Picasa
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We’ve broken the Picasa Videos down into five categories. This should help you find what you’re looking for more easily. You can find the categories as a side menu when you hover over Picasa in the Learning Library menu or set the list below. If you still want to see the complete listing of all videos they are still listed at the bottom of this page.
Picasa Training
Beginner’s Guide to Picasa, eBook or Print with DVD
From the Camera, to your computer, to the Web – Picasa handles it all. It’s *fast*, it’s *easy*, and it’s *free* from Google. Free Google Webinar: In November 2009, Google’s Picasa group asked Geeks on Tour to co-host a beginning level Webinar on using Picasa. It was recorded and you can see it here.
Picasa Starter Lessons
If you’re just getting started with Picasa, watch these Starter Lessons first. You must be a member to watch the Starter Lessons. This group of 13 tutorial videos will take you from Downloading Picasa, to adding captions, editing them, categorizing, all the way thru uploading to a Web Album. If you watch the whole series it will take you about 1hr and 15 minutes. This will give you the essentials for getting started with Picasa.
Then, below, are a list of *all* our Picasa Lessons. The first 3 are free to watch for anyone, the rest require a Geeks on Tour membership. Click on any video listed below to watch it, then click your back button to return to this page. You will need a good, fast Internet connection in order to view these properly. If you don’t have that you can order a CD. You can also download our Seminar Handout.
Picasa
- Picasa Short Course on Organizing your Pictures – 8 Videos
- pics01.Overview of Picasa
- pics02.Install and Open
- pics03.Folder Manager
- pics04.First Time Picasa Opens – the Scan
- pics05.Folders and Folder Collection
- pics06.Library View
- pics07.Single Picture View
- pics08.Import from Camera
- pics09.Tree Folder Structure
- pics10.Selecting Pictures
- pics11.Delete or Rename Photos
- pics11b.Searching for Pictures
- pics12.Make a New Folder
- pics13.Updating the Picasa Software
- pics14.Basic Edits
- pics14a.Crop Size Options
- pics14b.Tuning
- pics14c.How Picasa Handles Edits
- pics14d.Ways to Save
- pics14e.Exporting Pictures for Use in Another Program
- pics15.Add Captions to your Photos
- pics16.Fix Redeye
- pics17.Retouching Photos
- pics18.Backup to External Hard Drive
- pics19.Move Folders of Pictures to an External Drive
- pics20.Moving Folders Among Multiple Hard Drives
- pics21.Backup your Photos to CD
- pics21b.Backup Monthly to Disk (CD or DVD)
- pics22.Emailing Photos
- pics23.Get one Picture from a Backup
- pics24.Adding Text to Pictures
- pics24.Picasa can Cut the Haze in your Photo
- pics24.Picasa’s 12 Effects
- pics24a.More Effects 13-18
- pics24b.More Effects 19-24
- pics24c.More Effects #25-30
- pics24d.More Effects 31-36
- pics25.Blue Skies with Graduated Tint
- pics25.Using Albums for Organizing
- pics26.Keeping Pictures in Desired Order
- pics27.Starring Pictures
- pics28.Sync Photo Sort Order
- pics29.Using Tags aka Keywords
- pics30.Editing Tip – Cut thru the Haze
- pics31.Geotagging
- pics32.Quick Collage
- pics33.Receiving a Photo Attached to Email
- pics34.Resizing Pictures
- pics35.Collage Tip – Framing a Picture
- pics36.Printing Photos
- pics36a.Making a Gift CD
- pics37.Make a Movie
- pics38.Movie Files from your Camera
- pics39.Record a Movie from your Webcam
- pics40.Embedding Web Album Photos Elsewhere on the Web
- pics41.People Albums: Viewing Faces or Entire Picture
- pics42.Upload Photos to the Web
- pics43.Putting Pictures on a Digital Photo Frame
- pics44.Using Search to Create a Temporary Album
- pics45.Keeping your Slideshow in a Specified Sort Order
- pics46.How to Make a New Folder
- pics47.Playing Slideshows with Music
- pics48.Import Pictures from an Android Smartphone
- pics49.Naming Faces
- pics50.Installing Picasa 3.9 and a Look at Borders
- pics51.Picasa 3.9 – Where’d the Buttons Go?
- pics52.Picasa 3.9 and Google Plus Sharing
- pics53.Picasa 3.9 and Side by Side Editing
- pics54.Using Special Effects for an artsy-fartsy Miami Skyline
- pics55.Resizing a Batch of Pictures
- pics56.Removing Google Plus to Use Picasa Web Albums
- pics57.Resizing Pictures to Width and Height
- pics58.Making a Map with Screen Capture
- pics73.Picasa Short Course: Collages and Banners
- pics81.Add Color to Sky with Graduated Tint
- pics82.Backup Last Year’s Pictures
- pics85.HDRish is like a Super Sharpen
- pics86.Editing Example
- Using a Digital Picture Frame
Guys:
I’ve recently run into a problem with your website. As usual I have no idea whether your website or my browsers (Google, Firefox and Internet 10) are at fault. If I were a betting man I would lay this at Internet Explorers doorstep because it came into play recently. My problem is that I no longer get the images offered. I get a blank outline of a square with a small icon within the square’s borders. When I left click within the square’s borders, a small blurb appears that’s titled “The page@picasatutorials says:” and the message is: “Image cannot be loaded. Make sure the path is correct and image exist.”
Yet I can get on any of the browsers, call up the list of your Picasa tutorials and all the images appear.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks , Elmer
How do i get the follow link on my picasa web album?
I see i can “follow” other people but can not figure out how to get my album to show the “follow” icon under my profile picture within a web album.
I am trying to learn to import pictures from my phone and it is not working. I don’t see any video dealing with phone download. HELP????
It’s on the Smartphone video page: http://geeksontour.tv/android-smartphone-basics/
I am still ploughing through the videos and learning so much. I thought I was pretty familiar with Picasa but there is so much more and you are showing me. But it has occurred to me is there a video that shows your work flow from the minute you personally import photos into your computer/Picasa.
I have not previously used, say tags or geotagging or sizing. I have just imported them and let it do what it did. What do YOU do with your imports and when.
Hello Pamela,
It has been on my list to make just such a video! My process on a daily basis. Thanks for the nudge! I also noticed that you wrote a question here but not in the Forum. The Forum is where we want all questions, so I copied yours and answered it at http://geeksontour.tv/forum/picasa-support-forum/reorganizing-pictures-in-picasa/#p1618
Hi, I am beginning to use Picasa 3.9, and am wanting to do some collages. I was able to create some collages, but cannot seem to be able to save them or print them. It only lets me save them as a Draft. The other save and print options seem to be grayed out and not able to be used.
How do I save and print them??
thanks……Don S.
Did you watch the video on collages?
If your screen does not have the ‘Create’ button, then something is wrong. You’re working on a ReadOnly drive?
Once the collage is Created – it is a jpg file like any other picture.
I just starting with Picasa
My friend does not have Picasa nor a Google user name and password and has no interest in establishing one. As a result, what (if anything) I must do to overcome this problem?
You do not need a Google account to use the Picasa program. A Google account is necessary to use the online features like Picasa Web Albums and Blogger.
Going through the tutorials on my computer I lose the audio from time to time and then sometimes the whole program stops. Is it my computer or something else?