Thing #10 Digital Images

I used Picnik (link) to edit my school profile photo. Included below are the before and after. I have never really investigated Photoshop, to be honest--it seemed a bit too technical for my taste. I'm a bit embarrassed that Picnik is so easy to use--and also that I've paid big bucks for someone like Walgreens to add elements to photos to use for cards, invitations, etc. Goodness--I can create and save a jpeg and have copies made for pennies.

I'm also very interested in using a photo storage site for my yearbook photos. I have an email in to our tech guy to see what he thinks. Our yearbook is created using an online design program by Jostens. In the past we've saved our photos to a network drive and staffers upload photos from there. The sticking point to this is that students can work from home on their pages--but if they need an extra photo uploaded, they are out of luck until they can get back to school. This would solve that problem and also free up some network space (although I admit I have NO idea if our few thousand high rez photos are a drain on our network or not). I also wonder about security, since these are photos of students--is that a legal/safety issue?

I have to admit that I had a BIG surprise when I went to Picasa and saw that I already HAD ALBUMS! The photos that I've used on my blog (Blogger) and some photos my brother shared with me of my daughters wedding were already neatly filed in albums, unbeknownst to me! Now, they are private albums, but still--I had no idea that those photos were "out there". Although I guess that's what the "cloud" is all about, right? It sure does give fuel to the fire of those who are wary of Google's reach (*cough* my husband *cough*). See my albums here (link).

[Please note: many of the images I have saved in the "B209" album were saved before I started using photos that were shared via fair use.]

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