The software manages taking single photographs and saving them in a variety of image file formats, capturing short video clips, ands also providing a variety of other functions such as remote monitoring, motion detection, ortime lapse video. It allows you to set the image resolution (size) as well as other characteristics of the images. Todays webcams are a huge improvement in image quality compared to those in use when we began teaching this course.

Once you have taken a photo, the image file will be stored in a predetermined location on your computer's hard drive. As is always the case, be sure to keep track of where the image files are stored.  Move photos that you have taken to the folder for your project and change the file name to something meaningful so you don't lose track of what it is (image213 is not a good name!). You probably will want to edit the photo in an image editor such as PhotoShop, to crop out unneeded areas of the image, and to compress it for your application (such as web site development).