I so LOVE this program!!!

[Vena]

Anyone who takes alot of photos will love this program. I own nearly every photo editing and cataloging software on the planet. This FREE software program by Google is one of my favorites. I think everyone should download it.

It's called Picasa2. You can download it here http://picasa.google.com/

[pittypat]

Thanks, Vena, for reminding me of Picasa!! I had this and loved it..lost it a few months ago in a crash and had forgotten about it...I downloaded it this morning...pat

[tehale]

Thanks for sharing the link, Vena. That's a neat program!

[artwhim]

It's so easy to use that even I can do it!!
kathy

[Sylvie Anne]

Yes, thank you for the link - what a nice little program. I can't believe the freeness of it (but I do enjoy it!) I like the "I'm feeling lucky" button and am amazed that it worked. It combined three steps from my old program into just one. Nice!!

[Venessa]

Any one know how this compares to GIMP?

[Sam_W]

It doesn't compare, Venessa - they do different things. GIMP is for photo editing, Picasa is a photo organizer with a nifty little feature to allow you to create web photo albums.

[KathyDinBC]

You can do some simple editing with Picasa, too. If you haven't tried the straighten tool, you should. It's very cool. You can also crop, do red eye correction and do simple color and light adjustments. I haven't used Gimp so I don't know how it compares, but Picasa is pretty good for a free product. It automatically finds all pictures on your hard drive and allows you to organize them, share them and make very good slide shows.

[Sam_W]

That's pretty cool - the last time I used it, it just grabbed all the photos off my drive and organized them very nicely. The addition of some tweaking tools is pretty nice. Thanks for the info!

[Cheeky Trendy]

wicked! Thank you so much - it's still organizing lol my goodness do I ever have allot of photo's

Thank you sooo much this may just solve my problems!! You've made my day

[ukiacat]

Can Picasa be used as a photo host for Ebay? [I'm not happy with having Ebay host the photos....they lose their crisp-ness. Don't want to use Photobucket because I don't like their policy. I don't want them to pass my email address on to advertisers.] Would Picasa work?

Thanks
Jennifer

[KathyDinBC]

Picasa doesn't host photos. Do you get any hosting allowance with your internet provider? I used to just upload my photos to my web space and link my eBay auctions to them there before I started using InkFrog.

[Venessa]

It doesn't compare, Venessa - they do different things. GIMP is for photo editing, Picasa is a photo organizer with a nifty little feature to allow you to create web photo albums.

Thanks! I quickly figured that out...but I did find an editing program that I like better than GIMP!!

[ziggys]

Thanks from me. My friend told me last night he read about really a good photo software program for free in the Chicago Tribune.
But he could not remember much except the word sounded like Picasa!
I figured I would never find it with only that to go by.
What great timing. I need something to get started. Something really easy to orginize and do simple editing.
How cool. I think I've found it!!!
Thanks a bunch!
Angela

[ziggys]

Ok. I have a really dumb question. If I use Picasa can I upload the pictures from there to here, or will I have a link that people will need to click on here.
Thanks,
Angela

[KathyDinBC]

Angela, Picasa doesn't host the images. They'll still be on your hard drive, so you can upload them here using the 'browse' button in the attachments window.

[ziggys]

Angela, Picasa doesn't host the images. They'll still be on your hard drive, so you can upload them here using the 'browse' button in the attachments window.


Ah-Ha! Now I get it. I'm really showing my ignorance aren't I? <G>.
Well that does sound like really nice software if it is free and you can use it on your computer.

Ok. Here's another question. Has anyone heard of this?
http://www.picnik.com/app

Cool Tools recommended it. "I've seen many quick and dirty photo editing programs via web browser, but this Flash-based editor definitely takes the cake. Hands down, the ease of use is the best part."

If you can tell by reading the above recommendation or know of Picnik could you please tell me how these two programs differ? I mean Picnik says it uses the Web so does that mean you can only view them via the web so I could only place a link on here to there? And with Picasa since it's software on your own computer then you can view them where-ever you want pretty much? I really need to learn this!
Thanks a bunch,
Angela

[ziggys]

What I learned....
Picnik edits and you can send/link them anywhere like Picasa or here or your own computer. Picasa is more for orginizing, and Picnik is more for editing. I think. Though it sounds like Picasa can do enough editing for someone as savy as me! :-)
Angela

[ziggys]

SNIP:
Ok. Here's another question. Has anyone heard of this?
http://www.picnik.com/app

Cool Tools recommended it. "I've seen many quick and dirty photo editing programs via web browser, but this Flash-based editor definitely takes the cake. Hands down, the ease of use is the best part."

If you can tell by reading the above recommendation or know of Picnik could you please tell me how these two programs differ? I mean Picnik says it uses the Web so does that mean you can only view them via the web so I could only place a link on here to there? And with Picasa since it's software on your own computer then you can view them where-ever you want pretty much? I really need to learn this!
Thanks a bunch,
Angela

Geesh, I'm reading what I wrote and it doesn't even make sense to me. LOL!
I have so much to learn. I thought that with Picnik you could only view photos on Picniks site. I guess you call that web-hosting, like Photo-Bucket?
Now I know that you can orginize your photos with Picasa, do some editing, and use Picnik to do even more editing and not sure what all, yet....;-)
Angela

[Carols Glass]

Thank you for both of these programs (Picasa and Picnik). I downloaded both of them.
I've had a program before that was free called Irfanview but it is so complicated I have too much trouble resizing the photos to use on LE.
These programs are great. I already resized a photo and it was so easy I couldn't believe it!
Now, can someone tell me it will be that easy to get pics from these programs to use in something like Etsy?

[ziggys]

Please help. I have created a monster!
I downloaded Picasa and scanned my entire computer.
Well it found pictures that I don't want to have in Picasa. I also have so many duplicate pictures transfered from my old computer that it grabbed and pictures it found in mail attachments, etc., that it's still a mess.
I would like to delete duplicates of pictures but if I understand the warning it says it will delete them from my disk drive too. Is this correct?

Do I need to go to the disk drive and delete them there so I don't delete all copies?
Or I was thinking I could uninstall it, reinstall it and choose for it to only grab photos from the one folder I care about.
In other words what is the best way to set-up Picasa? I read the FAQ but I'm still not sure.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Angela

[KathyDinBC]

Here's what it says on their website, Angela:
"If Picasa finds folders you don't want, go into Tools > Folder Manager to tell it which folders to scan once, scan always or remove. To remove individual pictures from your library, simply select a photo and right-click to delete it permanently from your computer or hide it from Picasa." Hope that will help you clean it up!

[ziggys]

Kathy, that's it! I need to use the Folder Manager and have it remove them from Picassa. I read that before but didn't catch the meaning of 'remove'!

I've already accidentally deleted pictures from my hard-drive. I restored them but am not sure if it worked too well so figured I better stop before I did even more damage.
Anyway I will do the above and see if that doesn't help me.
Thanks for pointing the way, :)
Angela

[ziggys]

Kathy it worked! It is so much better now. I can actually figure out why a folder is where it is, and what is in it !

Does anyone else feel like there is a learning curve with Picasa? I mean I love the software but for some reason the instructions just aren't clicking for me.
I need Kathy be my Interpreter. O:)
Angela

[sam92568]

Vena,
Thanks so much for this recommendation! It is really easy to use and the autofix feature is the best I have tried so far! Thanks again.
Sam

[IF-Designs]

Vena! your awesome! holy crap! this program is awesome!
just need to figure out how to make it ignore a couple sections of my harddrives and ill be golden!

[melody]

My sister in law got me hooked a few years ago on Picasa and I just love it! I was using the program from my camera and it was awful.

Try it, you'll like it..........

[jeangalt]

THANKS for sharing this program - it's so easy to use. I was having a hard time getting good pictures with my other program...this one is a piece of cake to use

[ziggys]

I'm having a hard time getting good pictures with Picasa! When I crop a picture it makes the bead so much bigger that the pixels are too big and it ends up looking fuzzy or blurry.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,

[Reenie]

Make sure that if you have a firewall that this program doesn't get to connect everytime you turn computer on.
Google is into tracking people...etc
they can see all your pictures. It's kind of a program where they can catch pedophiles.
Just so you know. Same as Google Earth...Kind of spooky to be able to put in an address and then it tracks it!
Irene

[ziggys]

Reenie, that is spooky. Besides, who's to say it's not some sicko that is getting past the firewall through Picasa? Hm...I'm not even sure how to set my firewall so Picasa can't connect at will.
I spent 5 years doing tech support for the Internet. I had to live and breath it just to keep up. But that was ages ago.
I just want to improve my glass skills. I really don't have the time or energy to be a computer wiz or a photographer for that matter.

[ziggys]

Vena! your awesome! holy crap! this program is awesome!
just need to figure out how to make it ignore a couple sections of my harddrives and ill be golden!

Here is what Kathy told me to do for that: Here's what it says on their website, Angela:
"If Picasa finds folders you don't want, go into Tools > Folder Manager to tell it which folders to scan once, scan always or remove. To remove individual pictures from your library, simply select a photo and right-click to delete it permanently from your computer or hide it from Picasa." Hope that will help you clean it up!
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[Reenie]

Angela,
What firewall program are you using. I know there is an area in Norton's Firewall that I can open and it shows all the programs that will connect to the internet each time. If you have Norton, I can send you instructions to take it out of that area. That way, it's not being monitored. (As far as we know)
Irene

[ziggys]

Angela,
What firewall program are you using. I know there is an area in Norton's Firewall that I can open and it shows all the programs that will connect to the internet each time. If you have Norton, I can send you instructions to take it out of that area. That way, it's not being monitored. (As far as we know)
Irene

Hi Irene, Thank you for your kind offer. After I read your reply I used Spybot Search and Destroy and it showed which programs had access through the Firewall and Picasa was not listed, but IE was. So I disabled that. I'm waiting to see what effect that will have.

I use AVG for Virus checking. My firewall may be built into Windows XP??? Windows 98 was so easy and I used it right up until last October.
Someday maybe I'll learn all this stuff. For now I just do the bare minimum.

Reminds me of the saying: "Just when you know all the answers they change all the questions". Heh-Heh.

Angela