In a recent acquisition, Google bought online photo editing company Picnik. With this acquisition Google has been quickly incorporating Picnik’s cool photo editing features in Picasa Web Albums and just this past week to the latest version of Picasa. In Picasa 3.8 you will be able to edit photos using Picnik’s online tools within the Picasa window, [...]

One of the newest features introduced in the latest version of Picasa is the ability to create a movie from a face that has been tagged in an album. With this feature you can click on a face that has been tagged and create a slideshow of all the images that have been tagged with [...]

I’ve written about tricking Windows into allowing you to access Picasa databases on other locations, but I recently found an easy to use application the allows you to not only use databases stored in other locations, but also the ability to use multiple databases for different sets of pictures. The guide below will show you [...]

If you use Picasa and Picasa Web Albums to share your pictures with family and friends, you are going to love the latest feature announced at the Google Photos blog. Now you can edit all of the pictures saved in Picasa Web Albums using Google’s Picnik online photo editor. Picnik, a recent acquisition by Google, [...]

Aside from being an amazing application to manage thousands of pictures, Picasa also does a pretty darn good job of capturing images and videos from a webcam attached to your computer. In this guide I will show you how to configure Picasa to capture images and video and how to save those captures to your [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to group albums in Picasa based on what the images are used for? Working with over 10,000 images and trying to keep family and work apart in Picasa can be quite tedious. Thankfully you can use Collections in Picasa to keep your two lives separate. Collections allow you to group folders [...]

Wouldn’t you like the ability to burn a DVD slideshow from Picasa? Or share your pictures on Twitter and Facebook? Google are you listening? These are features that Picasa users are looking for in Picasa 4. Don’t get me wrong Picasa 3.6 is probably the best free photo management program out there, but as picky [...]

I recently received an email from a reader asking me if there was a way to loop slideshows in Picasa so that she could keep a slideshow going during a wedding. I quickly ran through the options panels in Picasa and found the option tucked away in the Tools menu. Follow the instructions below to [...]

Have you ever wanted to share pictures with family and friends without having to send emails to everyone with a ton of attachments? If you use Picasa to manage pictures on your computer and happen to have a Gmail account, you don’t have to anymore. Picasa coupled with Picasa Web Albums will allow you to [...]

Do you have hundreds and thousands of pictures that you are trying to add to Picasa? If so, you are probably receiving an error message stating that your hard drive is full, but you are using an external drive…how is this possible? Well, Picasa creates a database on your computer (the C:\ drive) where it [...]