Last month it was announced that Picnik – the online photo editing software that Google bought in 2010 – was closed. No more could you enjoy the special tools it brought to the table like framing your pictures or adding ‘stickers’ (little clip art) or wrinkle removal, or shine-be-gone. Picnik fans were very disappointed. Picnik Read More
When you first open Picasa, it displays all your folders in date order. So you see a line at the start of each year. But, you can also see them in Alphabetical order, or even ‘Sort by Recent Changes’ if you prefer. The key is to use the dropdown arrow that is at the top Read More
by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.TV Aren’t digital cameras great?! Just snap away to your heart’s content, no worries about wasting film, or costing more money, or taking up more space. You can see right away if you captured the image you wanted, and take more shots if you didn’t. I’ve been known to take over 100 Read More
The easy way you can write captions using Picasa is one of my favorite features. I have a caption on every ‘keeper’ picture in my library. Picasa also makes it easy to print captions, IF you’re using Picasa to do the printing. Our member tutorial video: Add Captions to your Photos explains all about captions, Read More
If you use Carbonite to do backups online, and you use Picasa to manage the pictures on your computer, then there is a Carbonite feature you need to understand. If you take a close look at Carbonite’s default list of files that are excluded from backup, you will see .ini files. If you understand Picasa, Read More
Question: As historian for a club of mine I just love Picasa’s Collage feature to put together the pictures I take of all the activities. But, I need to identify the activities in the picture. Is it possible to add Text to the collage pictures that I have made? Yes, indeed! Adding text right on Read More
Doesn’t a frame make a normal photo look like a work of art? Picasa 3.9 has several options for framing your photos, and you won’t believe how easy they are. There are 5 new options that all relate to framing your photo. They’re all on the last tab of Picasa’s editing tools. So, just pick Read More
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? The same process applies to printed dimensions, you just need to divide the pixels by the 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