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Memberships to SHF / DiscoverSkills are $60 per year, and give you:
- Free access to the Member-Only area of this web site, which includes our How-To Videos, mini-tutorials in PDF form, class handouts in PDF form, and a special links area to our favorite software.
- The reduced rate of $15 per class session versus $25 at our Omaha computer lab
- Discounts on all books, booklets, and Full Class Video Tutorials
- Free access to the SHF Comptuer Lab in Omaha
- Free notification and admission to our quarterly technology seminars
- Free, appointment-only, one-on-one help from a volunteer in our Omaha computer lab
- The SHF / DiscoverSkills.com weekly eNewsletter
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Below is a sample of our How-To Video tutorials. Simply click the tutorial name, and a viewing window will open. To get the most out of our videos, here are a few suggestions:
- In order to view the videos, you need the free Adobe Flash Player. You probably already have it, but if not, you can download and install it by visiting Adobe (www.adobe.com). Here is the direct link to the player page.
- Depending upon your internet connection, it may take 15 to 20 seconds for the video to start, so please be patient.
- The videos will display best on a screen size of 1024 x 768 or larger. To see a short tutorial on changing your computer screen resolution (size), click here.
- The video player controls and the "X" to close the window are located at the bottom of the video. Here is what the controls look like:
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- Player Controls:
- Pause the video by clicking the Pause / Play button. Resume play by clicking it again.
- Drag the Progress slider to quickly move back and forth through the video.
- The white Download progress bar shows how much of the video has downloaded to your computer.
- Click the Volume button and a volume slider will appear. You can also control the volume with your computer volume control.
- Play / Total time shows you how many minutes:seconds have played and the total time of the video
- Close the video window by clicking the Close window "X".
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No doubt you probably have shoe boxes full of old photographs, many of which have become priceless to you over the years. The problem is, as good as Kodak use to make their papers and films, over time, photographs can start to fade, yellow, and crack. The good news is, you can scan in your pictures, and using an image editing program like Photoshop Elements (our favorite), repair them to almost like new.
this is a short tutorial on what we call the "quick and easy" way to fix an old photo, that we originally created as part of a blog article we wrote called "Your Photos Deserve Some Tender Loving Care (and fixing)!" You can read the article by clicking here.
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