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2017 Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project Report_FINAL_WithAppendices

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44 Picasa 1. Download photos to your computer. 2. Open Windows Photo Gallery. Navigate to the folder containing recently imported photos by using the pane on the left side of the program. 3. Determine if you have any series of photos taken by false triggers such as light changes, temperature changes, waving branches, etc. Delete all false triggers (carefully inspect images before deleting to ensure you are not missing something subtle). Sometimes these can number in the hundreds or thousands and we do not need to catalogue or store them. Note that you can select multiple photos to delete at once when in the screen with rows of thumbnails. 4. Update the "Descriptive tags" feature to tag all photos with species ID using the labeling conventions guidelines. This feature can be found in the pane on the right side of the program. You can tag multiple photos at once by selecting as many as you want to tag, and then updating the "Descriptive tags." The program automatically updates and saves photos with new tags. Picasa 1. Download photos to your computer. 2. Open photo folder in Picasa (under the "File" menu select "Add Folder to Picasa" and navigate to the folder on your computer with remote camera photos). 3. Follow step three above. 4. Use the "tags" feature (found in the lower right corner of the screen) to tag all photos with species ID using the labeling conventions guidelines listed at the bottom of this document. You can tag multiple photos at once by selecting as many as you want to tag in the screen with rows of thumbnails and then adding a tag. Iphoto 1. Import photos into Iphoto. 2. Follow step three above. 3. Use the "Keyword" feature to label the species in all the photographs. You can batch- enter keywords to save time, by selecting multiple images at once in the gridview. 4. Once all photos are labeled, export them into a folder on your desktop or directly onto Google Drive. When exporting images from Iphoto to send to Conservation Northwest, be sure to select the following settings (see image below of export dialogue box).

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