I needed a picture to be sized to specific dimensions for use in website’s header. The website instructions were clear, the image needed to be 960 pixels wide and 280 pixels high. How can that be accomplished with Picasa? There are 2 steps required. First I cropped the picture to the appropriate ratio, then export Read More
So you tried uploading your pictures to eBay and they were rejected for being too large. Picasa makes it easy to resize them all at once. Select the pictures you want to resize. You should see all the pictures in your selection tray. Click the Export button Select the folder to store the finished product, Read More
Below is my original picture, taken from a cruise ship in Miami Beach, looking back toward the city skyline at sunset. It’s pretty, but quite unremarkable. Once I brought it into Picasa 3.9 and started playing around with some of the new image processing features, I could create an entirely new image, just using the Read More
If you’re using Picasa 3.9, you will see three buttons above your picture in editing mode. The A means you’re looking at one picture only – this is the normal view. If you click AB you will be able to view two pictures side by side. If you click AA you will be able to Read More
To upgrade, or not to upgrade, is that your question? There are definitely some features worth upgrading for! And that is what I’ll talk about in this article. However, your pictures are precious, and any upgrade can have it’s problems on some people’s computers so what do you do first? You better know the answer Read More
Several articles in this website preach about backing up your pictures from your computer. (Picasa Tip: Why I Backup to CD/DVD, Have you Backed up your Pictures Lately?, Backp! Backup! Backup!, Don’t Delete your Original Photos) This article is about how you can bacukup the pictures on your Picasa Web Albums. Even if you don’t Read More
Last week, Google came out with a new version of Picasa – version 3.9. There are some major differences between this version and its predecessor, version 3.8. Here’s the official list: Added ability to upload to Google+: share with circles, post pictures to your stream, and upload images at original size. Social Tagging: name tag Read More
There are slide scanners that you can buy that do a pretty good job. But, how are you going to decide which of your old slides to scan? You’ll probably need to project them and take a look before you can decide right? Well, why not just snap a digital picture of the ones you Read More
In Windows it’s called ‘Explorer’, in Macintosh it’s called ‘Finder.’ It’s the computer’s way of storing and organizing files and folders. Picasa is software that sits on top of the files and folders. “Picasa does not store your pictures, it is a tool for working with the pictures that exist in your computer’s folders.” We’ve Read More
If you use Facebook, you probably have some pictures shared thru your Facebook account. I often take pictures with my Droid smartphone and upload them directly to Facebook. That means that I don’t get the opportunity to improve them in Picasa first. Horrors! My friends will see the picture as it was taken rather than Read More
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