We travel a lot, so I take thousands of digital pictures. I always tell myself, “I need to figure out all the settings on my camera so I can take better pictures.” And, someday I will! Meanwhile, I can make my pictures better, later, with just a few clicks in Picasa. Picasa Photo Editing Workshop Read More
My cell phone is always with me and I find myself using the camera feature more and more because of that simple fact. Any time I’m at family’s homes and I see a photo on the wall, or in a photo album, I simply take out my Motorola Droid cellphone and I snap a photo. Read More
Have you ever wanted to have an arrow to point to something on your photograph? This picture was taken at the Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois. We love visiting Presidential Museums as we travel and Lincoln’s was especially memorable. Here you see where the entire Lincoln family poses very patiently all day, every day, Read More
I hope you all use captions on your pictures. It’s probably my most-used feature of Picasa. All you have to do is click below an open picture and type a few words. You’re done! Not only does that caption tell you a little about the picture, it is also searchable, so you can find that Read More
Picnik is the web-based photo editing software that Google bought earlier this year and added it to Picasa. If you want to play with our pictures, trying out different effects and add-ons, this is *really* fun. Here’s an example of the fun I had. It’s called the Crystal Ball effect. Read on and I’ll tell Read More
I’ve covered this feature before … but I don’t think I used a very good example in that article, so I’m going to revisit it. We’ve recently traveled through Montana … you know the tagline right? Big Sky Country. We had beautiful weather with clear blue skies, but my pictures did not do the sky Read More
A few days ago, Picasa version 3.8 was released. You will be getting it automatically at some point. One day, when you open Picasa, you’ll see a message about a new version being available. If you want to get it before that day comes, you can re-download it from Picasa’s home page. For more detail, Read More
I had never heard of the website Picnik.com until I got the message that Google bought Picnik as part of the Picasa group. Picnik has been around for a while as an online editing tool for photos that you upload from your computer, or that you link to on Picasa Web Albums and many other Read More
Below is the recording of the webinar produced at Google headquarters on November 13, 2009. Several members of Google’s Picasa team were there as well as Chris Guld from Geeks on Tour, who presented the section on all the editing tools in Picasa. For more tutorial videos on Picasa consider becoming a member of Geeks Read More
by Chris Guld, www.Geeksontour.com I’m always snapping photos out the window of a moving RV, and more often than not they come out looking like this one I snapped this summer as we crossed Lake Champlain into Vermont: It was such a pretty scene, but this picture is unusable because it’s so crooked (that big Read More