Picasa 2

What can you do with Picasa 2?

Picasa 2 is a free program made by Google that allows you to organize your photos without any effort on your part.

Besides organizing photos it also has some great creativity tools including gift CDs, slide shows, and blogging tools.

HOW TO GET PICASA:

1. Either click on this button, or go to www.picasa.com and click on the Free Download button.

2. After downloading, install the program by double-clicking on the Picasa icon wherever you downloaded it to.

3. After installing, the program will search your entire computer for photos and arrange them by date.

PICASA 2 FEATURES:

The following features are found in the top Picasa menus. No photos need to be selected to apply these features.

Import - Copies images from a camera or folder.

Slideshow - Shows selected pictures as a slideshow.

Timeline - Shows all of your photos grouped by date in a graphically pleasing interface.

Gift CD - Creates a slideshow CD in a few simple steps.

Backup - Backs up your photos to CD or other drive.

The following features are found in the bottom Picasa menus. These features only effect selected photos.

Print - Does package printing of selected photos, such as 8x10, wallets, 4x6 etc.

Email - Resizes and attaches selected photos to an email message.

Collage - An artsy features of Picasa, combines multiple images into a pre-designed collage pattern.

Hello - This will probably be the first feature that is changed in Picasa 3. Hello is an instant messaging program similar to Yahoo, AOL and MSN Instant Messengers.

Blogger - Click on the Blogger button to setup a new blog so that you can post photos directly from your blog using Picasa.

Order - Picasa works with Shutterfly, Wal-mart, Ritz, Kodak, Snapfish and others to allow you to order prints and gift items directly from Picasa.

Export - Copies all selected pictures into a new folder.

Links from this month's meeting

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