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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, [...]
Making a Banner Picture
I keep a personal blog, and I like to have a personalized top banner. Here’s what my blog looks like today. Notice the top banner with the title and picture at the right. I made that using Picasa and this tip will tell you how. Create a Collage I used Picasa’s collage feature to make [...]
Finding Pictures with Two People
Some people adore the Face Recognition feature in Picasa – just ask anyone researching their family genealogy! Some people find it a nuisance. I fall somewhere in the middle. But, I have found a really good use for it myself and I want to pass that along. Have you ever needed to find a photo [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Picasa 3.5: How to Turn Off Face Recognition
Picasa came out with a new version last week … version 3.5. The biggest new feature is face recognition and name tags. Picasa will scan through all your photos, mark the ones with faces, and put them in a group called ‘unnamed people.’ Then, you can look at those people and give them names. After [...]
Picasa 3.5 released
Yesterday afternoon, Google announced that they had released a new version of Picasa – version 3.5. Probably the biggest new feature is that Face recognition (that has been part of Picasa Web Albums for a while) is now part of Picasa on your computer. But, more than Faces, I’m excited about Places. Geotagging has been [...]
Picasa Tip: Fill-in Preprinted Forms
One of our Geeks on Tour members recently posted a question in our forum about scanning a preprinted form. A past Picasa tip explains how you can scan things just using your scanner and Picasa – no scanner software to learn. This member needed to scan a preprinted form and she was disappointed that she [...]
Picasa Tip: Photos as Wallpaper
Did you know you can take any photo that you see with Picasa and set your desktop background (wallpaper) to that photo? You know what I’m talking about, right? The ‘wallpaper’ or ‘desktop background’ is what you see when you first start your computer. In Vista a normal desktop looks like this: Let’s say you [...]
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- Picasa Tip: 4 Clicks to Dramatically Improve your Photos
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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
- Getting Started (14)
- Organizing (43)
- ▼Photo (7)
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- Albums vs. Tags
- Backup and Tree View
- 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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