Making and Taking Photos
January 24, 2009
CADL has added new equipment and software that can be used for digitizing and editing photos. We now have scanners that can be checked out to patrons that can be used to scan in old home photos. We also sell CDs and Flash drives that can store a whole albums worth of photos.
We have also added Photoshop Elements 6 to the computers and offer classes in their use. Patrons might want to get a photo program for use on their home computer. Photoshop can be expensive though, often costing hundreds of dollars. I’ve come up with a list of three free programs that can be downloaded and used on your home computer.
GIMP for Windows.
GIMP is a very popular program originally developed for Unix/Linux. It’s open source which means there is a whole community of programmers who provide updates to it regularly. GIMP is capable of doing practically anything that Photoshop can do and more, but it can be difficult to learn for new users.
Photoscape.
Photoscape is more user friendly than GIMP and provides plenty of content for both photo editing and photo organizing.
Picnik.
Picnik is a web based photo editing program which means you don’t have to download it. You can access it from any computer and upload your pictures to the website. It can also be used on most social networking sites like myspace and Facebook
Entry Filed under: Class, Computer Center, fun. Tags: photo editing, photo editing software, photoshop.
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Jennifer | January 29, 2009 at 1:18 pm
When you use the words “check out” do you mean “take home” or “sign up to use at the branch?” And, do these have negative scanners by any happy chance?
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LauraMa3 | January 31, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Thanks for the link to Picnik.com! I just used it, and it worked really well. Simple and straightforward to use. Kind of like iPhoto or Picasa’s editing tools. I also like that after you’re done editing, you can really easily email or send the finished picture to websites like Flickr or MySpace
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palmofthehand | February 2, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Unfortunately, the Canoscanners that we use do not scan negatives. The scanners can only be checked out for in-house use in the Computer Center.