June 2009 - Photos

PHOTOS
We will be looking at managing photos through Microsoft Picture Manager. Many of the notes in this are from the Help menu in Microsoft Picture Manager.

Start Picture Manager from the Start menu
Use the following instructions to start Picture Manager.From the Start menu, select All Programs.Click to open the Microsoft Office folder.Click to open the Microsoft Office Tools folder.Click Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Start Picture Manager from an image

Use the following instructions to start Picture Manager from an image on your computer.On your computer, locate the picture you want to work with.Right-click the picture.From the menu, select Open With, then click Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Create shortcuts to your pictures
You can create a shortcut to the folder that contains your pictures, or to each picture.

Create a shortcut to a folder
Locate the folder that contains your pictures.Right-click the folder and select Create Shortcut.Drag the shortcut to your desktop.

Create a shortcut to a picture
On your computer, locate a picture.Right-click the picture and select Create Shortcut.Drag the shortcut to your desktop.Right-click the shortcut, select Open With and then click Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Edit pictures
You can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to make corrections to your pictures such as fixing brightness, color, or removing red eyes. To save time, select all the pictures you want to correct at one time, then use Auto Correct or one of the individual picture editing tools.
To get started with editing your pictures, click Edit Pictures. The Edit Pictures task pane appears with the following options.

Auto Correct
Correct colour and brightness. Click Auto Correct, then place the cursor in the area that needs correction.

Brightness and Contrast
Adjust the difference between light and dark tones. You can use this feature to correct pictures that appear too light or too dark.

Colour Adjust the hue and saturation . You can use this feature to correct pictures with colours that are tinted or dull.

Crop Crop out unwanted parts of a picture. You can use this feature to correct pictures that contain distracting elements.

Rotate and Flip Rotate pictures or flip them on the axis of the picture. You can use this feature to correct pictures that you have taken sideways for a portrait orientation.

Red Eye Removal Remove the red from your picture subjects' eyes caused by the camera flash. You can use this feature to correct red eyes wherever they appear.

Re size Change the dimensions of a picture. You can use this feature to enlarge a picture for printing or reduce it to send in e-mail messages or share on the Internet.

Compress Pictures Reduce image file size for various formats. Note: Click Edit, then Undo to undo any changes made with editing tools. Note: You cannot use Picture Manager to make images transparent, add text to pictures, or scan images.

Display a favourite picture as your computer's desktop background
When you decide you want to display a picture, just send that new picture to your desktop and it will replace the existing one.
1. On the Start menu, point to All Programs, and then point to Microsoft Office.
2. Point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
3. In the Picture Shortcuts pane, click the shortcut to the folder where the picture is located.

If the Picture Shortcuts pane doesn’t already have a shortcut to that picture, add the shortcut.Add a picture shortcut

1. In the Picture Shortcuts pane, click Add Picture Shortcut.
2. Browse to the folder that contains the pictures you want to work with. (The pictures will appear in the preview pane after you close the dialog box.)
3. Click Add.
4. In the preview pane, right-click the picture you want to work with, and then click Set as Desktop Background.
5. Switch to your desktop to see the picture.

Copy a picture
On the Standard toolbar, click Copy .Click the folder where you want to paste the copy, and then click Paste . Alternatively, you can copy the picture by dragging it to another folder. If you want to move the picture rather than copy it, hold down SHIFT while you drag the picture to the new folder. You can copy a picture to another Microsoft Office program. Select the picture you want to copy, click Copy , switch to the other program, and then click Paste .

May 2009 - Basic Internet Searching

Web Page


To move within a Web Page:

- Use the scroll bar on the left hand side of the page or the arrows located at each end of the scroll bar.

- Rolling the wheel in the middle of the mouse.

- The arrows located on the keyboard to the right of the letters.



To move between Web Pages:

Using the Internet involes following links. You know when something is a link as the mouse will change into a hand. To use the link simply click once with the left mouse button.

To go between Web Pages use the Back and Forward arrow symbols in the Toolbar at the top of the screen.

To get a fresh copy of a Web Page (e.g. Getting the latest news) use the Refresh button in the Toolbar.

To stop a Web Page loading either because you no longer want the page or it is taking too long to load click the Stop button in the Toolbar which is a red cross in a white box. You can then do a new search or use the Refresh button to try again.




Examples of the size of files you may download (These are only approximates):

- Text email 2-3KB
- Email with colours and small pictures 50KB - 80KB
- Photo from a digital camera 800KB - 4MB
- Music file 3-4 MB
- Movie 700MB to more than 1GB (Big)

Searching the Internet

There are a number of Search Engines (A program that searches Web Pages around the World) the one we will be using is one of the most used Google.

Go onto the Internet enter www.google.com.au in the Address Bar.

The basic Google search page is returned. The main white box is where you put in the keywords of your search. For example "I am going to plan a holiday" the keyword is holiday. Just putting holiday in the search box and clicking Google Search returned 312 000 000 results. Note that if you were to do the same search again you may get a different number of results that is because the Web is constantly changing.

The first searches returned may be under a heading Sponsored Links, these results are relevant to your search but they have paid Google to display their links. The next section begins the general results that have been returned in your search. By looking at the title of the result and also the URL or Web Address you can decide if this search is what you want.

The fact that we got 312 000 000 results is because we were not specific in our search. The more keywords that are used the more refined the search will be.

A way to refine a search is to use Google Advanced Search and it is a link to the right of the Goggle Search box. By using Advanced Search and entering "driving holiday" in the phrase section and "France, July" in the all these words section the results are down to 1020.

The best way to learn to search is to play. Experiment with different keyword combinations and results.

Have fun surfing!!!!!