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Collecting alternate images
Week 4 is a continuation of Week 3 - keep searching and saving images, constantly checking your Dimensions column and your list of URL addresses in your Word document. You will probably make some mistakes, so having more than one backup image is a requirement.
Once you get all your images, one good one for each of the favorite things in your outline, start over at #1 and find an alternate for each item. You can decide later which is the final choice that goes in your video. If you have to delete an image because it is blurry, too small or inappropriate you still have options! Keep going back to #1 so that you have several backups. You can say you are done with image searching when you have 27 pictures. (3 x 9 = 27). They will be labeled at the beginning of the file name with 1a, 1b and 1c, then 2a, 2b, 2c, etc.
You will be turning in a snip of your Project Folder details view to show the resolutions (Dimensions) of all the images you gathered to prove they are at least large enough. You don't need to worry about the Comments field, a change we are making this year.
This video shows everything you need to know about searching and saving your images, from beginning to end. If you are still looking for pictures, this is your video guide. Watch, pause, rewind and slow me down or speed me up - continue finding your pictures the right way so you don't end up using some of mine!
Steps to Finding a Suitable Image:
Go to Google, click on "Images" and locate the settings menu. Choose Advanced Search Settings.
Enter your search word(s) - simpler is better, and no numbers for sizes there
Change the Size to 8MP or larger to start. 6MP can still work, if you are careful about the resolution values.
Change the Aspect Ratio to Wide to start with - they are much easier to fit in our video. If you don't find any pictures you can use, put the "Wide" option back to "Any".
Click on thumbnails and hover over the new, larger thumbnail that appears on the right.
Compare the resolution to 2560 x 1440. If both the width and height are larger, it is worth continuing. There are few exceptions.
If the larger thumbnail stays blurry instead of getting sharp and clear, the actual image may be blocked.
The new thumbnails underneath the large one are NOT filtered to 8MP or larger. Don't click them.
NOTE: Your next search may forget the 8MP filter. Always check see if the Advanced settings are still in effect.
Saving the Image
Saving the Image
Getting the picture into your project folder is only the first step. Before saving, you must copy the image address of the actual image (not the website). THEN you save the image and switch to File Explorer to verify the Dimensions column. Pasting and saving the URL (image address) is essential, and images without them will be deleted, so make sure they get pasted into the end of your Word document.
If you have any alternate images, it's time to decide which pictures you are actually going to use in your video. Get the image address for your main choice from the Comments fields and turn your Outline into 9 links to the original image on the internet. If you have the images already and an expanded outline, you can link the rest of them as well.
If you want to link the alternates you are NOT going to use, just add the word "Alternate" next to the "Chosen One" and add a second link.
Your results should be similar to the example here on the right.
Copy the URL from the bottom of your Word document for the chosen picture, then highlight the word or words for that image in the Outline and use one of the two methods below to make those words clickable as a "Hyperlink".
Note that in the video, we were still using the Comments field to store the URL - now we just get it from the Word document. If you don't have the link in the Word document... you can't use the picture! I hope I don't have to give you some of mine to use instead.
Didn't find enough of your own pictures? Did you have too many that were too small? Use some of mine! You can download as many from my collection as necessary to make sure you have 9 pictures to make a video with. Come up with your own captions, but download the pictures from this folder:
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