tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61772332125547774632024-02-19T00:27:10.722-08:00Digital Design and Other Good StuffMom and daughter's favorite things . . . digital scrapbooking, recipes, family videos and pictures, books and more.Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-18340910717627033822013-02-20T05:43:00.000-08:002013-02-20T05:43:20.353-08:00Digital Family History -- Class Notes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1989 Elder Dallin H.
Oaks said:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Some of the most important
temple and family history work is done at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I do not refer just to the important work of keeping family genealogies
up-to-date and the much needed verifying that all the sealing’s have been
performed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At home we can keep our
journals and gather pictures and data for the books of remembrance of our
family members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can gather and record
information available through living relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We can write family histories and share their great lessons with our
children.”</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2013 this is still
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though 1989 was not a long
time ago, our technology exploded in ways we never dreamed of then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord has provided it for us so we can
more easily capture and share our histories.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Photography Tips and Fixes</span></b></div>
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right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">2. Generally speaking,
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shade.<span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have a person in the shade, and there
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flash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A flash is only good for 10 feet. It doesn’t
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hopefully the area you want to capture will be well lit. <span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get pictures of family members (and yourself)
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Scanning Old Photos</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">1. For your most precious
pictures, save your scans in TIFF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
won’t deteriorate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also save them as a
JPEG which is needed for sharing and working on the Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most pictures (if you’re not going to be
working on them) can just be saved in JPEG. <span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">2. Most photos can be
scanned at 300 DPI. Use 1200 for slides and small pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scan at a larger DPI for any picture you plan
to enlarge to a big size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Note: Scan all pictures under color setting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FHC has a scanner if you don’t have
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Save your pictures to a jump drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a picture is too big for the scanner, scan
it in sections and stitch together in Photoshop Elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Detailed instructions can be found in Tutorials
section on the right. <span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your photo needs retouching, learn to do
it, or hire someone to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
difference can be amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FHC has
classes from time to time. <span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider scanning 3 dimensional objects or
needlework. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you scan any things that have been printed
(like newspapers and magazines) click the button for “descreening” to prevent
your image from being covered with little dots. <span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to buy a scanner, the Epson
Perfection line is good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An article with more detail can be found in
the Photography section on the right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">10. An excellent book
about scanning is Digital Imaging Essentials by Geoffrey D. Rasmussen
(developer of the Legacy Family Tree software program.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also has some good retouching techniques.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can order it in the Family Tree
Store for $19.99 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=B_DIGIMGPO">here.</a> </span>It’s also available
electronically. (It is not an Amazon.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Costco has relatively inexpensive scanning
services if you don’t want to do it yourself.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Blogs</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Blogs are a wonderful way
to keep a journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the early days of
blogs (ten or less years ago) a blog was harder to do than it is today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is automated and it’s one of the
easiest things you can do on a computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If you're a beginner, check out Alison's excellent tutorial on the right. </span> Keep your blog simple at first and learn other things to
enhance your blog as you go along. Blogs can either be public or private. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There are several places
that will “slurp” your blog into a book. Then you have a “hard copy” journal,
complete with pictures, as well as a digital one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best place to so this is Blurb. Alison
keeps a family journal and does this at the end of each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gives one to me for Mother’s day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She describes the process in “Slurping a Blog” on the right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blurb also lets you put the book on your iPad
for $2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like that because I can read
it while I’m on a plane, or waiting in the doctor’s office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish all my kids would do this. One thing
they DO do, that I also love, is they have clicked an option on their blogs
that sends me their posts on email each time they make one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That way I’m not checking back all the time
to see if there’s anything new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I saw this cute cartoon in <i>The New Era</i> that I thought you would enjoy:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Digital Scrapbooking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Digital scrapbooking is a
great way to save your memories on a beautiful page that can include pictures,
art, and text while at the same time creating a special feeling for the subject
you are scrapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The software of
choice for digital scrapbooking is Photoshop Elements. You can buy it on
Amazon.com for $69.99. The best place to buy it is Costco for $79.99 because
you get a lot of extra goodies if you’re just starting out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, they have it for $49 a couple of times
a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watch their coupon book. The
extras they include:</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A set of templates you can use to quickly create
beautiful scrapbook pages</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Step-by-step video tutorials showing how to use the
templates with Photoshop Elements 11</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great tips for creating cool effects on your pages</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A PDF manual with all the steps written out so you
don’t need to take notes</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6 delightful mini scrapbook kits by well-known
designers—you’ll find a variety of fun styles to suite any creative
project</span></li>
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scrapbook pages</span></li>
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Scrapper's popular online digital scrapbooking class</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More freebies you can access through a link to the
DigitalScrapper.com website—You’ll be able to download additional
scrapbooking templates as well as two more scrapbooking fonts</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of our favorite places to buy digital
paper and elements are listed on the right side of this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get on their mailing lists so you can be
informed of sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is also a lot
of free art on the Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve
listed a few in the previous section, but you can find more by putting “free
digital art” into the Google search engine. There are lots of free fonts too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Love, love, love them!
They are beautiful, and the best thing about them is that you can so easily
share them with others over the Internet, or by purchasing copies for people
who would love to have one. A list of our favorite places to make books is on
the right: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Internet Books—Favorite
Publishers.” I also explain what I like or don't like about each publisher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b> A Family Proclamation </b>book
is a wonderful way to take advantage of these Internet books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you would like to see our book made by me
and Alison, it can be found in the Digital Scrapbook section under "Scrapbooking Your Faith." I located the pictures, and Alison designed
the pages. It was her first time making a project on Photoshop, but she did a
very professional job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re not up
to this kind of work, professional graphic artist Jill Means has created a set
of beautiful templates that you can use to drag & drop your pictures into
pre-made spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was selling them for
$10 each, but has given me permission to distribute them free of charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just bring a jump drive to my house and I’ll
copy them over for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should be
noted that you will need Photoshop Elements to use these templates.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Video</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Almost everyone can take
video these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used to need an
expensive video camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have
inexpensive video cameras, Flip video, iPads and phones, and digital
point-and-shoot cameras that all take pretty good video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question is, are you taking video to
record your family history?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do,
are you making it available to those who would enjoy seeing it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You don’t have to have
professional skills anymore to make videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are many programs available that practically make it for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have a MAC, iMovie is great. For $30 a
year you can make videos on Animoto or Windows Movie Maker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See post “Video Software” on right for a
sample ofa MHH video I made on Animoto. Just choose a theme and music (or upload
your own) and upload the pictures you want to be in the video. Add some titles
if you want, push the button, and presto you will have a video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t like it, you can do it again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without any program at all, you can take a
clip directly from Picasa to YouTube and share it with the world.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Please don’t put off
taking a formal video of your parents if they’re still alive. You’ll be sorry
if you don’t. What is their story? Have one of your kids do it for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure to bear your testimony at the end. Do
it for your married kids—nobody said you have to be old and slipping on the
banana peel before you record your experiences, thoughts, and feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sample from our interview with my husband’s
parents is in the video section under “Don’t Procrastinate Oral Interviews.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Under “Video from
Soundless Film”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you will find my dad
waterskiing, and a short clip of my mom when she was a nanny in New York City.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-55080441081518918582013-02-19T11:05:00.000-08:002013-02-19T11:05:38.316-08:00Start a blog. It's easy, really!Starting a blog is easier than you think. Here are a few tips to get you on your way.<br />
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1. Go to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">www.blogger.com</a> and create a username and password. If you already have a google account, then you don't need to make a new one.<br />
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2. Click on "new blog" and then choose a title for your blog and a blog address. They will tell you if the name you want is already taken.<br />
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3. Choose a template. I chose "simple" for mine. You can always change it anytime you want.<br />
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4. Under "settings" you can decide if you want to make your blog private, semi-private or public. You can add up to ten email addresses to get notified every time you post. Under "posts and comments" within the "settings" button, you can decide who can comment and if it has to be cleared by you before it shows up on the blog. Personally, I like anyone to comment (I can delete their comment at any time), I like it to show up instantly, I like to be verified by email when someone comments and I put the word verification option to "no". I know that when I comment on other blogs, I hate having to prove I'm not a robot. It takes too long.<br />
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5. Under "gadgets" you can set up how your blog looks. The "header" is always at the top, but you can choose what if anything is along the sides and you can move them around in any order you'd like. You can add a picture of your family, your favorite site lists, a button taking the reader to another site and much more. <br />
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6. If you click on "templates" and then "customize" you can change the look of your blog. You can change the color of your background, choose different colors, fonts and sizes of the text and adjust the width of your header.<br />
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7. If you want a fancier blog background, you can use a third party design from a site like <a href="http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/" target="_blank">www.thecutestblogontheblock.com</a> and follow their instructions on how to embed their code into your blog template.<br />
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<b>HEADERS:</b><br />
You can just use your blog name as your header or you can upload a picture to use. If you want something fun and with a little more style, you can make your own header. Don't get freaked out, it's easier than you think. <br />
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If you are familiar with Photoshop Elements, you can create one there. I made this one for my family blog last week. It should have only taken me about 15 minutes to make it but it took 30 because I couldn't decide on which brush to use.<br />
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1. I made my canvas 1000 pixels by 250 pixels. You can make your any size you want, but I generally stay between 850 and 1200 wide by 200 and 300 pixels tall.<br />
2. I dropped gray from the paint bucket into the background.<br />
3. I chose a brush from my collection and stamped it in white onto a new layer. I took the opacity down a bit.<br />
4. Then I chose a fancy frame outline and placed it where I wanted it.<br />
5. I brought in my picture on a layer above the frame outline and clipped the photo to it (press Alt while hovering the move tool in the middle of the two layers on the layer pallet, then click when the cursor icon changes.)<br />
6. I finished it up by writing our name in white and adding drop shadow.<br />
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I made a header in Photoshop recently for my daughter's fundraiser blog, where she was trying to sell scarves. It was a temporary blog so I just wanted something quick and easy but still cute. I dropped some orange color, added some dots, made a heart from the custom shape tool, drew a pink rectangle along the top and added some text. It took me around 5 minutes.<br />
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Then just the other day I ran across a tutorial online for creating a blog header in <a href="http://www.picasa.com/" target="_blank">Picasa</a>. WHAT?!! Awesome! I love Picasa. I had to try it. It was so easy and fun. It took me about 5 minutes to make this one. (Ann's note: It took her 5 minutes AFTER choosing her pictures. That's the hardest part in this process.)<br />
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This is how you do it:<br />
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1. Choose some pictures or papers in Picasa that you think you might want to use on your header. If they come from different folders, then you'll need to hold them in your photo bin and make a virtual folder of them.<br />
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2. Click on the "create photo collage" icon at the top of your folder that has the pictures you want to use. It will send you over to the Picasa collage maker. <br />
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3. Make sure you choose the "picture pile" setting. It will allow you to move and resize your chosen photos. You can then choose what kind of border, if any, you want on your pictures and a color or a picture background.<br />
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4. If you click on the pictures in your "pile" and press delete, it will send them over to the hold bin on the left and you can grab them to reuse later if you choose. Or you can click on "get more" and choose other photos or art to use from Picasa. <br />
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5. Click on each picture and a gray circle will show. You can use that to rotate and resize your photo. <br />
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6. Place your photos where you would like them to be. I tried to line mine up as straight and evenly spaced as I could get them (except for the third one.) DO try to keep them on the top 1/2 of the collage, it looks funny at first but you want your collage to be long and skinny. You will crop that bottom half off later, after you add text. <br />
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6. When you are satisfied, click on the "create collage" button at the bottom left. <br />
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7. Now you should be back to the main Picasa Page. Find your created collage in the library file and click on it. Now what comes up is the basic editing features. <br />
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8. Find the Text button and click it. Choose a font and size and color and write your title. You can move the text wherever you want, even over the photos. You can move and manipulate with the gray circle. Remember that you want your header long and skinny so keep it up in the top 1/2 space.<br />
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9. After you have your words down, click the "apply" button and you will go back to the basic edits. You are going to crop your collage so it looks like a header, not a huge photo. Press crop and and select around the area you want to be your header. Make it even on all sides and bring the corp right under the writing. Press apply when you are finished.<br />
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10. Lastly, you will export your collage to your picture files (export button is down below.) Choose to export it as 1024 pixels.<br />
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11. Now go to the layout section of designing your blog and press edit on the header part (where your title is.)<br />
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12. Choose your image (your collage) from your files where you sent it. Make sure you press the "instead of title and description" button first and make sure the "shrink to fit button" is NOT checked before you upload your picture.<br />
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<br />Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-6281012482960875662013-02-09T21:48:00.000-08:002013-02-09T22:05:05.857-08:00Free Book Scanning"The Church’s Family History Department offers free scanning of journals and
other documents. In the Salt Lake library they have 3 brand new book scanners available for anyone to use
free of charge. They do a great job and are very easy to use and do not require
you to cut the binding of the diary. The PDF scan can be saved directly to a USB
drive."<br />
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The above is a quote from the LDS Church on February 9, 2013. The good news for us is that there is one of these machines at the regional FHC in Sacramento. The book to be scanned must be genealogy related, and you will be asked if you give your permission to have the scanned book become part of the Church collection.<br />
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This is a wonderful opportunity. I (Ann) have several genealogy books that relatives have spent many hours (even days, weeks, months, and years compiling.) This is an opportunity to get these into the hands of my children and grandchildren.<br />
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The machine in Sacramento is being operated by a missionary couple and will be available by appointment. Here is the contact information:<br />
Ed Lucky, Sacramento Family Search Library<br />
Phone: 916-487-2090<br />
Address: 2745 Eastern Ave., Sacramento<br />
Email: sacregfhc@gmail.com<br />
<br />Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-1165446497090732362013-02-07T16:26:00.000-08:002013-02-08T08:31:12.777-08:00Best Interview Questions!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by Ann<br />
I used to take a magazine called <i>Creating Keepsakes.</i> I saved an article called "Family History Made Easy" from November 2008 that had the most excellent questions to ask someone you are interviewing. They are arranged in the following categories:<br />
1. Questions for Grandparents<br />
2. Questions for Parents<br />
3. Questions for Aunts/Uncles<br />
4. Questions for Siblings<br />
5. Questions for Nieces/Nephews<br />
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I like the questions because they are designed to make a person think and reminisce on his/her life, not just repeat a fact. For example one of the questions for parents is, "When you were dating and first married, what kind of long-term goals did you have as a couple, and which of those goals gave you met?"<br />
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There are quite a few questions, and they will follow. Here is a link to the <i>Creating Keepsakes</i> website where you can also find some other questions. They are presented in .pdf format so you can print them off. They have lines beneath each question to write answers if you want to. I would suggest that you give these to a person before the interview so they can consider their answers. Then video them! Bring your family history alive! The link is <a href="http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/articles/Handy_Family_History_Downloads" target="_blank">http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/articles/Handy_Family_History_Downloads</a><br />
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Here are the questions from the article:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Thoughtful Interview
Questions:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For Grandparents</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell me about a
challenge you had in your life and how you made it through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When did your
family get a TV set?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What were some of
your favorite shows?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What were some of
the most fun or wild things that you and your friends did?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you have a curfew?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking back,
what are the things people tend to make a big deal about but aren’t really that
important after all?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What is your
favorite memory of Mom or Dad when she or he was little?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell me about
when you fell in love with Grandma or Grandpa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Which appliance
or electronic device were you most excited about getting?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If you could live
your life over, what would you do differently?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What was your
greatest accomplishment before age 18?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What did you feel
when you saw your first child for the first time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What’s the
biggest difference between your era growing up and my generation that you still
don’t understand?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For Parents</span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As you look back,
do you have any favorite years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there
a time in your life that youo’d like to live over again?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Are there any
photos of y ou as a child?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
teenager? Where are they stored?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Are there any
family heirlooms that have been passed from one generation to another?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What traditions
(holidays, religious ceremonies, etc.) did you have in your home while growing
up?</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What historical
events stick out in your mind that you’ve lived through?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you love
most about your life right now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When you were
dating and first marred, what kind of long-term goals did you have as a couple,
and which of those goals have been met?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">During the
child-rearing years, what were some of the “simplest pleasures” that helped
both of you deal best with such a busy life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As a child, what
did you do with your spare time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
were your favorite pastimes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In your teenage
years, do you remember some of the trends (such as clothing) that you followed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After all these
years of marriage, what are some of your favorite bits of advice for a happy
marriage?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What were y our
favorite family vacations as a child?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you remember
about the day I was born?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you
remember about your wedding day?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What are your
favorite photos from your childhood?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What
characteristics about me remind you of you when you were younger?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How are we similar?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For Aunts/Uncles</span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What naughty
thing did my mother or father do as a child?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Do you see any
similarities between me as a child and my parent as a child?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What makes you
the best aunt or uncle ever?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What were my
parents like when they were young and dating?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Did you have any
special family traditions while you were growing up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What was it like
growing up as the youngest/middle/oldest child in your family?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What was life
like for a young person in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What was your
impression of my father or mother as a child?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What were your
fondest memories of your parents?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What did you
believe you would do as an adult?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For Siblings</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you know
now that you+ wish you would have known years ago?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What is the
greatest lesson you learned from Mom and Dad?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In what ways are
you the same as Mom or Dad?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What do you miss
from our childhood days?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What is one of
your test memories growing up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What did you love
most about our hometown?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What are three
predictions you have for the next year?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(These can be personal, family, political . . . anything.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Which traditions
from your youth are you trying to carry on for your own family?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who has had a big
impact on the way that you live your life and why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What makes you,
you?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For Nieces/Nephews</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What are your
favorite stories about your grandparents?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What were your
favorite treats that your grandparents gave (or sneaked to) you?</span></div>
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Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-46107739306104873722013-02-07T15:56:00.003-08:002013-02-08T08:31:44.359-08:00Questions and Ideas for a Video Interview<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our mothers have watched the videos
countless times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our children laugh as
they watch my dad eat bread and milk and take out his false teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tapes will be there for our grandchildren
and their children to learn more about their great grandfather and mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are a few simple steps that
will make your video informative and entertaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, make sure you are familiar with the
video camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are borrowing or
renting, try it out first so there won’t be any surprises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To keep the picture steady, you should use a
tripod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set the camera on manual focus,
then focus on the subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did our
parents together, but you could do individuals alone. Don’t do a lot of zooming
in and out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Think of an interesting
location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s the kitchen where
grandma will demonstrate how she makes bread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My dad is a farmer so before his interview with Mom, we filmed him in
the barnyard where he talked about his cows and tractors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you are interviewing someone who
has saved memorabilia over the years, use those objects during the
interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Mom is telling about
her high school days, you can zoom in on her class ring, display her prom dress
for the camera, or capture photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Before you start the interview (but
after the camera is rolling) state who is being interviewed, who is doing it,
and the date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What questions do you ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are hundreds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a short interview of about on hour, we’ve
put together some questions that will get people thinking and talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a good idea to give them the list ahead
of time, so they can recall memories without being pressured. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">1.
What is your name?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2.
What state were you born in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
city?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What hospital?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in 7.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">3.
How old are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When is your birthday?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4.
What is, or was your occupation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell
about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5.
What was your mother’s name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
father’s name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your grandparents
names?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you call them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6.
What do you remember most about your mom and dad?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7.
What is a special memory with your grandparents or parents?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">8.
What was your house like growing up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9.
What was your relationship like with your siblings?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10.
Describe one family tradition you had growing up that was especially meaningful
to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">11.
What did you ever do that got you in trouble at home?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12.
How did your parents discipline you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">13.
Was/is yours a religious family?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
church?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in 7.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">14.
Who was your first love and who broke whose heart?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">15.
Did you go to college? Where did you go? What did you study?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">16.
Tell about your first date with your spouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">17.
What was your first impression of your spouse?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">18.
What do you like best about your spouse? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">19.
Tell about your first kiss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">20.
Tell about your wedding day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">21.
Describe your first apartment or house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">22.
What were your early days of marriage like?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">23.
What do you remember about each birth of your children?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">24.
Tell a short story about each of your children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">25.
What family vacations have you enjoyed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">26.
What is your favorite family tradition now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">27.
What are some of your hobbies?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">28.
What makes you the most happy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">29.
What advice would you leave for your posterity?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To be sure that you get the whole
story, use follow up questions or phrases that encourage the interviewee to
continue.</span></div>
Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-64341693052932180282013-02-07T15:52:00.000-08:002013-02-07T15:52:05.047-08:00Don't Procrastinate Oral Interviews!!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oral Histories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Column for Lodi
News-Sentinel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">May 2001</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">By Ann Kerr</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last year I wrote a column on “video
histories,” and made the point that we should not procrastinate taking a video
of parents and grandparents because we never know how long they will be with
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This was really brought home in
March when my husband’s mother died unexpectedly from injuries suffered in an
automobile accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had never
written a personal history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel, one
of her granddaughters, was asked to deliver the eulogy at her funeral and the
only information she had to go by (other than a few dates) was the video we had
made in 1995.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The audience laughed with fond
memories as Rachel told how her grandmother had eloped when she was 17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she and her new husband came back to
Modesto from their marriage in Tahoe, grandma was afraid to tell her very
strict parents what she had done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she
and grandpa each went to their own homes to live and told no one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This went on for two weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One day grandma was sitting in church
with a girl friend who whispered in grandma’s ear taunting, “I bet I’ll get
married before you do!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, no you won’t,” grandma smugly
replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m <i>already</i>
married.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little did she realize that
her parents were sitting in the pew behind her and heard the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He father was livid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they got home he announced, “I’ll have
this marriage annulled if it costs me a cow!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, he got over it because grandma
had married a sweet wonderful man and everyone came to love him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were married well over 50 years until
grandpa died in 1996.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But I got to wondering what
grandma’s father was like . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this man
who seemed so strict and firm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had
written a short personal history, but included only the main facts of his
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about him as a person?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was curious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only two of his children are still living and
they are in fragile health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My husband made a date with one of
them who lives in Oakdale, and we visited him with the sole purpose of learning
some interesting things about the life of his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used a small tape recorder so that later I
could easily transcribe his memories into the computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We asked questions, of course, but
some of the best memory joggers turned out to be a few snapshots we had found
in grandma’s home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was her brother
(our interviewee) standing by a milk can near the barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned how the family supported
themselves by milking cows and selling the milk to a local creamery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day they<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made ice cream and it was this treat that
got them through some very tough years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And yes, grandpa was strict and
quite a taskmaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all this
children loved and respected him for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(After they were grown anyway.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you decide to make an oral
history, you can use the same questions we used for the video histories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you didn’t get a copy, you can email me at
the Lodi Family History Center and I will send one to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t have email, I will have some
copies you can pick up at the Center at no charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do it now, before it’s too late.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Here is a clip from our interview with my husband's parents, as referenced in the column. We call if "The Elopement."</span></div>
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Old Home Movies<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> on Film </span></div>
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Column for Lodi News-Sentinel</div>
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By Ann Kerr</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I was
a child, our family would frequently get together to watch home movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like thousands of other families in the
twentieth century, we played those soundless, flickering frames on a movie
projector.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our favorite was harvesting carrots in our
garden and putting them in our red wagon to take to the cellar for winter
storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course some of the carrots
dropped out of the highly stacked wagon as we made our way over the rough
ground. Then we laughed uproariously as the carrots jumped up off the ground
and back into the wagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This happened
because my brother thought it was very funny to play the movie backwards, and
yes indeed, it was good entertainment for all of us.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now movies
like these sit neglected in shoe boxes stored in attics or closets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I helped a friend move last month and
saw his old movies in a closet, it reminded me that the question I get asked
most frequently is: “How do I get my old home movies to another medium so I can
watch them?” </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Here’s my
answer in a nutshell: For best quality, don’t try to do it yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <i>is </i>possible to set up a movie
projector in a dark room and project the film on a screen, then as it plays,
tape it with a digital video camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
results will not be the best, but it will be better than letting the film sit
and become brittle and perhaps unplayable at all someday.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The best
option is to have it professionally transferred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most local camera processing places (Longs,
Wal-Mart, etc.) can send your film out to be transferred to videotape or
DVD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When suggesting this idea to a
friend, she didn’t want to trust her precious movies to be delivered to an
outside site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she was just going to
let them sit in the closet, even if it meant no one would ever see them.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Other
options are available. There are some places in larger cities where you can
hand deliver your film for professional transfer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was writing this column I put “movie
transfer Sacramento” into the Google search engine and came up with several
places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cost is around 12 cents a
foot or about $100 for an hour’s worth of transfer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you want
to transfer just the best reels of film or parts of the reel, you may want to
watch it first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem here is the
same one you might have if trying to do your own transfer: a movie projector
may not be available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re not made
anymore, and if the lamp burns out, it will be very difficult to find a
replacement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A quick check of eBay found
quite a few for sale, however. So if you have a lot of film, and no projector,
you may want to invest in one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
them were selling for $50 to $100.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two
wonderful pieces of old movie film recently just fell into my lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was my Mom in the late thirties when she
was a nanny for a family in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The film shows her bringing the children into the house, pushing a baby
carriage, and walking through Central Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even the parts of the film where Mom isn’t in the picture contain great
scenes that show the family and city that were such a vital part of her life
for three years.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The other
film is of my Dad water skiing in the canal by our farmhouse in Idaho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother is pulling him with a
tractor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is only 30 seconds long and
it cost me $36 to get it transferred because the film was broken in six places
and had to be spliced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve already had
hundreds of dollars of enjoyment out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I set it to music and put it on DVD for easy access. My kids and
grandchildren love it! I use it in a presentation I do about using video in
family history and it never fails to elicit a roar of laughter from the
audience<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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There’s so much you can do (or have
a professional do) with your wonderful old film, even it doesn’t have a
soundtrack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write down a few facts about
the events depicted on each reel so your descendants will know the background
behind the flicking images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Provide a
synopsis of the story just like those on the back of the videos and DVD’s we
buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Include names of family members, as
well as dates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write movie notes and
include package highlights.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With a
simple movie-editing program, you can add narration and music to your old
movies, as well as titles with names and dates.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By saving
your home movies you’ll be putting action into your genealogy. A picture of an
ancestor is a static portrait of him. Film footage allows us a glimpse of the
real person, catching his personality in a way that is unique and priceless.</div>
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Missionary Interview Questions to Consider
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What was I doing at the time I decided to go on a mission?</div>
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What or who influenced me to go on a mission?</div>
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What was my reaction to my mission call?</div>
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What preparation did I have for my mission?</div>
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What were some of my first reactions as I started my
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What were some of my early challenges?</div>
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What families or comments touched my life?</div>
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What goals did I have during my mission?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did I realize them?</div>
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What lessons did I learn?</div>
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Looking back, how did my mission affect my life?</div>
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What advice would I give go my children or grandchildren
about a mission?</div>
Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-39401579191256473842013-02-07T14:07:00.003-08:002013-02-07T14:07:26.474-08:00Why Living History?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Living Histories</h1>
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Column for Lodi News Sentinel </div>
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By Ann Kerr</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This fall
the Lodi Family History Center is emphasizing the importance of gathering
histories from relatives who are still living. Their stories (our heritage) are
family treasures that need to be preserved.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This will
be the first in a series of three columns to give you ideas on why and how you
can gather and preserve a living history.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>First, why
should we do this?</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">To
create and preserve heart-felt family experiences.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">To
give us opportunities to learn from the lives and lessons of previous
generations</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">To
draw upon the perspective and moral strength of the past.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">To
build communication, foster respect, and show our love for those who have
worked and sacrificed to give us so much.</li>
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Someone once said, “When an older person dies, a
library burns.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t wait until it’s
too late to gather family history. </div>
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I read a story about a woman whose
widowed mother passed away earlier in the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She said, “We were always to going to sit down ‘someday’ and write down
what Mom remembered of family history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, she died of injuries suffered in an auto accident before
‘someday’ came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am afraid I have lost
some invaluable information on her family--her own fertile memory of family
incidents, as well as special memories like my father’s courtship, her wedding
day, and her childhood.”</div>
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This woman is going to try and make
up for this by making a Thanksgiving trip to an uncle’s home in another state.
There she will meet with two uncles, an aunt by marriage and two cousins and
their families. From them she hopes to get a good start on identifying pictures
and recording family stories.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She will take with her a laptop computer with
genealogy software loaded on it, her grandmother’s photo albums in which most
of the photos are unidentified, a camera and a mini tape recorder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She will try to get information from those
who knew her mother and grandmother in earlier years.</div>
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What is a living family
history?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be oral, recorded on
audio or videotape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next month in my
column I will give you tips on conducting a successful interview.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Five years
ago my husband and I decided to make video histories of our parents who were
all living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two years later, three of
them had died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re so glad that we acted
on our impressions to get this done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After this, we followed up by having one of our daughters make a video
history of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You never know when your
time will come to leave this life.</div>
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Photos play an important part in a
history and make it come alive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gather
and label family photos.</div>
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Histories can be written: either
extensive life-long histories, or short stories of interesting and vital events
that have happened in a person’s life.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Don’t
forget memorabilia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s interesting to
get the personal story behind the little things on the shelf and in the
drawers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom has a pitcher that is
shaped like an elephant and the liquid comes out of its mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was a little girl our relatives gwould
come from the city to visit our farm and my dad would take them out to watch
him milk the cows.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now knowing
where milk came from, they refused to drink it, so my mother put it in the
elephant pitcher and told them it was elephant milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they were willing to drink it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wrote this story and put it in my history
with a photo of the pitcher.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I hope I
have convinced you to overcome procrastination in gathering priceless family
histories from living relatives before the information is lost forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the process you will learn more about who
you are and how much you are a product of their lives.</div>
Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-44022093127025955942013-02-07T14:04:00.001-08:002013-02-07T14:04:15.160-08:00Latest Picasa Goodies<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/93pVf0koMefGAMGjUJXYjQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi76K6I2pmBFg&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4nq34iApjelDzb1xP_c78bY3U9buarFzRuKZQnvXZA6693ZzGmb2mO0xe-zGVBmhVZVNjV_Ipg0355NjImshFUH2KUeeHrB5QvCcuTsRS6Rzi5_mUKhIPpGA6jHZrm4HQdluPrA1Su4/s400/top2.jpg" /></a><br />
Nearly
every updated feature in Picasa is totally great! One of the things I
missed most in the previous version was the ability to retouch an image.
Now we can. Just click on the retouch tool and airbrush away
unsightly blemishes.<br />
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One of my favorite features is
that we can now add text to a photo. Wow, this comes in so handy and it
works like a charm! In addition, new printing features allow you to
print captions either on or below a photo.<br />
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EyZ1S6n2GqSgiAzByOmnbA?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi76K6I2pmBFg&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWR7QY_5x_V72xtC6sPmR2eiA8s_Wa5U9KcgI4H_ZBHziuUBUOtB4vW4L0G98mLR4-baN82O1uTPO9MIdEpDtVsFcLQPoaJ24K_IfhSpZ_FrT6db4VJjYXdtsRtq57v4GwVuHGcw8ncA/s400/IMG_9300.JPG" /></a><br />
Several
new video features : the ability to trim a clip, export it to YouTube,
take a snapshot of a single frame, and play in full screen. You can
"scrub" through the video, then use the . and , keys to look at the
video frame by frame and identify an exact frame location.<br />
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Other
new features are the ability to sync Picasa pictures with web album
edits, create and edit movies, do a screen capture, set your desktop
picture, make a screen saver, print captions, and much more. <br />
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There
are also things that we knew and loved before that are even better now.
The collage maker has been expanded and works much better. (A real
boon to bloggers!) You can upload an album to Picasa Web Albums and
email invitations to friends and family with just one click. Red eye
removal is automatic. No need to draw the little boxes around the eye
like we used to. <br />
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8YTvY3tq9hsWyyLJMitruw?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi76K6I2pmBFg&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqM_ZLGtO2yiMHxcdGAopNvn1UPLDVymq53gS_f8jzy0lHWS0uupw1hU32XVyjpW4vGkBIl_f-LmnSEVxAxBpec64iMZ57HntNtPnOj8Fi4Er2_SHafCo3yJ_qTk0Rzam47L3QjxzLRE/s400/Memorial%20Weekend%202009.jpg" /></a> <br />
They have fixed one annoying thing: that you could only put one word in a word tag. Now you can do multiple words. <br />
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More
features have been added to the slideshow creator--lots more transition
styles, and the ability to include video in the slideshow.<br />
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In addition Google has increased the number of photos it can keep organized to one million.<br />
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For a list and explanation of all new and updated features, click <a href="http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94125">here</a>. Be sure and check out "Picasa Community Videos" on the left side. Some of them are quite good.<br />
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The
only thing I didn't like about the new features was the movie maker.
Very lame. You can only use MP3 or WMC music. You can only choose one
transition, and it is applied to every picture. If you include a video
clip, it plays the sound from that over the music you have chosen. If
you're not into video and don't care about these things, then be my
guest. I'm not going to use it.Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-4410629188987333262013-02-07T10:28:00.003-08:002013-02-08T08:21:30.376-08:00Valentine's Day Cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">I (Alison) got the bug to design a Valentine's Day card this morning and the first picture that came to my mind was of my three adorable nieces sitting in a bath tub. I took this picture of them in October, 2012 in Park City by an old barn that just happened to have a random old bathtub sitting behind it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"> I've designed cards for my kids in the past to hand out to their friends and they've always been a big hit (especially if their favorite candy is attached.) I usually design them to be printed as a 4x6 or I'll design them as a 2x3 and put two onto a 4x6 print so I can get more for my money. If your muse is gone, I would suggest getting ideas from creative people on </span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" style="font-family: 'times new roman';" target="_blank">Pinterest</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"> or places that sell personalized holiday cards like </span><a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/" style="font-family: 'times new roman';" target="_blank">Shutterfly</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">, </span><a href="http://www.tinyprints.com/" style="font-family: 'times new roman';" target="_blank">Tiny Prints</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">, or </span><a href="http://www.minted.com/" style="font-family: 'times new roman';" target="_blank">Minted</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">.</span><br />
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Hi, this is Ann. I got inspired by Alison's valentines and decided to make one for<i> my</i> sweetheart. I used a heritage-themed digital art template and a colored picture from our wedding. I turned the picture B&W and added my personal message. Total time: About five minutes.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a set using family pictures from the past.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how the printed template looks before it is trimmed. There are two pieces here. One for the front of a 4x4 block, and one for its top.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;">Ann says: Remember when Oprah used to say she had an "ah-ha" moment? It was when she suddenly came to realize something astounding. Alison and I had one of these when we discovered that you don't have to make an Internet book using the templates a particular book gives you. Sometimes there's a better way to do it. You can make the page in Photoshop Elements, then save it as a JPEG and insert it in your book as a single picture. We have made several books that are totally Photoshop pages. Ann likes to make a book with some Photoshop pages (when nothing in the book software works for a particular event) and make the rest of the pages from the book templates. Here are some samples of Photoshop pages.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This a page from my book on the Northern California coast. The entire book was made on "blended" templates in Photoshop. I love how these pages come together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OK, there were several pages in the California Coast book that are not blended. This one uses some delightful aged frames.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of the pages from our Family Proclamation book designed by Alison. The entire book is Photoshop pages and was really Alison's first attempt at designing. She obviously has quite a knack for it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were so excited when we learned how to make an "out of bounds" picture such as this one. Nope, there's not an option for this in the Internet book templates.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When President Hinckley died, the LDS gals in the scrapbooking world were making pages to honor him. I did it by illustrating something from my life for each of the six B's. This is a double 12x12 spread and took me a long time to complete, but I enjoyed every minute of it.</td></tr>
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If you want to make some cute videos very easily, I recommend Animoto <a href="http://animoto.com/" target="_blank">http://animoto.com/</a> It's fun and has a good choice of templates. They have music you can use, or you can upload your own MP3 music. Your have to pay $30 a year and can use the site as many times as you want. (Tip: if you don't like how it goes together, just tell it to do it again and you will get a different version.)<br />
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Here is a sample of a video I made for Mormon Helping Hands using Animoto.<br />
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For those who may want to do more than just basic editing, I recommend Sony’s Vegas Movie Studio<br />
Platinum Suite 12 for just $40.81 (as of 2/05/13) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Movie-Studio-Platinum-Suite/dp/B008MIMIY8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1360244432&sr=8-4&keywords=sony+movie+maker" target="_blank">here.</a> It’s simple, stable, and can do many wonderful things. It is amazing for the price. I use its professional big brother, <i>Sony Vegas Pro</i>.Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-54246837000847570882013-02-05T10:01:00.002-08:002013-02-05T10:22:50.760-08:00Picasa Story in News-Sentinel<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Here is the story about how I discovered Picasa and how I began using it.</b></span><br />
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<b>Screen capture from Picasa. Good grief! How many <span style="background-color: cyan;">sn<span style="background-color: red;"></span>ow</span> pictures do I have??</b></h3>
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Column for Lodi News-Sentinel, February 2005</div>
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By Ann Kerr</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Has
everyone been happily “Googling” since my column last month?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe I said, “To know it is to love
it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time I’m going to say, “To
know it is to love, love, love it!”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just so we’re
on the same page, Google is an amazing search engine<b>. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully you’ve all bookmarked it by now and
placed it on your toolbar.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today,
we’re talking about photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you know
Google has a section called “images?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Click on “images” on the Google home page and you will be able to
quickly access millions of images from all over the world.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How can we
use this in family history?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
putting together my Dad’s personal history with what photos I could get from my
Mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the things Dad talked a lot
about was driving a produce truck as a young man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had nothing to illustrate this part of his
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to Google, typed in “old
truck” and came up with many pictures from which to choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up with about eight illustrations
that could have been his truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
though it won’t be the exact truck he drove, including it will add a nice sense
of history to his story.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A friend
was looking for a particular ship in which his grandfather had sailed around
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was able to find that
exact ship, as well as one of the tickets a passenger had to have in order to
board the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adding these items to his
story was a nice touch.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One thing
to take note of is the size of the image, which is listed directly below
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s small, you may not be able
to enlarge it to the size you want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
usually try to choose a picture that as a minimum of 500 pixels in size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you have chosen an image, right-click on
it and save it on your computer.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now on to
the really good stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would you
like to be able to “Google” all the pictures on your computer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s now possible because Google bought
Picasa, a popular photo-organizing program, and is giving it to us free.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Find it by
clicking on “more” on the Google home page and you’ll be directed to the Picasa
Web site for downloading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
installing, the program searches your computer for pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Tip: You will have an option to search your
whole computer or just the drives where you keep pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t choose the whole computer unless you
want to see images of every kind imaginable, many of which you’ll never use.)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now you
have your own private Google image finder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Type a word or words in the search box and without even pressing a
button, all the pictures in any way related to that word will show up.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The first
time I did this I was totally astounded!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While my pictures were loading into Picasa the first time I had noticed
some pretty winter pictures I had taken in the Sierras, so I decided to type
“snow” in the search engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up came
pictures I had forgotten I had, scrolling like slides on a giant light table.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In addition
to scenic shots of pine trees laden with snow, Google found several pictures,
some photos a friend had given me for a PowerPoint presentation, pictures from
my childhood showing snow banks at our home in Idaho, a picture of pioneers
crossing a frozen river, my daughter making a snowman at college, etc.,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was staring at my computer in
disbelief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did Mr. Google do
it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it took less than one second!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I tried
several other words and names, all with the same result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But finding pictures is only the
beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could then choose one of
them for tweaking and apply any of the usual quick-fix buttons (auto contrast,
auto color, focus, etc.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
buttons (in a witty move by Picasa) is called “I’m feeling lucky,” which comes
from a similar button on the Google search page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time it means: “I don’t care which
parameters you tweak, just make this picture look better.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The results are often astonishing.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next I
tried the “effects” tab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, at the
touch of a button, you can change a color picture to black and white, make it
sepia (or any other color), or choose from an array of other effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One I had fun with was “Selective
Focus.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using a picture of my husband
and me kissing when we were young, I moved a little icon around the picture
until only our faces were in focus, and the rest of the picture gradually went
out-of-focus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(You have a choice of how
much of the picture remains in focus.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I changed the color to sepia, printed it off at exactly 5x7 inches
using Picasa’s excellent print choices, put it in a frame, and within minutes
had a striking picture for our sofa table.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Another effect
I like is “Focal B&W.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Choose one
item in your color picture to remain colored, and the rest turns to black and
white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My daughter and I had fun playing
with this feature using some pictures of parrots she had just taken at the Wild
Animal Park in San Diego.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The best
thing about all these changes to a picture is that Picasa doesn’t touch your
original photo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can make changes
without fear.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are
several other options that you can explore on Picasa, such as being able to
“instant message” pictures, put them on blogs, watch a slide show, make a
screensaver, or hook up directly to online printing stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One I really like is the ability to send one
or several pictures by e-mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
program automatically resizes the pictures for you so that they will be just
right for sharing with friends.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How does
Google plan to make money by giving us this wonderful program for free?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But they have promised not to get everybody hooked on Picasa and then
turn around and start charging or taking away features.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we will trust them because we love
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enjoy the program!</div>
Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-58177679189414746582013-01-29T06:36:00.000-08:002013-01-29T11:34:31.585-08:00The Healing Brush--It's So Handy!This special brush is great for eliminating unwanted objects from a picture. It gets rid of pimples, telephone poles and lines, birds, cars, and even people. Check out these screen captures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Here's a lovely fall picture that I could use for a project, but I don't need to be in the picture. In Photoshop Elements I chose "the healing brush" which looks like a bandaide (first red check mark,) then make sure that "content aware" (bottom red check mark) is selected</b>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Choose a brush size that fits your object. I used a fairly big one here. After you have covered the object you are removing, the computer begins to work its magic.</b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>It only takes a few seconds and presto! I am gone. Now I can use the fall picture in my project.</b></td></tr>
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<br />Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-22607983646335591282013-01-28T04:59:00.000-08:002013-02-09T22:12:26.599-08:00"Stitching" a Picture TogetherWhen a picture is too large for your scanner, you need to scan it in sections and stitch them together. It's so easy because the computer does most of the work. Here is an example: This is a paper scrapbook page I made for my mother about the three years she spent in New York as a nanny. It is 12x12" and will not fit in my scanner. I wanted to digitize it so I could share it with my children, as well as use it in an Internet book.<br />
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<b>This is how you do it in Photoshop Elements.</b><br />
1.Scan the right side of the page and save it. I like to include an "R" so I will know it's the right side.<br />
2. Scan the "L" side of the page. (This could be "top" and "bottom" if you're scanning a long document. (Note that each part of the page is overlapped. I usually scan each side as wide as it is on the scanner. That way it's easy for the computer to match them up.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>These are the two scanned sections, Left and Right</b></td></tr>
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3. In Photoshop Elements, click the Expert tab at the top, then go to Enhance, then Photomerge, then Photomerge Panorama.<br />
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4. Click on the Browse button and select both files.<br />
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5. Click OK. Like magic, your two pieces will be blended together. You may need to do some cropping around the edges depending on how good your scans were. If you get a question "Would you like to automatically fill in the edges of your panorama?" click Yes, and see how it looks.<br />
6. You can now save your image as a new digital page!<br />
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Here are some other things that may need to be stitched:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A panorama picture that you took on location. The bottom picture on this scrapbook page is the Waimea Canyon on Kauai, Hawaii. I took it in four sections and stitched them together. Best to use a tripod for this. I didn't have one at the time, so I tried to keep the camera on the same level and overlapped the individual pictures.</b></td></tr>
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Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-27541606547912125482009-11-11T09:51:00.000-08:002013-01-29T21:30:55.238-08:00Changing the Color<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/31Y3tWR6TiWDP86Yv0EmFA?authkey=Gv1sRgCN__5rW0z7qJnAE&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTkyrzgfk_FWPMgSn4fRiKW8Lw3zg0zNeM8yNIpKHH6p9lwz0uinufKm6LWh9SPXR_owNd769bVHyLUBpmeD9oVg_9ktLeGQtEvHkQRzxMAzO9WjMVVcdiALSMvGm1cgrQ7dM9UMSQwI/s400/CA%20Mission%20Report.jpg" /></a><br />
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Last year when our daughter Ryann was in the fourth grade and studying all about California in her 4th grade class, extra credit was offered if the students visited one or more California missions.<br />
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Ryann was disappointed when I told her it would be impossible to do any traveling to see the missions. The closest one was four hours away and I was 8 months pregnant at the time.<br />
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Instead, we took a picture of her and extracted her from the photo. We then changed the color of her shirt to about 8 different colors. Then we downloaded various pictures of missions from the internet and moved her over onto the different pictures and added a title.<br />
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She took the finished photos into her class the next day and showed her teacher. Her teacher thought they were real and was amazed that she had been to so many missions in just one weekend! Ryann told her they were photoshopped and she was amazed. She didn't give her any extra credit though, darn it!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How to change color:</span></span><br />
Use your magnetic lasso tool and select the area you want to change. Pressing control+u will bring up the hue/saturation option. Go under the master drop down menu at the top and choose the color closest to the color you want to change. Use the Hue slider to find a color that will work for you. Wa la! Amazing!Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-31260178762237364722009-11-11T09:35:00.001-08:002013-01-29T22:31:04.120-08:00Extracting a Picture<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wjMb8BT8aU_U3f66P4-Bfg?authkey=Gv1sRgCLj8mcWMup-SqwE&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRPWWntcExgWf8Ee6D2IECaIEUCb9Uty9oTl8aLRbWFHJnDMQQekJ09MGx73IA0R0oFQANg37lu8RC5klhQXq9n0ya1Yx3czK8aTX9hCcnLMwq_O8wVNy8k19ILRIHcR9JIkEjqCSHnY/s400/Finished%20Castle%20slide.jpg" /></a><br />
<b>Alison says:</b> Extracting something from a photo using Elements is so easy and super fun! I just completed this little project for my boys' "castle" room this last week. I took their pictures dressed in a knight's costume in front of our garage so there would be some contrast in coloring and it would be easier to extract. Then I changed the colors of the tunics and dragged the extracted boys over to a picture of a castle I found on the internet. I added some text and split the pictures into thirds and mod podged them on to 8"x24" canvases.<br />
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<b>Extracting Directions</b><br />
Take your photo into Elements and choose<i> image</i>, then <i>magic extractor</i>. Click on the pen with the + sign on the left side. Color the area you want to keep (red). Click on the pen with the - sign and color the area you want to take away (blue). Choose 2 on the feathering option on the right. Click OK. You may have to use the eraser to clean some areas up a bit. <b>Make sure you save your extraction as a png so the background will be transparent.</b><br />
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Here's a little tip to use when you're extracting a photo using the
Magic Extractor option in Photoshop Elements. When you're extracting
your picture, make sure you put in a "4" in the feathering box before
you press ok to extract. It helps feather out your edges a little so it
doesn't have such a harsh edge.<br />
<br /><b>Ann says: </b> Here is an example of a senior picture I took at Hutchins Street Square. I extracted the girl from the picture and placed it on some Tuscan themed digital paper. It was a little more complicated because I wanted to leave the pillars and sidewalk from the original picture. I did this by selecting the part (in the middle) that needed to be removed, deleting it, and then placing the paper on the layer under it. I like how it turned out.<br />
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<br />Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-69546391998617091332009-10-09T14:53:00.000-07:002009-10-10T06:11:03.709-07:00Some Cool Stuff About PicasaThis is the stuff I love about Picasa for digital scrapbooking. If you don't use it already, you should!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Find any picture</span><br /><br /> A picture can be identified by Picasa five ways. (1) Its file name (2) Name of the folder it's in (3) Any words in its caption (4) Any words in its folder description (5) A keyword which has been attached to it (Ctrl+K). Type in a word you think will bring up the picture, and most of the time, it will! <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Drag and drop</span><br /><br /> Minimize Picasa and place it over Photoshop. Drag the picture from Picasa to the Photoshop workspace. You can press and hold the Ctrl key to select more than one, then move all at the same time. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Look at brush JPEGS</span><br /><br /> It's easy to see what brushes you have and what folder they are in. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Enlarge paper to see exactly what it's like</span><br /><br /> Press Ctrl+Alt while hovering on pix to see the details and if you really want to use it. Great for scrapbook papers, as well as your photographs. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Identifying digital art are for a particular use<br /></span><br /> When you purchase a kit, put key words in your paragraph description. For example, if you like to do wedding books, write "wedding" in your description even if the paper wasn't meant for weddings. When you type in "wedding" it will bring up all the papers you have identified. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Make a collection for one project</span><br /><br /> Say for example that you're making a family proclamation book using pictures that are scattered all over your computer. When you see a picture you'd like to use, but it in a "virtual folder." (little blue folder at the bottom of Picasa and to the right of the photo tray) Then export that folder to your picture folder and name the folder for your project. Then you can upload all the pictures at once to the book publisher and save yourself a lot of grief uploading a picture here and a picture there. <br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Make an instant collage</span><br /><br /> This is great for your blogs, but could also make a quickie scrapbook page. Select several pictures and click on the collage icon near the top and to the left of the folder the pictures are in. Choose the type of collage you want from the pull down menu at the top, and choose your page format, then click "create collage." There are options for space between the pictures, as well as color of the space. If you don't like the way the pictures are laid out, click "shuffle pictures" below the collage and try again. <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Designer gallery</span><br /><br /> A virtual folder of ideas. When you see a page you really like on the Internet, save it to a scrapbook folder called "Designer Gallery." Then when your mind goes blank, you can look there for ideas, and "scraplift" it for your own use. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Digital thumbnails</span><br /><br />A virtual folder of your art kits. Each time you buy a digital kit, most likely it will have a picture arrangement that includes most of the papers and elements in the kit. Put that picture in a virtual folder called "Digital Thumbnails." Then you can browse through there to get an idea of which kit you may want to use for your scrapbook page. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Share with screensaver</span><br /><br /> Picasa must be open, then when you are anywhere else on your computer and you want to do a screen capture, just press your "Print Screen" key and it will be saved to a folder in Picasa. Then you can quickly email it, or do whatever you want. It's nice for sharing a page in progress. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Print photo book pages in wallet size for sorting</span><br /><br /> Example: say you have made enough pages for a photo book, but you want to play around with arranging them, etc. Select them all, and click on the print icon in Picasa. Choose "Wallet." Mark "shrink to fit" in print dialogue on the left of the page. Print and cut out.Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-44776766817834364432009-10-06T14:09:00.001-07:002009-10-06T14:15:37.727-07:00Picasa UpdatePicasa 3.5, which is the latest version out now, scans all the photos in your collection, identifies the ones with faces, and groups photos with similar faces together. It's easy to add name tags to dozens of photos at once by clicking "Add a name" below a photo and typing the person's name.Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-87404712764996439022009-06-02T14:03:00.000-07:002009-10-06T14:09:00.196-07:00What's New In Picasa 3?<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/93pVf0koMefGAMGjUJXYjQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi76K6I2pmBFg&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4nq34iApjelDzb1xP_c78bY3U9buarFzRuKZQnvXZA6693ZzGmb2mO0xe-zGVBmhVZVNjV_Ipg0355NjImshFUH2KUeeHrB5QvCcuTsRS6Rzi5_mUKhIPpGA6jHZrm4HQdluPrA1Su4/s400/top2.jpg" /></a><br />Nearly every updated feature in Picasa is totally great! One of the things I missed most in the previous version was the ability to retouch an image. Now we can. Just click on the retouch tool and airbrush away unsightly blemishes.<br /><br />One of my favorite features is that we can now add text to a photo. Wow, this comes in so handy and it works like a charm! In addition, new printing features allow you to print captions either on or below a photo.<br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EyZ1S6n2GqSgiAzByOmnbA?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi76K6I2pmBFg&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWR7QY_5x_V72xtC6sPmR2eiA8s_Wa5U9KcgI4H_ZBHziuUBUOtB4vW4L0G98mLR4-baN82O1uTPO9MIdEpDtVsFcLQPoaJ24K_IfhSpZ_FrT6db4VJjYXdtsRtq57v4GwVuHGcw8ncA/s400/IMG_9300.JPG" /></a><br />Several new video features : the ability to trim a clip, export it to YouTube, take a snapshot of a single frame, and play in full screen. You can "scrub" through the video, then use the . and , keys to look at the video frame by frame and identify an exact frame location.<br /><br />Other new features are the ability to sync Picasa pictures with web album edits, create and edit movies, do a screen capture, set your desktop picture, make a screen saver, print captions, and much more. <br /><br />There are also things that we knew and loved before that are even better now. The collage maker has been expanded and works much better. (A real boon to bloggers!) You can upload an album to Picasa Web Albums and email invitations to friends and family with just one click. Red eye removal is automatic. No need to draw the little boxes around the eye like we used to. <br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8YTvY3tq9hsWyyLJMitruw?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi76K6I2pmBFg&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqM_ZLGtO2yiMHxcdGAopNvn1UPLDVymq53gS_f8jzy0lHWS0uupw1hU32XVyjpW4vGkBIl_f-LmnSEVxAxBpec64iMZ57HntNtPnOj8Fi4Er2_SHafCo3yJ_qTk0Rzam47L3QjxzLRE/s400/Memorial%20Weekend%202009.jpg" /></a> <br />They have fixed one annoying thing: that you could only put one word in a word tag. Now you can do multiple words. <br /><br />More features have been added to the slideshow creator--lots more transition styles, and the ability to include video in the slideshow.<br /><br />In addition Google has increased the number of photos it can keep organized to one million.<br /><br />For a list and explanation of all new and updated features, click <a href="http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94125">here</a>. Be sure and check out "Picasa Community Videos" on the left side. Some of them are quite good.<br /><br />The only thing I didn't like about the new features was the movie maker. Very lame. You can only use MP3 or WMC music. You can only choose one transition, and it is applied to every picture. If you include a video clip, it plays the sound from that over the music you have chosen. If you're not into video and don't care about these things, then be my guest. I'm not going to use it.Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-82167090268204728112009-03-19T17:18:00.000-07:002009-03-19T17:21:36.868-07:00Picasa for the Mac!Picasa finally came out with a version for Mac users. Check it out <a href="http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/google-finally-releases-picasa-for-mac/">here</a>. It's an AWESOME photo organizing program with many extra goodies!Alison Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248724295562606517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6177233212554777463.post-60561146167899445742008-11-09T17:42:00.000-08:002013-02-22T05:29:04.372-08:00Free Family Proclamation Templates & Tips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of our most asked questions is "Where can I get templates to make a Family Proclamation book?" Finally we have an answer, thanks to our friend Jill Means who is a professional graphic artist. She has designed a beautiful set, including some extra pages in alternate styles. Above is a sample page made by Heather McCauley. On the left is the page designed by Jill. On the right is the page with pictures slipped underneath it on another layer. Easy and beautiful!<br />
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Jill used to charge for the templates, but now gives them away free through Ann Kerr. Contact her if you would like a set. There are two kinds: (1) .png pages like the one above where you just add a picture. (2) Photoshop pages that you can change things if you want, i.e. resize a picture, eliminate a picture, change background, etc.<br />
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<b>February 22, 2013</b><br />
<b>Special note: Jill says she is willing to send you the templates. She has a program that can send large files. Email her at jillmeansdesign@hotmail.com. </b><br />
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We made our book 12x12 and had it printed by Shutterfly. But you can make your book a different size as long as it's square.<br />
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This is a slide show of our Photoshop Family Proclamation book. (Not made with templates.)<i> Click on it to see in a larger size.</i><br />
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