Digitally Capturing Images

Carol Luttmer

Digital Graphics Editing

October 15, 2002

I chose “How to Capture Images” because I am most familiar with this area. We use a Sony Mavica CD300 for our yearbook photography and I have been amazed at how easy it is to use. In working on my digital biography, I used a scanner and will also review that here. Hopefully, I will clearly explain to you how to capture images using these two devices.

“How to” with a Sony Mavica CD300

This camera uses the small cd’s to store pictures. When we are ready to use the photographs in Pagemaker we finalize the disc according to simple instructions on the camera and transfer the disc to the cd drive in the computer. We pick start, run, d drive and a box opens with a folder containing our pictures. We click on the pictures, decide if we should delete or keep, and send the keepers to the proper folder stored on the desktop. The pictures can then be edited in Photoshop before we use in the yearbook or taken straight to the yearbook page that we choose.

Advantages	Disadvantages
Easy to delete photos in camera or on desktop	Discs must be finalized and reinitialized with each download
Disc holds about 120 photos	Saves as jpegs only
Downloads to computer quickly	Batteries need recharging frequently
Discs are inexpensive

This is a picture of my drillteamers taken with the Sony Mavica. I should have cropped it, but it is getting close to time to turn in again so you are seeing the entire picture taken by the Mavica.

The Sony website is http://www.sonystyle.com

I didn’t find it as helpful in choosing a camera as the Kodak website There is a helpful “camera recommender” on it, but you really need to be serious about buying a camera because it is rather lengthy.

http://kodak.com is a great site. You really get to play with the cameras here.

“How to” with a Hewlett Packard 5200C Scanner

Before you turn your computer on, you must be sure that your scanner is connected. The scanner comes on automatically when the computer is turned on. Place your picture on the bed of the scanner and close the lid. Push the button on the front of the scanner and a scanner box comes up on the monitor. If you do a “file, save as” now and name your picture and set its location you won’t have to worry about where your picture goes later. You also pick the format now, usually a jpeg but other formats are available. It will also ask you how much you want to compress your picture: from low to high resolution (with a slider). The default is usually high so be sure you adjust if necessary, then hit save.

Advantages	Disadvantages
Saves in many formats	High resolution makes a very large file
Large documents or pictures are easily scanned	Scanners are large and take up a lot of space

The picture that follows was scanned and edited in PhotoSuite 4.

Sorry to throw the wedding at you again but it was the only photo I had at school. (Wasn’t she pretty!)

In summary, capturing digital images is much easier than I thought, but also can be a lengthy process. I always forget to edit in Photoshop or PhotoSuite4 before importing and they are way too big. I even edited the wedding picture and it is still too large. The more you work with capturing the more you learn!

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