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Dave Johnson

"How to Do Everything: Digital Camera 5 edition"


Let Windows show off your digital photos. To use it, do this:
1. Using Windows Vista, right-click the Desktop, choose Personalize, and then click
Screensaver (or, if you??™re using Windows XP, choose Properties and then, on the Display
Properties dialog box, click the Screensaver tab).
2. From the Screensaver list, choose Photos. (In Windows XP, it??™s called My Pictures
Slideshow.) Now, you can click OK and Windows will use some smart default settings
to show the pictures on your hard disk whenever you stop using the computer for some
short period of time. But you can customize the settings by clicking Settings.
FIGURE 16-1 The same image shown (a) centered, (b) tiled, and (c) stretched (Continued)
(c)
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3. When you??™re happy with the screensaver, click OK twice.
Make a Photo Collage
As the saying goes, everyone loves a parade. And a photo collage is a veritable parade of photos,
which probably explains why they are so darned popular. A collage (which is just a collection
of photos arranged on a single page) is easy to do and is a great way to showcase and share a
collection of pictures from a special occasion. An easy way to make one:
1. Since a collage is just a collection of photos, you??™ll need a blank page on which to arrange
them.


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