How to use Picasa Online?

[Bala Murugan S]

There are many of the users who are asking this question here and there and so I thought that it will be better to post one small tutorial about it here. Picasa" offers extensive opportunities for editing and managing images. With the free program you can decorate your photos or save it as a backup. This is about sharing your photos with friends around the world. Or you can build stunning slide shows, and "Face Music", these are film clips, which consist of portrait photographs.

"Picasa" brings order to the flood of digital photos on your computer. The free software from Google serves both as an image viewer, organizational assistance and digital photo album. The image management "Picasa" can be installed with a few mouse clicks. Begin by running the setup file and press the End User Agreement of the software on "Accept". You can also customize the installation folder by clicking the "Browse ..." or accept the default directory; you can click on "Install". This will starts the copying process.

At the end of Setup, a dialog box appears. Here you can define and create program shortcuts that "Picasa" is executed immediately after the installation. You also have the option to "Google" as the default search engine for the "Internet Explorer" to establish and determine whether anonymous usage statistics are sent to the manufacturer. If in doubt, remove the checkmark next to these two options. After clicking "Finish", the installation is complete.

A convenient user interface and intelligent management are the things that distinguish "Picasa" from others. You will be able to organize your pictures, for example using "tag" functions. This allows tags, Location (via "geotagging" with "Google Earth") and even assign personal names. This greatly facilitates the search for photos and creating photo albums and web albums. With the batch function, it become easier to upload and manage numerous web albums of cake. To protect your photo collection from loss, you can back up with "Picasa" as a backup.

But the software can do even more: create collages, make gift CDs or slideshows. Using the "Facebook Movie" they construct portraits of effective presentations, if desired, even with music. If you want to beautify your pictures with "Picasa" then also there is no problem because the software offers many effects and features for the revaluation of photographs. You can remove such as "red eye", color casts or blurring with a few clicks. The online service called "Picnik" can be used to edit your images for free on the Internet and beautify.

[Ry]

"Picasa" helps you manage your photo collection. After installation, the photo software scans the entire computer on demand on the graphics files. When you first launch you will find a dialog box where you choose to "Picasa" is to search your entire computer for pictures, or whether initially only the folder "My Documents", "My Pictures" and the desktop to be considered. New directories, you can also easily incorporate later in the search. I am using the same from last many months and I don’t think that there is anything that I can even compare with picasa. This is the best and I am very happy with it.

[Kork]

If you are using the Picasa then with one click you can make the active album slideshow as well as create burning a shekel or create with Picasa Movie Maker a movie transition effects. You will also be able to synchronize photos with the help of the sync function like one from the locally stored photo album and web album. The upload function loads the images to your own Picasa Web page. Picasa also brings videos to the network, either on your own web album or on YouTube.
The image processing section has a touch up feature on board. If necessary, add images with a watermark or look at the pictures with Picasa Photo Viewer in Windows Explorer. A screen capture tool makes screenshots, geospatial Google Earth to tie in with a few clicks in photographs or photo collections.


Benefits

• Concise user interface
• Built-in slide show function
• Screen capture tool for screenshots

Disadvantages

• Nothing worth mentioning

[Bartolomeo]

Picasa is software acquired by Google in 2004 and distributed free in order to promote the publication of online web albums. The features of Picasa are not limited to this area, but also ordered the cataloging of our images, correcting contrast, color and brightness, and finally the ability to create slideshows and movies. To date, Picasa is without doubt one of the best free software available, suitable for all those users who have great needs in ternimi of advanced photo editing and prefer to support the management of their images in one software.