To upgrade, or not to upgrade, is that your question? There are definitely some features worth upgrading for! And that is what I’ll talk about in this article. However, your pictures are precious, and any upgrade can have it’s problems on some people’s computers so what do you do first? You better know the answer Read More
Several articles in this website preach about backing up your pictures from your computer. (Picasa Tip: Why I Backup to CD/DVD, Have you Backed up your Pictures Lately?, Backp! Backup! Backup!, Don’t Delete your Original Photos) This article is about how you can bacukup the pictures on your Picasa Web Albums. Even if you don’t Read More
Last week, Google came out with a new version of Picasa – version 3.9. There are some major differences between this version and its predecessor, version 3.8. Here’s the official list: Added ability to upload to Google+: share with circles, post pictures to your stream, and upload images at original size. Social Tagging: name tag Read More
Picasa gives you three options for sorting pictures in folders, Name, Date, and Size. To see these options, right-click on the folder and choose ‘Sort Folder By.’ I usually choose Date and that shows my pictures with the earliest pictures first and as you scroll down you see later photos. How to Reverse the Normal Read More
Every business needs a website. But many small, local businesses only need a one page business card type of website. I was talking to a small business owner the other day and mentioned just that – they needed a website, but it didn’t have to be more than one page – “Just so people can Read More
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 belong to a club that has a lot of pictures of club events. I’ll bet a lot of you do too! There is one designated club photographer, but she isn’t always able to be at all events. And, at some events, it seems like everyone is taking pictures! How can we let everyone contribute Read More
I want to know how to set up a Picasa account. What I want to do is have pictures of various occasions on my Picasa site and be able to let specific friends be able to view and download any pictures they would like. Is all this possible? What you want is provided by Picasa 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