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Now there is a whole discussion that we could have about the technical specifications of the average compact digital camera but there are a couple of settings in your camera that I would like to make you aware of so that you can then go back to your manual, look up the specific steps to set your specific model camera to make sure that you're taking the kind of picture that's going to give you the best possible result when you get done processing it in Photoshop Elements. And the first thing is what we call the size of the image, now most compact digital cameras only take pictures in the JPEG format, some of the higher more expensive models will do what's known as a RAR image file but typically you're going to be dealing in the JPEG format and when you set your camera, you always want to get the large setting. Most all digital cameras have a setting for how large the photo is and it also makes a notation of how many pixels it's going to have in it. And you want the most number of pixels and you want large and it will have this designation in it maybe 3648 by 2736 in this particular case but you want the largest image that you can get out of your digital camera. The other setting is what's known as compression or quality and you want the highest possible quality and lots of time that will be designated with what's known as a super fine image quality. The next setting that you need to be aware of is the ISO speed and this is possibly the most important setting in your camera, If you have the ability to set the ISO speed at a constant number, do so at 100. The ISO of 100 will give you very very little grain, very little noise and your image will look really, really good. Some digital cameras force you to use what's known as the auto ISO setting which means that if you have low light or dim light, picture taking conditions then it will automatically change the ISO to maybe 200, 400, or 800. Once you get up into the 400 and 800 ISO settings, your picture quality degenerates considerably and you do not want to take pictures at those settings. To the best of your ability most of the time, shoot at 100 ISO and if you don't think you can take a picture at 100 ISO is well, what that means is your camera is not capable of shooting in those low light situations. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to take a picture that's going to look so horrible as to be not usable. So do that if you possibly can. Now, there will be a subsequent lesson and we'll get into the details of the difference between the big giant digital cameras that professional photographers use that they pay, 3, 4, and 5000 dollars for and the typical consumer digital camera that runs anywhere from 100 to 400 dollars but for the moment, just make sure that the settings that we have just discussed are set to the best of your ability in your camera and then that's what you use all the time when you're taking pictures. You'll notice a considerable improvement in the quality of your images if you set your camera this way.