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Digital Photo

Intro Welcome to the digital photography section of greater sites. Here you will learn the basics of editing and storing photos on your PC. From rotating, cropping and resizing to superimposing one image onto another.And the best way to store and organise photos on your PC.

First of all you will need a Scanner or digital camera to get the photos on to your PC, and some photo editing software which comes free with most digital cameras and scanners. The software that I am using here is Paint shop Pro7 and Adobe Photoshop Elements . If you did not get photo software with your camera you can get these for around £70 or get a 30day trial of Paintshop Pro of a cover disk or download from here PSP.
( I highly recommend Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 which sells fro around €100 & is easy to use.)

Using a Scanner
If the photos that you are scanning are for use on your PC, keep the resolution to around 100dpi.
If the photos that you are scanning are going to be printed out, use a higher resolution. Around 200dpi will be fine for most.
(The lower the dpi the faster the scan and less disk space it will use)

Using a Digital Camera.
All digital cameras differ in the way you get the images to your PC. Some use USB, some use serial port with USB being the fastest of the two. Best of all get a Card Reader, which will also save your camera's batteries while you transfer your images. It's best if you are a beginner to use the software that came with the camera to download the photos to your PC.