Upgrading to Picasa 3.6

Yes, you heard right … there IS  a Picasa 3.6 now.  You can view all the notes about what has changed at Picasa 3 Readme from Google.  You can get here from your Picasa menu.  Just click Help and Online Readme, or Release Notes.
There’s no huge changes from 3.5.  The only real difference is the [...]

Friday, December 11th, 2009 Getting Started, Picasa 1 Comment

Cover Slides and Collages

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’ [...]

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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Picasa, Sharing Photos 5 Comments

Webinar for Beginners to Picasa

Below is the recording of the webinar produced at Google headquarters on November 13, 2009. Several members of Google’s Picasa team were there as well as Chris Guld from Geeks on Tour, who presented the section on all the editing tools in Picasa. For more tutorial videos on Picasa consider becoming a member of Geeks [...]

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Edit/Improve Photos, Picasa 1 Comment

Do you take crooked photos?

by Chris Guld, www.Geeksontour.com
I’m always snapping photos out the window of a moving RV, and more often than not they come out looking like this one I snapped this summer as we crossed Lake Champlain into Vermont:

It was such a pretty scene, but this picture is unusable because it’s so crooked (that big orange [...]

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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Edit/Improve Photos, Picasa 2 Comments

Picasa Book updated to Version 3.5

Well, it took us a little longer than we planned, but it’s ready now! Not only did we update it to teach the version 3.5, but we also expanded it from 40 pages to 60, and added several videos. We are now selling the book with a companion DVD. All the videos referenced in the [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Picasa 1 Comment

More Help from Google on Picasa

Where do we (Geeks on Tour)  go when you all ask a question we can’t answer?   We go to the Google Picasa Support Forum.  This is where thousands of people ask their questions about Picasa.  If you have a question, odds are that someone else has had the same question and there are also [...]

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Getting Started No Comments

Overview of Picasa

Overview Presentation of why we like Picasa so much!

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Monday, November 9th, 2009 Show-Me Video No Comments

3. Folder Manager

If you don’t see your photos while using Picasa, then they must be in a folder somewhere that Picasa is not looking.  This video shows you how to use the Folder Manager to include or exclude  folders in Picasa’s view. 
This is one of the videos that go along with the Picasa book.  If you are [...]

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Show-Me Video 1 Comment

Free Picasa Webinar by Google and Geeks on Tour

This Friday, November 13, you can watch a one hour Picasa Seminar on the Web.  Geeks on Tour will be in Mountain View, California to co-host this webinar with Google. 
You can check it out and register for the event by visiting the Picasa Help page. 
Here’s the Webinar description:
New to Picasa? Want to learn how to [...]

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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Getting Started 2 Comments

2. Install and Open

Download and install Picasa 3.5 for free from Google.

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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Show-Me Video No Comments
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