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Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 3 1 Installation Starting Setup To install Picture It!, you must be running Windows 98, Windows Me, Win-dows 2000, or Windows XP or higher. On Windows 2000 and Windows XPsystems, you must have administrative privileges. For information regardingprivileges, pleas...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 1: Installation 4 Completing the Installation Wizard The Installation Wizard will show you a series of dialog boxes that providesetup status and some installation preference options. For most users, thedefault preferences will be appropriate. Information...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 5 Chapter 1: Installation Special Circumstances Upgrading from a Different Picture It! Product If you already have a Picture It! product installed on your machine, severalscenarios may occur when you try to install another Picture It! product: ■ Previous version...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 1: Installation 6 To remove or reinstall Picture It! on Windows XP: 1 From the Windows Start menu, click Control Panel. 2 Click Add or remove programs.3 From the list of installed programs, click the version of Picture It! you want to remove or reinstall...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 7 2 Making the Most of Your Camera No matter how polished and creative you are as a photographer, Picture It! is avaluable tool for helping you get the most out of your photos. With Picture It!features, you can easily correct common photo problems such as red ey...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 8 The first section of this chapter contains information specific to digital cam-eras: concepts such as resolution and compression that don’t have directcounterparts in film photography. Later sections cover universal ph...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 10 Approx. JPEG file size Dimensions Total pixels (with slight compression*) Maximum print size 320 x 240 76,800 23 KB Wallet size 640 x 480 307,200 91 KB 4” x 6” 1280 x 960 1,228,800 363 KB 5” x 7” (1.2 megapixels) 1600...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 12 For important photos that you want to make into prints, it’s good practice to uselittle or no compression. Or, if your camera offers it, you can take your photos ina format, such as TIFF, that offers lossless compress...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 13 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera Using Zoom Features A zoom lens lets you adjust the focal length of the lens, making your subjectappear closer to or farther from the camera. Some cameras have built-inadjustable zoom lenses; others accommodate interc...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 14 find, even if you’re traveling abroad. Floppy disks, however, have very limitedstorage capacity. Memory cards are small, durable, and reusable. And storage technology hasbeen steadily improving, so you can now find ca...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 15 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera To ensure longer shooting, you can buy rechargeable batteries, which lastlonger than disposable alkaline batteries. Keep your spares charged so they’llbe ready when you need them. If you are running low on power and d...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 16 No Flash Contrary to what you might think, you may be better off without your flash inmany situations. If you think the scene is too dark to take without a flash, tryincreasing the ambient light by turning on lamps an...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 17 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera Fill Flash You can use the fill flash setting to fill in deep shadow areas caused by brightoverhead sunlight, or in a scene where the light is behind the subject. In the left photo, the strong backlighting creates a s...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 18 For serious camera users, the manual SLR cameras were usually the bestoption, since they offered so much control. The creative process was not left tothe automatic settings of a camera. Automatic point-and-shoot camer...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 20 Automatic exposure does not work well if your scene is dominated by largesections of very light or very dark colors. A bright field of snow, for example,has so much bright light that the automatic exposure lowers the ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 21 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera Some cameras have a fixed aperture that can’t be adjusted. If you’re adjustingthe aperture yourself, a setting of f/8 is a good place to start, since it gives you afairly wide zone of sharpness. If your camera allows ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 22 Of course, adjusting the aperture also affects how much light is let into thecamera. But if a specific depth of field is important for your shot, you canswitch to manual mode, set the aperture, and then set the shutte...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 23 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera At the other extreme, you might set the shutter to stay open for four seconds, oreven more for low-light night photography without a flash. But shutter speedsslower than 1/30 th of a second increase the likelihood tha...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 24 The film speed is measured by ISO number. A high-speed film, such as ISO800, is ideal for low-light situations or action photography, since the filmrequires less light to properly expose the photo. Slow-speed films, s...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 25 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera However, in some lighting conditions, the camera fails to correctly set thewhite balance. If you’re shooting indoors, for example, incandescent lights giveoff a yellowish or reddish glow. This color is not really visi...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 26 If your camera does not allow you to adjust settings manually, the automaticmodes may be the most likely way for you to take successful photos in thesesituations. The following sections describe the most common automa...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 27 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera When using macro mode, make sure to turn off the flash, since the flash doesnot provide proper illumination at such close range. Tripods are a good way tokeep the camera steady for a close-up shot. If you don’t have a...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 29 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera Burst Mode Burst mode is a feature that allows you to take a series of photos in quicksuccession. Most cameras’ burst modes allow you to take 10 to 15 photos in 5to 15 seconds. Even on digital cameras with slow shutte...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 30 Portrait Mode For portraits and candid shots, using your camera’s portrait mode is a conve-nient way to get good results. Portrait mode is set to use a relatively wideaperture, creating a shallow depth of field. With ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 31 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera Panoramic Mode For landscapes, large groups of people, and other long horizontal shots, acamera’s panoramic mode helps you compose the photo without too much skyor ground in the photo. Panoramic shots have a different...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 32 Using the Self-Timer Many digital cameras, even inexpensive ones, come with a self-timer feature.Some self-timers open the shutter after a preset amount of time, such as 10seconds; others allow you to adjust the lengt...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 33 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera Ten Tips for Great Pictures The following 10 tips offer suggestions for developing your photographyapproach, technique, composition, and habits. If you are an inexperiencedphotographer, some of these tips might be new...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 34 2. Nail the Exposure In a finished photo, exposure is something that you usually only notice when itis out of adjustment. A perfect exposure is not something that jumps out at youfrom a photo, but a problem exposure d...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 35 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera One problem (but certainly not the only problem) with these photos is that theycapture people out of their element, without context or a story. There are nointeresting details in the background to draw in the viewer, ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 37 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 5. Follow the Rule of Thirds When composing a photograph, many beginning photographers always centertheir subject directly in the middle of the frame. While this technique may bethe easiest way to get the subject in f...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 38 If you have a person or animal in your photo, you can place the subject’s faceon one of the four points, looking toward the center of the scene. If the horizonis in a photo, it should run about one-third from the top ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 40 Depending on your camera, pressing the shutter button halfway down may lockin the exposure and the focus. If this is the case, you need to set the exposureon an object that is exactly the same distance away from the c...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 41 Chapter 2: Making the Most of Your Camera 9. Shoot Every Single Day To become a talented and confident photographer, make photography part ofyour daily routine. Fortunately, digital cameras have made it much moreconvenient and inexpensive to shoot lots and lo...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 43 3 Opening Photos in Picture It! Using the File Browser In most cases, you can use the file browser to locate your photos and open themin Picture It!. The file browser can be used to open photos from: ■ A digital camera that is a USB Mass Storage Class device....

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 45 Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It! 7 Files of type menu Use this menu to change the types of image files to be displayed. 8 Thumbnails Small versions of your photos stored in the current folder. 9 Open Opens the selected thumbnails. 10 Cancel Closes the...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 47 Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It! Scanning a Photo Picture It! works with your scanner ’s software so that you can scan directly byusing the Picture It! scanner task. To scan a photo with a flatbed scanner: 1 Make sure the scanner drivers are installed...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It! 48 To open a photo stored on your computer’s hard disk: 1 On the File menu, click Open. The File Browser dialog box opens. 2 Click the Folders tab. 3 Browse through the folders to locate the photos you want. When you clic...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 49 Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It! Opening a Photo Sent Through E-mail Many friends and family members enjoy sending photos through e-mail. Whenyou receive photos through e-mail, you can save them to your computer andthen work on them with Picture It!. ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It! 50 To capture an image from a Web page, you can drag it from the Web page to thePicture It! Tray. To open a photo from a Web page in Picture It!: 1 Make sure both Picture It! and your Web browser (either Microsoft Interne...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 51 Chapter 3: Opening Photos in Picture It! After you have uploaded photos to the MSN Photos Web site, you can openthem from any computer with Internet access. In Picture It!, you can downloadphotos directly from MSN Photos to edit on your computer. To open a ph...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 53 4 Picture It! Basics This chapter covers the fundamental aspects of Picture It! that you’ll need toget started. You’ll find information on the Startup Window, the work area, basicimage manipulation, applying text, and Help resources. Startup Window The Startu...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 54 4 Edit Multiple Pictures Click this button to open Mini Lab, where you can perform routine editing tasks—such as rotating, levels auto fix,cropping, and saving—on multiple photos at the same time. 5 Create a Project Click this bu...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 55 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 1 2 3 7 4 8 5 6 9 1 Common Tasks list 6 Stack 2 Canvas 7 Tray 3 Workspace 8 Zoom tool 4 Menu bar 9 Pan control 5 Toolbar Common Tasks list The Common Tasks list is an easy way to locate features. This list providesconvenient acce...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 57 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics ■ The zoom percentage control displays the size of the canvas in theworkspace, expressed as a percentage of its actual size, such as 50, 100,or 200 percent. To change the view size, type a new percentage in thebox, and then press...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 58 Basic Image Formatting When a picture is on the canvas, you can manipulate the image to a differentsize or orientation. You can make many of these changes directly on the canvasby dragging the different handles on a picture. All ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 59 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics Manipulating Objects by Using Object Handles Each element you add to a picture on the canvas is considered an individualobject. Photos, text, clip art, and even some effects are all considered separateobjects, and they can be edi...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 60 By default, the object handles are visible every time you select an object, butyou can set them so they are not visible. To show or hide object handles: ■ On the View menu, click Object Handles. Moving an object on the canvas Obj...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 61 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics To resize an object: 1 Select the object you want to resize. 2 Hold the mouse pointer over one of the corner resize handles until the resize handle appears. 3 To resize the object from the center point of the object, press CTRL.4...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 62 Rotating an object The rotate handle lets you rotate an object by dragging it around its center axis. By dragging the rotate handle clockwise or counterclockwise, you can rotate objects right onthe canvas. To rotate an object: 1 ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 63 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics These three objects are a multiple selection, as indicated by the icon at the bottom of theselection box. The objects can now be edited as a set and then separated later. While the objects are a multiple selection, you can use th...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 64 These three objects have now been grouped, as indicated by the group icon at the bottom ofthe selection box. Grouping objects lets you edit the objects as a set if you don’t plan toseparate them later. To ungroup objects: 1 Selec...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 65 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics After the text has been added, you select the text to edit it. You can also selectthe text and use the toolbar buttons to change formatting. If text is selected, thefollowing tools are available on the toolbar for formatting: ■ T...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 66 This picture identifies the main features of the Help window. 1 4 6 2 3 5 7 8 9 1 Show/Hide button Click this button to expand or collapse the left pane of the Help window. 2 Back button Click this button to go back to the last H...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 67 Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics Using the table of contents You can use the table of contents to locate information by subject. The table ofcontents is a useful way to see all of the features available in each category offeatures. To use the table of contents: ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 4: Picture It! Basics 68 To take the product tour: 1 On the Help menu, click Picture It! Tour. The Tour opens, displaying icons to represent different categories offeatures. 2 Click an icon. A feature list appears on the left side of the window. 3 Click ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 69 5 Basic Touchup Almost all photos can be improved with basic touchup. Picture It! touchuptools can be used to correct common photo problems such as red eye or lightingproblems, and similar distractions that can ruin a photo. In many cases, PictureIt! helps yo...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 5: Basic Touchup 70 Adjusting Tint When you take photographs, the source of the light can create a colored cast inthe photo. We tend to think of light being white, but nearly every light sourcehas its own unique color. For example, natural sunlight has m...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 71 Chapter 5: Basic Touchup To fix red eye: 1 On the Touchup menu, click Fix Red Eye. 2 Use the pan and zoom controls to magnify your photo and focus on the red eyes. 3 Click the red part of the eyes. You can click up to two eyes at once.4 Click Red-eye auto fix...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 5: Basic Touchup 72 To use the airbrush tool: 1 On the Effects menu, point to Paint Brush, and then click Freehand. 2 Under Pick a paint tool, click the airbrush tool.3 Click the color palette next to More color choices. The pointer becomes an eyedropper...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 73 Chapter 5: Basic Touchup Cropping a photo allows you to eliminate distractions and improve the composition. Cropping your photo to a specific proportion lets you control exactly where thephoto will be cut. Otherwise, if your photo is not the same proportion a...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 75 6 Using Special Effects After you have touched up your photos, you can transform these images usingthe many tools that Picture It! provides. Some special effects—such as the filmgrain filter—mimic effects from traditional film photography. Other specialeffect...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 77 Chapter 6: Using Special Effects Filters The term filter originates from the colored glass covers placed over a cameralens. The first filters in digital imaging sought to mimic the results of thesephysical camera filters, providing a slight shift in color, or...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 6: Using Special Effects 78 Color Effects You can give a color photo a new look by applying a color effect. Turn afavorite color photo into an instant classic by changing it to black and white.Or, apply the antique effect, which “ages” your photo by givi...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 79 Chapter 6: Using Special Effects To use the freehand paint brush: 1 On the Effects menu, point to Paint Brush, and then click Freehand. 2 Click a painting tool, and then click a color.3 Click a brush size, and then paint by dragging on the photo. 4 Click Done...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 81 7 Batch Editing and File Management If you take photos regularly, it can be time consuming to edit all of your photosas you download them from your camera. And once the photos are on your harddisk, it can be a challenge to keep them all organized. Picture It!...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 83 Chapter 7: Batch Editing and File Management Mini Lab does not automatically save your batch edits. To save your photos,select photos and click Save. If you click Done to leave Mini Lab withoutsaving, the edits will remain in the photos for you to continue ed...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 7: Batch Editing and File Management 84 Duplicate It’s never a good idea to edit your original photos, and the duplicate featuremakes it easy to ensure that you have copies. The duplicate feature copies eachselected photo and adds “Copy of” to the beginn...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 85 8 Adding Edges, Mats, and Frames When you’ve finished editing a photo, you can add polishing touches bysurrounding it with an edge, a border, a mat, or a frame. Edge Effects Edge effects alter the outside edge of a photo. For portrait photos, try the softedge...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 8: Adding Edges, Mats, and Frames 86 Mats and Frames If you plan to put a photo in a traditional photo frame, you can add a Picture It!mat to your photo before you print it. Mats create an elegant effect, and canalso help to fit an oddly-proportioned pri...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 87 9 Saving Photos If you’re like most people, you can’t stand to throw photos away, even ifthey’re imperfect. You probably have a large box or two filled with envelopesof old negatives and photographic prints. Keeping track of all your old printsand negatives c...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 9: Saving Photos 88 Choosing a File Format Picture It! allows you to save photos in a number of image file formats. Youcan determine the best format for saving your photos based on what you willuse the photo for, compatibility with other computers, and f...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 89 Chapter 9: Saving Photos To save a photo for e-mail or the Web: 1 On the File menu, point to Save Special, and then point to Save as Web- ready Picture. 2 Click a picture size, and then click Next. The file browser opens. 3 On the Folders tab, click the folde...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 9: Saving Photos 90 To copy photos to a Zip disk: 1 Insert a blank Zip disk into your Zip drive. 2 On the File menu, click Open. The file browser opens. 3 On the Folders tab, click the drive or folder containing the photos or folders you want to copy. 4 ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 91 Chapter 9: Saving Photos To copy photos to a CD in Windows XP: 1 Insert a blank, writable CD into the CD recorder. 2 Click Start, and then click My Computer.3 Click the Folders button, and then in the left pane, browse to the folder containing the pictures yo...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 9: Saving Photos 92 4 Click the Tasks tab, and then click Batch copy. The Batch copy dialog box opens. 5 Click Browse. The Browse for folder dialog box opens. 6 Click a location where you want to create the backup folder. 7 Click Make New Folder. A new f...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 93 Chapter 9: Saving Photos Archiving Photos in the Gallery Picture It! enables you to archive your pictures in the Gallery using customcategories, which you can name and organize in whatever way makes sense toyou. The Gallery is not a storage location for your ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 9: Saving Photos 94 To find and open a photo from the Gallery: 1 On the File menu, point to Get picture from, and then click Gallery. The Gallery opens. 2 Click the Find tab. 3 Do one or more of the following: ■ Type one or more words describing the item...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 95 10 Creating Projects A great way to present your photos and share them with friends and family is tocreate photo projects. Picture It! offers a range of designs that you can use toshowcase your photos. Choose from greeting cards, calendars, business cards,and...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 10: Creating Projects 96 To change the fold style of a card: ■ On the Format menu, click Change Card Fold. Creating Calendars Calendars are a great way to showcase your favorite photos. Calendar projectsare available in one-week, one-month, 12-month, and...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 97 Chapter 10: Creating Projects These are the first three pages of a 12-month calendar. To create a calendar project: 1 On the File menu, click Create a Project. 2 Click Calendars.3 Click a calendar type. 4 Click a theme, click a design, and then click Open.5 S...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 99 11 Sharing Photos One of the biggest advantages of digital photography over traditional filmphotography is the ease with which you can share your photos. Rather thancreating paper prints for everyone who wants to see your photos, you can sharea digital copy o...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 11: Sharing Photos 100 Sharing on MSN Photos MSN Photos is a convenient and fast way to share a group of photos or sharephotos with a whole group of people. Whether you want to share with just afew friends and family, or many people around the world, MSN...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 101 12 Printing Photos Picture It! offers several options for printing photos on your desktop printer.You can optimize settings for the print size, print quality, orientation, andphotos per page. This chapter describes the procedures for printing a singleprint o...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 12: Printing Photos 102 To print multiple photos on the same page: 1 Open the photos you want to print, and make sure that they all have the same orientation. 2 On the File menu, point to Print Special, and then click Multi-photo Sheet. 3 Under Click a p...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 103 Chapter 12: Printing Photos 7 To fit your entire photo into the print area, click Fit within area. - or -To fill the print area with your photo, click Overlay and crop. 8 Drag your photo or photos from the Tray into the template, and then click Next. 9 Selec...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 12: Printing Photos 104 Selecting Print Quality Most desktop printers are capable of printing in a range of qualities, from alow-quality draft mode to a high-quality setting that requires more time anduses more ink. Printer settings for quality and color...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 105 Chapter 12: Printing Photos To check a photo’s pixel dimensions: 1 On the Format menu, click Resize Image. 2 Under Select a page size, set the Units box to pxl. The Height and Width boxes fill with the pixel dimensions. 3 Click Cancel. How large a print can ...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide Chapter 12: Printing Photos 106 Choosing Photo Paper If you want your images to look like traditional photographs, choose paper thatis clearly labeled as photo paper. Photo paper comes in a range of thickness andtexture. Paper weight ranges from ordinary office-...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 107 Chapter 12: Printing Photos Printing from MSN Photos Order prints of your photos online at MSN Photos and have the prints sent toyou or your family and friends. On MSN Photos, you can also use your photosto create a variety of photo gifts. To order prints an...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 109 Index A A A A A AC power adapter 14action mode 27, 28action photography burst mode feature 29children 27, 29compensating for shutter lag 28digital cameras 27freezing action 22, 27, 28higher speed film 24moving subjects 27, 28shutter speeds 22, 23 adjusting a...

Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide 111 Index G G G G G Gallery 93gifts 107graininess 24, 74greeting cards 95, 103grouping objects 63 H H H H H Help resources 65high-capacity storage 89 IIIII image sensors buffering 29capturing photos 13controlling exposure time 21definition 10digital cameras 10, ...