Picture & Video Importing, Editing and CD Creation Using Picasa and Movie Maker

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1 Picture & Video Importing, Editing and CD Creation Using Picasa and Movie Maker By John Gontowicz Download Picasa 1

2 Click on the Run Button 2 Times 2

3 Accept License & Default Location Setup and Select Options 3

4 Select the Second Scan Option You can select what types of pictures to show. Cameras are usually jpg and bmp. Clip Art is usually jpg and gif Tiff is usually faxes, Apple Mac images. 4

5 Before We Begin Using the Product Overview 5

6 Folder List This Folder list displays all the folders in My Documents, My Pictures or on your Desktop that contain images or movies, sorted by date, with the original folder names as they appear on the hard drive. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of image files Picasa found in that particular folder. Small versions of Your Pictures 6

7 Bottom of the Screen Increase Size of Pictures in View Box Importing More Pictures From CD Another Folder on Your Computer External Drive Flash Drive Network Camera SD Card 7

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9 The Folder Now Appears in the Folder List: 9

10 Importing From Your Camera WITH Picasa Installed, connecting with a cable or SD card, the following window opens: At the bottom of screen are options Importing pictures into your Pictures Folder is a Default Give a name for the pictures you are importing (event, place, date, etc. Select delete only copied pictures Select All or Individual Pictures 10

11 Selecting A Folder Whatever Folder you are in, you can create A Slideshow A Collage A Movie Presentation Select the Icons on the top left of window shown below Renaming a Folder Double Click on Any Folder to Display the Window Below 11

12 Creating a New Collection Folder Theme Gather Pictures from Various Sources, etc. Right click on any folder name and select Add Collection 12

13 After You Created A Collection Shown as a bar in the folder list Move folders, or photos to the Collection Starred Collections You can click on any picture and Star it 13

14 Starred Photos Favorite Photos Create a photo Album Create a Collage Create a Shared Web Page Create Keyword for Pictures, Photos 14

15 Un-Named Folder Used to Put Friends into Separate Folder Picasa will guess other photos and place them in the folder Import New Pictures Picasa Scans Again Right Click On Picture to Place Names 15

16 Searching for a Picture Creating a New Album 16

17 You can Select Certain Pictures in a Folder by Holding Down The Ctrl Key on the Keyboard and Clicking with the Left Mouse Button. (The also appear on the bottom Left) 17

18 Collage 18

19 Editing Photos Select The Photo You Want to Edit by Double Clicking on It with the Left Mouse Button Here is the Picture I am Editing: Cropping Cropping is Used to Eliminate Backgrounds and Focus on What You are Trying to Show. Click on the Crop Button and move your mouse while holding down the left mouse button across the are you want to crop, then Click Apply Before After 19

20 Other editing features Straighten Fix a crooked photo Redeye eliminates redeye from photo I m Feeling Lucky Picasa attempt at fixing photo Auto Contrast Auto Color Retouch area Text Fill Light Clicking the Text Icon changes the screen to the following You can select fonts, color, alignment, size, transparency Adding Text Text Can be Placed anywhere. Text can be rotated 20

21 Tuning & Effects Here are the effects you can use to improve your pictures in Picasa: Use Sharpen to make the edges of objects in your pictures crisper and less fuzzy. Sepia will create an old-fashioned effect by changing the picture to a reddish brown tone. Click B&W to turn any color photo into a black and white picture. Warmify warms up a cool photo, improving skin tones. Add a grainy film look to any picture using Film Grain. Tint Use the dropper to pick a color and apply that duotone or tint to the entire picture. Saturation Increases color saturation. Soft Focus softens the focus around a center point that you select. Give images a gauzy glow using the Glow effect. Filtered B&W Make a picture that looks like it was taken with black and white film and a color filter. Focal B&W De-saturate color around a center point with adjustable size and sharpness sliders. Graduated Tint Add a graduated filter from a color you select. This is useful for making gray skies blue. Crop & Remove Redeye Original Cropped 21

22 Draw a box around the red eye and Click on the Apply Button 22

23 Printing Click on the File menu and Select Print, or Click on the Print Icon on the Bottom of the Screen The window to the right will open. Select what options you would like Creating a Slideshow: Click on this button: 23

24 TimeLine: Click on the View Menu and Select Timeline Creating a Movie Select the folder that you want to create a Movie using the Pictures in that Folder Click on the Create Movie Presentation Icon as shown here: The Screen Changes to the Following 24

25 Exporting Pictures You can transfer a picture, or a group of pictures to another device on your computer, such as an external drive, or USB Flash Drive Click on the Export button and the following window will open: 25

26 Batch Edit You can rename all pictures in a folder. You can do automatic settings. You can auto Red Eye Rotate a batch of photos Change them all to B&W And more Exporting Photos for a Web Page You can send the page to your own website, blog, shared site, or on a CD Click on the Folder Menu and select Export as HTML Page You can have a single picture or folder Anyone can open the web page with Internet Explorer or Firefox 26

27 Click on Any Picture to enlarge it: Changing Desktop and/or Screensaver Click on the Create menu Select your Menu Option 27

28 Creating a Gift CD Click on the Create Menu and Select Gift CD The following window will appear at the Bottom of the screen: Step 1 is to Select the Pictures if you have not selected a folder already. You can select Include Slideshow, and you can select different sizes: Step 2 is to Name The CD and Include Picasa In case the Recipient does not have it installed Step 3 is to Burn the CD Backing Up Your Photos You can select all photos or just pictures you want to back up. Go to the Tools menu and select Back Up Pictures. The following window will open Select what pictures to Back Up by Checking the Folder 28

29 Picasa Web Albums You can also share your albums online with your family and friends. Select the Tools Menu, Select Upload and then Picasa Web Albums You Must Have a Google Account Sign In. Select the Picture / Folder. Make Public or Private. Upload 29

30 Click View Online You can store up to 1Gb of Pictures Link to Send to Friends You can also search for Duplicate Photos 30

31 Making a Slide Show In PowerPoint Click on the Picture Icon on the slide page Each slide can be a picture You can also create a collage in Picasa and import that as a picture. MICROSOFT MOVIE MAKER

32 Movie Maker Main Screen Preparation This is the most important and often neglected aspect of the whole procedure, if your photos are not arranged, named and numbered correctly it can cause some major headaches. First, make sure all your photos are contained within the one folder. If you wish to use photos from a number of different folders then you should start off by creating a new folder in My Pictures. To do this; open My Pictures and right click on any blank space, select New and then Folder. Type an appropriate title into the dialogue box under the new folder and then hit Enter. Now just drag and drop or copy and paste all the required photos into the new folder. 32

33 We need to arrange the photos in the same order as you would like them displayed in the slide show. Just drag and drop them around the folder until you have them in the desired sequence. Now we have to make sure they retain that order, Windows has a nasty habit of jumbling them all back up again. Select all the photos in the folder by either pressing the Ctrl and A keys simultaneously or left click on the first photo and then on the last photo while also holding down the Shift key*. With all the photos now highlighted, right click on the first photo and select Rename. Type in an appropriate title followed by the number 01 in parenthesis, e.g. Now just left click on any blank space or, alternatively, hit Enter. You will see that all the photos now bear the same name and are numbered sequentially..we are ready to make our slide show. Step 1: Import Pictures, Videos and Audio or Music Click on the Import Pictures Link and the following Window will open: Select the Location of the Pictures you want to use for this movie and Click on the Import Button 33

34 Select all pictures in a folder You can do this by pressing the Ctrl key down and pressing the letter A (Select All). Click on the Import button Your New Window 34

35 Creating the movie You can drag one picture at a time to the bottom of the screen in the Video area. If they are already in order, you can Select All and drag them into the video area. Step 2: Edit Your Movie Click on View Video transitions and the screen will show the video transitions: 35

36 Inserting Transitions On top of the Video piece is a button called Show Storyboard The Current View is called Timeline Clicking on Show Storyboard changes the screen shown below Notice the symbol before each photo Working with the Transitions Double click on one of the transition symbols and a sample will be shown on the right. Drag the transition you want into the symbol area before the picture. Below is a sample of the first few pictures. 36

37 You can also Clip one transition for all videos Select the Transition and click on the clip menu and select Add to Storyboard Step 2a: Video Effects Click on the Video Effect Link and the screen will change Notice that the pictures in the video section has a star on the lower left. Drag the effect onto the star You can double click on the effect to see what it does. 37

38 Step 2b: Titles Click on the link and the following window will open Select the first one and the screen will change to the following Changing fonts and characteristics Click on the Change and Font Color Link and the following screen will open 38

39 Click on Choose the Title Animation Finished Notice the bottom of the screen Select Title Before Selected Picture Select Credit for the End 39

40 Selecting an AutoMovie Used to automatically produce a movie Import Audio or Music Click on that link and the window will change to the following Select the song and then Import Your screen will display the Music File 40

41 Drag to the Music section Click on Show Timeline Drag the single file over the music section. Here is the finished product Narrate Timeline In Addition to Music, you can also narrate the entire movie, or just sections. Click on Narrate Timeline and the following window will open You do need a microphone, preferably with a headset. 41

42 Collections Understanding collections and clips Collections are libraries that contain the different video, audio, and pictures that you've imported into or captured in Windows Movie Maker 2. You can use and reuse items from the collections for the movies you create. When you import the digital media files into Windows Movie Maker, the different video, audio, and pictures appear as clips within one or more collection folders in Windows Movie Maker. To save your movie to your computer Open your movie in Movie Maker. In the Movie Tasks pane, under Finish Movie, click Save to my computer. The Save Movie Wizard appears. On the Save Movie File page, type a name for your movie. You can also choose a folder to save it in by clicking the Browse button, but My Videos (the default) is usually the best place to save your movie. Then click Next. 42

43 On the Movie Setting page, click Next to accept the default setting of Best quality for playback on my computer. Movie Maker saves your movie, which might take several minutes. On the Completing the Save Movie Wizard page, click Finish. If Play movie when I click Finish was selected (it is selected by default), the movie will automatically play in Windows Media Player. 43

44 To save your movie to a CD-R or DVD-R 1. Open your project in Movie Maker. 2. Insert a blank, recordable CD into your CD burner, 3. In the Movie Tasks pane, under Finish Movie, click Save to CD. 4. The Save Movie Wizard opens. On the Saved Movie File page, type a name for your movie. Then click Next. 5. On the Movie Setting page, click Next. 6. Movie Maker saves your movie, which might take several minutes, and then ejects your CD. If you don t want to make another copy, click Finish. If you do want to make another copy, insert a new blank, recordable CD, select the Save this movie to another recordable CD check box, and click Next. Import Movie into PowerPoint Click on the Video Reel Icon in PowerPoint The following window will open. Click on Insert 44

45 Creating a DVD to play in a player Movies created in Windows Movie Maker won t necessarily play on standalone DVD players. That s true even if you burn the movie to DVD. This has tripped up a lot of people. Windows Movie Maker creates movies in the WMV or AVI formats. These work on computers and portable gadgets. You need to use a DVD-authoring program to create your DVD. The version of Movie Maker included with Windows XP won t author DVDs. Manufacturers often include software for authoring DVDs. Look for DVD-creation programs that came with your DVD drive or computer. Or, you may have a program like Nero or Roxio Creator. These will do the trick. A free DVD authoring program: 45

46 If you re using Vista, you may have the software you need. The Home Premium and Ultimate versions include Windows DVD Maker. This will create your DVD. Open your project in Movie Maker. Then, click File and then Publish Movie. Select DVD and click Next. When DVD Maker opens, follow the prompts to create your DVD. Windows 7 doesn t include Movie Maker. Instead, you must download it. The program is still free, however from the Microsoft Site 46