It is Simple to Use Picasa to Store Photos
What you should know about organizing photos using Picasa
After processing the various features photo sharing websites offer, Picasa is a great choice. Download the Picasa software and begin creating a Picasa photo gallery on your computer. Are the photos stored online and what else is involved in the process? Read on for the low down.
Watch the computer screen as the software downloads. Images will begin appearing in a small menu bar. One at a time, Picasa will take the images from the computer's hard drive and insert them into an organized album of photos. Once this is complete, follow these tips to keep the photos stored in Picasa.
1. Photos are Arranged by Date
When Picasa searches the computer's hard drive, it detects all images and puts them into different folders according to the date that photo was taken. Therefore, photos are simple to find if the date is known! Although the photos will automatically be sorted by date, albums can be created by click and dragging pictures into place, and then use the albums to create slideshows, photo books, and more.
2. Photos Can Be Renamed and Reorganized
Each photo is saved to a computer's hard drive by a specific path and filename. When stored on the computer they may have been named "Connie's Birthday" or they may still have that default 124.jpg name. With only a few simple clicks, new names can be given to those generic ones and then moved into albums that are created online.
3. Photos Are Not Actually Stored
While Picasa provides great resources for organizing and editing photos, the software is still one thing: a tool. Yes, the company does boast itself as being an innovation in photo sharing and editing, but it doesn't do everything some other sites will.
Using Picasa guarantees organization of a bunch of pictures. Do not misinterpret that to mean photo storage. Picasa does not store your photos in cyberspace for later retrieval. The software organizes the photos on your computer and leaves them on your computer. If the computer takes a turn for the worse, Picasa won't be able to help with restoring any of those lost pictures.
So, utilize Picasa's free software and keep photos meticulously organized and easy to find. But, take some time every so often to make a back up CD of those photos as well. While it's many things, Picasa is not a photo storage solution.
It is simple to learn how to create an account, add and organize photos now on Picasa!
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