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Picasa is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use. Here, you'll learn how to organize and edit your photos with the Picasa software, and how to upload and share them using Picasa Web Albums.

Picasa is a software program that you install on your computer to edit and organize your digital photos. Picasa Web Albums is a website where you can upload pictures into albums and share them with friends and family.

Picasa is free to download, and Picasa Web Albums provides 1 gigabyte of free storage -- that's enough space for 4,000 wallpaper-size photos.

Contents at a Glance

Picasa for Seniors: Get Acquainted with...
Introducing Picasa 3
Important Picasa Links
Importing Photos in Picasa
Picasa 3 - Library View
Picasa: Folders vs Albums

Free, Easy-to-Use Photo Editing Software

Picasa for Seniors: Get Acquainted with Picasa: Free, Easy-to-Use Photo Editing Software (Computer Books for Seniors series)

by: Studio Visual Steps

Amazon Price: $13.81 (as of 06/03/2012)

Designed specifically for older adults, this guide provides the tools for managing, editing, and displaying digital photo collections using the free Picasa software. Screen illustrations and step-by-step instructions demonstrate the variety of options available such as enhancing colors, deleting "red eyes," cropping images, printing photos, creating slideshows, and sharing a photo album on the Internet. Securing a digital photo collection is critical, and this manual shows the simple way that Picasa burns backup image files to a CD or DVD. Some Picasa options require a high-speed internet connection, though the software will run the same way whether using a Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows 7 operating system.

Introducing Picasa 3

Important Picasa Links

Importing Photos in Picasa

*Importing Pictures - Picasa Help

Picasa 3 - Library View

Picasa: Folders vs Albums

*Folders versus albums : Basics - Picasa Help

Basic Picasa Editing

'Basic Fixes' features - Picasa Help

Basic Picasa Editing - 2

'Tuning' tab features - Picasa Help
'Effects' tab features - Picasa Help

Creating a Collage in Picasa

*Creating a collage : Collages - Picasa Help

An Example of a Collage in Picasa

E-Mailing Photos with Picasa

*Setting your default email program

An Example of a Picasa Slideshow Movie

4 GB USB Flash Drive

Kingston DataTraveler

A portable flash drive is helpful when you work with Picasa on more than 1 computer and want to save your edited photos.

Kingston DataTraveler I - 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive DTI/4GB

Amazon Price: $3.95 (as of 06/03/2012)

DataTraveler USB Flash drives are ideal for home office, small business, schools and promotions. They're affordable and put mobile storage in nearly anyone's hands. With 4GB of storage, this device allows you to easily carry a huge volume of electronic data.

How do you like Picasa?

Let's hear what you think of Picasa. Personally, I am a big fan. It is such a great tool for managing my huge library of photos.

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wilfredpadilla Sep 26, 2011 @ 8:51 am | delete

I am the tenth.

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VickiSims May 7, 2011 @ 3:16 pm | delete

My husband likes using Picasa, but I haven't really got the hang of how to use it yet, so the information in this lens was very helpful.

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EpiphanyLondon Jan 16, 2011 @ 6:30 pm | delete

Thanks for the very helpful lens! :-D

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Yourshowman Dec 8, 2010 @ 8:29 am | delete

I didnt used picasa ever. But now i am going to give it a try.

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ajgodinho Sep 17, 2010 @ 5:35 pm | delete

I've never used Picasa, but from reading your lens and watching a couple of the videos, I think it's great. I will look at using it. One thing I did see it creating borders, but I'm sure it can be done. I like the collage feature in it. Thanks for this great lens...nice personal video, by the way! :)

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Sylvestermouse Sep 14, 2010 @ 9:23 am | delete

I love Picasa! My son introduced me to it about 8 months ago after I purchased a new laptop and my old photo editing software would not "play" with Windows 7. I actually like it better than any other photo software that I have ever used. The only negative that I have found, is that you can not enlarge a photo. I do that with Microsoft Office Picture Manager now, so I have what I consider to be the perfect, easiest setup.

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hlkljgk Sep 14, 2010 @ 11:49 am | delete

Well...there is a way.

Use the collage/picture pile tool to make a one picture collage. You can enlarge your chosen pic up to the size of the collage.

You need to understand that you are not increasing the resolution of your photo by increasing it beyond its native size (same with picture manager, btw).