Ebay Class

Before Taking the Class

Students should be familiar with computer basics. This is not a beginner's class. If you want to take this class, you should already be able to:

• Use a mouse
• Right-and-left click with the mouse
• Type and use spell check
• Use the Internet
• Use email
• Use a digital camera

Students should have:

• Email Address
• Bank Account and Credit Card
• OR PayPal Account and eBay Account

Class Objectives

Using a standard Freekbox, students will be able to:

• Upload images from a digital camera
• Edit images using the Gimp or GThumb
• Write basic HTML
• Post items on eBay
• Sell items on eBay

Introduction

• What is your computer background?
• Have you used eBay before?
• Why are you interested in learning how to use eBay?

Creating eBay and PayPal accounts

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Upload images from a digital camera

1. Plug USB cable into camera, and turn the camera on in View mode.

• Ubuntu's Import Photos prompt should pop up on the screen as soon as you turn the camera on in View mode.

Importing digital images from camera, part 1

• Select the pictures you want to import (you can select more than one picture by holding the Ctrl key and clicking on additional pictures), and hit the Import button. The Import Photos application will create a folder in the Destination directory using the current time/date as the folder name and will automatically place all imported images in that folder. For example, if you import photos at 11:37:20am on May, 18, 2008 using /home/oem as the Destination, you will find all the images you imported at that moment in /home/oem/2008-05-18--11.37.20.

Importing digital images from camera, part 2

Edit images using GThumb or GIMP

There are several applications on your standard Freekbox that can be used for editing images. For this tutorial, we'll stick with GThumb and GIMP, both of which can be found under Applications -> Graphics in Ubuntu. If you'd like to do simple things, such as cropping and resizing images, GThumb is more than capable. If you'd like to do more advanced tasks, like adjusting color levels, GIMP is the way to go. The following will show you how to crop and resize images using both programs.

GThumb

• Instructions here
• And here

GIMP

• Select the Rectangular Selection tool, which is located in the upper left corner of the GIMP's main window.

Rectangular Selection tool

• Crop out any excess background by selecting the area of the image you'd like to keep using the Rectangular Selection tool, right-clicking, and selecting Image -> Crop Image from the right-click menu.

Before selection

After selection

After cropping

• To resize images, right-click on the image and select Image -> Scale Image from the right-click menu. Once the Scale Image window appears, change the number in the Width field to a maximum width of 600 pixels (make sure the chain icon connecting the Width and Height fields is present, as this makes the scaling of the image proportional).

Scaling image

• To save your edited image, go to GIMP's main window, select File -> Save As from the menu bar, and give your picture a unique name. Make sure to note where you save the image.

Write basic HTML

• Instructions will go here
• And here

Post items on eBay

• Instructions will go here
• And here

Sell items on eBay

• Instructions will go here
• And here