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Picasa is a free photo management program from that can be used to organ- ize and manage all of the images you have stored on your computer. Picasa also al- lows you to perform basic edits and gives you many options for sharing pictures with others using other services and applications available from Google, such as (a free blogging service owned by Google), or (a free web e-mail service also from Google). The Web Albums feature allows you to easily upload and share photos on the Web with up to 1 GB of storage space. Picasa runs on any computer with Win- dows 2000, XP, or Vista.

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Interface Supported Formats Picasa automatically organizes your Picasa supports most of the common photos and movies into collections of file formats used to store photos, folders and albums in its main Library including GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, view. The Library view has three and PSD. It also supports RAW sections: formats used by high end cameras. 1. Folder List - lists all of the folders Picasa can also import, play, and containing photos on your manage digital movies. Supported computer as well as any albums movie file types include MPG, AVI, you create. WMV, and MOV. 2. Lightbox - displays thumbnails of the photos or movies in a selected To change the file types managed by Album or Folder. Picasa, choose Tools > Options and 3. Photo Tray - allows you to collect click on the File Types tab, then photos from several folders or uncheck the boxes next to the file albums so you can work on them types you do not want Picasa to as a group. manage.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 1 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 Installing Picasa When you select a folder or album in To install Picasa: the Folder List, its photos and movies 1. Download the Picasa installer from will be displayed in the Lightbox on http://picasa.google.com. the right side of the Picasa window. 2. Double-click on the installer and follow the prompts from the wizard Any edits you make to a photo in an to go through the installation steps. album will affect all instances of that 3. The first time you launch Picasa it photo in Picasa. However, the original will ask you what folders you want on the disk will be unaffected because to scan for photos to be added to all edits take place only inside of your Picasa library. You can Picasa. choose to have Picasa scan the entire hard drive, or only the My The following actions apply to folders: Documents, My Pictures, and • Move photos between folders: Desktop folders. (Note: if you Select the photo you want to move choose to scan your entire hard in the Lightbox (a blue outline will drive, this process can take some appear around it). With your mouse, time if you have a big hard drive drag and drop the photo to its new with a lot of photos and movies). folder in the Folder List. To select 4. To change the folders scanned by more than one photo, hold down the Picasa after installation, choose Control key on your keyboard as you Tools > Folder Manager, select a select photos (the Shift key allows folder in the Folder List, and check you to select a range of photos by one of the options on the right clicking on the first and last photo in (Scan Once, Remove from Picasa, the range). If you move a photo into or Scan Always). a different folder, Picasa will remind you that you’re about to move the The Folder List actual file on your computer’s hard The folders and albums listed in the drive. Folder List are treated differently in • Delete a photo from a folder: Select Picasa: a photo, then choose File > Delete • Folders in Picasa match the physical from Disk or just press the Delete folders on your computer’s hard key on your keyboard. Picasa will drive. Renaming a folder in Picasa remind you that you’re about to send will also rename it in Windows that file to your computer’s recycle Explorer. Moving or deleting a photo bin. or movie in a folder in Picasa will • Edit folder properties: Double-click also move or delete the file on the on the title of the folder to open the hard drive. Folder Properties window. You can • Albums do not correspond to folders then change the folder’s name and on your hard drive, but exist only in the date the photos in that folder Picasa. Moving or deleting photos or were taken. You can also add the movies inside albums will not affect place where the photos were taken the files on your hard drive. or a description. Any descriptive information you add will be searchable in Picasa.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 2 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 The following actions apply to albums: To change how folders and albums • Create a new album: Click on are sorted in the Folder List, choose the New Album button at the View > Folder View and select a sort top of the Folder List and enter option (name, size, etc.). a name and other properties in the Album Properties window, then click The Lightbox OK. You can also create an album The following actions apply to the by choosing a photo, clicking the Lightbox, which displays thumbnails of “Add to” button to the right of the the photos or movies in your Photo Tray, and selecting New collection: Album from the popup list. • To change the size of the thumbnails, use the slider in the lower right corner of the Picasa window. • Add a photo to an existing album: Select a photo, click the “Add to” button to the right of the Photo Tray, • To change the properties of an and select an existing album from album or folder, double-click on its the popup list. The same photo can title to open the Properties dialog be assigned to many albums in box. Picasa. • To open a folder in Windows • Rearrange photos in an album or Explorer, double-click on the folder move them between albums: Click icon to the left of its title. and drag a photo to change its order within a album or drag it into another The Photo Tray album to add it to that album. This The following actions apply to the doesn’t affect the order in which the Photo Tray, which allows you to work original files are stored on your on several images as a group: computer. • To add a photo to the Photo • Delete a photo from an album: Tray, select it in the Lightbox Select a photo. Right-click with your and click the Hold button in the mouse and select “Remove from Photo Tray. Album” in the context menu or press • To remove a photo, select it in the Delete key on your keyboard. the Photo Tray and click on • Change an album’s properties: the Clear button. If no photos are Double-click on the album’s title to selected, clicking on the Clear button open the Album Properties window. will remove all the photos in the You can then change the album’s Photo Tray. name and the date the photos were taken. You can also add the place Adding Photos where the photos were taken or a To add a photo or movie to the Picasa description. Any descriptive Library: information you add will be 1. Choose File > Add File to Picasa. searchable in Picasa. When you’re 2. Find the photo or movie you want done, click the OK button. to add. To add multiple photos or movies hold down the Control key

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 3 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 on your keyboard as you select the 7. Choose what you want to do with files. the photos on the camera once the 3. Click on Open. The photo or movie import is complete (leave them will appear in the Lightbox. alone or delete them - be careful with this option). Choosing File > Add Folder to Picasa 8. Click on Finish. opens up the Folder Manager where you can tell Picasa to add a folder to The steps for importing photos from a the list of folders it scans automatically memory card connected through a for new photos and movies. USB card reader are very similar, except that you will choose the USB Importing from a Digital Camera or card reader instead of a camera using Memory Card the Select Device pulldown menu. To import photos from a camera: 1. Click the Import Button in the Slideshows toolbar to open the Import window. To view the photos in a folder or album as a slideshow: 1. Click on the Play button below the 2. Click on the Select Device button album or folder title. This will play and choose your camera (make the slideshow in full screen mode. sure it is turned on and set to the PC mode). 2. Move the cursor while the slideshow plays to display 3. Choose a photo in the Import Tray navigation controls at the bottom of on the left to see a preview on the the screen. The controls area also right. Use the navigation buttons includes buttons for quickly below the preview to move to assigning a star rating, rotating, another photo. turning on captions, and changing 4. To rotate a photo with the the duration of each photo. wrong orientation, click 3. Click on Exit when you’re finished on one of the Rotate buttons with to return to the main Picasa the photo selected in the Import window. Tray. 5. Choose Import All to import all of To add background music to a the images in the Import Tray or slideshow: Import Selected to import only the 1. Double-click on the title of the ones you have selected in the folder or album to open the Import Tray (hold down the Control Properties window. key to select multiple photos). 2. Click on Browse at the bottom of 6. Enter a folder name, choose a the dialog box to locate a music file save location, and enter (only MP3 and WMA formats are descriptive information such as the supported). place the photos were taken or a 3. Click on OK to close the Properties brief description of the folder’s dialog box. contents.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 4 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 To select a folder of MP3 or WMA 3. Repeat to add other tags for music files to use as the default music the photo and click on Done that plays during a slideshow if no when you’re finished adding all of music has been added to a folder or the desired tags. album: 1. Choose Tools > Options. Searching and Using Filters 2. Check the box next to “Play music To search your collection in Picasa, during slideshow” in the Options enter a search term in the search box window. in the upper right corner and press 3. Click the Browse button and locate Enter. a folder on your computer with MP3 or WMA music files in it. 4. Click on OK to close the Options Only the photos or movies matching window. your search criteria will be displayed in the Lightbox. To clear your search, Star Ratings and Tags click on the red X on the right side of The star rating is used to select a the search box. photo or movie as one of your favorites. Picasa automatically adds To the left of the search box are some any photos or movies with a star buttons you can use to filter your rating to a Starred Photos album so collection and display only the photos you can quickly find your best photos. and movies matching the filter criteria.

To add a star rating to a photo or movie, make sure it is From left to right, these buttons apply selected in the Lightbox and click on the following filters: the Star button in the Photo Tray. A • show only photos and movies with a star icon will appear in the lower right star rating. corner of the photo or movie. A star • show only photos uploaded to rating can also be assigned by clicking , the online on the Star button while viewing a photo sharing service from Google. photo in a slideshow. To view all the • show only photos with faces in them photos and movies with a star rating, (this feature uses Picasa’s new face select the Starred Photos album in the recognition technology). Folder List. • show only the movies in your collection. Assigning tags, which are the same as keywords, to your photos and movies To the right of the filter buttons is a will make it easier to search your date slider. When this slider is all the collection. To add tags (each photo or way to the left, Picasa will show you movie can be assigned multiple tags): all of the photos and movies in your 1. Select the photo in the Lightbox collection. Moving the slider to the and click on the Tag button in the right will show you only more recent Photo Tray or press Control + T. photos and movies. 2. Enter a tag that describes the photo and click the Add button.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 5 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 Editing preset dimension the size of the To open a photo in edit mode, double- box will be constrained click the photo in the Lightbox or proportionally as you drag on its select the photo and press Enter. edges. 5. To change the orientation of the The Photo Tray includes several crop box, click on the Rotate controls for changing the view while button. you are in edit mode: 6. Click on one of the thumbnails • Use the slider below the below the dimension pulldown preview area to change menu to try out a different the zoom level. When composition as suggested by you zoom above 100% a Picasa. small zoom box will 7. Click on Preview and if you’re appear in the lower right corner of happy with the results click on the photo. To view a different part of Apply to crop the photo. the zoomed in photo, click and drag the white square inside the zoom To eliminate red eye caused by the box. camera’s flash: • Click on the Actual Size button 1. Click on the Red Eye button to see the photo at 100%. in the Basic Fixes tab. • Click on the Fit Photo button Picasa should automatically find to view the entire photo in the red eye problems and correct the preview area. them for you. 2. To fix any red eye problems The editing controls are arranged in missed by Picasa, click and drag three tabs in the left side of the to create a bounding box around window in edit mode (Basic Fixes, each eye you want to correct. To Tuning, and Effects). remove a bounding box click on it when the cursor is over it and To crop a photo: changes to an X. 1. Click on the Crop button in 3. Click on Preview and if you’re the Basic Fixes tab. happy with the results click on 2. Using the pulldown menu, Apply to save your changes. select one of the preset dimensions or select Manual to To straighten a photo: crop the photo using custom 1. Click on Straighten in the dimensions. Basic Fixes tab. This will 3. Click and drag on the image to display a grid to help you create a crop box. The area inside align the photo. the crop box will be kept when you 2. Use the slider to move the photo apply the crop, while the grayed until it is aligned with the grid. out areas outside the box will be 3. Click on Apply to save your discarded. changes. 4. Click and drag the crop box to change its position or drag on its edges to resize it. If you choose a

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 6 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 To retouch a photo and remove a 4. Use the Transparency slider to blemish: change the opacity of the text 1. Click on the Retouch button (dragging to the left will make the in the Basic Fixes tab. text more transparent, for a 2. Zoom in on your photo as watermark effect). needed using the zoom slider 5. To move the text box, click on it below the preview. and drag it to another position on 3. Use the Brush Size slider to the the photo. left of the preview to change the 6. To rotate the text, click on the text brush size. Your brush size should box until you see an angle wheel, be just slightly larger than the then click and drag on the handle blemish you want to remove. with the red dot on it in the 4. Click on the blemish once and direction you want to rotate the text move your cursor around the photo box. Dragging in and out with the to see a preview of the area that handle also allows you to quickly will be sampled to replace it. resize the text box. 5. When you find a good replacement, click the photo again to retouch it, then click on Apply to save your changes.

For some blemishes, you will have to repeat these steps a few times to get the best results. The retouch tool can 7. Click on Apply to save your also be used to remove scratches and changes. other imperfections. To adjust the lighting and colors in a To add text to a photo: photo: 1. Click on the Text button in • click on one of the Auto command the Basic Fixes tab. buttons (Auto Contrast, Auto Color 2. Use the controls on the left or “I’m Feeling Lucky” for both) in the to choose a font, text size, and text Basic Fixes tab to have Picasa apply style (bold, italic or underline). an automatic fix, or 3. To change the fill or outline color of • click on the Tuning tab and use the the text, click on one of the color sliders to adjust the lighting and pickers and choose a color using color settings manually: the eyedropper. The color picker • Fill Light: brightens the dark on the left sets the fill color (the areas of the photo while square with the line through it attempting to preserve detail in chooses “No Fill”) and the one on the lighter areas of the photo. the right sets the outline color. The • Highlights: brightens the overall slider to the right of the outline appearance of a photo by making color picker sets the thickness of the light areas lighter. the outline. • Shadows: darkens the overall appearance of the photo by making the dark areas darker.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 7 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 • Color Temperature: makes an Collages image appear cooler (more blue) To create a collage of the photos in an or warmer (more yellow). album: 1. Click on the Create Photo To remove a color cast, click on the Collage button below the eye dropper in the Tuning tab and find album’s title. an area in the photo that is close to 2. Use the pulldown menu on the left neutral gray or neutral white. to select a collage type. The preview on the right side will show you what your collage will look like. Another way to apply an automatic Click on the Scramble and Shuffle lighting or color fix is to click on buttons below the preview to the magic wand buttons to the change how your photos are right of the sliders in the Tuning arranged in the collage. To resize tab. or rotate an individual photo, click on it once to display an angle Picasa includes several one-click wheel then click and drag on the effects that can be used to convert an handle with the red dot on it. image to black and white or apply 3. Use the Picture Borders sepia and other effects. To apply an thumbnails to choose a border effect, click on one of the thumbnails style for all the photos in the in the Effects tab. Some of the effects collage. will have sliders and other controls 4. Under Background Options, you can use to make manual choose Solid Color and click on adjustments. If the thumbnail for an the color picker to select a color for effect has a number on it this means the background. To use one of the you can apply the effect gradually by photos in the collage as the clicking on the thumbnail a few times. background, choose Use Image, select a photo in the collage, and click on Use selected. 5. Use the Page Format pulldown menu to select a page size. To rotate a photo, click on one of the 6. Choose an orientation for the rotate buttons in the Photo Tray. collage (landscape or portrait) by clicking on one of the buttons below the Page Format pulldown To add a caption, click on the “Make a menu. caption!” text below the preview and replace it with the desired text. To remove the caption, click on the trash 7. When you’re happy with your icon to the right of the caption. To results, click on Create Collage. show/hide the caption, click on the Your collage will be created as a Show/Hide Caption button to JPEG image that will appear under the left of the caption. Projects > Collages in the Folder List.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 8 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 To create a collage using photos from durations so that the movie is the multiple folders or albums, add the same length as your audio track. photos to the Photo Tray and click on • Loop photos to match audio: will the Collage button to the right of automatically repeat the slides so the Photo Tray. that the movie is the same length as your audio track. Movies 3. Select a transition for your slides Picasa movies can include photos, using the Transition Style pulldown movie clips and an audio track. The menu. The Slide Duration slider exported movie will be a WMV file that sets how long each slide will can be played back with Windows appear onscreen in your movie Media Player and other programs that (Note: you will not be able to set support that file format. the slide duration if you select the Fit photos into audio option for There are two ways to create a movie your audio track). The Overlap in Picasa: slider changes the speed of a • Create a movie of all the transition. Moving the slider to the photos and video clips in a right will result in a more gradual folder or album by clicking the transition. Create Movie Presentation button 4. Choose the size of your movie below the album or folder’s title. using the Dimensions pulldown • Add photos and video clips from menu. The checkboxes under multiple folders or albums to the dimensions allow you to show or Photo Tray and click the hide captions and to enlarge the Movie button to the right of photos to fit the frame (unchecking the Photo Tray. this box will add black lines on the sides of your photo if it is smaller To create a movie using the photos than the frame). and movie clips in an album: 5. To add a text slide, click on 1. Click on the Create Movie the Add Text Slide button Presentation button below the below the preview. With the text album’s title to open the Movie slide selected (click on it once in Maker as a separate tab. the slides area below the preview) 2. To add an audio track, click on the use the controls in the Slide tab to Load button on the left and choose set your font, text size, and text an audio file (MP3 or WMA) on style. Click on the color pickers to your computer. Use the pulldown set the text and background colors menu under Options to choose for your text slide. Once you’ve set how you want to fit the photos to all of your text options, enter the the music: desired text in the text box. To • Truncate audio: will play the change how your text will appear audio track once during the on the slide, choose a different movie. template using the pulldown menu • Fit photos into audio: will above the text box. automatically set the slide 6. To add additional photos and clips from your collection to your movie,

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 9 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 click on Get More in the Clips tab. Add the photos and clips you want to bring into your movie project to • Move the small triangle on the the Photo Tray and click on the left side of the progress bar to Back to Movie Maker button. Once the right to set an in point or you are back in the Clips tab, click move the small triangle on the on the Add button to add the right side of the progress bar to selected photos or movie clips to the left to set an out point. The the end of your movie. Each photo area between the in and out point or movie clip will become a will be indicated by a green bar in separate slide in your movie. the play progress bar. 7. Click and drag on slides in the area below the preview to change their order in the movie. To remove To clear your in and out points click on a slide from your movie, click the Reset Start and End button on the on the Remove button below left side of the screen. the preview. 8. Click on Create Movie to save your Once you’ve trimmed the movie to the slides as a movie. Your movie will desired length, click on Export Clip on appear under Projects > Movies in the left side of the screen. This will the Folder List. save the trimmed version of the movie. After you click on Create Movie in the Movie Maker, the movie will open in a Picasa allows you to upload your special edit mode that shows a movies directly to YouTube. This preview of the movie on the right side feature supports any video format that of the screen (you can also open a can be opened by Picasa, not just movie in edit mode by double-clicking WMV files. Videos uploaded to on it in the Lightbox). To view the YouTube cannot be larger than 100 movie in full screen mode, click MB or longer than 10 minutes in on the Play full screen button length. below the preview. To exit full screen mode click on the same button To upload a movie to YouTube using at the bottom of the screen. Picasa: 1. Double-click on the movie in the While you are in edit mode, you can Lightbox to open it in edit mode. trim a movie (remove video from the 2. Click on Upload to YouTube on the beginning or end of the movie) by left side of the edit window. setting in and out points to mark the 3. Enter the required information part of the movie you want to keep. (title, description and tags) and There are two ways to set in and out choose a category for your video. points: 4. Check the box next to “Make this • Place your playhead where you video public” if you want anyone want to insert the in or out point who visits the YouTube site to see and click on either the In or Out your video. button.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 10 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 5. Click on Upload video to finish To create a new web album: submitting your video to YouTube. 1. Load the Photo Tray with the You may be asked to log in before photos you want to upload to the you can upload your video. web album. 2. Click on the Upload button to To edit a movie created with Picasa, the right of the Photo Tray. double-click on it in the Lightbox to 3. Click on the New button. open it in edit mode, then click on the 4. Enter an album title and a Edit Movie button at the top of the description. screen. 5. Select an upload size using the pulldown menu. 6. Decide if you want to make the This will open the Movie Maker so you album public (anyone can view it) can rearrange your slides, switch the or unlisted. audio track and make other changes 7. Click on Upload. A progress bar to the movie project. To save your will let you know the status of your changes, click on Close and choose upload. Save Draft from the popup window. Another way to create a new Email web album is by clicking on the To send your Picasa photos via email: Share button to the right of a folder or 1. Add the photos you want to send album’s title. This will open a window to the Photo Tray. where you can both upload the 2. Click the Email button. contents of the folder or album to a 3. Select the e-mail program new web album and address a you want to use (you may have to message inviting other people to view enter login information as well). it online. Your e-mail program will open with an e-mail already started and your Picasa allows you to sync the photos added as attachments. contents of a web album with the 4. Enter the e-mail address for each corresponding album or folder on your recipient and click on Send. computer. The photos in a synched web album will be automatically Picasa will automatically resize your updated whenever you edit the photos photos when you email them. To set on your computer. To sync an album the size for emailed photos choose or folder, click on the Sync to Web Tools > Options and select the E-Mail button to the right of the album tab. Under Output Options, use the or folder’s title. slider to set the default size for emailed photos. Blogging Picasa integrates with Blogger, a free Picasa Web Albums blogging service from Google. You Picasa Web Albums allow you to use can only post one photo at a time to Google’s servers to store up to 1GB your blog. (about 4,000 photos) for free.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 11 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 To post a photo to your blog on 1. Add the photo you want to export Blogger: to the Photo Tray (use the Hold 1. Select the photo you want to post. button to add multiple photos). It should be added to the Photo 2. Click the Export button. Tray. 3. Choose a save location (by 2. Click the BlogThis! button. default it is a folder called 3. Enter your username and Picasa Exports in My Pictures) and password when prompted. enter a folder name. 4. Choose a layout and click on 4. Choose an image size using the Continue. This will determine how slider, and an image quality setting the text will wrap around your using the pulldown menu. Choose photo. Custom to display a slider for 5. Add a title for the entry and enter adjusting the image quality any text (such as a caption) in the manually. Choosing a lower setting body of your blog entry. will result in a smaller file, but will 6. Click on Publish Post. also lower the quality. 5. Check the box next to “Add a Building a Web Page watermark” if you want to add a 1. Select an album or folder in the watermark (such as copyright Folder list, or add several photos information) to the exported to the Photo Tray (use the Hold photos. button). 6. Click on OK. 2. Choose Album (or Folder) > Export as HTML Page. The exported photos will appear under 3. Select a size for the images and Exported Pictures in the Folder List. enter a Title for the web page. 4. Decide where to save the web To print your photos: page and click on Next. 1. Add the photos you want to 5. Choose a web page template. print to the Photo Tray and 6. Click Finish and your browser will click on the Print button. open showing your web page. 2. Choose a layout on the left side of the print window. The Preview area Picasa will create a folder with all the on the right will show you what files needed to properly display your your printed photos will look like. web page in a web browser. You can Click on the Shrink to Fit upload the files in this folder to a web button to preserve the original server to make your web page dimensions of the photos or available online. click on the Crop to Fit button to crop the photos to match Exporting and Printing the selected print dimensions. Exporting allows you to resize photos 3. Click on the Border and Text and apply compression, both of which button, set the options for result in smaller files. To export a your border and captions in the photo: popup window and click on OK. 4. Choose a Printer using the Printer pulldown menu.

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 12 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 5. To choose the paper size and A Gift CD/DVD allows you to include a orientation, click on the Printer slideshow as well as a copy of Picasa Setup button. along with the photos on the CD or 6. Choose the number of copies you DVD. To create a Gift CD/DVD: want to print using the plus and 1. Click on the Create Gift CD minus buttons. button below the title of the 7. Click on Print. album or folder you want to include in the gift CD or DVD. If you see an exclamation mark next 2. Click the Add More button to add to the Review button, this means that more folders or albums. some of the pictures you have 3. Check the Include Slideshow box if selected will not print at a good quality you want to include a slideshow on at the size you have selected. the CD/DVD, and select the photo size. 4. Enter a name for the CD/DVD You can click on the Review button to under Step 2. open up a window where you can 5. Check the box next to Include remove low quality pictures before you Picasa to include a copy of the print your layout. program on the CD/DVD. The blue bar tells how many CDs or DVDs Creating CDs will be required. To burn photos to a CD for backup: 6. Insert a blank CD or DVD and click 1. Choose Tools > Backup Pictures. on Burn Disc. 2. Under Step 1, click on New Set to create a new backup set, which Geotagging tracks where the backed up files Geotagging allows you to add are stored (or choose an existing geographical information to your set using the menu). photos. This geographical information 3. Enter a name for the backup set can be used to display the photos in and choose what type of media so others can see where (CD or DVD, hard drive), as well they were taken on a map. as which types of files (All, Pictures only, or JPEGs only) will To geotag a photo using Google be backed up. Earth: 4. Under Step 2, click on Select All to 1. Add the Photo to the Photo Tray. place check marks on all the 2. Choose Tools > Geotag > Geotag folders and albums in the Folder with Google Earth. List. Remove the check mark from 3. Google Earth will open so you can any folder you do not want to back find the place where the photo was up. The blue bar above the Burn taken. Use the zoom controls to wizard will let you know how many zoom in for a better view, then CDs or DVDs you will need. place the crosshairs in the exact 5. Insert a blank CD or DVD and click location where the photo was the Burn button when you are taken. ready to backup your photos. 4. When you’re ready to geotag the photo, click on the Geotag button

Picasa Basics Created by Luis Perez Page 13 of 14 Last Updated: 5/23/08 in the small window on the lower A copyright-friendly collection of right. photos donated by teachers, students 5. Click Done to return to Picasa. and amateurs photographers. All of the photos on this site can be used Geotagged photos will have a without having to request permission. crosshair icon in the lower right corner in Picasa. You can view geotagged photos in Google Earth at any time by (http://www.flickr.com/ choosing Tools > Geotag > View in creativecommons) Google Earth. The Creative Commons section of this popular online photo sharing site includes photos with different types of Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons is different from copyright in that the person who shares the photo specifies upfront what can be done with it. Most Creative Commons licenses require that you give If you have a lot of geotagged photos attribution (credit) to the person who you can create a Google Earth KMZ took the photo. file to share them with another person. The KMZ file can be emailed or Morguefile posted on a website. To create a KMZ (http://morguefile.com) file: An archive of high resolution photos 1. Select the geotagged photos you that can be used without requesting want to include in the KMZ file. permission. 2. Choose Tools > Geotag > Export to Google Earth File. Project Ideas 3. Enter a name for the KMZ file and • “What You Learned Collage” - choose a save location. Students create a collage in which 4. Click on Save. they show visually what concepts and ideas they have learned over When the recipient double-clicks on the course of a given period of time the KMZ file to open it, Google Earth (quarter, unit, etc). The collage is will launch (if they have it installed) used and the photos will be displayed on • Photovoice - This is an activity in the globe. which students document an issue in their community with photos and Photo Galleries captions that tell a story. For more There are several places where you information, visit the Photovoice can find photos to use in school website at http:// projects created with Picasa. www.photovoice.com.

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