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PC Club: Creating slideshows on CD

January 6th, 2009, 3:07 pm by

North Orange County Computer Club Q&AThe North Orange County Computer Club helps The Gadgetress tackle the multitude of readers’ cries for help. NOCCC group has experts in Windows, Word and all sorts of computer topics. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. To get this answer delivered to your computer automatically, sign up for the e-mail update HERE.

QUESTION: I have Windows XP and I have photos on my computer that came from a digital camera. These photos are in a folder. What is the best way to put them on a CD? When I put them on a CD, they come out as icons and not the actual photo. Also when you put them on a CD, can you make the CD do a slideshow? Thanks for your help.

PC CLUB: It sounds like you already have been successful at placing photos on a CD since you are able to view the icons. Double-clicking an icon should open the photo in the software program that is currently your default for viewing photos on your PC. This varies with each PC depending on the software currently installed (to set the default program, right click the photo, select “Open With,” and then “Choose Program” and when the options window opens, check the box that says “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.”).

If you have not installed any software for viewing or editing photos, then the default application, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, should open and display your photo. The program has ‘Forward’ and ‘Backward’ buttons at the bottom for navigating through your photos. You will have to open each folder individually when viewing photos in this manner. Read the rest of this entry »

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PC Club: Convert hundreds of color slides to digital

December 31st, 2008, 9:55 am by

North Orange County Computer Club Q&AThe North Orange County Computer Club helps The Gadgetress tackle the multitude of readers’ cries for help. NOCCC group has experts in Windows, Word and all sorts of computer topics. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. To get this answer delivered to your computer automatically, sign up for the e-mail update HERE.

QUESTION: I am an old artist trying my best to keep up; any help you can give me will be, of course, much appreciated. I have hundreds of 35 mm slides that I need to transfer to digital format for printing to at least 8 1/2 x 11 inches – please give me any information necessary to this end. 

PC Club: This reminds me of when I scanned 14 carousels of slides to free up some closet space that my wife had her eye on. There were a total of 1,200 slides and I spent an average of 5 minutes per slide for a total of 100 hours to perform some color correction and scratch removal on each slide. The amount of time can vary depending on the quality of the slides and how decent you want your prints to be. At the time, it would have cost me roughly $1 per slide or $1,200. It was an easy decision for me to spend $200 for a scanner and do it myself. Read the rest of this entry »

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PC Club: How to put captions on photos

December 9th, 2008, 12:01 am by

North Orange County Computer Club Q&AThe North Orange County Computer Club helps The Gadgetress tackle the multitude of readers’ cries for help. NOCCC group has experts in Windows, Word and all sorts of computer topics. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. To get this answer delivered to your computer automatically, sign up for the e-mail update HERE.

Today, this column welcomes a new PC Club member, Ed Schwartz, who also teaches people about computers in his real job. For more tips from Ed, visit his Web site.

Question: Are there any free download programs that will allow me to put captions on photos off my SD memory card, that will have the caption printed on each photo when I have them printed out. I have tried Picassa II and HP Photo Gallery. But neither allows the caption on the photo when printed out on the printer. Any help greatly appreciated. Thank You. ~ Al Gattanella

PC CLUB:  Typically Al, captions are defined as text appearing under or outside of a picture as you discovered with Picasa. What you want to do is to add text to your actual pictures and there are a number of free programs that allow you to do this.

Starting with the easiest to use first, PhotoFiltre, a French program, is available in English at photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm. Using PhotoFiltre, you can reposition the text with your mouse or with the arrow keys on the keyboard. When you’re finished adjusting the text, hit the Enter key on the keyboard to “cement” the text in place. Read the rest of this entry »

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How to arrange photos when burning to disc

June 24th, 2008, 12:56 am by

North Orange County Computer Club Q&AQuestion: My computer uses Windows XP. When employing Fuji, Photoshop Elements, FinePix Viewer, etc., I edit and rearrange two hundred or more photos. However, when I burn them on a CD using Nero (for TV slide shows) it rearranges them in crazy ways I don’t want! What can I do?

NOCCC: There are a number of things you can do. If you are using the retail version of Nero, and select “Burning ROM,” you can create a video CD that will not rearrange your sort order. If you use Nero express, the simplest thing to do is rename each of your files and precede the name with a sequential number. The default sort order on the computer is by Name. Windows explorer allows you to change the sort order by clicking on the name at the top of that column: Name, Size, Type, or Date Modified. Windows Explorer allows you to add additional descriptive columns which you can also sort by.

Since you are running Windows XP, another solution would be to download the FREE Photo Story 3 program from Microsoft. It allows you to create very nice slide shows. It also lets you place the slides in the order you wish – and they stay that way. You can pan and/or zoom on a slide to liven up your slide show. It offers multiple transitions between slides, and allows you to add captions, music, and voice over. I have used it and recommend it. You can download it at HERE.

~ Jim Sanders, president of NOCCC

The North Orange County Computer Club is helping The Gadgetress tackle the multitude of readers cries for help. NOCCC group has experts in Windows, Word and all sorts of computer topics. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. To get this answer delivered to your computer automatically, sign up for the e-mail update at ocregister.com/gadgetress/stump.

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Ask the Gadgetress: Speed up photo slide shows

February 19th, 2008, 3:00 am by

Q: I have a 2003 Dell computer with Windows XP (version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 per my System Information page). I spend a lot of time with My Pictures folders, viewing them as a slide show. My problem is that my XP shows the slides at a fixed time interval of about 3 seconds, but I would like to vary this (shorter). Is there any way to make this change?

Thank you much!!

IrfanView (medium)A: The time interval in a My Pictures slide show cannot be changed without making some tweaks to your system that I wouldn’t recommend. Here are some other ideas that may help you.

IrfanView is a free Windows application that you can get at irfanview.com. It can display images in any folder – not just the “My Pictures” directory – as a slide show. You can change the time interval between slides, play an MP3 file for background music, save and e-mail the slide show, or burn it to CD. The program can also help you organize photos, and edit them individually or as a batch.

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Stump: How to open files in specific programs

October 16th, 2007, 3:00 am by

Stump the GadgetressQ: Hi, I’ve got a pesky problem that’s driving me nuts…and it is such a short drive! I’m running XP Home and usually use Windows Picture Viewer or Picasa to view photos that I’ve downloaded. I bought a copy of Photoshop Elements from the Big Box Store thinking it would allow me to do editing that my pictures so desperately need.

Here’s the dilemma…when I install Elements, it automatically changed all of the photos on my hard drive so that they launch in Elements. I don’t really want that because the viewer in Elements kind of sucks. Ideally, I would like to edit in Elements and view in Picasa or Windows Picture Viewer. How can I disable the “automatic launch feature” of Elements and only use it for editing? ~ Mark MullisSwitching default programs

Gadgetress: Software programs want to be the software of choice for your PC. Hence, when you install a new photo (or music or video or whatever else) software, it offers to open all photo formats by default.

Example on right: RealPlayer wants to open all of your music files unless you choose not to. Click image for larger view.

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Stump the PC Club: Avoiding duplicate photos

October 9th, 2007, 1:00 am by

North Orange County Computer Club Q&AThe North Orange County Computer Club – and its experts in Windows, Word and all sorts of computer topics – is helping The Gadgetress tackle readers’ technical challenges. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, was established in 1976.

Q: I’m having a problem with additional copies of documents and photos showing up in my documents subfolders and I don’t have the foggiest idea of how that is happening. In the ‘My Photos’ folder I have as many as 4 copies of the same photo identified as ‘Copy (2) of A001′ through ‘Copy (5) of A001′ and they are all identical. What is happening and how do I fix it? This thing is filling up my hard drive with identical copies of the same file.

NOCCC: I am assuming that you are running Windows XP or Vista. I, too, have had the experience of getting unwanted copies of pictures. This occurred when I was attempting to move or copy a number of picture files from one location to another. I found the cause of this from Microsoft.

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Stump the Gadgetress: Resizing photos for e-mail

June 26th, 2007, 5:30 am by

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Today begins a new era for the Gadgetress. I answer your tech questions — or attempt to answer your tech questions. To fill a void created when newspaper columnist James Coates retired, I will be your go-to Answer Gal. And the questions have already begun:

Q: Not realizing he was retiring, I just last Tuesday e-mailed my question to Jim Coates. Now I know why I got no response: so I’ll prevail upon you for help.

I do not like to send, nor receive photos as e-mail attachments. Rather, I like to enclose the photos within the text of the e-mail. Outlook Express has a provision for doing so, but when I try it the photo I enclose is grossly oversized to the point it is not viewable. How do I downsize photos so the fit neatly within the e-mail? — Jim T.

Gadgetress: Let me start with the easiest way to resize a photo. Windows XP will automatically shrink photos for easier e-mailing. All you’ve got to do is open the folder with the photos, select what you want to send (use the “Control” button on the keyboard to select photos out of sequence) and then look to the left side of the window for the “E-mail this file” option. (Click for larger image)

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