Throughout these tutorials, and in many aspects of using Picasa, you’ll need to know how to select the pictures you want to work on. Notice, whenever you click on one picture in the Library, you will see a blue outline on that picture *and* it will also appear at the lower left in the ‘Selection [Click for the rest ...]
In the Library view, Picasa normally shows your folders in what is called ‘Flat Folder View. If you want to see nested folders, just like you would in Windows Explorere, just click ‘Tree View’. This video will explain and show you how:
Picasa will help you rename or delete photos. They will be renamed on your computer, just like you had used Windows Explorer, but easier. This video will show you how:
Captions are the easiest way to add some identification to a photo. Anything you type here will be searchable. It will also be viewable in slideshows, or when printing or uploading. This video will show you how:
Please backup your photos! They are so precious. If something happens to your computer, you want to have a copy of your photos on some other media. We recommend backing up to CDs. Picasa makes this *very* easy. This video will show you how:
Picasa has this magical feature called Albums. An album is like a virtual folder or a category. You can go thru all your pictures and find the best photos of the Grand Canyon, marking them for a ‘Grand Canyon’ album. You haven’t moved the pictures, you haven’t copied them, you’ve just created a list of [Click for the rest ...]
When you double-click to open one single picture, you will notice that the left side no longer displays folders. Instead, you will see all the different editing options that you can perform on this single photo. Just a couple clicks can greatly improve your photos – and you can always Undo. This video will show [Click for the rest ...]
As long as you use Picasa, you don’t need to Save. Picasa remembers all the edits you made. In Picasa what you see is what you get. But, the picture on disk, in My Pictures, is the original photo – unchanged. If you use any other program to view the photo, you will see the [Click for the rest ...]
All the editing features in Picasa are easy, but this one will blow you away. If you have a photo where the person’s eyes are red because of the camera’s flash. This video will show you how:
The retouch tool will help you eliminate simple blemishes or other bad spots in your photo. If you need to add or subtract something major from a photo, you’ll need something besides Picasa. Picasa makes it easy to make small fixes. This video will show you how: