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2 DIGITAL PHOTO ORGANIZING AND EDITING USING 3.9

FROM To Download the FREE Picasa 3.9 Program from Google

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 GO TO THE HTTP://PICASA.GOOGLE.COM

 CLICK ON THE BUTTON FOR DOWNLOAD PICASA3.

 WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE OF RUN OR SAVE, CLICK RUN, WHICH WILL IMMEDIATELY INSTALL PICASA3 ON YOUR COMPUTER.

 YOU WILL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THE PICASA PHOTO VIEWER YOUR DEFAULT VIEWER. CLICK ON OK.

IF YOU FIND THAT DON’T LIKE IT, YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN IT OFF LATER BY OPENING PICASA3 AND CLICKING ON TOOLS CONFIGURE PHOTO VIEWER DON’T USE

Go to the website 4 for Windows http://picasa.google.com XP/Vista/7

For Mac OS http://picasa.google.com/mac/ X 10.4.9+ Requires Intel CPU

Free photo editing software from Google, now with name tags. Digital Photo Organizing and Editing

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Click on the button for Download Picasa3.

Download Picasa 3.9

for Windows XP/Vista/7 Thank you for downloading Picasa 3.9 (Your download should start automatically. If it doesn't, click here.)

• If you have a pop-up blocker on your computer, the download will not start automatically. (Note in the illustration above, there is a warning that “ Explorer blocked this site from downloading.”) In that case, click on “click here to get it going.”You’ll get the following dialog box:

6 • Click on Run. After Picasa is downloaded to your computer, you’ll see the following dialog box:

• Click on Run. The next step will be the License Agreement. •You must click on “I Agree” to proceed. Your computer will then ask where you want to save the (Choose Install Location).

7 Generally, the default (what you see already selected in the box – in this case, C:\Program Files\Picasa2) is the best place, so you can go ahead and click on Install. You’ll likely next get a Set-Up screen such as the one below:

8 • You can select or de-select any of these options, depending upon your personal preferences. Once your selections are complete, click on Finish.

9 • Assuming you left the checkbox for “Run Picasa2” checked, Picasa will now open to this screen:

10 Finding Photos on Your Computer

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 WHEN YOU INSTALL PICASA, JUST CLICK ON CONTINUE (AS NOTED ON THE DIAGRAM ABOVE), AND IT INSTANTLY GOES TO WORK, ORGANIZING ALL THE PICTURES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE BY DATE IN THE "FOLDERS ON DISK" COLLECTION.

 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 SIMPLY HIDE IT FROM PICASA. Digital Photo Organizing and Editing

12 Using Online Help

 The best way to start Help Contents and using Picasa3.9 is to Index (or simply press first read the basic the F1 key at the top topics listed on the of your keyboard) and Picasa3.9 Help page. it will take you directly Open Picasa3.9, then to the Picasa3 Help click on Help page.

Picasa Tabs

13 Picasa Tabs

14 Picasa Tabs

15 Picasa Tabs

16 Picasa

17  Right click to see the tool bar.

Importing Basics: Add new photos

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You can use Picasa to import new photos and videos into a scanned folder - from a camera, CD/DVD, memory card, camera phone etc. - in a few simple steps.

 Connect the camera (or memory card,  On your computer: CD/DVD, scanner, etc.) to your computer.  Select the destination folder from the 'Import to' drop-down menu. Use the  In Picasa, click the Import button. 'Folder title' drop down menu to automatically save in a new folder by date taken, today's date or a custom  Select the source of your new photos (e.g. your camera) from the 'Import folder name. If you choose 'date taken,' from' drop-down menu at the top. Small your photos will be saved in separate thumbnail previews will display in the folders by date. import tray, divided into groups based on the time in which they were taken.

 The 'Import to' section lets you choose where you'd like the photos to end up.

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What is the Photo Tray (picture tray) and where is it?

 The Photo Tray is located at the bottom  The Add To button allows you to add left of the Picasa screen. It displays the the selected photo or photos to an photo or photos you currently have existing or new Album. selected.  The output options buttons (Web  The Hold button allows a viewed photo to Album, Email, Print, Order Prints, stick in the Photo Tray. This function is This, Collage, Export) perform their useful when selecting photos from respective actions using the photos multiple Folders or Albums. currently in the Photo Tray.

 The Clear button will remove your currently selection of photos from the Photo Tray. You will receive an "are you sure?" prompt before the Tray is cleared.

Picasa’s Photo Tray

Moving Photos

20 Moving and Renaming Photos

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• It’s very easy to move photos from one folder to another using Picasa. Select a photo. With your mouse, drag and drop the photo to its new folder. To select more than one photo, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard as you select photos. If you move a photo into a different folder on disk, Picasa will remind you that you’re about to move the actual file on your computer’s hard drive. Click the “OK” button to move the photo to its new location. Note: Moving photos between folders in the “Folders” collection will affect their physical location on your hard drive. Renaming Photos and Folders

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To rename an individual photo

: To rename a group of photos, do the following: 1.Select the photos you wish to rename.

1.Select the photo to be renamed. 2. Click "File." (Or access the rename option by pressing F2.) 2. Click "File." (Or access the rename option by pressing F2.) 3. Click "Rename.“

3. Click "Rename.“ 4. Enter the common name you wish to use for this group of photos 4. Type in the new name for the photo. If you wish, you can add Date or 5. Click "Rename." Resolution data to the filename using If you selected 12 photos from a family picnic the provided checkboxes. and selected to rename them "picnic", the files will now be named 'picnic.jpg' through 'picnic-11.jpg'. 5. Click "Rename." Using Tags to help find photos

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 You can make it easy to find your photos by attaching Tags to identify the photo’s subject matter.

 Select one or more photos with a particular subject and then click on the button (or press Ctrl T).

 You can then enter one or more subject names that you can later use to search for photos

 For example, Tag photos with the names of each person shown in the photo. Basic Photo Editing

24 • Editing your photos is easy with Picasa! To begin editing a photo, find the photo on which you’d like to work and double click to open it in the editing screen. Editing Overview: Editing features

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• 'Basic Fixes' tab: Make simple fixes to your photos. Fixes range from removing red-eye to cropping photos to one-click fixes for color and contrast.

• 'Tuning' tab: Use these advanced editing features to fix contrast and remove color cast. Adjust shadows and highlights to add some dimension to your photos or brighten up the foreground with fill light to salvage otherwise dark photos.

• 'Effects' tab: Choose from The effects range from simple filters such as black and white coloring and sharpening to more advanced photographic filters. Photo Edits: 'Basic Fixes' features

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Use Crop to better frame you photo or to cut out parts of a photo that you don't want to see. For example, you can crop your ex-girlfriend out of your holiday photos. Select a cropping dimension like 5x7, 8x10, or create and save your own custom crop dimension. Then drag and drop the cropping box directly over the photo. You can adjust your cropped area by clicking and dragging the corners of the box, all the while maintaining the same dimensions. You can also choose one of the three crop suggestions provided by Picasa. Click the Preview button to get a sneak peek at what your new shot will look like. Photo Edits: 'Basic Fixes' features

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Crop Straighten

 Use Crop to better frame you photo or to cut out parts of a photo that you don't want to  You can straighten photos taken with an see. For example, you can crop your ex- off-kilter camera. Use the slider to align girlfriend out of your holiday photos. the photo against the boxed grid and click Apply.  Select a cropping dimension like 5x7, 8x10, or create and save your own custom crop dimension. Then drag and drop the cropping box directly over the photo. You can adjust your cropped area by clicking and dragging the corners of the box, all the while maintaining the same dimensions. You can also choose one of the three crop suggestions provided by Picasa. Click the Preview button to get a sneak peek at what your new shot will look like.

Photo Edits: 'Basic Fixes' features

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Redeye I'm feeling lucky

 The Redeye tool will automatically correct red eyes that it detects in your photos for  This is the one-click fix. Picasa adjusts any photo file type that Picasa supports. your photo's color and contrast to produce Click the Redeye button to have Picasa the ideal photo. You'll see a change only if auto-correct your photo. Then click Apply your photo isn't already color-balanced. to accept these changes.

 If you'd rather make the edit manually, please click the Reset button. Click, hold, and drag the mouse around each eye to select it; try to draw as small an area as possible for better results.

 Redeye will literally only remove the color red. Any eyes that appear yellow, white, or green due to flash issues will not be corrected.

Photo Edits: 'Basic Fixes' features

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Auto Contrast Retouch

 Automatically set the brightness and  Use the Retouch tool to remove unsightly contrast to optimal levels, while preserving blemishes and improve photo quality. It a photo's color values. A great way to fix a can also help you to restore old photos flat photo with marks, water stains, and scratches to excellent condition. Use the following steps:

 Click the Retouch button.  Auto Color Automatically remove color cast and  Click once to highlight the area you'd like restore the color balance, while to retouch. A few tips: preserving contrast and brightness values.

Photo Edits: 'Basic Fixes' features

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 Picnik was thrilled to announce they’d joined the Google family

 Picnik is photo editing online, in your browser. It gives real people photo editing superpowers. It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free.

Picnik Basic Edits

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32 Picnik Decorate

33 Picnik Text

34 Text

35  Quickly and easily add text on  After you've applied text to a top of your pictures. Once you single photo, you can bulk click the Text tool, just click apply that text to multiple anywhere on your photo and photos in a single folder or type your desired text. You can album by using the Copy Text edit the style, size, and angle of and Paste Text options the text, as well as drag it to available under the Edit menu. your desired location. Click Apply to accept the edit. Fill Light At times, photos with bright  A few tips: backgrounds can darken or compromise the subject detail. Use the slider to add light to the foreground  Use the Copy Caption button of photos, making them more to insert any previously existing balanced. Also, try the Tuning tab for caption as text on the photo. additional lighting options.

Photo Edits: ‘ Tuning' tab features

36  Fill Light  Highlights

 At times, photos with  Increase the highlights to bright backgrounds can amplify the bright spots darken or compromise of your photograph. It important details in the can help make the whites photo. Add fill light to the in your composition more foreground of photos, vibrant. making them more balanced.

Photo Edits: ‘ Tuning' tab features

37  Shadows  Highlights slider to add  Darken the shadows in contrast to a flat-looking your photo to provide photo. additional depth or contrast. Use this in conjunction with the

Photo Edits: ‘ Tuning' tab features

38  Color Temperature  Neutral Color Picker

 Make your photos  Tell Picasa which part of warmer by sliding the your photo it should treat ticker to the right. This as gray or white. Photo can make your colors Lab will then use that more vivid and help selection to balance the bring to life the colors in the photo. composition of your photograph.

Photo Edits: ‘ Tuning' tab features

39  Auto Color Fix  Undo/Redo

 Click this magic wand to  These two buttons, only have Picasa active when there are automatically remove unsaved edits on the color cast and restore photo, undo and redo the color balance, while your edits in the order preserving contrast and they were applied. brightness values.

Photo Edits: 'Effects' tab features

40  Sharpen  Sepia

 Make the edges of  Give your image an 'old- objects in your photos fashioned' effect. Sepia crisper and less fuzzy. toning began as a Use the slider to adjust printing method in the the level of sharpness. 1880s, and you can use Learn more about this tool to digitally sharpening images. reproduce its effect. Your image will be re-cast in a reddish brown tone.

Photo Edits: 'Effects' tab features

41  Black and White  Warmify

 Give your image a  Warm up a cool photo, historic or nostalgic improving skin tones. effect. Turn any color For a more manual photo into a black and control, see the Color white photo. The stark Temperature slider on contrasts can enhance the Tuning tab your subject matter.

Photo Edits: 'Effects' tab features

42  Film Grain  Tint

 Add a 'grainy' film look to  Strip the color out of your any photo. Digital photo and apply a photography doesn't colored tint over the top. naturally exhibit film grain, but this tool allows you to simulate it. The effect can be subtle, but it looks great when you print.

Photo Edits: 'Effects' tab features

43  Saturation  Soft Focus

 Use the slider to adjust  Soften the focus around color saturation. Slide it a center point that you all the way to the left to select. Use the sliders to make the picture black control the size of the and white. Slide it all the focused area and also way to the right to make the amount of softness it appear 'radio-active.' applied.

Photo Edits: 'Effects' tab features

44  Glow  Filtered Black and White  Brightens the white areas of a photo, causing a  Add the effect of dreamy effect. Use the shooting black and white sliders to control the film with a color filter. The intensity of the glow and filter blocks or enhances also it's shining radius certain colors in the photo depending on the color filter you choose.

Photo Edits: 'Effects' tab features

45 Saving Edits: Saving photos

46 Saving Your Changes

 Picasa3 automatically keeps track of  For that reason, it is best to always your photo edits even if you don’t save you changes. Just click on save your changes. Any unsaved File Save after you make any changes, however, cannot be seen by changes in Picasa3.9 any program other than Picasa3.9. So if you make a change to a photo in Picasa3.9 without saving it, and then  You can save individually after open that photo in a different program each photo you edit, or just let your to print, email, or copy it, that other changes accumulate until you have program will see only the original edited multiple photos in a folder, photo without the edits you made in then select them all at one time Picasa3.9 using Edit Select All and click on File Save to save all of them at one time. Exporting From Picasa: Exporting photos

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 If you'd like to easily create  Use the Export tool in Picasa to edited copies of a large number resize your photos or to otherwise of pictures, you can export your create copies of your photos with photos to a location of your all edits applied. When you export a photo in Picasa, you're creating a choice. When you export your new copy of that photo with control photos, you can resize your over both the image resolution (the photos and control the JPEG height and width of the image compression level when measured in pixels) and the image applying photo edits. quality (JPEG compression). The original photo on your hard drive is never altered. Follow these steps to export copies of your photos:

Exporting From Picasa: Exporting photos

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 Select the photos you'd like to export.  Image size options: You can choose between using the photo's  Click the Export button in the Photo original size or selecting a custom Tray. size using the slider. The number of pixels you select with  In the 'Export to Folder' window, select this slider determines the length or your export settings: height of your photo (whichever is longer). The other dimension is  Choose an export location and enter determined automatically to a name for the exported folder. maintain the aspect ratio of the photo.  Customize your exported image size and quality:

Exporting From Picasa: Exporting photos

49 Image quality: Select desired image quality for your photo You can choose to add a using the Image watermark to all of your Quality drop-down menu exported photos.

 Automatic: Preserves the original image quality  Click OK.

 Normal: Balances quality and size  Your exported images are now  Maximum: Preserves fine detail for saved on your hard drive in the large file sizes location you specified. In Picasa, you can find these  Minimum: Yields some quality loss for photos in the 'Exported small file sizes Pictures' collection.

 Custom: Enables you to select your own value

Folders

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Enter a description. You can also modify the folder’s date, place taken, or description. Any descriptive information you add will be searchable in Picasa. Click the “OK” button. Changing the name of a folder in Picasa will change the name of the actual folder on your computer’s hard drive.

 Making an Album You can use albums to group and organize photos based on your own criteria and identified by a simple word or title. For example, you can create a Double-click album called “Flowers” to group all of On the title of any folder to open the your flower photos. Folder Properties box Create a new album

51 There are several ways to do this.  Add a photo to an existing album. The same photo can be assigned to many albums in Picasa. Select a photo, click (1) Click on the Blue “Create a New Album” the "Add to” button to the right of the icon in the upper left, just above the Album listing. In the "Album Properties” box, give Photo Tray, and select an existing album your album a name; fill in the other from the popup list. information if you like. Click on OK. The album is ready for you to add photos.  Change an album description. Double- click on the title of any album to open (2) Select one or more photos. Select “File” > the “Album Properties” box. Enter a new “New Album” to create a new album in description for the album. You can also Picasa containing the selected photo(s). modify the album’s date, place taken, or description. Any descriptive information (3) You can do the same thing by choosing you add will be searchable in Picasa. a photo, clicking the “Add to” button to When you’re done, click the “OK” button. the right of the Photo Tray, and selecting “New Album” on the popup list. Create a new album

52  Delete a photo from an album. Select a  Viewing Photos in a slideshow photo. Right-click with your mouse and select “Remove from Album” in the context menu or press the Delete key on  You can easily view all the photos your keyboard. Note: Deleting a photo in a folder as a slide show on your from an album does not delete the original computer. Select the desired folder file from your computer’s hard drive or album. Click on Slideshow in the . toolbar near the top.  Rearrange photos in an album or between albums. Click and drag a photo to change its order within a album or drag it into another album to add it to that album. This doesn’t affect the order in which the original files are stored on your computer .  Note: An album in Picasa is not the same as a Picasa Web Album. The Album collection does not show you the photos you may have uploaded to the web. Adding a Caption! 53

• Start by adding a caption! At the bottom of the picture you’ll see the words “Make a caption!” If you click on these words, they disappear and you can type in whatever caption you’d like. When you’re done, just click somewhere outside the caption area to set your caption. If you decide you don’t like what you’ve typed, click on your caption and try again. To the left of your caption, you’ll see a small white box that allows you to toggle between showing or hiding your caption; to the right of the your caption, there is a small trash can: click on this to completely delete your caption quickly.

• When you create captions for your photos, they're saved along with the photos and stay with them, even when you upload them, export them, or send them by email. However, your captions will only be displayed in Picasa, , and other IPTC compatible programs.

Add name tags in Picasa 54  Picasa's face-matching technology lets you organize your photos according to the people in them. Name tags are turned on by default, so the first time you open Picasa, it will scan your photos for new faces. This can take a while, but while it's running in the background you can start tagging them. Just follow these steps:

 Make sure you're signed into your Click Sign in to Web Albums at the top right of Picasa. This lets you add name tags faster by accessing your .

 Add name tags in bulk or a few photos at a time. In bulk: Click on the 'Unnamed People' album in the 'People' collection to see all unnamed faces from your photos in the one place. Faces are grouped by similarity, so adding a name will apply it to all the faces in that group.

Sharing Photos with Friends and Family

55 Emailing Photos using Automatically Resize Picasa3.9 Photos

• Even if you don’t use Outlook Express or • You can use Picasa3.9 to email for email, you can still use Picasa3.9 to photos using either the free Gmail automatically reduce the size of photos that program from Google, you plan to email.

• Just create a folder on your computer with a • Or whatever is the default email name such as Resized. Then in Picasa3 you program on your computer. can select the photos you want to email and click on the Export button. This will open a window where you select the destination • When emailing photos, Picasa3.9 folder, which will be your Resized folder, and you can use the slider to determine what size will automatically reduce the size of the photos are to be reduced to. Once they the photos have been exported, open your email program and attach the photos from the Resized folder.

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 When printing photos at home, it's possible to  Choose whether you'd like to add borders and adjust layout, borders, captions, and printer captions to your printed pictures. settings, among other elements. Follow these steps to print your photos:  Picasa uses your Windows printer settings. Click the Printer and Printer Setup buttons to adjust  Select the photos that you'd like to print. paper size, orientation, and print quality (Dots Per Inch - DPI).  Click the Print button in your Photo Tray.

 To print multiple copies of a photo on a page,  On the next page, customize your printed use the - and + buttons for the 'Copies per photos: Photo' setting.

 Select a print layout for your photos.  If you change your mind about printing a selected photo, click the Review button at the bottom of the screen. Select the photo you want  For photos that are too big for the page, to remove from the page you're printing, then select whether you'd like to shrink them or click the Remove selected button. Click OK automatically crop them to fit the page. when you're done.

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When printing photos, you can choose to include borders, filenames, captions, and information. On the 'Print' screen, click the Border and Text Options button to access your settings. • Border Adjust the border width, color, and placement of your pictures. To activate all the border options, adjust the slider to provide some border width.

•Captions You have several options for printing captions: Choose to display the filename, caption, or EXIF information of the photo. Choose to display the caption on or below the image, or on the border you've set. Set the font, size, and color of the caption text. If your caption is too long, you can choose to 'Wrap text.' While you're editing the border and text settings, click Apply to preview how the font and format changes, and click OK to accept the changes. Printing at Home: Multiple pictures per page 58  When printing photos in Picasa, the  Cropping versus shrinking to fit size of the print you've selected determines how many prints you can fit When printing your photos, you have on each page: two options for how your photo appears within the selected print dimension:  Size Images per page 9 Wallet 3.5 x 5  Crop to Fit: This option crops your photo to match the selected print 4 4 x 6 dimension. If you've chosen 8 x 10 as 2 5 x 7 your print size, your photo will be 1 8 x 10 cropped to ensure that this entire space is filled. 1 Full page

 Shrink to Fit: This preserves the original dimension of your photos for printing. These photos won't necessarily conform to your chosen print layout size.

Ordering Prints and Products: Ordering prints 59 Picasa provides convenient print ordering  Sign in using your username and options from a variety of print vendors in password for that particular site. This is the U.S. and abroad. If you would like to not the same as your Google Account for order prints through Picasa, please follow Picasa Web Albums. If you don't have an these steps: account with that vendor, click the 'Create an account' link in the window.  Select the photos you'd like to print.  Once you sign in, Picasa transfers your selected photos to the print processor's  Click the file button. website. Follow the instructions located on the website to complete your order.  Select your location from the drop-down menu on the left side of the screen. If your country isn't listed, we don't currently have any print partners in your location.

 Click the Choose button for the vendor that you wish to use.

Thank You! We hope this Class was helpful.

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Gloucester County Library System

Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger

Freeholder Library Liaison Lyman Barnes

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