TAMU Flora Protocol Using Kodak Digital Camera  
• Open 
•  Make sure disk from camera is in drive (E)
•  From the File menu select Import … Select Twain_32 Source and choose Kodak DCSTwain
•  From the File menu select Import … Twain_32..
• Use the cursor to outline the desired picture in red, use ctrl and cursor to select more than one. Hit the Acquire button. After the computer has acquired the    pictures, hit Done
•  Open the files "aabigblacktxt.psd" and "aabigwhitetxt.psd" from C:Webwork/TAMU Flora
•  Click on the desired photo.  Make any adjustments to the photo before continuing (Such as cropping or color adjustments)

1. From the Window menu select Show Action
2. In the Actions menu is a blue button labeled KODAKTAMUFLOR…
3. Hit the button.  This will resize the image.
4. A message will appear telling you to use the move tool from the Tools Menu to drag the appropriate text onto the image. Hit the stop button to continue.
5. Drag the black or white text to an appropriate corner of the image.
6. Hit the button (It is now red) This will merge the text into the image.
7. A message will appear telling you to save the image as the first three letters of the family, genus, species, your initials and a number  to distinguish between pictures.(famgenspein1.jpg). Save as a jpg file. Save in C:Webwork/TAMU Flora
8. Hit the button (It should still be red) This will resize the image again.
9. A message will appear telling you to go to the File menu and drag down to Export.. GIF89a Export . Click OK. Save as a GIF file. (famgenspein1.gif)
    An alternate way of doing this is to hit the last button on the toolbar at the top of the screen. (Its the button that has Earth with an arrow coming out of it)
10. The button should now be blue again. That’s all there is to it.
 

• Now open C:Webwork/TAMU Flora/tamuflora.xls
• Fill in the columns with Family, genus, species, file name (the one you saved it as), orientation, building,  comments, date, and your name.

 How to use the camera

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