Blog for Thursday, September 22:
With the ability to take digital pictures with cameras, cell phones, and mobile devices, Google has a program geared at helping people get the most use out of their pictures. There are many ways to share photos online, but Google has created Picasa for sharing and editing photos. This program has many features that make it worthwhile to download or use online.
My family uses Picasa to create web album slideshows to watch. My siblings live all over Canada (from BC to Quebec), and Picasa provides a way for us to share our family photos in a fun and professional looking way.
Photos can even be added to maps to show where you've been and what you did when you were there, and videos can also be shared using Picasa.
Not only can you use Picasa on your computer or online, you can create photo books, collages, and slideshows that can be ordered from online stores or printed from your computer.
Picasa makes editing simple, and can help you fix problems such as red-eye, as well as being able to add special effects to photos. Having spent a lot of time learning how to use Adobe Photoshop, Picasa may not be as powerful, but is ridiculously simple and does not take a lot of time or effort to learn how to use.
Just like other Google apps, Picasa is free and very easy to use. Once you sign up, Picasa gives you 1 Gb of space for your pictures. Photos can be uploaded or shared with just a click, and you can choose who you share your photos with. You also have the option of searching for photos in Picasa (to use for lesson/worksheets/PowerPoints, etc) and seeing other peoples work. Picasa is a way of socially networking using photos. There is so much to this Googleverse!
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