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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More