Managing Digital Photos with Google's Picasa.
Picasa is a computer application for organizing and editing digital photos. Some of the nice and easy features of Picasa are the editing options - red-eye removal, crop, enhance, rotate , straighten, focus effects, fix sky colours and using many of the filter effects available.
Picasa is a free software download from Google.  Click button  to download  Picasa3  
Picasa organises your entire collection, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.
Basic Instruction on Editing digital photos.
Picasa locates and organise all the photos on your computer.
When opening Picasa for the first time you are prompted whether you would like Picasa to scan your hard drive for existing images or if you wish to select what folders should be scanned.
Choosing to select certain folders opens the picture manager. You can now tell Picasa to leave a folder alone, to scan it once or to watch a folder. Picasa will automatically update your collection when the contents of a watched folder is changed.
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With Picasa2 in the Library mode choose a photo to edit.  The example on the left show the image on a tilt. Place the mouse cursor (red arrow sample only) on the image a double click.

To straighten the photo, click the [Straighten] tool button as shown on the left.

The straighten tool give you a grid to correctly align the image.
Move the slider bar shown to align the image.
Then click [Apply].

The image is then saved under a different file name leaving the original for latter adjusting.

Note the small thumbnail imaged above the main photo. You can click the next image to advance or use the arrows.

On the far left is the [Back to Library] button.

To fix red eye caused by the camera flash.

Select image by double clicking from the library files.

Click the [Redeye] button.

Move the arrow cursor over the eye, left click and drag a square over the red eye in the photo. Lift off the mouse button and the eye is fixed.

Repeat on the other eye to complete the red eye edit  function.




Click [Apply] and the job is done.

Selecting an image and choosing the [Effects] tab gives you 12 image effects.

  1. Sharpen an image.
  2. Change to Sepia 
  3. Change colour to Black & White.
  4. Warm the image.
  5. Give the image Film Grain.
  6. Change the tint.
  7. Adjust the Saturation.
  8. Adjust to soft focus.
  9. Give the image a glow.
  10. Select black & white filters.
  11. Focal black & white.
  12. Graduated tint

 The Graduated tint will change the colour tint in parts of an image.

The example here is there is no blue in the sky.
Double click the Graduated tint thumbnail and the image opens in the edit window..

Move the Eye Dropper over the colour required then move to your image.

Note the green cross, place your cursor on the cross and drag the blue tint over the sky area.
 You can angle the tint by moving to the left or right.

You can Feather the tint so it blends better with the background. In this case fearther the bule to blend with the green trees.

Click [Apply] and the task is completed.