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Uploading Your Photo to Angel: 10 points extra credit
To set your Personal Preferences and upload your Photo: 1. Log on to Angel 2. On the very left side of the screen is the Power Strip (it has the Home, Log Off buttons…) 3. In Angel
version 7.2 click on Wrench (Preferences). 4. Choose Personal Information > scroll to Contact Settings > click the [Add] button in the Photo URL textbox. Browse to the folder that has your photo. Select your photo*, and then click [Upload Picture] 5. To the immediate right of the [Add] button is a Viewable By dropdown. Click the dropdown arrow and choose who you want to view this picture: Please select Students/Members. 5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click [Save]
To see your classmates photos: 1. Select your desired class 2. Click Communicate > Course Roster > and click the Show Pictures at the top of the page Or 2. Click Communicate > Discussion Forums > Mouse over the name of the person who posted the discussion and their photo will show up if they have one in their personal preferences.
* It is very important that you do not upload a photo directly from a digital camera. An obvious way to reduce file sizes is to avoid inserting large graphic images and media clips. If you paste huge images into any file, the file will become huge. Screen captures and Windows .Bmp graphics are huge memory hogs. I often tell my students that .Bmp (the standard Windows graphics file type) stands for Big Memory Pig. The Internet uses .Gif (for drawings less than 256 colors) and .Jpg files (for photos with many thousands of colors). They are usually much more than ten times smaller in size than a comparable .Bmp file. If you use MS Paint (Start, Programs, Accessories, Paint) you can choose Save As, and under Save as type choose .Gif and .Jpg to convert a .Bmp to a much more reasonable format and size.
If your file size is huge, delete the pictures in your current document and replace them with reasonably sized JPGs. Keep in mind that even some JPG files can be very large. Today’s megapixel digital cameras take high resolution images that can be 8 ˝ x 11 inches in size (or even poster size), 2400 pixels wide and about 900K to 2 MB in size.
Some numbers: Say the picture from your high resolution digital camera is 2400 pixels wide and you want to insert a small picture into the corner of your document. When you insert a 2400 pixel 2MB image into your document, you just increased a file that might have been 100K to a file size of over 3MB (3,000K). Add a second image and it is now about 4MB. When you use the resizing handles to make these huge pictures small enough to fit on the page the file size is still 4MB in size, because what you really did was to make the images appear smaller, but they still retain their bit size. However, if you resize an image before you insert it, you will greatly reduce your file size. Perhaps you might choose to make it a more reasonable 240 pixels wide. 240 is 1/10 of the width or 2400, but also 1/10 of the height as well and consequently you can actually make the file size nearly a 100 times smaller. Most paint programs have a resize option – in Windows Paint (Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint) choose: Image > Resize/Skew.
In Microsoft Office Picture Manager: Click [Edit Pictures] > Resize (Notice that there are also Crop and Red-Eye removal tools as well.) There is also an Edit Pictures] > Compress Pictures
If you do not know what Paint programs you have on your computer – locate your image file in the Windows Explorer, Right-click and choose Open With – a list of Paint and Image programs on your machine will appear.
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