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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
Our motorhome is currently parked in Salem, Massachusetts. A little city park called Winter Island. We’re using this home base to sightsee in the area, including Boston. For our day in Boston, we decided to take the ferry. Nothing better than a boat ride to start the day, and what a great way to see 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
A panorama is when you have several individual photos taken in succession of a scene – usually a landscape – and you create one picture by connecting and overlapping the individual photos. So, for example, I took the 4 pictures below with the intent of putting them together into one panorama. Picasa does not have Read More
This is so odd. For all of my 25 years teaching computer software, I’ve repeated over and over again to “Save your work!” “Save often.” With most software that is important. But, with Picasa I never use the Save command! You really don’t have to. Picasa remembers everything you’ve done to a picture. As long Read More
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a few words attached to a photo can say a lot too. Picasa makes writing captions so easy, you have no excuse not to identify them. Simply click in the space below the picture and type. No need to save – Picasa does that automatically when Read More
It does happen. I saw it just this past week while private tutoring someone on Picasa. I double-clicked on a thumbnail photo of a little girl, and what appeared was a photo of a boat! What the …. ?!#%*! This can be a scary experience if you don’t know what’s going on. It appears that Read More
It does happen. I saw it just this past week while private tutoring someone on Picasa. I double-clicked on a thumbnail photo of a little girl, and what appeared was a photo of a boat! What the …. ?!#%*! This can be a scary experience if you don’t know what’s going on. It appears that Read More
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