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Photograph Examples - May, 2003 - from SCScompA

This month we discuss:

  1. An Example of using PaintShop Pro's Animation.

  2. Using Your Scanner to Build a Post Card.

  3. This month's Great Golf Hole.

Here is a collage of some pictures from this month's example.

The images shown in this example are in the "computer" as a result of being obtained from a digital camera or from scanning a photograph or other item. The following shown images default to digital camera origin and, if not, the shown picture will be identified as a scanned image. If digital camera, the photograph has normally been taken at an Olympus Camera "HQ" setting of 1.3 megapixels (1280 x 960), with some pictures having been taken at less pixel detail ("SQ") 0.3 megapixels 640 x 480). In most cases, even if the digital picture was taken at these-mentioned sizes, the picture has been resized for showing on computer screens. I try to keep most images to have a maximum height of 600 pixels for computer-display. I use Paint Shop Pro (from JASC) as my primary application for modifying/resizing/coming photographic images into one image (photo).

Scanned photographs are scanned at 300 PPI (Pixels Per Inch), 150 or 100 PPI, and the chosen PPI will be identified in the comments for that particular image.

The following is aimed at showing examples of using a computer system, digital cameras, and perhaps scanners, as part of home computing environment. Hopefully, the shown pictures will give you some ideas for use of your home computer system.

Contact SCScompA if you have any comments/questions regarding anything that is shown in this Web page.

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PaintShop Pro Animation Example

Sometimes it is interesting/effective to "join" multiple images into a single image.

I use PaintShop Pro to do this. Some people using "Photo Shop" or some other image-processing application. Whatever you have access to that works: Use it! I use PaintShop Pro for a number of reasons -- two basic reasons being: Its price is reasonable (about $100 USA one time cost per major version; a major version comes available every two-years or so and normally the upgrade price is around $50) -- and the product works to my satisfaction for my purposes.

In addition to the above very-basic reasons: I sometimes use a "free" part of PaintShop Pro: Its Animation support. I put free within quotation marks since I realize nothing is free.... I am sure some part of Animation development/maintenance costs is included in the $100 original price for PaintShop Pro. However, up until now (May, 2003) there is no additional cost for the animation part of PaintShop Pro.

Building an animation is very easy with PaintShop Pro and this newsletter item is not going to show you how to built the animation. This example is intended to only trigger some thoughts on your side of things; if you have multiple/related images, consider an animation to present the information.