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Picasa Releases Version 3.8
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, [...]
Automatically Geotag Pictures with Droid
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 [...]
Picasa’s Latest: Picnik for online Photo Editing
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 [...]
Picasa Tip: Picture Information
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 [...]
Picasa Tip: Out of Focus? I meant that!
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 [...]
Picasa Tip: Add a Watermark to your photos
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 [...]
Sharpening Photos with Picasa
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’. [...]
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- Picasa Tip: Blue Skies
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- Picasa Tip: Out of Focus? I meant that!
- Picasa Tip: Outdoor-Indoor Collage
- Picasa Tip: Picture Information
- Picasa Tip: To Save or Not to Save
- Picasa Tip: Using the text tool
- Picasa Tip: What happened to Sharpen?
- Picasa's Latest: Picnik for online Photo Editing
- Resizing Photo Files
- Webinar for Beginners to Picasa
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- Backup! Backup! Backup!
- Better Pictures
- Blue Skies with Graduated Tint
- Burning Pictures to Disc
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- Dark Photo? Use Fill Light
- Do you take crooked photos?
- Don't Delete your Original Photos
- Don't Delete your Original Photos
- DVD of Pictures that Plays on your TV
- Emailing Photos with Picasa
- Emailing Photos with Picasa and Gmail
- Find Pictures by Date
- Five Deadly Sins of Picasa
- Framing a Picture
- Gift CDs and Temporary Albums
- Have you Backed up your Pictures Lately?
- How to Make a New Folder
- Importing and Folders
- Making a Banner Picture
- Managing Digital Photos with Google's Picasa
- Moving Folders with Picasa
- Organize with Tags
- People Albums – View Whole Picture
- Picasa 3 and Video Files
- Picasa 3.5 Import Screen
- Picasa 3.5 released
- Picasa 3.5: How to Turn Off Face Recognition
- Picasa Book updated to Version 3.5
- Picasa Releases Version 3.8
- Picasa Tip: “Cancel unfinished operations?”
- Picasa Tip: 4 Clicks to Dramatically Improve your Photos
- Picasa Tip: A Picasa Plug-In for Live-Writer
- Picasa Tip: Add a Watermark to your photos
- Picasa Tip: Automatic Updates
- Picasa Tip: Blue Skies
- Picasa Tip: Cut thru the Haze
- Picasa Tip: Different ways to Save
- Picasa Tip: Download photos from a Web Album
- Picasa Tip: Error Emailing a Picture with Gmail
- Picasa Tip: Fill-in Preprinted Forms
- Picasa Tip: Finding Duplicate Pictures
- Picasa Tip: Flipping Photos
- Picasa Tip: Folders and Subfolders
- Picasa Tip: How folders get Dated
- Picasa Tip: I'm Feeling Lucky
- Picasa Tip: Import from Camera
- Picasa Tip: Keeping Pictures in Order
- Picasa Tip: Make a Banner Collage
- Picasa Tip: Make a Movie
- Picasa Tip: Make your own Photo Holiday Cards
- Picasa Tip: Moving folders to a USB Hard Drive
- Picasa Tip: Nested Folders
- Picasa Tip: Out of Focus? I meant that!
- Picasa Tip: Outdoor-Indoor Collage
- Picasa Tip: Photos as Wallpaper
- Picasa Tip: Picasa to Facebook
- Picasa Tip: Picasa Web Albums
- Picasa Tip: Picture Information
- Picasa Tip: Printing options, White Borders
- Picasa Tip: Save Edits and Resize with Export
- Picasa Tip: Scanning Old Photos
- Picasa Tip: Screen Captures
- Picasa Tip: Search by Color
- Picasa Tip: Synchronized Web Albums
- Picasa Tip: To Save or Not to Save
- Picasa Tip: Use Albums
- Picasa Tip: Use Captions
- Picasa Tip: Using the text tool
- Picasa Tip: Web Albums default settings
- Picasa Tip: What happened to Sharpen?
- Picasa Tip: When your pictures get "All Messed UP"
- Picasa tip: Your photos as Screensaver
- Picasa Tip:Making a Panorama
- Professional Prints
- Resizing Photo Files
- Sharpening Photos with Picasa
- Storing Pictures on an External Hard Drive
- Taking Video with your Laptop’s Camera
- Upgrading to Picasa 3.6
- Using a Digital Picture Frame
- Webinar for Beginners to Picasa
- Where did I put those Pictures?
- Where did my Pictures Go?
- You have a Digital Camera ... Now What?
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