)- Adjust your digital camera's settings
Your digital camera will come with several settings that control the size and quality of the photos you take. The lowest settings are basically useless, they were designed for sending photos by email back in the damp dark days of dialup internet connections and are useless if you want to print anything resembling decent quality. More coming..... - Download Google's free photo software 'Picasa'
The imaging software that comes with most digital cameras is usually rubbish, complicated to use and does a poor job. There are many free one's available on the net and these tips will be using Picasa. I don't actually use it much myself as I use Photoshop CS4 but for the average photographer who want fast professional results " Picasa is the man" Download Picasa free here
More coming.... - Organise your photos on your computer
One of the most frustrating things when working with images is not having them organised in a logical methodical order on their computers. The number of users I come across with photos spread from one end of their computer to another is amazing. For simplicity's sake store all you photos in seperate folders within "My Pictures"
More coming.... - Backup, Backup, Backup your precious photos
Your computer can die at any moment - FOREVER - and you could lose years of precious memories. Your computer is basically worth nothing, it's the information stored on it that's of the greatest value. External hard drives are cheap as chips now so there is no excuse not to have one as a safeguard in case your PC goes kaput!
More coming....