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Find Pictures by Date
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 [...]
Backup and Tree View
Picasa allows you to see your list of folders in either Flat view, or Tree View. In Flat view you can sort the folders by Date OR Alphabetically. In Tree View you can’t because it has to show your nested folder structure as you created it. If you understand that, please read on about how [...]
People Albums – View Whole Picture
Question: I like the face recognition feature. I would like to be able to create albums based on the recognition of a single person, but I want the original photo that the face came from not the face only photo. Is there a way to do this? ; Tom
Answer: Oh boy! This is an [...]
Importing and Folders
I’ve written (and said on video) many times that, when I import pictures from my camera, I like to Import All into a folder for the current month. Two points to be made here:
Import All: It’s just a one-click, no choices method. This way, I know that I’m getting all the pictures from my camera [...]
Capture One Shot from a Video
Have you ever taken a video that captured a great moment that you wanted in a still photo? Picasa makes it very easy to capture one shot from a video.
Here is a small video clip I took at Palm Creek RV Resort when Jane Seymour made an appearance. She had just finished ‘Dancing with the [...]
Taking Video with your Laptop’s Camera
This week’s tip is way cool! And, it’s so easy. We have so much capability in our laptop computers these days – like that little video camera built right in to the lid. You should see it staring at you when you’re using your computer.
But … how do you use it? Picasa makes it [...]
Picasa Tip: Finding Duplicate Pictures
As a follow up to last week’s ‘Five Deadly Sins’, I thought I’d revisit a topic originally covered in our Geeks on Tour newsletter. I’ve received more than one email from readers telling me that Picasa is responsible for creating several sets of duplicate photos on their computers. If you experience duplicate photos, and you [...]
Five Deadly Sins of Picasa
Have you heard the one about the lumberjack who decides to turn in his trusty old axe for a new chainsaw? After struggling for several days with the chainsaw and not felling even one tree, he decides to return it to the store. He tells the salesman that the chainsaw doesn’t work and he wants [...]
Framing a Picture
Picasa’s collage tool can allow you to be very creative. One thing it can do is to frame your picture. If you just want a single color frame, you can
choose one picture,
click Collage,
choose the ‘Picture Pile’ style of collage
Set the background color – this will be your ‘frame’
Arrange and size [...]
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