Picasa’s Latest: Picnik for online Photo Editing
I had never heard of the website Picnik.com until I got the message that Google bought Picnik as part of the Picasa group. Picnik has been around for a while as an online editing tool for photos that you upload from your computer, or that you link to on Picasa Web Albums and many other [...]
DVD of Pictures that Plays on your TV
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 [...]
How to Remove a Tag from a Picture
Question from Bette: “….if I Tag a photo and then want to remove the Tag from that photo only how do I do it? Great question Bette. It’s not immediately obvious how to do this, but it’s actually quite easy. Here are the steps: Select the picture in question Open the Tags pane and you [...]
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 [...]
Albums vs. Tags
Albums and Tags are both methods of identifying and grouping your photos. Any given picture can be marked to appear in many Albums. And, any given picture can have many tags (aka keywords.) See last week’s article on Tags. The main difference is that Tags are bits of data that are stored with the picture [...]
Organize with Tags
The following tip is excerpted from the Beginner’s Guide to Picasa. Tags are a way to add some identifying words to a photo without using the filename or the caption, and without putting them in a special folder or album. For example, I take a lot of scenic pictures and I may sometime have a [...]
Where did my Pictures Go?
I’ve heard many people say they don’t know where Picasa puts their pictures. I’m here to tell you that Picasa only puts pictures where *you* tell it to. If you don’t tell it what folder to import your pictures to, they don’t get imported. Here is Picasa’s Import screen. It gives you two places to [...]
Have you Backed up your Pictures Lately?
I get at least one email every week from someone with a sad tale about losing their pictures. My first question is, “When did you last back them up?” silence … That’s not a good sign. Monthly Backups My system is to burn a CD or DVD each month of all the pictures I took [...]
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