DESCRIPTION: This course teaches you how to use your computer to manage photos taken with a digital camera. The topics covered include: the digital camera and how it works, what you should consider before buying a digital camera, the differences between digital cameras and film cameras, how to transfer the photos from your camera to your computer.

Using the freeware program “Picasa” the following topics will be covered: simple computer photo editing (cropping, resizing, changing brightness and/or contrast, removing red eye), sharing your photos by printing them, e-mailing them, putting them on a web site, and/or burning your photos onto a CD (a CD writer is required for this) to give to others to view on their computers--wouldn't that surprise your grandkids!