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Protect your computer •A computer should always have the most recent updates installed for spam filters, anti-virus and anti-spyware software and a secure firewall. http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/triple_play_web.png http://cdn.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/frying-pan-kolbotek-neoflam-560x475.jpg Graphics Editing Programs Picture Sharing, Editing, Organizing • Graphics Programs (pixel-based) • This software allows one to touch up photographs • The programs I will be discussing often do multiple and create graphics from scratch. tasks and are great at some things and not so great at – Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, AppleWorks, MS others. Paint, G.I.M.P, Scribus, LibreOffice:Draw, Blender.... • These programs may not work for the device you plan • Graphics Programs (vector-based) on using below is how I plan on indicating what • This software creates graphics that are similar to devices each program deems as compatible. illustrations or cartoon drawings. – Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, AppleWorks, MS Works, MS Word, inkscape ..... Compatible Devices Identification for the next few pages. M = Mac computers W = Windows computers A = Android I = IOS devices (iPhones & iPads) 1 8/11/2016 • Adobe Photoshop and assorted programs are currently the home users professional grade photo everything program. Support for the Picasa desktop • There are many MANY ways to learn this program album ended on March 15 but this is the newest one I have found. Though it will continue to work for users who already have it installed. You Suck at Photoshop, which unfortunately I'm Uploaded Picasa photos were transitioned to Google Photos on May 1. not able to include in our site because of all the Google Photos has rapidly gained traction. In October, the company cussing, bad attitude and general hilarious adult claimed it had more than 100 million active monthly users. In his humor included in the education. review, PCMag analyst Michael Muchmore praised the interface, which he found to be "clean, minimal, and pleasing, with thumbnails of your photos organized by date." To download Picasa 3.9 go to http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_uk/ What is the difference between Picasa, Google Photos,...? What is the difference between Picasa, Google Photos,...? • Google Photos for mobile •Picasa • is an app for use on Android or iOS smartphones that offers similar features as Google Photos for desktop. is a software program that you install on your computer to let you edit and organize your • Install from: Google Play on Android, or from Apple app store on iOS. digital photos and videos on Windows and MacOS computers. It offers easy-to-use • Support site: Google Photos features to upload pictures to photos.google.com. • Picasa Web Albums (aka Picasaweb) • Movies: Introducing Picasa 3 and What's new in Picasa 3.5 (UPDATE: this website is shut down and sends you to google album archive) • is a website where you can see the same pictures that appear in Google Photos and share them with friends • Support site: Picasa and family. But... no enhancements or changes have been made to Picasaweb since 2012, so it is getting quite • Install from: picasa.google.com outdated while all effort is being put into Google Photos. If you don't have a specific reason to keep using Picasaweb, you might prefer to use Google Photos. Some actions (like sort photos by name, public albums) are still available in Picasaweb but not (yet) in Google Photos. •Google Photos for desktop is a website where you can upload pictures from your computer into "Albums" and share • Support site: Picasa Picasa Web Albums: www.picasaweb.com them with friends and family. There is also basic editing functionality as well as some • Retired products features that reduce the workload for you organizing your photos collection like • Google+ Photos was the "photos" section on the social network called Google+. The photos section was officially discontinued and replaced by Google Photos in 2015. More automatic tagging, auto-enhancing photos and videos, stitching panoramic pictures, etc. info: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6142214?hl=en&ref_topic=6128818 • Link: photos.google.com • Google+ Photos now redirects to photos.google.com • Support site: Google Photos https://sites.google.com/site/picasaresources/Home/Picasa-FAQ/general/comparison-different-products https://sites.google.com/site/picasaresources/Home/Picasa-FAQ/general/comparison-different-products Picture Sharing, Editing, Organizing • Picasa www.picasa.com • Image editing, presenting and online hosting program from Google. • Free Download required W M A Image is from a 2012 presentation by Salina Public Library 2 8/11/2016 Overview Overview • If you have Picasa open when you hit Print Scrn, it • Picasa also: emails, burns CD, creates nifty Photo Collages, will automatically save the capture as a file. VERY Prints Contact Sheets, Make Back UP CDs or DVDs, Export useful for things like this presentation or emailing as Web Page, Order Pictures, Publish to Blogger what you see on your screen. http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m Picasa Also Overview • Emails • Burns CD • Creates nifty Photo Collages • Prints Contact Sheets • Make Back UP CDs or DVDs • Export as Web Page • Order Pictures • Publish to Blogger • Compare duplicates • Take over screensaver http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m Collage Organization • One of the challenges with a digital camera is the large number of images you will accumulate. – Notice 44k…not including weddings, school or church photos. • In the old days, with prints if you wanted a picture to be in two places, like on a refrigerator and an album, you just made two prints. Of course you can still do that today. • But how can a digital file be in two places at the same time. Well, it can’t unless you use a program like Picasa which categorizes every picture on your computer, and then allows you to create Virtual Albums. – Virtual Albums help you keep up with your favorites and allow for easy sync with your web album http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m 3 8/11/2016 Download Getting Started http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m • ONLY scan My Documents, My First Launch Photo Viewer Configuration Pictures and the Desktop. • You MAY not like • The top option what Picasa does, will scan the entire computer, but I think it is a which you may wonderful way to need to do if you browse your have lost some images even images…but this before you will also add launch Picasa items from • inside the Go ahead and Windows folder Select All…you on the C drive can always and you will change it later. spend a lot of time removing stuff. http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m Managing Your Folders Managing Your Folders • Go to Tools, then Folder Manager • Scan always any folders with pictures – Avoid Network Drives – Try to add a root of pictures rather than an individual folder http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m 4 8/11/2016 Creating Virtual Albums Managing Your Folders • Click on a photo • Edit folder descriptions that may need to to force pictures to stay appear in more current, like a folder of than one album. edits. (2x click) – Add to album – – Folders with new images the first time you will be bold. will need to – Sometimes with really create the album. larger number of – Afterwards, you folders, a new scan may can click and put a folder way back in select or drag and time because of a date drop. stamp on one of the images or the folder. http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht http://staff.beaumont.k12.tx.us/gloker/picasaintro.ht m m Managing Your Folders Editing • Finding your images • Although some people would not want to invalidate a photo by altering it with a pixel editor and folders is only a like Photoshop, it is prudent to adjust certain Click away. aspects of a photo much like you would do with Film in a darkroom or photo lab. – Enter – takes you into • Picasa allows considerable control with very little the Picasa View and Edit risk to the original file. mode – In fact, changes can be made to an image in Picasa and – Ctrl + Enter – Locates on retained with out EVER saving the changes to the file.