Sometimes you want to take a photo from your Picasa Web Albums and use it somewhere else, like in a forum post, or in a pushpin on a map. This video shows you how. And the really good news is that it’s even easier now than when this video was recorded – there are overlay [Click for the rest ...]
Have you heard the one about the lumberjack who decides to turn in his trusty old axe for a new chainsaw? After struggling for several days with the chainsaw and not felling even one tree, he decides to return it to the store. He tells the salesman that the chainsaw doesn’t work and he wants [Click for the rest ...]
by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com Has this ever happened to you? Your computer crashes and you take it to a techie who gets it working again but needs to reformat (erase) the hard drive. You get your computer back with nothing on it. No problem you think, you have a backup of your important data on [Click for the rest ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]