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Computer Info – January 24, 2001

This Week’s Program

        Hugh will demonstrate how to place multiple pictures on one sheet of paper in Picture Window Pro. After that, we will discuss some of the items from recent handouts that we haven’t talked about and have question and answer time. Picture Window Pro 2.5         Hugh’s demonstration showed us a few of the great features of Picture Window Pro. I liked the way that he was able to automatically remove a stain from a picture and then do a color correct to fix a picture that was turning red.
        Hugh works with multiple photo editing programs. He finds that the features for performing certain types of editing work better in one program than another – so he often uses many programs to perform his photo editing task.
        But, one thing to remember that Hugh mentioned --- Save the original file at least until you are sure that you are through editing.
        He also mentioned that the latest version of Picture Window Pro is version 3.0 and sells for $89.00 Way to Restore Missing Windows Font         If you have accidentally (or otherwise) deleted one of the fonts that Windows needs, you can restore that font by the following method.
        Use an unzip program (such as WinZip) to open the file MINI.CAB which is located on your Windows CD. Copy the font file (example: SSERIFE.FON) to C:\WINDOWS\FONTS. Restart Windows and the font should be there. Sending Your Favorities Via E-Mail         If you would like to send your Favorities from Internet Explorer via email, you have to export them to a HTML file first. To do this in Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater, under FILE – choose IMPORT AND EXPORT. That should start the IMPORT/EXPORT WIZARD. Choose to EXPORT FAVORITIES. On the next screen, choose which folder you want to export – if you want to export ALL of your Favorities, then just click on the Favorities folder. Choose to export them to a file and be sure you know where they are going to be saved and what you are naming the file. If you don’t understand the system, just type in
                C:\MY DOCUMENTS\FAVORITIES.HTM
This will then place the file in the My Documents folder – and the file will be named Favorities.htm.
        You can then go to your email program and attach the file to your email message. When the person receives it, all of the links will be viewable and clickable. Web Sites BigZoo      http://www.bigzoo.com
        This site was mentioned at the meeting last week. You can purchased a calling card that can be renewed to help cut your long distance telephone charges.
        They are advertising long distance calls for 2.9 to 3.9 cents a minute. Overseas calls vary – from about 7 to 9 cents a minute to Italy and 75 cents a minute to Hondorus.
Ancestry Corner        http://www.ancestrycorner.com/forms.htm
        This is a great site to obtain many types of genealogy forms. They are PDF files for Acrobat Reader.
Classmates         http://www.classmates.com
        Look here for old high school friends – or when the next reunion is for your high school.
WeatherBug         http://www.weatherbug.com
        You can download a small program that will give you all the weather information you need including current temperature, high and low temperature, monthly rain accumulation, wind speed and direction, peak wind gusts, wind chill, forecasts, sunrise/sunset and the moonphase. This program gathered the information from a local source while you are on the internet – and you will see the temperature displayed on the task bar by the clock.. The information is determined by the zipcode that you enter. Feathering Edges and Soft Borders – PhotoShop Soft Border
        To create a soft border on your picture, from the SELECT menu, choose ALL. This will place a dotted box around your picture to show that it is selected. Again using the SELECT menu, choose MODIFY – BORDER. You will be ask how many pixels (this would be the width of the border) to make it – with a maximum allowed of 64. This is a matter of choice and the size of the picture that you are working with. You will now see to dotted boxes around your picture. You can now take your paint bucket and fill this area. To see the results, click on the marquee tool (the one in the upper left of the tools) and then you can click on your picture to make the dotted boxes disappear and see your results. You will now have a border that fades into your picture.
Feathering Edges
        To create a soft edge around your selection, double click on the MARQUEE tool to open up the Marquee properties. Set the number of pixels to use. Now you can draw a selection box around the area that you want to feather. You will not see anything happen – but when you now COPY the selection (EDIT – COPY) and then create a new sheet and then PASTE (EDIT – PASTE) – you will definitely see the feathering.
        To feather the edges of the picture that you have opened, double click on the MARQUEE tool to open up the Marquee properties. Set the number of pixels to use. Now draw a selection box around the picture. When your selection box has been created, then go to SELECT – INVERSE. This will create a double dotted box – now just press the DELETE key on the keyboard or go to EDIT – CLEAR. This will give very soft edges to your picture depending on how many pixels you set your feather to.
        NOTE: Be sure to set the feather back to zero when you are through. Place Multiple Pictures On One Page – Photo Shop 5.0         If you wish to print multiple pictures on one sheet of paper in Photo Shop 5.0, you must start with FILE-NEW. Set your width in inches to 7.8 and your height in inches to 10.2 and your resolution to 300 and the mode to RGB color. Set the background to either transparent or white. This will create a blank sheet of paper approximately the size of the area that your printer can print to on a 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
        Next, open a picture that you would like to place on this paper. Click on IMAGE – IMAGE SIZE. Change the size under the Print Size to be approximately the size that you would like it on your new sheet of paper. You can only change the width or the height (the other should change automatically) – remember the size of your paper and think about how many pictures you are going to place on it to help determine the size. Let’s use as an example – 4 pictures on the paper, so we will make our picture be 3.7 inches wide and then check to see what height was created. Also change the resolution to 300.
        After your picture has been resized, select it – SELECT-ALL. This will place a dotted marquee around your picture. Now from the EDIT menu, choose COPY.
        Next click on your new sheet of paper. Then from the EDIT menu, choose PASTE. Then using the MOVE tool (upper right tool on the tool bar) – you can position your picture on the page. Photo Shop 5.0 LAYERS–SCALING–SAVING–MULTIPLE PICTURES OPEN – look in the handout for January 26, 2000
FADED PHOTOS – look in the handout for September 6, 2000
UNDEREXPOSED PHOTOS – look in the handout for October 11, 2000
FEATHERING EDGES AND SOFT BORDERS – look in the handout for January 24, 2001
MUTLIPLE PICTURES PRINTED ON ONE PAGE – look in the handout for January 24, 2001