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Did you ever take a picture and you were disappointed that the sky was washed out?  You wish it was just a little bit bluer.  Well that’s the main use of the graduated tint effect.

In the example above, I selected the original photo on the left, clicked on the Effects tab and selected Graduated Tint.  [...]

If you haven’t made a Web Album yet, you really need to. It is just the best way to share photos with friends and family. Picasa Web Albums is actually a separate program. It’s a website that anyone can use whether they have Picasa on their computers or not. But, if [...]

You may have discovered how easy it is to add a few words to your photo using Picasa 3’s Text tool.  But, did you know you can write complete paragraphs?

You need to know that the text will not wordwrap, so you must end each line with Enter.  It also helps to have a solid background [...]

Yesterday, at The Rally, we presented our Google Earth seminar.

Happy faces of Google Earth Audience From Geeks on Tour April 2009

It was great fun.  Most of the people in the audience had already used Google Earth a little, but I know they learned a lot [...]

Question:  “I am new at Picasa 3. I have viewed your tutorials on the Basic editing.  I spent several hours adjusting my pictures on the computer.  This included cropping, light etc.  As advised in the tutorial, I would check apply and go back to library without saving.  When I went to close out of Picasa, [...]

Picasa’s one-click auto-correct button is called ‘I’m Feeling Lucky.’ Try it! You’ll like it. If you don’t like what it does, no problem, just click the Undo button and it will forget all about it.
I recommend *always* clicking on I’m Feeling Lucky whenever you’re editing a photo. You may be surprised [...]

Ever wondered how people (like me) are able to show you a picture of how their computer screen looks at any given time?  Like this screenshot of Picasa:

Or maybe you do already know about the ‘PrtScn’ key on your keyboard that will take a snapshot of your screen.  But then what?  Pressing the PrtScn [...]

We’ve made a lot of new videos over the last few months (we’re over 140 now - about 14 hours worth) and we’ve re-authored our disks accordingly. We’ve divided them up into 2 categories:

Boot Camp: videos on how to use your computer, Essentials, Vista, Safe Computing and Internet connections. Disk includes a 40 page self-study [...]

When you think of a collage, most people think of a bunch of photos strewn about on a page. I want to use Picasa’s background feature to make you think of other ideas. Here’s a collage I did of our motorhome. Click on it for a larger version - then click your [...]

Someone recently told me that he had some old slides scanned and some of them came out backwards. Think of a photo like:

It’s kind of useless like that! He asked me if Picasa could flip the photo so it would read correctly. I thought a minute about how a click of the [...]