Words do matter. If you ask a question and you use the term ‘Upload’ when the correct term is ‘Import’ you might not get the answer you were looking for! I see this all the time. In the Clouds Let me give you an image that helps me remember the meaning of Upload and Download. Read More
I’ve been using both Picasa and Blogger for over 8 years now, and yet, I’ve *never* used the BlogThis! button in Picasa. Many people have wondered why I have such a blatant hole in my teaching of Picasa – I cover every button on Picasa’s bottom button bar *except* BlogThis! The reason is because the Read More
Question: I need to transfer my complete Picasa library from my desk top computer to my new laptop computer. Suggestions? Great question! I know a lot of people are getting new computers these days, and Picasa can make it very easy to transfer all your pictures if you do it right. What you do is Read More
Q: If I re-install Picasa and delete the old database, what happens to all the face tagging? I have spent a lot of time getting my ~10,000 pictures or so all tagged with named faces. It appears to be rescanning. How can I get back my name tags? Quite some time ago, I wrote an Read More
Question: I am quite excited about learning how to scan my parent’s very old photos and then organizing them with Picasa. Any tips on how to get started? MaryAnn Great question MaryAnn, and one I know that a lot of Picasa users have. If your parents have as many pictures as mine – you’re undertaking Read More
This past week we had a discussion on our Geeks on Tour Members’ Forum on Picasa that I thought would be good to share with all of you: Catherine: I am trying to understand which path I should take. If I sync and something happens to the folder on the local computer does the album Read More
The latest version of Picasa (3.8) has made a big improvement in sorting. You can manually sort pictures in Picasa just by dragging them around and, now, if you upload those pictures to the web using the ‘Synchronize’ feature, they will keep your manual sort order. Sorting Pictures in Picasa For any given Picasa folder Read More
Dear Picasa, You know I love you, I’ve told thousands of people about you – and they love you too. But I have a suggestion for improvement. As you’ve grown, and as my library of pictures has grown, there is one area that I believe needs a redesign – the Collections sidebar. I’m talking about Read More
by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com I recently received an email from a Geeks on Tour Member asking: “How do I make a new folder in Picasa?” You tell me how to rename them, how to move pictures to a folder, but I have over 357 pictures in one folder and I can’t seem to make several Read More
How often have you just imported pictures, and the next time you sit down at your computer and open Picasa – you can’t find them? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just ask Picasa, “Show me those Pictures that I was just working with please.” Guess what? You can. Picasa Shows you the Latest Read More