Nikon 2mp point & shoot Windows Explorer to copy the file from the camera to the PC Could have used Irfan to edit the picture, but didn't Notepad for the exquisitely hand-tooled html Windows Explorer's ftp to copy it to the website
Warning: 400k file, 1600x1200, which is fine for my screen. Don't care about yours... http://www.web-options.com/cheap.htm For one picture this is not difficult. But for galleries the hand-tooled html approach is too cumbersome - I've done it before. The photo-editing in Lightroom is obviously better than Windows Explorer and Irfan, but Irfan is pretty good for the odd quick & dirty. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott Loveless > Sent: 03 April 2007 19:10 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Cheapskate Challenge > > I've been thinking lately about the cost of doing photography and > finishing photographs for web publication. A recent, erm, > thread got me > steamed up enough to post this. Basically, how much can you > accomplish > without spending any more money than it cost you to obtain your > hardware? First some assumptions and then the rules. > > Assumptions: > 1. You have access to a computer with an operating system > installed and > a connection to the Internet. Said computer is capable of > running photo > editing software and displaying the images on a screen. > 2. You have access to a working digital camera or a scanner that you > can connect to the computer. > > The rules: > 1. You can use the software that came with your computer. Your > computer probably came with an OS installed. If it didn't, > whatever OS > is currently installed is fine. OSX, Windows, Linux, whatever. >From > what I understand, the Mac has some basic photo editing software > installed by default. Most Linux distros do, too. All of > this is fine. > 2. You can use the software that came with your camera or > scanner. If > you had to buy a third party application to get your scanner > or camera > to talk to your computer that's fine, too. > 3. Since most of us like to print photos from time to time, > you can use > the software that came with your printer. In my case the Epson R320 > came with Elements 2.0, so that's allowed. > 4. You can use any freely available software, open source or > otherwise. e.g. - Irfanview, Lightzone for Linux, Picasa, the GIMP, > etc. Trial versions, software that watermarks your photos > until you pay > for the real thing, etc. are not allowed. You should be able > to use the > software indefinitely (and legally, so no warez) without > having to shell > out extra cash. > > To sum up, if it came with your hardware, is absolutely necessary for > operating your hardware, or is freely available (no strings attached) > it's allowed. Nothing else. > > Within these limitation try to produce something you're proud to call > your own. When discussing digital (or digitally scanned) photographs > with someone who's never done it before, you should be able > to show them > the photo and say something like "All you need is your computer, your > camera, and whatever software came with them." > > In an attempt to add some credibility to the challenge, I > should state > that I have submitted two photographs to the Pentax Gallery. One of > them was accepted. I shot the photograph on a K100D, JPEG, > and edited > it with Picasa on a PC running Windows XP. It was a PESO a few weeks > ago and can be seen here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/sdloveless/PDMLPESO/photo#50355272 > 65195980162 > > If you're interested in playing along, simply post a link to your > photo(s) in a reply to this message, or mark it as a Cheapskate > Challenge photo in a separate thread. Let us know what software you > used to process/edit the photo. Compare it to the software you would > normally use. If you're not interested, I won't be offended. If you > think I need to revise the assumptions or rules please let me > know. If > you think this is a ridiculous waste of time I'd like to hear about > that, too. > > Have fun! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
