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PICASA

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PICASA – File-• File operations

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PICASA | File-New Album

• Name

• Date

• Place taken

• Description

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PICASA | File-Add Folder

• Add/Remove folders that are looked at by Picasa– Scan Once– Remove

from Picasa– Scan Always

• Watched folders

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PICASA | File – Add File

• Similar to Add Folder– Only adds

file instead of folder

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PICASA | File – Import From

• Where you can import files from– Scanner– Camera– ???

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PICASA | File – Save As

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PICASA | File – Save a Copy

• This appeared briefly and then disappeared

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PICASA | File – Export to Folder

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PICASA | File – Locate in Picasa

• Locates selected file in Picasa to where it is on your Hard Disk

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PICASA | File – Remove from Album

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PICASA | File – Email

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PICASA | File – Hello

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PICASA | File – Order Prints

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PICASA | Edit -

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PICASA | Edit - Crop

• Select photo to edit and double-click

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PICASA | Edit – Crop-2

• Manual crop is selected– Click-Hold and Drag the

area to be selected for cropping (shown)

• Click on Apply to complete crop

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PICASA | Edit – Straighten

• Double-click to select the photo to be straightened• Click on the Straighten button• Slider control will appear

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PICASA | Edit – Straighten-2

• Move slider control left/right to straighten photo• Click Apply to complete operation

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PICASA | Edit – Redeye Repair• Double-click to select the photo to be redeye repaired• Follow on-screen directions (I don’t have any redeye

photos)

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PICASA | Edit – I’m Feeling Lucky• Double-click to select the photo to get lucky on• Click on the I’m Feeling Lucky button – Picasa makes

optimum photo settings (note the background change)

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PICASA | Edit – Auto Contrast• Double-click to select the photo to Auto Contrast• Click on the Auto Contrast button – Picasa makes optimum

contrast settings (I could not see any change on my photo)

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PICASA | Edit – Auto Color• Double-click to select the photo to Auto Color• Click on the Auto Color button – Picasa makes optimum

color settings (Different photos are affected differently)

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PICASA | Edit – Fill Light• Double-click to select the photo to Fill Light• Click on the Fill Light slider to change the amount of fill light• Moved to mid-point

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Picasa Edit | Tuning

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PICASA | Edit – Tuning• Select the Tuning

tab at the top of the page

• Sliders for – Fill Light– Highlights– Shadows– Color Temperature

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PICASA | Tuning – Fill Light• Move the slider to midpoint for Fill Light

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PICASA | Tuning – Highlights• Move the slider to midpoint for Highlights

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PICASA | Tuning – Shadows• Move the slider to midpoint for Shadows

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PICASA | Tuning – Color Temperature• Move the slider Left and Right for Color Temperature

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ModifiedLeft

ModifiedRight

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PICASA | Effects – Sharpen• What sharpen does is find edges in the photo and

enhance them to make the photo to appear to be sharper

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Sharpen

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PICASA | Effects – Warmify• Changes the colors to make the photo to appear

warmer (red enhancement)

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Warmify

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PICASA | Effects – Saturation• Changes the colors to make the photo to appear

warmer (red enhancement)

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Saturation – 50% right

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PICASA | Effects – Saturation• Changes the colors to make the photo to appear

warmer (red enhancement)

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Saturation – 50% right

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PICASA | Effects – Filtered B&W• Filters to B&W based on colors selected –

incremental or continuous

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Filtered B&W - Red

Filtered B&W - Green

Continuous

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PICASA | Effects – Soft Focus• Move crosshairs to the desired Soft Focus center• Adjust the Size (diameter) of the Soft Focus center• Adjust the Amount of Soft Focus desired

Soft Focus

Applied

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PICASA | Effects – Focal B&W• Move crosshairs to the desired Focal B&W center• Adjust the Size (diameter) of the Focal B&W center• Adjust the Amount of Soft Focus desired

Focal B&W

Applied

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PICASA | Effects

• You can try out the rest of the Effects to see what they do

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PICASA | View

• View is about what the screen looks like (like most of Windows apps

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PICASA | View – Library View

• Library View – small thumbnails (ctrl+1)

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PICASA | View – Library View-2

• Library View – normal thumbnails (ctrl+2)

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PICASA | View – Edit View

• Library View – normal thumbnails (ctrl+2)

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PICASA | View – Keywords

• Allows user to add keywords to photo

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PICASA | View – Slideshow

• Initiates the slideshow function• Press the ‘esc’ key to stop• Click on the slideshow windows to see the toolbar below

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PICASA | View – Timeline

(Can’t get a screen shot of this)• Shows series of folders with thumbnails of contents• Allows selection of a folder and slideshow of contents

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PICASA | View – Search

• Search for photos• Can put search filters on search of ‘Starred’, ‘Movies’,

‘Updated’ and Date Range

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PICASA | View – Thumbnail Captions

• Using the Thumbnail Caption you can place captions on your thumbnails

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PICASA | View – Folder View

• Allows different views of the file & folder structure

• Also allows control of how files/folders sorted

Flat Folder view

Tree view

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PICASA | View -

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PICASA | Album -

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PICASA | Picture -

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PICASA | Create -

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PICASA | Tools -

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PICASA | Help -