Picasa Tutorials

About Picasa

Picasa is free software that you download to your computer from Picasa.Google.com.  It is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.  Examples in this blog are from the Windows version.

• Download Picasa for Windows at www.picasa.google.com
• Download Picasa for Macintosh at http://picasa.google.com/mac/
• It’s the only software you’ll need for managing your digital photos 
• It’s fast and easy 
• It’s Free 

The Process 

No matter what software you use, you need to:

1. Transfer photos from camera to computer
2. Delete the bad, rename or caption the keepers
3. Organize the photos with folders, albums and tags
4. Find and View photos on your computer
5. Edit pictures; make them look better
6. Prepare and Resize pictures for use in other programs
7. Share via Print, Email and Websites
8. Back them up!

Picasa does all of the above.  It is the only software you’ll need to manage your photos on a day-to-day basis.  The only thing it doesn’t do is serious editing and drawing like removing a person from a photo, or adding a bird to the sky, or drawing a logo.

It is especially good at backing up your photos and burning the CDs or DVDs to store them.  You don’t need any extra disk-burning software.

Here is an overview of Picasa’s features:

Here is a sample of our ‘Show-Me-How’ tutorial videos on Picasa. This one shows you the very basics of looking at your individual pictures in Picasa. For many, many more videos go to Geeks on Tour Picasa Tutorials.