You’d think I see my pictures enough on my computer since I’m sitting at my computer at least 10 hours/day and I almost always have Picasa open. I also upload pictures to my Web Album and post them to my Blog every few days as well. We travel all the time, I LOVE pictures, I Read More
Question from a Geeks on Tour member: I made a web album from a recent holiday, gave pics a descriptive title. eg Florence, Petra etc. Now they are out of chronological order. I have used right click to go and request they go back to Ascending Date order, but nothing happens. Picasa Web Albums has Read More
A friend of mine, had her house severely damaged in the recent floods in Tennessee. The house has now been cleaned and gutted and they will spend many months putting it back together. To help the construction workers in putting shelves etc. back in her desired places, she decided to go thru all her pictures Read More
Question from Bette: “….if I Tag a photo and then want to remove the Tag from that photo only how do I do it? Great question Bette. It’s not immediately obvious how to do this, but it’s actually quite easy. Here are the steps: Select the picture in question Open the Tags pane and you Read More
Some people adore the Face Recognition feature in Picasa – just ask anyone researching their family genealogy! Some people find it a nuisance. I fall somewhere in the middle. But, I have found a really good use for it myself and I want to pass that along. Have you ever needed to find a photo Read More
Albums and Tags are both methods of identifying and grouping your photos. Any given picture can be marked to appear in many Albums. And, any given picture can have many tags (aka keywords.) See last week’s article on Tags. The main difference is that Tags are bits of data that are stored with the picture Read More
The following tip is excerpted from the Beginner’s Guide to Picasa. Tags are a way to add some identifying words to a photo without using the filename or the caption, and without putting them in a special folder or album. For example, I take a lot of scenic pictures and I may sometime have a Read More
I’ve heard many people say they don’t know where Picasa puts their pictures. I’m here to tell you that Picasa only puts pictures where *you* tell it to. If you don’t tell it what folder to import your pictures to, they don’t get imported. Here is Picasa’s Import screen. It gives you two places to Read More
I get at least one email every week from someone with a sad tale about losing their pictures. My first question is, “When did you last back them up?” silence … That’s not a good sign. Monthly Backups My system is to burn a CD or DVD each month of all the pictures I took Read More
When you have thousands of photos on your computer, it’s hard to keep track of them even with the best of tools. I’ve had some questions lately from people who have just imported their photos and they seem to have disappeared into computer La-La Land. This happens in Picasa because there are so many options Read More