PICASASOFTWARE FOR YOUR

PHOTOS FREE

• VIEW, ORGANISE, AND FIND YOUR IMAGES• EDIT ( ‘DEVELOP’ ) THEM

• PRINT

• BACKUP

• SHARE

• BE CREATIVE

Type:

• http://picasa.google.co.uk in your browser

• Click on the Download Picasa 3 button

• Save the Picasa3-setup.exe file to your desktop

• Double click on the Picasa3-setup.exe to install it

• After installation, you should see a new program icon on your desktop – Picasa3

SO, HOW DO YOU GET PICASA?

• Your photos are not “IN” Picasa

• It doesn’t physically move your photos from your Pictures folder on the hard disk to Picasa

WHAT IS PICASA?• At heart, it’s a Photo Organiser

• It doesn’t copy them

• It’s a database that indexes your photos – a catalogue, if you like.

• You tell it the file types you want it to find – and the folders you want it to search.

• It simply looks at the existing folders on your computer and displays the photos it finds.

• When using editing tools in Picasa, your original files are not touched.

The edits you make are only viewable in Picasa …..

• ….. until you decide to save your changes.

It then creates a new version of the photo (with the edits applied). Your original is protected.

HOWEVER!

• Folders in Picasa represent the actual folders on your computer.

• If you delete a photo showing in a Picasa folder, or the entire folder, the photo (or folder) is also deleted from the computer!

IT’S WORTH KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOLDERS AND PICASA ALBUMS

• A Picasa Album lets you create a virtual group of photos taken from different folders that are on your computer. It’s an organisational tool.

ALBUMS exist only in Picasa

• You can see the photos in the Picasa album but the files haven’t moved from their Windows folders .

• When you delete (or move) a photo from an album, you are only deleting the virtual one. The original remains in its original folder on your computer.

• If you delete a folder – or a photo in a folder – from Picasa, you will be deleting the actual folder that exists on your computer!!

A REMINDER

• If you no longer want to see the folder in Picasa, use the REMOVE FROM PICASA command. (the original folder is not deleted, merely the view of it in Picasa).

• Deleting an album only deletes the ‘virtual’ collection of photos you have made in Picasa.

• DON’T HIT DELETE!

1. SIGN UPSign in with your Google Account at http://picasaweb.google.com . If you don’t have an account, create one.

SHARING YOUR PHOTOS WITH WEB ALBUMS

2. UPLOADChoose your photos and click Upload.

3. VIEWWhen you sign in at http://picasaweb.comyou’ll be taken to your Picasa web albums. Click on an album to see the photos.

• PUBLICViewable to anyone who knows the address http://picasaweb.google.com/{username}.

VISIBILITY – WHO GETS TO SEE YOUR ALBUMS?

• UNLISTEDLimits who can see your album. An authorisation key is added to the address and only those with the exact address can view.

• SIGN-IN REQUIRED TO VIEWHighest level of privacy. You specify who has permission and they must sign in to their Google Account to verify their identity.

• Picasa provides you with a Gigabyte of storage space for your Web Albums.

PICASA WEB ALBUMS

• It is intended for us to be able to share our photos with others.

• Best not to think of it as your main area for storage or backup. In other words, I wouldn’t delete the originals from the hard disk!