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Online Photo Fun

The aims of this training series are to provide you with an opportunity to develop an awareness of the scope of photo related activities that are available on the World Wide Web and develop the skills needed to confidently use these tools.

Participants need to bring photos on a USB flash drive to use during this series.

1. File management

Before we start we need to know how to manage our files. Section 1 in the training booklet covers finding the free space on your USB flash drive, creating folders and various ways of viewing your files.

For more information try these links.

• About your USB flash drive
• Transferring photos to a USB flash drive
• Viewing files and folders

2. Understand the size of your images

3. Download and upload images

3.1 Visit Picture Ipswich to learn about downloading images.
3.2 To create personalised stamps at Australia Post you need to be able to upload images.

4. Playing at Big Huge Labs

• Create a calendar, jigsaw puzzle or add fun frames at Big Huge Labs.

5. Editing images at picnik.com

This site provided tools to edit your photos such as crop, resize, rotate and auto fix photos. It is one of the better photo editing sites to use if you want to download your masterpieces as it provides quality downloads without logos.

• This section explores edit, create and save options at Picnik.

6. Learn about accounts at dumpr.net

• Try the Museum, Rubik's Cube or Celebrity Paparazzi options at Dumpr.

7. Sharing photos online

We all love to share photos of the new baby, wedding or trip with our friends and family. The Web provides us with many ways of doing this. One of the easiest ways is to create web albums. The big names in this field are Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket and Facebook. The advantages of web based photo albums over sending images by e-mail include:-

• Reduced risk of transferring a computer virus.
• Images are stored on the web server. This acts as backup storage for your photos.
• No specialised graphics software is required by the receiver.
• Photos can be presented in a variety of ways e.g. slide shows.
• Sites sometimes include editing features.
• Quality prints can be ordered from some sites.

My choice for building an online photo album is

OurPhotos - provides an easy and simple way to manage your photos and share albums with your friends. It allows you to create free online photo albums to store all your favourite photos. It offers unlimited storage space so you can create as many albums and upload as many photos as you like.

8. Make things disappear at fotoflexer.com

• Fotoflexer is a complex site it includes editing tools as well as enhancement options.

9. Special effect at pizap.com

• Try the options on a demo photo at Pizap or you can upload you photo.

10. More sites to explore

• Try the one click photo effects at BeFunky.
• If you want to animate your onscreen photo try Lunapic. This site has advertising.
• pho.to has lots of layouts and good quality downloads.

11. Prints from your digital photos

• Snapfish - has online albums for storing pictures, prints can be ordered online. However there is advertising.
• BigW - select Photo. You will have to download software to upload your images.
• Kodak - select Print @ Kodak.
• Fuji - select Photo Prints.

12. Tips, tricks and prices

• MSN photos - read the numerous interesting articles
• Photo Review - ten mistakes to avoid when buying a camera