Working with Digital Images Auburn NY

Source: REMODELING Magazine
Publication date: November 1, 2005

By Joe Stoddard

For remodelers, digital photography has less to do with cameras and more to do with communication. Using a digital camera and the Internet, issues that used to take days or weeks to resolve with meetings and site visits can now be handled in minutes.

Even the image quality from point-and-shoot cameras built into cell phones is becoming good enough to use on the jobsite, and if you are willing to spend a couple hundred dollars on a stand-alone camera, you will get instant communication benefits and print quality that rivals 35mm film.

Instead of film, digital cameras use a light-sensitive CCD (charge-coupled device) chip that captures images using a grid of dots, called pixels. Today's best digitals can capture roughly 3,300 x 2,500 pixels — around 8 million dots, or 8 mega-pixels. But these high-resolution images won't work for e-mailing or sharing on the Internet. For example, if you tried to display a 3,300 x 2,500-pixel image on the typical 1,024 x 768-pixel computer monitor, you could only look at 1/6 of it at a time.

Picasa features both a catalog browser (rear) and basic editing tools. “E-mail Photo” automatically creates a downsized copy and attaches it to your e-mail software of choice.

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