Doesn’t a frame make a normal photo look like a work of art? Picasa 3.9 has several options for framing your photos, and you won’t believe how easy they are. There are 5 new options that all relate to framing your photo. They’re all on the last tab of Picasa’s editing tools. So, just pick Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
by Chris Guld of Geeks on Tour: I sometimes feel like a broken record, telling people to backup their photos. Just when I figure that *everyone* has the idea and I can rest, I read something like this post in the Picasa Help Group where someone lost 15,000 photos when their computer crashed. !?#!!??@!! How Read More
You will love the fill light slider. Pictures you thought you needed to throw away can be saved. When a photo is dark, just drag the fill light slider (right on the basic fixes tab) towards the right and it will fill it with light!(Tutorial Videos: Basic Edits) Just drag the slider to the right Read More
This is actually a Picasa tip and a Blogging tip. Many travelers have blogs (simple, instant, websites used as journals, photo albums, or opinion pages) to share their travels with friends and family. Two very popular (and free) blogging platforms are Blogger, and WordPress. I use them both. Blogger is the easier of the two. Read More