Your picture: tutorial

This material was developed for the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, use. The desktop machine used in this tutorial is the SGI Indy. Feel free to copy these materials whenever applicable to your environment.

Prepare your workspace

I suggest that you place on your workspace three icons, if they are not already there: capture, xv and imgworks. You will use them as neded in the next steps.

To place these icons on your desktop:

1. click on Desktop item in the toolbar.
2. find an icon for each of the three above applications.
3. click on each icon and put them on your desktop. See an example here.

Taking the picture

• double-click on the capture icon.
• see yourself on the screen (move the SGI camera and you , as needed).
• in the left lower side of the capture screen select the camera symbol.
• when the image is to your satisfaction click on the record button in the right bottom side to take the picture.
• this will create a file yourpict.rgb in your present directory ("yourpict" can be any name you decide to give to it)

Editting the picture

• double-click on the imageworks icon.
• open the yourpict.rgb file.
• increase a little the brightness (for better view on PCs).
• crop the image as needed
• save as yourpict.tiff .

Convert the picture to gif

• double-click on the xv icon
• right-click on the small xv window that you opened.
• another xv window (bigger) will open and you should use its menu to load the yourpict.tiff file.
• save as yourpict.gif the image you are seeing in xv.

  Please note: if you are using one of the page templates (student and/or faculty) provided in Essential HTML, if you save your picture as yourpict.gif you do not need to change the template to show your picture in your home page.

Transfer the picture to UBmail

As soon as you convert to .gif you are ready to upload the picture to ubmail and see it there. How to transfer to UBmail?

• click on the Applications item in the toolbar, Net Apps, and select Xftp
• you will see your current directory in the left and the right side empty.
• select connect in the bar in the top right side and enter ubmail.ubalt.edu and your account name, see example.
• enter your password when asked, and you will see the directory of your UBmail account in the right side of Xftp.
• click on Dir (after connect) and change the ubmail directory to WWW.
• select Xfer Mode (transfer mode) as binary, and
• select the picture.gif file and press copy, see example.

See if you like it on the Web

• Open Nestscape and/or Mosaic.
• go to your home page and see the picture there.

If you do not like it, go back to imageworks increase the brightness. etc. If too little or too big, either crop it again, or take your picture again, etc. Keep playing with it until you are happy with your picture.

This page is maintained by Al Bento who can be reached at abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu. This page was last updated on April 20, 1995. Although we will attempt to keep this information accurate, we can not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.