There are slide scanners that you can buy that do a pretty good job. But, how are you going to decide which of your old slides to scan? You’ll probably need to project them and take a look before you can decide right? Well, why not just snap a digital picture of the ones you Read More
The other day, I cropped a picture to just a person’s face and then I exported it to a folder called avatars. As I exported, I resized it to 200 pixels because that was the requirement of the website where I planned to upload it. (Tutorial Video: Resizing Pictures with Export) The export worked just 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
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
First, just what is geotagging? It’s attaching the lattitude and longitude coordinates to a picture, a .jpg file, so it can be placed on a map in the location where it was taken. When a photo is geotagged, these coordinates are part of the ‘metadata’ embedded in the file itself, just like the date and 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
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
I took a photo this weekend that I really liked. My Mom came with us on a short RV trip and she was enjoying our cozy cab-over bunk and the view out the front window. It was kind of dark and I didn’t want to use a flash, so I hand held a timed exposure Read More
Just because you want to share your photos on the web, it doesn’t necessarily follow that you want people to take them without giving you any credit. Yet, that’s exactly what can happen, oh so easily. Any picture you see on the web can be ‘grabbed.’ Then it can be used by others who may Read More
Can you see the difference between the photo on the left, and the one on the right? The one on the left is the original. The one on the right has been ‘sharpened’ by Picasa. In Picasa, you double-click on the photo you want, then, in the left column of Editing commands, click on ‘effects’. Read More