When you first open Picasa, it displays all your folders in date order. So you see a line at the start of each year. But, you can also see them in Alphabetical order, or even ‘Sort by Recent Changes’ if you prefer. The key is to use the dropdown arrow that is at the top Read More
by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.TV Aren’t digital cameras great?! Just snap away to your heart’s content, no worries about wasting film, or costing more money, or taking up more space. You can see right away if you captured the image you wanted, and take more shots if you didn’t. I’ve been known to take over 100 Read More
If you use Carbonite to do backups online, and you use Picasa to manage the pictures on your computer, then there is a Carbonite feature you need to understand. If you take a close look at Carbonite’s default list of files that are excluded from backup, you will see .ini files. If you understand Picasa, Read More
Doesn’t a frame make a normal photo look like a work of art? Picasa 3.9 has several options for framing your photos, and you won’t believe how easy they are. There are 5 new options that all relate to framing your photo. They’re all on the last tab of Picasa’s editing tools. So, just pick Read More
Below is my original picture, taken from a cruise ship in Miami Beach, looking back toward the city skyline at sunset. It’s pretty, but quite unremarkable. Once I brought it into Picasa 3.9 and started playing around with some of the new image processing features, I could create an entirely new image, just using the Read More
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
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
In Windows it’s called ‘Explorer’, in Macintosh it’s called ‘Finder.’ It’s the computer’s way of storing and organizing files and folders. Picasa is software that sits on top of the files and folders. “Picasa does not store your pictures, it is a tool for working with the pictures that exist in your computer’s folders.” We’ve Read More