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Picasa: A Free Photo Management Program That Will Help You Organize, Edit, and Share Your Pictures

Picasa is a free photo management program that helps users organize, edit, and share their photos. It automatically organizes photos into folders and allows users to create and manage albums. The program includes basic photo editing tools to fix issues like redeye and improve color, lighting, and effects. Users can also print, create slideshows, search photos, and burn photos to CDs to share from within Picasa.

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Picasa: A Free Photo Management Program That Will Help You Organize, Edit, and Share Your Pictures

Picasa is a free photo management program that helps users organize, edit, and share their photos. It automatically organizes photos into folders and allows users to create and manage albums. The program includes basic photo editing tools to fix issues like redeye and improve color, lighting, and effects. Users can also print, create slideshows, search photos, and burn photos to CDs to share from within Picasa.

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PICASA

A free photo management program that will help you organize, edit, and share your pictures.

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Organize your photos Edit your photos

Print and share your photos

Organize
When Picasa is started, it will scan your system, and automatically organize your photo and movie files into a collection of folders inside the Library View. Photo file types selected: JPG, GIF, TIF, PSD, PNG, BMP, RAW (including NEF and CRW), GIF, and PNG. Movie file types selected: MPG, AVI, ASF, WMV, and MOV.

Organize Library View

Organize Library View (layout of main screen)


Folder List (left side) folders on your computer containing photos, and all albums created by Picasa.
Photo Tray (bottom) collects photos &/or movies to be managed as a group. Light Box right side shows thumbnails of photos in folders.

Organize - Library View Folder List


Folder List operations:
Select folders to scan - Tools>Folder Manager, & select folders
Move photos between folders - Click/Hold/Drag between folders Edit folder description - Dbl-click on folder name, enter or change description

Delete photo from folder Select photo, File>Delete from Disk (deletes photo from HD)

Organize - Albums
Album operations:
Create Album - highlight photo, File>New Album, in Name window: type name Add photo(s) to Album - Rt-Click photo>Add to Album>select album title Edit Album description - Dbl-click on Album title, enter or change description Delete photo from Album Rt-Click photo>Remove from Album (does not delete from Disk) Rearrange photos Click/Drag between or within Album(s)

Organize - Albums
Important: When adding or deleting a photo to/from an album, or moving the photo between albums, the photo is still in the original folder

When moving or deleting a photo to/from a folder, the photo is no longer in the original folder To organize and arrange your photos, you should use albums not folders

Organize - Library Tools


Import - Click on import button (below menu bar at top), select import device

Slide Show - Select folder or Album, View>Slideshow will show photos. To make player controls appear, move mouse or hit spacebar
Timeline View>Timeline Another way to view photos Search A search window in the upper righthand area will allow you to search to find photos by typing identifying information.

Organize - Library Tools (cont.)


Create Gift CD By clicking on this button ___ above the photos, you will open the Create Gift CD window. You can add folders or albums by clicking on the Add More button, and check marking the folders or albums you want to include on the CD. All photos in the folders or albums selected will be written on the CD when you click the Burn Disc button. You can include the Slideshow program and/or Picasa by check marking the appropriate boxes

Edit
Picasa has simplified photo editing tools to improve your photos
In the Library View, dbl-clk on a thumbnail to open the Edit Photo screen. On the left of the photo, there are three tabs of photo editing tools
Basic Fixes Tuning

Effects

Edit Basic Fixes


Crop - Click on shape on left, adjust position and size of area, and click on apply

Straighten - Move slider at bottom until photo is straight, and click on apply
Redeye Automatically removes redeye. Can also draw square around eye needing repair, and click on apply Im Feeling Lucky - Automatically adjusts color and contrast, and click apply if satisfied Auto Contrast/Color Automatically adjusts contrast/color, and click apply if satisfied

Edit Basic Fixes (cont.)


Retouch - Select a blemished area of photo (adjust area size with brush size slider) click once, move to another area of photo, click again to remove blemish (called cloning in other photo programs) Text - Text can be added to photo. Click once to position text, type text wanted. Adjust style, font size, alignment, and color. Click apply when done.

Fill Light - Adjust light in photo

Edit Tuning
Fill Light slider - Adds light to the foreground of photos with too bright backgrounds Highlights slider - Adds to or reduces the brightness spots, or highlights, in your photo Shadows slider - Adds more shadows to your photo Color Temperature slider - Makes your photo warmer (to the right) or cooler (to the left). Neutral Color Picker - Use the Pick Color dropper to tell Picasa which part of your photo it should consider as gray or white. Picasa will color balance the colors surrounding that selection according to the selected color.

Edit Effects
Effects tab - Contains twelve effects that you can apply to any still photo. Effects are added in progressive layers, and you can always undo or redo the last effect you made at any time.

Q & A on any subject

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