Photo editing with Gimp
Transfer your camera photos to your flash drive•Hold the camera as you would if taking a photo•Look at the right side of the camera•Slide the small lever labeled CARD/BATT. OPEN•The door will pop open•Locate the SD card and push the SD card down•It will pop up for removal•Put the SD card into your card reader•Plug it into a USB port
Drag it into your Flash Drive
Open up the folder labeled DCIM
Look for the 100CANON folder
Gimp Download Page
Go to the Start menu
Go to All Programs and open Gimp 2
Gimp is an open source download that is about as powerful as Photoshop Elements but…
it’s FREE!!
After you transfer your photos to your hard drive or flash drive choose one to open
Check the number of pixels and the percentage of the picture that you are viewing
Go to the Image Menu and choose Scale Image
In the Scale Image windowChoose inches instead of pixels for Width
As you see, a picture 3264
pixels wide is
45 inches wide!
That isn’t
usable for web or print
A web page or paper page is only about 8”
wide
Change the Width to 8”
As long as the links are connected, it will keep it’s aspect ratio
72 is the perfect resolution for your web page or printed material unless you are producing a professional brochure
But look at percentage
of the picture you are viewing
You are still seeing the
low %
Do not panic when your image scales down!You see now the new number of pixels
Go to View and choose ZoomThen choose Fit Image in Window
It will depend
how large your
window is but you see that you still have a good sized photo after
resizing!
In order to use your photos
properly on the web or in printed documents, you really need to do
this resizing.
If you don’t do this you will be using
up far more memory than
necessary.
When you look at the details of each file you see how much memory you use up with each picture.
You can add extra space
to your photo for a special text
effect.
Go to Image and choose Canvas Size
Unlink the chain to change just one
dimension
Change pixels to inches so you have a good idea what size
the photo is
Press Enter after you change the dimension
Move the picture to the side away from where you want more space.
Create a New Layer and move the original Background layer above it. Fill with the dominant Background color.
Go to Image and choose
Flatten Image to merge the
two layers
Add your text in this extra area
Rounded Corners w/Drop Shadow
Old Photo w/Fuzzy Border
Fuzzy Border
Border
Border w/Bevel
Effects you can do using GIMP
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