Picasa 3 Download Features

Google has updated Picasa 2.7 to 3.0.....whats new? Check out some of the new features:

-Automatically sync your Picasa 3 to re-upload your photos to your Picasa Web Albums after making further edits

-Add text or watermarks to your photos

-Create and edit movies

-Screen capture software

Download Picasa For Free

Another reason to love downloading Picasa for free! I got an email from a Digital Camera Help visitor who was having problems saving a slideshow he had created onto a cd to share with friends and family. It seems the cd would play the slides in a different order than they were on the PC! I was not familiar with the software he was using but did tell him that files are usually sorted (and played) in alphabetic order and an easy way to get the slideshow to go in the order you want is to use a number as the file name, like; 001, 002, 003, etc. Of course, renaming all the file names is only practical if your slide show is small!

I also suggested using Picasa and told him, “Using Picasa (free photo editing software from Google) you can save a slideshow in the same order that you had the photos arranged in your folder or album as long as you have the "Include Slideshow" option checked under step one on the "Gift CD" screen.”

Customize Picasa Buttons

You can customize the row of buttons that appear at the bottom of your Picasa screen by using the following directions.

The Button Manager can be accessed from "Tools" >"Configure Buttons." Using the Picasa Button Manager, you can add or remove buttons or change the order of your buttons. For example, if you rarely use the "Print" button, you can remove this button, or if you frequently use the "Collage" button, you can make that button first.

At any time, if you would like to include all of the original buttons, just select "Restore to Defaults." This feature is available under "Tools" > "Configure Buttons."

Picasa Timeline

Picasa's Timeline feature lets you instantly scroll through a chronological catalog of your photos. To see your photos in a timeline, click "Timeline" at the top of your screen. To move the timeline forward or back, you can click and drag an album cover or double-click one of the thumbnails to start a slideshow of the album.

Resizing Photos In Picasa

Picasa can resize photos in two ways: when you export photos or when you email photos.

To use the “Export” feature in Picasa to reduce the image resolution (pixel count) and .jpg compression (image quality) of your photos, just complete these steps:

1. Open Picasa.
2. Select your image and press the “Export” button.
3. Under "Image Size Options" select the "Resize To" button and adjust the slider. Please note that the number of pixels you select with this slider determines the length or height of your photo (whichever is longer). The other dimension will be determined automatically in order to maintain the aspect ratio of the photo.
4. Select the desired image quality for your photo using the "Image Quality" drop-down menu:
- "Automatic" will preserve the original image quality
- "Normal" will balance quality and size
- "Maximum" will preserve fine detail for large file sizes
- "Minumum" will yield some quality loss for small file sizes
- "Custom" will enable you to select your own value

In order to reduce the size (in pixels) of photos you wish to send via email, please do the following:

1. Open Picasa.
2. Click "Tools" > "Options" > "Email."
3. Under "Output Options," set the slide bar under "When sending more than one photo, resize to:" to the desired pixel size.
4. Set the "When sending single pictures, resize to:" option to 'XXX pixels, as above" (XXX will be the number of pixels selected with the slide bar in the previous step).
5. Click "OK."

Making A Picasa Gift CD/DVD

Picasa enables you to create a gift CD/DVD so you can share your photos with your friends and family. With a Picasa gift CD/DVD, you have the option of including auto running slideshow and a copy of the Picasa software. The only downside is you can not add music. Here are the steps to create your gift disk:

1. Select the photos you wish to copy to a gift CD/DVD.
2. Click "Gift CD" button.
3. If you want to include the auto-running slideshow, check the "Include Slideshow" box.
4. If you wish to include a copy of Picasa on the CD/DVD, check the "Include Picasa" box.
5. You can add more photos to the gift CD by clicking the "Add More" button.
6. If you want to resize the photos, you can do so using the "Picture Size" drop down. If you do not wish to resize your photos, make sure to select "Original Size".
7. Enter a name or title for your gift CD.
8. When you are ready, click "Burn Disc" button.


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Editing and Organizing Photos Into Albums With Picasa

Picasa presents powerful features for organization and optimization of digital images. The article provides a full review of the use of this software for amateur photographers.

The tremendous increase of using Digital Photography in the past few years gave birth to a growing need for good, easy to use and free picture editing and organization software.

There are not too many good and satisfying softwares for ordinary people like you and me that just want to download photos from our new digital camera which were taken on our last vacation. We don't need the complicated and deadly frustrating features that require half a year course to understand. Most of the softwares on the market today have been tailored for the use of photography professionals, graphic designer artists and image processing technicians. These softwares are very very expensive and hard to use.

All we need is an easy way to organize, edit and share our pictures. This is when Google decided to develop software just for our needs. And so they came up with 'Picasa'.

Picasa is surprisingly intuitive and easy to use, has very comfortable interface and relaxing graphics. The moment you enter Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures, you will be surprised of how many pictures Picasa found that you didn't even know they exist. You can edit, share, organize in albums and print your pictures. Let's find out about the new features Picasa presents:

-Editing: Optimize your digital pictures with Picasa: remove red-eyes, improve color saturation, sharpening and much more with just few simple clicks.

-Organize: With Picasa you can instantly locate and organize all pictures on your PC and create your own photo albums

-Share: Send your photos to your Friends and Family right from Picasa.

-Publish your pictures on your blog and creating your own picture website was never easier like with Picasa.

-Creating beautiful slide shows is simple and intuitive

Print your favorite photos at home or order professional high quality Photo books , collages or movies directly from Picasa.

In addition to the main features above Picasa also gives you the possibility to burn Gift CD´s with Pictures inside to add label for every picture and it is able to perform a Ranking within all available images in order to choose the best ones.

As you can see Picasa offer great variety of options and features while keeping it simple as possible for the common amateur photographer like me.

With the free distribution of this excellent software product, Google has set a heavy milestone in the fast growing Digital Imaging business. No doubt that Picasa is the best choice now days:
You can visit Picasa Download center at www.picasa-officiale.com and Download the software for free.

Best regards and fun photo organizing.

Maxim Shramko, is a well known internet entrepreneur among other webmaster's experties he writes special reviews on new highly important products. http://www.max-experts.com

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