Week 3:
Image Exercise

Part 1: Selecting, re-sizing and improving your images

  1. If you brought your images on a CD or USB key, save your images to your network space
  2. Open Photoshop (Finder/Applications/Adobe Photoshop ...)
  3. Open your images in Photoshop (File/Open ...)
  4. Check the size of each image (Image/Image Size ...) in pixels and make a note of it. Is each image larger than the target image below (640 x 480 pixels)?
  5. Review your images
  6. Choose the three best images
  7. Use Photoshop to re-size each image to 640 x 480 pixels
  8. If the images need any other adjustments (Image/Adjustments ...) to improve them, such as contrast, brightness or sharpen (Filters/Sharpen ...), make these adjustments too.
  9. Save each image as a jpg file (File/Save As ...)

Part 2: Uploading your images to a photo-sharing service

  1. Open a browser (Safari)
  2. Go to www.photobucket.com
  3. Register to use Photobucket
  4. Upload your three selected, re-sized and adjusted images to Photobucket

Part 3: Creating a display of your images to share or embed

  • Make a re-mix of your images in Photobucket

 

For example, I selected, re-sized and adjusted these three images of the painting from last week, and uploaded them to Photobucket:
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3

Then I used the Adobe Premiere Express facility in Photobucket to make a Flash-based presentation of the images:
Images presentation

Finally, I embedded the code for the presentation into a blog that I set up for the purposes of illustration for this week's class:
Blog with image presentation embedded