I'm clueless! I use a digital camera, just accepted an on-site inspection (for which you cannot access guidelines until after acceptance, darn it! ), and photos are required to be in "Landscape Mode".

Help! Clues, suggestions, any help appreciated.

Thanks!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2020 05:05AM by ceasesmith.

Landscape mode is a wider picture, so with a phone, you would shoot the picture holding the phone sideways or horizontal instead of vertical, the way you normally hold your phone. A camera generally shoots in landscape anyway.

Then I should be okay with the regular photos on my digital camera? That's what you seem to be saying.

Yes, digital cameras automatically take pictures in landscape as opposed to portrait.

Thank you so much!!!

Just don't turn your camera sideways or it will take the pictures in portrait.

Oh, thanks! LOL, I'm perfectly capable of doing that!

@ceasesmith wrote:

Then I should be okay with the regular photos on my digital camera? That's what you seem to be saying.

I thought you got a newer iPhone finally?

Sure, I have a newiPhone.

Can't use it for reports, and I don't have a clue how to get photos from it to my pc.

@ceasesmith wrote:

Sure, I have a newiPhone.

Can't use it for reports, and I don't have a clue how to get photos from it to my pc.

Email them to yourself in 10 seconds or less. There's a reason that literally less than 1% of people are using digital cameras for photos.

Go to photos (icon looks like a rainbow daisy) touch it

Touch the photo you need OR touch "select" at the top right of the screen and then touch all of the photos.

Look at the bottom of the screen, there is a send icon (a box with an arrow pointing up) touch that

A choice of how you want to send it will pop up, chose the mail icon by touching it
put your email address in and choose medium when it asks you the size you want to send.

The whole process should take literally less than 10 seconds to send the photos. Send them in batches of 10 or less.

Sure, I e-mail or message photos all the time. Last month, for example, to a scheduler to show her the cop cars closing the only highway to get to an assignment, because there was a fatal accident. I couldn't get to the assignment, and she had to reschedule and put me up in a hotel for the night so I could retry it the next day.

That sure as heck does not put them into a report.

@ceasesmith wrote:

Sure, I e-mail or message photos all the time. Last month, for example, to a scheduler to show her the cop cars closing the only highway to get to an assignment, because there was a fatal accident. I couldn't get to the assignment, and she had to reschedule and put me up in a hotel for the night so I could retry it the next day.

That sure as heck does not put them into a report.

How do you get them from your camera to the report then?

With a cord that I plug into my PC. Plug it in, turn on the camera, everything else is automatic. Then I do the report on my PC. I am unable to do reports on my phone -- apps don't work, and where there's no cell network, I can't access the WWW at all, so I can't do the report on my phone on the MSC's website.

Clunky, I know, but it works for me.

@ceasesmith wrote:

With a cord that I plug into my PC. Plug it in, turn on the camera, everything else is automatic. Then I do the report on my PC. I am unable to do reports on my phone -- apps don't work, and where there's no cell network, I can't access the WWW at all, so I can't do the report on my phone on the MSC's website.

Clunky, I know, but it works for me.

I email the photos to myself and then when I get home, I upload them to the report.

Yes, but HOW? The way I do it, they go in a file, I click on the file, it opens, I choose the photo I want, double click on it, and it uploads to the report. You can't double-click on an e-mail to put the photo in the report -- or can you?

You need to save the email photo to a file location on your PC. Then you can upload to a report. How you download and save the emailed photos to your PC depends on your email program and operating system.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2020 12:48AM by kenasch.

LOL, that's so far over my head, it's leaving a contrail!

Loading from my digital camera automatically puts it in a file. Even so, I'm sure I've posted on here more than once for help finding those durn files!!!!

While on your PC just right click on the photo that you emailed to yourself. You should then see choices on what to do with the photo. You can choose “copy” and then paste it to the file where you want to save it. This works on most PC’s and most email programs.

Doesn't work for me. To me, a"file" just disappears. I can't find the gol-durned things. And every time I learn it, W10 changes, and everything changes all around and again, I cannot locate files.

I honestly just don't know where they disappear to.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2020 03:25AM by ceasesmith.

I should have said you copy and paste it to the “folder” on your PC where you want it saved. Think of your PC as a big file cabinet. The folders on the PC are the drawers to the file cabinet and the folders are inside the drawers. That was the analogy I was taught when I first studied computers many years ago. Granted, basic file structure was easier to understand before Windows.

Cease, the way you transfer files from your camera to computer via cord, you do exactly the same with phone to computer via cord. Google the sequrnce of steps. It's pretty simple, though.

ceasesmith, you can do this!

Try renaming the pictures to something you can later search for to find it. I usually use the date in the yy-mm-dd first and then what the picture is. This way I find my pictures will be in date order.

Renaming?

Over my head. I've never managed yet to name a file.

I know, once in a while I run across a guideline that insists on something like naming the photos. I always e-mail 'em and tell 'em I don't know how; if that's acceptable to them, I go ahead with the shop. If not, I cancel.

Same thing with "geo-tagging each photo". Out of my league.



Same thing with date and time stamp. Mine says June 1, 2007 - the first day I used my camera. It's never changed. I've had people walk me through changing it -- but it changes back to that date after every single photo. Last shop I did, I took 77 photos. No way, EVER, will I stand in -13 wind chill resetting date and time stamp 77 times!!!!!!!!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2020 11:29PM by ceasesmith.

1. Geo-tag: should be a feature within the phone's camera settings. When editors check your images, they can bring up location, time, date, etc. If the geo-tag or other information needs to be on the image, look for free apps that do this for you.
2. Renaming images: can be done with the phone or on the computer. For giggles, try these two things. First, explore your phone's camera settings. Where is the icon that leads you to the naming or renaming feature? That is what you will need when naming or renaming images on the phone. See if a named or renamed image shows up as such in your e-mail after you send it to yourself (for no other purpose than practice). Take a new picture (or use an old, unnamed image) Now, wait to rename the image until you are working on the computer. E-mail the image from your phone to yourself/your e-mail. At the computer, set up a new folder on the desktop that you can use temporarily for this project (just to be able to practice the skill). Copy the image from e-mail to this new folder. The purpose of the folder in this tutorial is to have a blank, white background where it is easier to see what you are typing, assuming that your desktop has an image or something else on it that could clutter your view. In time, you can copy directly to reports by keeping the survey saved & accessible and e-mail open at the same time. Now, try to rename the image. To rename the image, hover the cursor over the 'thumbnail' or other non-specific moniker that will indicate the image and right click your mouse. [do you use a mouse? if not, stop reading now.The roller ball is a different thing.] The rename feature is in the drop down menu that appeared when you right clicked. Left click on the rename option and... type in the name of your image. Then, press the enter key. Now, your image should have a unique name. Each image for the shop can be in one folder and have its own name. If you have not named the new folder on the desktop, name it now. Use the same technique. Hover the mouse over 'new folder' or whatever is there. From the drop down menu, select the rename option. Left click on the rename option. The name box for the new folder has changed, and you can type in it. Type the name of the folder and press enter. Your folder (and its contents) are now named and easy to distinguish from others. By now, you might have seen some steps in some procedures that you think you do not need to complete or could complete in a different order. This would be true. The more you practice and play with images when you are not working on reports, the easier it is to find your fave way to do things and the easier it will be to do these things when you are completing surveys. For example, naming each image on the phone before you e-mail and then copying from e-mail to survey that you complete on your computer is fairly quick and easy. If you can rename the images on the phone and upload them from phone into reports, this is quick and easy and eliminates the need to e-mail them first. But e-mailing might make everything appear larger and easy to see or edit (if you edit your images). That is okay, too. If it works, it's good.
3. For the camera settings... ? I don't know what type of camera you have. I would try a camera store. People there often know what to do with all kinds of cameras. If they cannot make your camera keep pace, no one can.

I promise: you can learn all these things. Just find out what your devices do, watch your screens for changes that occur when you press certain buttons, links, icons or boxes, and play around with them in your free time.

@ceasesmith wrote:

Renaming?

Over my head. I've never managed yet to name a file.

I know, once in a while I run across a guideline that insists on something like naming the photos. I always e-mail 'em and tell 'em I don't know how; if that's acceptable to them, I go ahead with the shop. If not, I cancel.

Same thing with "geo-tagging each photo". Out of my league.



Same thing with date and time stamp. Mine says June 1, 2007 - the first day I used my camera. It's never changed. I've had people walk me through changing it -- but it changes back to that date after every single photo. Last shop I did, I took 77 photos. No way, EVER, will I stand in -13 wind chill resetting date and time stamp 77 times!!!!!!!!!

ROTFLMFAO. I evidently have not done a good job of explaining the vastness of my ignorance.

I do not "play" with electronics. To me, it is utter drudgery. I don't click on anything I don't understand -- I'm too afraid of ruining the darn thing, permanently.

I know you all mean well.

But, truly, I'm convinced I have an analog brain in a digital world.

Oh, cease. lol. Your devices will not explode or burst open and spray acid on you if you touch something new and different on them. They will not cause anything to blow up or anything even remotely like that. They will just irritate the hell out of you for awhile until you make peace with the fact that you are not wired for ever-changing technology, some of which is not really necessary. If you do not like to play with them, why not give yourself little tasks to complete. Finished now...