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Do you love Picasa for managing all your digital photos?  We do!  We’ve been using it *and* teaching it for many years now.  This site includes all our free weekly articles on every aspect of this free software from Google.  Our main site, GeeksOnTour.TV is where you’ll find all our tutorial videos on Picasa as well as many other programs of interest to travelers.

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Sorting Folders vs. Sorting Pictures within a Folder

Sorting Folders vs. Sorting Pictures within a Folder

When you first open Picasa, it displays all your folders in date order.  So you see a line at the start of each year.  But, you can also see them in Alphabetical order, or even ‘Sort by Recent Changes’ if you prefer. The key is to use the dropdown arrow that is at the top Read More

Sorting Folders vs. Sorting Pictures within a Folder

Sorting Folders vs. Sorting Pictures within a Folder

When you first open Picasa, it displays all your folders in date order.  So you see a line at the start of each year.  But, you can also see them in Alphabetical order, or even ‘Sort by Recent Changes’ if you prefer. The key is to use the dropdown arrow that is at the top Read More

Picasa Tip: Resize a Batch of Pictures

Picasa Tip: Resize a Batch of Pictures

So you tried uploading your pictures to eBay and they were rejected for being too large.  Picasa makes it easy to resize them all at once. Select the pictures you want to resize.  You should see all the pictures in your selection tray. Click the Export button Select the folder to store the finished product, Read More

Carbonite and Picasa

Carbonite and Picasa

If you use Carbonite to do backups online, and you use Picasa to manage the pictures on your computer, then there is a Carbonite feature you need to understand.  If you take a close look at Carbonite’s default list of files that are excluded from backup, you will see .ini files.  If you understand Picasa, Read More

Adding Text to a Collage

Adding Text to a Collage

Question: As historian for a club of mine I just love Picasa’s Collage feature to put together the pictures I take of all the activities.  But, I need to identify the activities in the picture. Is it possible to add Text to the collage pictures that I have made? Yes, indeed!  Adding text right on Read More

Picasa Tip: Framing Photos

Picasa Tip: Framing Photos

Doesn’t a frame make a normal photo look like a work of art?  Picasa 3.9 has several options for framing your photos, and you won’t believe how easy they are.  There are 5 new options that all relate to framing your photo.  They’re all on the last tab of Picasa’s editing tools.  So, just pick Read More

More Articles

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Is Picasa the Only Software for Managing all your Travel Pictures?
Carbonite and Picasa
Picasa Tip: Framing Photos
Fun with Picasa 3.9 Effects
Upgrading to Picasa 3.9
Backup your Picasa Web Albums with Takeout
Picasa Releases version 3.9
The Easy Way to Scan Slides
Forget about Picasa and Learn Files and Folders
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