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Lesson 13 How to Create Beautiful Photo's
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The sharp minds at Google labs have created many innovative applications. One of their very best an image viewer, organizer, and editor for your PC is called Picasa. Google is known for releasing intuitive, avant-garde programs for the masses, all at a great price! Google's Picasa is no exception. Not only is this photo software without charge, but it's one of the very best applications you'll find for download!
Picasa allows you to view, organize, and quickly find all your precious photos you may have haphazardly strewn about your computer's hard drive. Do you need to make a quick photo touch up? Google Picasa has got you covered. Want a fast and easy way to share your photos with loved ones? Google Picasa makes sharing your pictures a snap. Once you've got Picasa installed and running for the very first time, Picasa will ask you if you want it to scan your entire PC or just your personal folders, looking for multimedia content. Picasa must run through this process to organize and view your photo content for faster access. This process in no way removes or moves any of your files on your hard drive; it's just Picasa's way of speeding up some of the procedures it must do to make your viewing experience more stream-lined and pleasant. Once Picasa runs through its picture scanning process, it'll select all of your image content into convenient folders on the side of the application. Selecting each folder will display a thumbnail view of each of the folder's images. Double tapping on a thumb nail will bring the image into a full-sized view. When in the full view mode, you'll see various tools at the bottom of the image. The slider bar will zoom in or out of the image. The thumbnail bar at the top of the image enables you to go backwards or forwards within the picture list.
If you need powerful image altering functions, Adobe's Photoshop still reigns supreme, but for fixing red-eye in family photos and basic image cropping, Google'sPicasa does just fine. These image editing tools can be found on the right side of an image when you double tap on its thumbnail. You'll see a palette with three tabs: 'Basic Fixes', 'Tuning', and 'Effects'. Picasa provides an array of impressive image alteration tools, all of which are very intuitive and easy to use. Picasa's slide show feature is nice when you want to scroll through a folder of pictures. This can be helpful for displaying pictures of holiday gatherings and family events to loved ones. Here's how to set up your slideshow:
This options bar will allow you to change the slideshow speed (in seconds) along with other options such as image rotation. You can also scroll through the slideshow manually via the 'forward' and 'backward' buttons located on the options bar. Not only can Picasa display your image content, but it'll also play your movie files. If you have any video content, Picasa has no trouble playing them in a specialized window. This extra feature makes Picasa a powerful application capable of handling images as well as most video content found on the web. On the house software is everybody's favorite kind of software. Picasa not only offers powerful image viewing, organizing, and editing functions, but comes with a price tag that's music to your wallet's ears! You may download Picasa here: http://picasa.google.com/.
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