Picasa gives you three options for sorting pictures in folders, Name, Date, and Size. To see these options, right-click on the folder and choose ‘Sort Folder By.’ I usually choose Date and that shows my pictures with the earliest pictures first and as you scroll down you see later photos. How to Reverse the Normal Read More
Words do matter. If you ask a question and you use the term ‘Upload’ when the correct term is ‘Import’ you might not get the answer you were looking for! I see this all the time. In the Clouds Let me give you an image that helps me remember the meaning of Upload and Download. Read More
I’ve covered this feature before … but I don’t think I used a very good example in that article, so I’m going to revisit it. We’ve recently traveled through Montana … you know the tagline right? Big Sky Country. We had beautiful weather with clear blue skies, but my pictures did not do the sky Read More
If you have a Facebook page – you may want to upload photos from Picasa to Facebook. The long way is to prepare your photos in Picasa and Export them to a separate folder. Then, using Facebook’s upload utility, you can select all the photos in that folder. see Video: Preparing photos for other Programs Read More
If you’ve been following the Tips here, you probably use the Sharpen feature of Picasa. With a single click it makes your digital photos look a lot crisper. It can’t take an out of focus picture and make it in focus, but it takes that soft look and makes it … sharper. I use it Read More
I took a photo this weekend that I really liked. My Mom came with us on a short RV trip and she was enjoying our cozy cab-over bunk and the view out the front window. It was kind of dark and I didn’t want to use a flash, so I hand held a timed exposure Read More
Do you have a scanner and some old photos you want to scan? Have you started to read the manual and given up on figuring it out? I have good news for you! You don’t have to figure out the software that came with the scanner, because Picasa can handle it all for you, it’s Read More
If you go to the Grand Canyon in the summer of 2008, do you put the pictures in a folder called Grand Canyon? Or a folder called Summer 2008? How about when you return to the Canyon in 2009? Do you put them in with your other Grand Canyon photos, or make a new Summer Read More
My computer is very entertaining. Especially when I’m not using it! It’s the photo screensaver. There’s not much that entertains me more than watching photos of our RV travels these last 5 years. Just sit back and watch. And I use two monitors, so I have double the fun. Here’s what it looks like: How Read More
The normal way that you see folders in Picasa is called ‘Flat Folder Structure.’ In the Flat view you won’t see that certain folders are within other folders. If you want to see what folders are nested within other folders, you need to view the folder list in ‘Tree View. To get there, just click Read More
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