A lot of my friends (and I’m sure a lot of you out there) are Picasa literate, but I have been a slow convert to Picasa (“Picasa is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It’s free, and easy to use.”) Unfortunately, my personality is such that I can be a bit slow at converting to things. I didn’t take the plunge to buy some rockin’ boots until a whole year after the fad started!
After you download the software, Picasa searches out all the photos you have on your computer. The new version has face-matching technology. Picasa scans all the photos in your collection, identifies the ones with faces, and groups photos with similar faces together. Then you get to say who is in the photo. Pretty cool! Picasa has made folders for all the members of my family!
I haven’t really used the photo manipulation functions yet, but Centsational Girl swears by it. What I have done this week is made picture collages.
This was my first attempt at using the photo collage function in Picasa. Me likey! Beats making a photo montage by lining up photos in Publisher any day (Yes I did do that! On more than one occasion! But with Picasa you just choose the photos you want in it, and it does all the rest!)
This is one I did the other day. We had a fun day out with the cousins a few days ago, and I wanted to put a photo collage in each of my children’s journal (Reality Check: Just incase you suddenly had visions of beautiful journals filled with photos and daily journal entries…..Our children’s journals are not up to date, and they have hardly any photos in them *wink* Hopefully my addiction to making collages will help this cause!)
This is the collage I did for my youngest.
Tonight I have followed Clover Lane’s tutorial to make a banner. After some fiddling, I came up with the one below. Unfortunately, the blog template that I’m using, doesn’t allow me to “hide” the automatically generated title for my blog that you see at the top of the screen. So I will just have to sigh, and admire the banner in this post instead.
How do you make your headers for your blogs?
Hmmmm…what else can I make into a collage???
Welcome to the wonderful world of Picasa – it’s marvelous ! I continue to use it everyday. Thanks for the shout out, and have a great weekend. I love your header, by the way ! Did you try going to Layout, then click on your header, then select “instead of title and description” under ‘placement’. That’s what used to work for me when I was in Blogger.
Beautiful! I love the Picasa collages, especially to sum up a special event or day. I used it to make a collage to send to everyone that attended one of my children’s Birthday parties as a thank you.
I don’t know how to manipulate the header on my blog – my hubbie put ours on and I have no idea how to change it (but it’s so in need of something new!).
Enjoy Picasa!
I make my banners in photoshop. I’m never 100% satisfied though. Probably because I’m lacking the design savvy. I love your new header. It looks great!
hello you – loving the new header! and i may just have to give picasa a go because of your work. had someone else suggest it to me in the past too – with some cool photo effects. might be useful with all the holiday pics i need to organise! chat soon!
Hi,
I was intrigued by your post on Sarahs blog – so I followed it over here. So glad I did- will now go and investigate picasa – I didn’t realise it did more than just store photos (and you think you’re slow on the up take – my computer screen is covered in white-out!)
Thanks for the tip off xo
Wow. Been reading your blog for the 1st time today – after your comment on mine, and found this great post on Picasa.
Have been using Picasa for ages to edit photos and upload photo slideshows to our blog, but had no idea you could use it to create banners (followed the link to Clover Lane). Have had all manner of fun creating my first banner tonight, so thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely blog all round by the way, and nice to see what fellow Welly-dwellers are getting up to!
COOLIO Mika. I think you’re a whizz! Thank you so much for sharing with me how to do all this funky stuff to make one’s blog look extra cool. I appreciate it sooooo much.