Picasa Tip: Use Captions
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a few words attached to a photo can say a lot too. Picasa makes writing captions so easy, you have no excuse not to identify them. Simply click in the space below the picture and type. No need to save – Picasa does that automatically when you move on or press Enter. All you need to do is just type … you’re done.
If you take just a moment to write a couple words with each of your important photographs, you will love yourself for it. Here are just some of the benefits of having captions written on your pictures:
- Every word in the caption is searchable
- Captions can be printed when you print the photo (new in 3)
- Captions appear in slide shows of your photos
- Captions will display with your photo when you upload them to Picasa Web Albums
- You can have captions display below the thumbnails of your photos in the Library view
- Captions are stored with the picture file itself, so are visible in many other programs.
If you like to share your life’s stories and pictures with family and friends, but writing a blog is not for you, you may find that adding captions to your photos is all you need. I generally type a caption on every photo I upload to my Picasa Web Albums. Here is a sample:
If you click on the image above, it will take you to the actual web album. Then, find that picture of Jim teaching Google Earth and click on it. You will see that captions don’t have to be limited to a few words. I typed a whole paragraph on that one!
Geeks On Tour Members can watch tutorial videos on:
Adding captions to photos (a Picasa 2 video)
Introduction to Web Albums
Searching for Photos
Individual Photo View (free)
Using ‘Tags’
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Aloha! I don’t know which I am more excited about….Picasa 3 or your awesome tips. Your teaching method is clear and easy to understand, and being able to see it in action makes all the difference in the world. Text books can be tough to learn from.
We live on the Big Island of Hawaii and don’t suppose you’ll be driving this way anytime soon, but let us know if you do.
I know I can select several photos in Library view and TAG them as a group. Is there any way to CAPTION photos as a group? So far to caption groups I have been using either Irfanview or ITag for batches but I would rather do it all in one place if possible.
Nope … not that I know of anyway. You can copy a caption, then paste it on several pictures one after the other.