Made A Beginner Cheat Sheet For Understanding Iso, Shutterspeed, And Aperture

you got this Minnimarine, just little curve ball tats all.

I know I use Microsoft Paint not sure if that is a free program but it has a resize feature. I just keep doing 50% and in about 3 to 4 times doing this it will get below the 300 maximum.

I just got my first DSLR A Cannon EOS 1100D I think with the standard lens with like 35mm mid zoom.
Have been using it in full auto but am going to have a great play with it now I seen this guide. Ironically have no printer ink so take an Ipad with the Cheat sheet with me :)

Sue

Regarding software for photo editing. I posted elsewhere on CCF but it probably should go here, especially for beginners.

I was a professional photographer for about 2 decades working for an Atlantic music recording artist and doing sports (mainly gymnastics, soccer, dance and auto racing).

I use Photoshop and Lightroom, but I realize it's expensive and complex for many. Adobe offers the photographer's package of both programs through Adobe Creative Cloud for a cost of $10.00 per month.

I've tried GIMP and while it's usable it's hardly ideal in all situations or easy to use with a wonderful user interface.

An alternative I've been demoing for the past month and I am very impressed with is from a company called Serif.

They are offering a 90 day trial of their 3 main software programs, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer. Each program is very similar to Adobe products Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The cost is the kicker they are half off currently at $24.99 per program for Windows and Apple OSX, and iPad $9.99. They run on Windows and Apple MacOS and iOS.

I've been forcing myself to use them instead of Adobe programs over the past month and a half, so at this point I am coming around to getting a good handle on them. I heard about Affinity Photo due to my other hobby of Astrophotography, Affinity Photo has some special features to help in processing my astro shots. I've been also using it to edit all photos I've posted on CCF since early March. I'm really liking it for the cost it's not free, but almost for it gives you. I urge you to watch the demo videos, and see if they might be right for you.

I've been VERY impressed so far and have had no crashes of any kind. Every strange photo type I've tried to open has opened flawlessly, formats like .JP2, my Canon raw .CR2 files, old Photoshop layered files, .TIF, .jpg, .PNG, .GIF, it doesn't directly open my FITS files from the astronomy camera, but then neither does Adobe software.

Here is the link to where you can request the trial serial numbers and software programs as well as learn a bit about the programs and see the demo videos.

https://www.serif.com/en-us/

You do need a separate license for each type of program and OS you plan on using it on, so Windows 10, Mac and iPad would require 3 purchases. The Apple versions are also fully optimized already for the new M1 chips (doesn't apply to me - yet).

I'm seriously considering switching over from Adobe to save the monthly cost I would go from $120.00 per year to a one time payment of $24.99 (until a major update I'm sure). That's almost an extra $100 you could spend on camera gear or coins! Give it a shot and let me know how you feel about it.

You c@Suecoin you can order the Nikon 75mm lens and the adapter on ebay for about $60. CCM helped me huge.

As far as resizing I figured out how to send it through email to resize and then dont send it. I lose track of these folders.

Not sure what you mean by setting up to email photos?

I shoot Canon cameras primarily and use the Remote software from EOS Utility included with the camera or from Canon's website. I change all my settings using the software on my computer over the USB cable hooked to my EOS DSLR. I also adjust all my focus that way as well, as long as I am using one of my Canon auto focus lenses, sometimes I have to go manual focus when I use my macro bellows setup, but mostly I shoot with the Canon EF 100mm F/2.8 Macro lens. I'm only switching over to the bellows when I need extreme close up shots, as it is a slightly sharper set up I find I can shot so many more coins in a shooting session using the Canon auto focus lens.

For software for decades I've been a Photoshop user (since version 2.0.1) and now using it as well as Affinity Photo (see my post above). One thing I haven't tried but might like to in the future is focus stacking, but I'd like to automate the entire thing, the moving the camera the shooting etc. that will take some doing with a motorized rail setup, not unlike how my autofocus works on my telescope set ups.