This week, we’ll be talking about ways to manage your photos on your hard drive and online. Due to an unusally frenetic week, the in-depth blog post will most likely follow Sunday’s class, but here are a few things to watch in preparation.
First of all, we’ll talk about ways to organize your digital photos on your computer. There are several ways to do this, but we’ll focus on a free program from Google called Picasa. The following video provides an overview of the many features of the program.
Picasa allows you to share photos on the web, but there are several other options for doing this as well. Once again, our friends at Common Craft have produced a short video about what online photo sharing is and why you might want to try it:
During class, we’ll take a look at one online photo sharing site, Flickr. If you’d like to get a head start exploring it, feel free to do so.