SENIORNET OF PUGET SOUND
COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER NEWS
April 1,
2004, Vol. 5; Issue #4
Mail
Address: PMB 44, 12819 SE 38th St., Bellevue, WA 98006-1326
Voice
Mail: 206-232-5892; Email: senior@seniornetps.org
Classroom
at Phantom Lake Elementary School, Bellevue
For
detailed Information, Class Schedules: www.seniornetps.org
By Helen Hesketh, Interim Editor
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
APRIL 6 - KAFFEE KLATCH
APRIL 20 - MEMBERSHIP MEETING
APRIL 27 - OPEN LAB
ASSISTANCE
KAFFEE KLATCH
Tuesday, April 6, at 11:30 am at Crossroads Bellevue is
where you will find old and new members talking up a storm and eating in
between. Come out and get acquainted with each other on a social basis.
REGISTER
NOW FOR APRIL & MAY CLASSES
Spring 2004 term of SeniorNet of Puget Sound is beginning
the final 2 months of classes. You still have time to take classes that will
greatly enhance your use of your computer. Genealogy, Tracking Your
Investments, Web Design, Greeting Cards and Word Processing still have openings
and will begin in April and May. Check your catalog or go to our Web Site for
further information. But don't wait too long - classes have been filing up
quickly.
NEW OFFICERS FOR
2004-2006
Ken Crandall, member of the nominating
committee, announced the new slate
of officers as follows: President, Adella Granger; Vice President, Delores
Davis; Treasurer, Joe Hesketh; Secretary, Martha Simon, and Member-at-Large,
Gordon. President Helen Hesketh ending her six years of service at the end of
this month installed these newly elected officers. Best wishes for a lot more
mis'adventure and a prosperous two years.
TAKE NOTE
SENIORNET OF PUGET SOUND
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
MAKE A NOTE
The next SeniorNet Membership Meeting
will be on April 20 at 10:00 am at Crossroads Bellevue in the old store called
Raven's World (this facility is directly across
from Bartell's and next to Hallmark Cards)
Come out and support your newly elected
officers. Program for the meeting will be a brainstorming session on your
hopes, dreams and expectations for SeniorNet for the upcoming year. From these
ideas you will select at the April meeting the next year's Goals and
Objectives.
THE DELL'S ARRIVED
If you missed the March Annual Meeting,
you missed a surprise of a lifetime when Ken Crandall opened not one box but
two that were presented to SeniorNet by Jack and Jill McLeod. In these boxes
were a new Dell computer and a 17 inch flat screen LCD monitor. Then they
announced that we have not just one but Dell has given 18 to the SeniorNet
classroom. Now the challenge is to find the time to get them all up and
running!
FREE
LAB ASSISTANCE CLASSES
Our Instructors are available to assist you with your questions, problems and concerns on Tuesday, April 27 from 9:30 am until Noon in the classroom. You do not have to be a member of SeniorNet to attend and participate. Come after 10:30 to avoid the early crowd.
E-MAIL PHOTOS THE
RIGHT WAY
I've written before about
sizing images, but because so many people are just now getting digital cameras,
I still get a lot of questions on the subject.
Just in the last week, my father and a client told me that they haven't yet
figured out how to make their digital photos smaller, so they can e-mail them
to people. As both discovered, sending a 3-megabyte file to your cohorts who
use dial up connections does not win friends. The recipient either won't
download the photos, or if they do, you'll really hear about it. (And not in a
good way.)
Big files take a long time to download. The reason relates to a concept called
"resolution."
Resolution is a way to measure the number of dots (called pixels) in an image.
The higher the resolution, the more pixels and the larger the file. So suppose
you have two images that are the same size (height and width). One image is 400
dpi (dots-per-inch), and the other is 200 dpi. The 400 dpi image has twice as
much detail as a 200-dpi image because it has twice as many pixels. When you
lower the resolution, you lose detail, but the file size decreases. When
working with images, you always have a trade off between image quality and file
size.
The dimensions of the image also affect the number of pixels. For example,
suppose your image is 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. That's obviously
going to be larger than an image of the same resolution that is only 512 pixels
wide x 384 pixels high. Again, more pixels mean more data, which means a larger
file size.
So with that in mind, you can probably guess that today's digital cameras take
high-resolution pictures. Before you e-mail your image file, you need to
reduce both the resolution and the size of the image. Fortunately, in most
image editing
software, the process is easy.
For e-mailing, you want to set the resolution to 72 dpi. You can set the height
and width of the image to more or less anything you want, but again smaller is
better. When I e-mail photos, I generally go for something less than 400 pixels
wide. If your software only shows you dimensions in inches, don't go any
larger than 4x6.
Often you can choose the file format as well. For e-mailing digital photos,
select .jpg, which is a compressed file format. You want your picture to be as
small as possible, so compression is good.
Submitted by Bill
Bumpus
From Logical Expressions (www.logicalexpressions.com)