Click on View Video transitions and the screen will show the videotransitions:
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Inserting Transitions
• On top of the Video piece is a button called Show Storyboard
• The Current View is called Timeline
• Clicking on Show Storyboard changes the screen shown below
• Notice the symbol before each photo
Working with the Transitions
• Double click on one of the transition symbols and a sample will be shown on the right.
• Drag the transition you want into the symbol area before the picture.
• Below is a sample of the first few pictures.
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You can also Clip one transition for all videos
• Select the Transition and click on the clip menu and select Add to Storyboard
Step 2a: Video Effects• Click on the Video Effect Link and the screen will
change
• Notice that the pictures in the video section has a star on the lower left. Drag the effect onto the star
• You can double click on the effect to see what it does.
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Step 2b: Titles• Click on the link and the following window will
open
• Select the first one and the screen will change to the following
Changing fonts and characteristics
• Click on the Change and Font Color Link and the following screen will open
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Click on Choose the Title Animation
• Finished – Notice the bottom of the screen
Select Title Before Selected Picture
• Select Credit for the End
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Selecting an AutoMovie
• Used to automatically produce a movie
Import Audio or Music
• Click on that link and the window will change to the following
• Select the songand then Import
• Your screen willdisplay the MusicFile
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Drag to the Music section
• Click on Show Timeline
• Drag the single file over the music section.
• Here is the finished product
Narrate Timeline
• In Addition to Music, you can also narrate the entire movie, or just sections. Click on Narrate Timeline and the following window will open
• You do need a microphone, preferably with a headset.
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Collections
• Understanding collections and clips
• Collections are libraries that contain the different video, audio, and pictures that you've imported into or captured in Windows Movie Maker 2.
• You can use and reuse items from the collections for the movies you create.
• When you import the digital media files into Windows Movie Maker, the different video, audio, and pictures appear as clips within one or more collection folders in Windows Movie Maker.
To save your movie to your computer• Open your movie in Movie Maker.• In the Movie Tasks pane, under Finish Movie, click
Save to my computer.The Save Movie Wizard appears. On the Save Movie File page, type a name for your movie. You can also choose a folder to save it in by clicking the Browsebutton, but My Videos (the default) is usually the best place to save your movie. Then click Next.
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On the Movie Setting page, click Next to accept the default setting of Best quality
for playback on my computer.
• Movie Maker saves your movie, which might take several minutes. On the Completing the Save Movie Wizard page, click Finish. If Play movie when I click Finish was selected (it is selected by default), the movie will automatically play in Windows Media Player.
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To save your movie to a CD-R or DVD-R
1. Open your project in Movie Maker.
2. Insert a blank, recordable CD into your CD burner,
3. In the Movie Tasks pane, under Finish Movie, click Save to CD.
4. The Save Movie Wizard opens. On the Saved Movie Filepage, type a name for your movie. Then click Next.
5. On the Movie Setting page, click Next.
6. Movie Maker saves your movie, which might take several minutes, and then ejects your CD. If you don’t want to make another copy, click Finish. If you do want to make another copy, insert a new blank, recordable CD, select the Save this movie to another recordable CD check box, and click Next.
Import Movie into PowerPoint
• Click on the Video Reel Icon in PowerPoint
• The following window will open. Click on Insert
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Creating a DVD to play in a player
• Movies created in Windows Movie Maker won’t necessarily play on standalone DVD players. That’s true even if you burn the movie to DVD. This has tripped up a lot of people.
• Windows Movie Maker creates movies in the WMV or AVI formats. These work on computers and portable gadgets.
• You need to use a DVD-authoring program to create your DVD. The version of Movie Maker included with Windows XP won’t author DVDs.
• Manufacturers often include software for authoring DVDs. Look for DVD-creation programs that came with your DVD drive or computer. Or, you may have a program like Nero or Roxio Creator. These will do the trick.
• A free DVD authoring program: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdflick/
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• If you’re using Vista, you may have the software you need. The Home Premium and Ultimate versions include Windows DVD Maker. This will create your DVD. Open your project in Movie Maker. Then, click File and then Publish Movie. Select DVD and click Next. When DVD Maker opens, follow the prompts to create your DVD.
• Windows 7 doesn’t include Movie Maker. Instead, you must download it. The program is still free, however from the Microsoft Site