4 Digital Imaging Importing Photos in Paint Shop Pro

Use Digital Camera Support to Import Photos]

Using Paint Shop Pro's Digital Camera Support you can download pictures from your camera and onto your computer in two simple steps. Step One

Before you begin, you'll need to make sure your camera is hooked up to your computer using a USB or Serial port. (If you have any questions on how this is done, consult your digital camera manual or the manufacturer.)

Next, to access your camera you'll need to choose File > Import > Digital Camera > Access.

Step Two

The Digital Camera Dialog box should be on your screen. Now, if you click on Save all to Disk, you would just need to select a name for your pictures, and you'd be done! Two simple steps.

But, since you're here, we'll tell you what all those other buttons are for.

Header information

The top portion of the Digital Camera dialog box is full of information about the pictures on your camera.

Here you can see:

• Camera make and model

• Size of the image displayed in the preview window

• Number of exposures on camera

• Number of exposures that can fit on camera

Multiple Exposure Operations

On this portion of the dialog box, the options will be applied to all the exposures on your camera. You can:

• Delete All - deletes all the picture currently stored on your camera

• Save All to Disk - stores all the images on your computer (this is what we did in Step Two)

• Get Previews - allows you to view all the images on your camera before you open or save them (more on this below)

• Open All in PSP - opens all the images on your camera in Paint Shop Pro

Single Exposure Operations

On this portion of the dialog box, you have many of the same options as the Multiple Exposure Operations, only each image is handled individually.

Unlike the Multiple Exposure Operations, on this part of the dialog box you can:

• View exposure information, including the time and date the picture was taken

• Take a picture, while your camera is hooked up to the computer

• Get previews, and view them in the window on the right side of the dialog box, scroll through the previews by using the arrow buttons under the preview window

Editing

Now you're all set. You know how to import your images into Paint Shop Pro! Now you can edit your images, e-mail them to friends and family, or optimize them for the Web.

4 Digital Imaging

Practical Assignment

1. Create the following images:

a. Close up (within 2 meters): Take two images of the same scene; one high quality and one low quality

b. Medium range (3 meters to 5 meters away): Take two images of the same scene; one high quality and one low quality

c. Far Distance (more than 6 meters away): Take two images of the same scene; one high quality and one low quality

2. From there please answer the following questions:

View your images and tell me the following information about each picture:

a. The number assigned to the picture

b. The picture dimensions in pixels

c. Of each pair of photographs tell which is the better one and why? ( It is sharper, more/less contrasty, is it more/less pixely (grainy), better colour? )

3. Answer the following questions based on the reading

A. What do you need to hook up your camera to the computer with?

B. When you click on the PSP file menu what selections should you engage?

C. If you click on “Save all to Disk” what would you need to select?

D. What are the four things that you will see in the “Header Information”?

E. When you are finished putting all of your images on to your hard drive what should you do to make room for more pictures?

F. Can you look at single pictures with the Single Exposure Operation?

4. Pick your favorite photograph and turn it into a 300 dpi image that is approximately 5 x7 inches in size.

5. Then create a file with your name on it and in the file put a document with the answers to the question above, and put the altered photograph in it. Copy the file by using Ctrl C and paste it into the Digital Imaging Drop Box by pasting it using Ctrl V. Or, if your are an online student send it to me via email.

For the second part of the assignment scroll down:

Elements of Photography

Purpose of the assignment:

To define each of the following terms.

Take a picture or two showing an example of each term.

Finally, explain to me in a short paragraph how your example fits the term, and put this together in a creative display of your findings for the following terms:

Terms to be defined:

Light

Contrast

Tone

Shape

Line

Pattern

Texture

Viewpoint

Action

Method:

Create a book, poster, mural, mobile, PowerPoint presentation, video, or anything that you can conceive to define all of the previous terms as to how they apply to photography.