More Photo & Video How-To

• 30 November 2010

• How-Tos: How to personalise greetings cards

  Send out Christmas cards with the personal touch your family and friends will love. We demonstrate how to personalise a greetings card.

• How-Tos: How to create quick portraits with Corel Painter

  It’s possible to combine the intuitiveness of painting with the convenience of digital art. We use Corel Painter 11 to create a striking and artistic portrait.

• 18 November 2010

• How-Tos: How to import Exif data to jpegs

  I've scanned in several thousand slides and negatives in Jpeg format and have stored information about each image in a spreadsheet. Is there an easy way to import this as the Exif information for each photo?

• 13 November 2010

• How-Tos: How to artistically blur photos using zoom

  Photographers work very hard to capture the perfect shot. Whether it's adding special effects to images, such as artistic blur, or taking dramatic shots during 'magic hour' – the brief window in time when the sun is low in the sky and casting a warm glow on your subject.

• 03 November 2010

• How-Tos: How to organise images in Windows

  Once you've taken some great shots, don't leave them languishing somewhere on your hard drive, never to be found again. We show you how to add tags and organise your images in Windows.

• How-Tos: How to take better pictures on a cameraphone

  The cameras built into today's mobile phones are far more than the gimmick they once were. We leave our digital camera at home and use a Samsung Galaxy S to take some fantastic photographs.

• How-Tos: How to create polished home videos for free

  We explain how to turn your raw video footage into a presentable production using Windows Live Essentials Movie Maker, a free download for Windows 7.

• How-Tos: How to watch videos in Internet Explorer, Windows XP

  I'm having trouble getting embedded videos to display in Internet Explorer on my Windows XP PC. Microsoft Fix-it Center solved the problem with my Administrator account, but not my Standard account.

• How-Tos: How to import photos to Photo Gallery from an SD card

  When I try to import photos from an SD Card to my Windows 7 laptop, the card doesn't appear in Photo Gallery's 'Import Photos and Videos' dialog box. I can access my SD Card in Windows Explorer, however. How can I get Photo Gallery to display the SD Card?

• How-Tos: How to make photo slideshows look good on TV

  DVD slideshows that I've created in Windows Movie Maker and DVD Maker display fine on my PC, but look awful on my TV. I used the 720p burn option.

• 09 September 2010

• How-Tos: How to make digital photos appear quickly

  FORUM QUESTION I have a 10Mp camera. When viewing photos it takes a couple of seconds for each one to become sharp. Would a better graphics card than my six-year-old nVidia GeForce FX2500 speed up this process?

• 07 September 2010

• How-Tos: How to: Keep Flickr updated

  Staying current with your Flickr uploads can be a struggle, especially if your home web connection doesn’t have the bandwidth to handle big Jpeg files. We use the free Foldr Monitr for an easy fix.

• How-Tos: How to: Convert video file formats

  Depending on what you plan to do with your videos, you may need to convert them into different formats. We use free software to show you how it's done.

• How-Tos: How to: Stream photos to a digital frame

  We demonstrate how to stream your favourite snaps from a camera, your Facebook profile or an online photo-sharing site to a compatible digital photo frame.

• 02 September 2010

• How-Tos: How to take HD video on the iPod touch

  We show you how to make and take HD video on the iPod touch.

• 29 July 2010

• How-Tos: How to print perfect pictures poster-size

  We use free open-source image editor The Gimp and Easy Poster Print to perfect our favourite summer snaps and print them out at poster-size

• 22 May 2010

• How-Tos: How to watch the FIFA World Cup in style

  Committed football fans can rejoice: technology is going into overdrive to deliver more ways to enjoy the World Cup football action. PC Advisor outlines ways you can get involved.

• 01 May 2010

• How-Tos: How to fix everything: the ultimate guide to fixing technology

  PCs, printers, smartphones, cameras, networks - your stuff will inevitably stop working. Here's how to troubleshoot and fix your most common tech issues.

• 08 April 2010

• How-Tos: How to store digital photos and videos

  My wife and I want to leave our grandson a record of photos, videos and family-tree data. Given the rate of change for all things digital, what media and file format should we use to futureproof it as much as possible?

• 29 March 2010

• How-Tos: How to fix a faulty monitor

  QUESTION My monitor has developed a fault. The display will work for a short spell, but only if I turn it off and back on again.

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