Picasa makes it very easy to email your photos. It even takes care of resizing the pictures appropriately. All you have to do is select the picture(s) you want to send and click the Email button. If you use this technique you are also guaranteed that your recipient will see the picture as it looks 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
Picasa makes it nice and easy to burn pictures to a DVD with it’s Gift CD feature, but that DVD will only play its slideshow in a computer, not in a TV or standalone DVD player. That’s because Picasa is creating a data DVD, not a video DVD. DVD Maker is Free If you want Read More
Most all of the articles in this Picasa Tutorials blog are about the Picasa software that runs locally on your computer and manages your photos. If you want to share your photos with family, friends, or the world, you can upload them from your computer to Picasa Web Albums. Share your Pictures Using Picasa Web Read More
4/1/10 Note: this error has been fixed by the folks at Google. The article is still worth a read to see how to find out what has been fixed or not, as well as how to use Web Albums to share your photos instead of emailing. Several people this week told me they were having Read More
So you have some beautiful photos of your summer travels (after improving them with Picasa’s edit tools!) and you know how to play a slide show – even to accompany it with some music – but you need some section headings for each portion of your travels. Like ‘Drive through Vermont’ and ‘Boston Harbor cruise’ Read More
Today’s inkjet printers do a pretty good job of printing photos, but you’ll still get better results from a professional processor. They’ll be printed on good photo-quality paper with a photographic process that lasts longer than ink. You can order them from a nearby store and pick them up in an hour, or ask that Read More
Picasa 3 has a very easy way to take a bunch of photos, add a song you like, and create a movie. All you do is select the photos you want in the movie and click the Movie button at the bottom of the screen. Once in the ‘Movie Maker’ you can add a song Read More
This is actually a Picasa tip and a Blogging tip. Many travelers have blogs (simple, instant, websites used as journals, photo albums, or opinion pages) to share their travels with friends and family. Two very popular (and free) blogging platforms are Blogger, and WordPress. I use them both. Blogger is the easier of the two. Read More
If you have a Facebook page – you may want to upload photos from Picasa to Facebook. The long way is to prepare your photos in Picasa and Export them to a separate folder. Then, using Facebook’s upload utility, you can select all the photos in that folder. see Video: Member Tutorial Video: Exporting Pictures Read More