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
There’s all sorts of reasons why I think that Picasa is the best photo management program for the majority of people taking digital pictures. Number one is the fact that it handles 90% of all the tasks involved with digital photos – you only need to learn one program instead of 5 different programs for Read More
You will love the fill light slider. Pictures you thought you needed to throw away can be saved. When a photo is dark, just drag the fill light slider (right on the basic fixes tab) towards the right and it will fill it with light! Just drag the slider to the right and it Read More
Every once in a while I’m telling someone the date that their photo was taken and they ask, “How do you know that?” I’d like to say that I am just that smart … I am all-knowing! But, the truth is that Picasa displays all the information you could ever want to know about each Read More
Our motorhome is currently parked in Salem, Massachusetts. A little city park called Winter Island. We’re using this home base to sightsee in the area, including Boston. For our day in Boston, we decided to take the ferry. Nothing better than a boat ride to start the day, and what a great way to see Read More
When you email a photo using Picasa, the file is resized to something that is compatible with email. Same thing when you upload a picture to a Web Album, the file is automatically resized to something appropriate for uploading to the web. What if you just need photos resized for including in some other program? Read More
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