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Benthic Marine Photographic Processing and Analysis Step #1. Photographic Editing 1. Plug your camera into your computer using the USB cable (lower right side of camera) 2. Turn your camera on and make sure the main setting is on the “view pictures” mode rather than the “take pictures” mode (turn the dial on the upper right to the ? play button) 3. Open up “My Computer” 4. Double click on the USB drive-probably “E://” 5. Make sure the folder contains your pictures (go to “view”—Thumbnails); if your pictures are not there ask a faculty member to help 6. Copy the entire folder to your desktop and label the folder “QUEST06 Team #__” 7. Open up Photoshop (go to Start-Programs-Adobe-Photoshop) 8. Now open up your pictures (file-open-browse to your pics and open, you can hold down the shift key to select and open many multiple pictures at a time) 9. Check to see if your quadrat perfectly centered in the picture? If not, go to “Image” “Rotate Canvas” “Arbitrary”. You can try different degrees of rotation until you are satisfied. I would suggest starting by entering 1 or 2 and adjust the clockwise/counter clockwise setting depending on which direction you want to rotate the picture. 10. Make sure the tool bar is visible in Photoshop (go to “Window”-“show tools”) 11. Using the upper left tool on the toolbar (Rectangular Marqee tool) highlight your picture so that you leave just a small portion of the quadrat behind then go to “Image” then down to “Crop” From this: To this: 12. Now you can adjust the lighting on your picture to either make it darker/lighter and/or adjust the contrast. To do this go to “Image” “Adjust” ”Levels”, click on “Auto” and see if you like the results, if not you can move around the arrow in the middle of the chart: left to right and see how it changes your picture. Ideally you want to be able to see into the dark areas of your picture without overexposing other areas. Next you can go to “Adjust” “Auto Contrast”. 13. Your picture