1. Digitalized! Digital Tips & Tricks
Sherri Miller, ITRT
Eric Postman, ITRT

2. Digital Image Sources Digital cameras Scanners Office clipart/graphics
Internet websites

3. Digital Cameras

4. Digital Cameras: Top 10 Tips
Look your subject in the eye
Use a plain background
Use flash outdoors
Move in close
Move it from the middle
Lock the focus
Know your flash’s range
Watch the light
Take some vertical pictures
Be a picture director 1 2 1 2 1 2 1
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5. Picture Quality Settings
Pixels- the smallest part of a digital camera’s sensor (mega= 1 million)
The larger the megapixels, the larger the file size
change settings on camera
reduce size in software
file formats
jpg (smaller)
tiff
Resolution Needed
Max. Print Size
1 megapixel
4x6
2 megapixels
5x7
3 megapixels
8x10
4 megapixels
5 megapixels
11x14
6 megapixels
16x20

6. Zoom In Optical Zoom Digital Zoom
the lens physically extends to magnify the subject
Digital Zoom
crops an image and magnifies the result of the cropping
image quality is sacrificed

7. Shooting Modes Landscape: outdoor scenes at a distance
Macro: ultra close up of small objects
Portrait: close up shots/head & shoulders
Action/Sports: freeze action with a faster shutter speed
Night shot: a slower shutter speed when it’s dark
Panoramic: shoot several pictures and stitch them together to create banners 1

8. Other Features
Flash settings
Shutter speed
Aperture
Self-timer

9. Flash Settings Auto: camera decides when to flash Flash on/Fill Flash:
turns flash on even in good lighting
use outdoors to eliminate harsh shadows
Flash off:
turns flash off even in low lighting
use for sunsets, etc. … be careful of camera shake
Red-eye reduction:
gives an extra flash to minimize red-eye 1

10. Shutter Speed
Shutter speed is the time in which the shutter is held open to allow light to reach the imaging sensor. The greater the denominator, the faster the speed.
A 1/125 setting means the shutter curtain opens and closes within one hundred and twenty fifth of a second while 1 means a one full-second the shutter opens up during exposure to absorb the available light source.

11. ISO
ISO is roughly equivalent to film speed. What ISO denotes is how sensitive the image sensor is to the amount of light present.
use a higher ISO to take pictures in low light without flash, such as in a museum or at sunset (e.g. ISO 400)
use a lower ISO to achieve a motion blur (e.g. ISO 100)

12. Aperture Aperture is a hole or opening through which light is admitted
the smaller the aperture number (e.g. f/1.4), the greater the opening, and the larger the depth of field (background is in focus)
the larger the aperture number (e.g. f/16), the smaller the opening, and the smaller the depth of field (background is blurred)

13. Scanners

14. Scanners consider purpose when scanning dpi = dots per inch
DPI (approx)
Video 75
Print
Check printer’s dpi (about 1/3)
Webpage
OCR (optical character recognition)
300
consider purpose when scanning
dpi = dots per inch
file formats
bmp
tiff
jpg
gif
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15. Microsoft Office Picture Manager

16. Functions Edit graphics Auto correct Brightness and contrast Color
Crop
Rotate and flip
Red eye removal

17. Functions Working with files Resize Compress pictures Rename pictures
Sharing pictures
pictures
Export pictures

18. To Open
Go to

19. Picture Manager Standard Toolbar Picture Shortcuts Menu Bar
Preview Area
Formatting Toolbar

20. Views
Thumbnails

21. Views
Filmstrip

22. Views
Single Picture

23. Task Pane

24. Task Pane

25. Navigation Buttons

26. Getting Started (Home)

27. Photo Printing Wizard

28. Photo Printing Wizard Open My Pictures folder Select photos
use CTRL key to select several pictures at once
Under Picture Tasks, click Print the Selected Pictures

29. Photo Printing Wizard opens
click Next
Picture Selection
choose your picture(s)
Printing Options
choose your printer

30. Layout Selection choose print size/layout
choose Number of times to use each picture
click Next (at this point, the photos begin to print)

31. Inserting Digital Images

32. PowerPoint and Word
To browse for pictures on your computer, go to menu bar 
INSERT  PICTURE  FROM FILE  navigate to desire file
Or, click icon on drawing toolbar
If drawing toolbar is not visible:
VIEW  TOOLBARS  select (check) DRAWING

33. Picture Toolbar More contrast Less contrast Crop Line style
Compress pictures
Format object
Insert picture
Reset picture
Color
More brightness
Less brightness
Rotate left 90
Text wrapping
Set transparent color

34. Picture Toolbar Insert Picture – another method of importing graphics
Color –change to grayscale
Contrast –improve contrast
Brightness –improve brightness
Crop –cut out unwanted edges of picture
Rotate –make a vertical picture horizontal (or vertical  horizontal)
Line Style – format line thickness

35. Picture Toolbar Compress pictures – change file size
Text wrapping – available in Word only; change graphics from in-line to floating
Format object – access many of these and other formatting options
Set transparent color – eliminate visible background
Reset picture – revert to original form

36. Digital Image Sources

37. Clip Art Sites Pics4Learning - http://www.pics4learning.com/
United Streaming (go to “Learning Tools”) -
Awesome Clipart for Educators -
Discovery School Clipart Gallery -
Education Clipart –
Clipart Public Domain Images -
The New York Public Library Picture Collection -
Teacher Created Resources Free Educational Clipart -

38. Image Searching Open search engine (e.g. www.google.com)
Click on IMAGES link
Complete your search
Click on image to open in full size (requires additional steps in some search engines)
Right click and COPY (to paste) or SAVE PICTURE AS… (to insert from file)

39. Curriculum Integration Ideas

40. English story or poem illustrations news story of school events
common/proper nouns book
noun/verb book
photo journal of field trips
sequencing of events
alphabet book
creative or descriptive writing prompt
I Spy book
A Day in the Life of…
trading cards

41. Math scavenger hunts (numbers, patterns, shapes, etc.)
measuring growth
clocks
angles
perspective
geometric shapes
writing prompts for story problems
create a pictograph
3D objects

42. Social Studies brochures goods/services wanted posters family tree
photo essays
class photo time capsule
posters
careers/community helpers
scavenger hunt – (architectural design, historical figures, etc.)
virtual tour

43. Science stages of development (plants, mold, etc.) parts of a flower
cloud types
five senses
steps in an experiment
nature walk
visual dissection
visual periodic table
field trip photo essay
scavenger hunt (simple machines, matter, etc.)
classifications (rocks, minerals, etc.)

44. Resource Classes show art perspectives photo postcards
musical instruments
photo book of colors
art history
culture brochures
architectural scavenger hunt
good/poor form for physical education game

45. Other seating charts for substitutes
classroom organization (jobs, lunch, etc.)
to illustrate the steps in a procedure
classroom activities for class newsletter
student portfolios
slide show for parent’s night
web pages

46. Digital Cameras in the Classroom
Quick – Get the Digital Camera! -
Smile. Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day -
Kodak Lesson Plans -
PowerPoint games -
Click! Using a Digital Camera in the Elementary Classroom -
Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom -
Going Digital in the Classroom -

47. Resources
GCPS digital imaging resources -
Getting the most from your digital camera -
Digital Photography -
HP online courses (for free!) -
Kidz Online: digital imaging videos -
HP Quick tips for scanning photos -

48. Resources
Kodak gallery for sharing photos online -
Shutterfly gallery for sharing photos online -
PhotoPlus 6.0 (free photo and image editing software) -
Microsoft Photo Story 3 -