IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:04 | Hi! I'm Dane Howard.
| | 00:05 | I'm here to welcome you to
Picasa 3 Essential Training.
| | 00:08 | In this course, I'll show you how this
free download from Google combines the
| | 00:11 | power of online web albums to make it
easy to organize, edit, and share your
| | 00:15 | photos with family, friends, and the world.
| | 00:18 | First, I'll show you how to download Picasa 3
and we'll get familiar with the interface.
| | 00:22 | We'll look at importing assets and
explore the new desktop photo viewer.
| | 00:27 | Then we'll get into the good stuff,
editing tools for retouching and making
| | 00:31 | automatic corrections.
| | 00:33 | I'll show you how to tint your photos, write
captions for them, and even batch edit images.
| | 00:38 | And of course, I'll go over several
ways to share your photos on various
| | 00:42 | platforms, like publishing your photos from a
mobile device or even getting them into print.
| | 00:48 | Plus, I'll show you how Picasa 3 gives
you the tools to create and edit video.
| | 00:52 | You will see how to create and
manage web albums and use the new face
| | 00:57 | recognition function to
locate and organize your photos.
| | 01:00 | There are a lot of features in this
Picasa ecosystem that you'll see in these
| | 01:04 | tutorials to make sharing your
photos easy and dare I say even fun.
| | 01:08 | Now, let's get you editing and
playing with Picasa 3 Essential Training.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | I want to say a few words
about these exercise files.
| | 00:03 | Now Picasa is an image library, so for
a majority of the title, we encourage you
| | 00:07 | to use your own images, because you're
going to have the most connection with
| | 00:11 | your images and your memories.
| | 00:13 | Now for the exercise files, we added a
couple of the images that we talked about
| | 00:17 | in Chapter 4, and when you do color
editing, we just put them in there so if
| | 00:21 | you wanted to follow along and get the
same types of results that I was getting
| | 00:25 | and to compare and contrast
those against what I was teaching.
| | 00:29 | So if you want to download the exercise
files, add it to your desktop and I'll
| | 00:33 | show you real quickly how
to add them into Picasa.
| | 00:36 | Once in Picasa, go up to File > Add
Folder to Picasa and then navigate to your
| | 00:42 | Desktop where your specific
exercise files are located.
| | 00:46 | Select on the exercise_files, go ahead
and select the Travels folder and you'll
| | 00:51 | have the same media that I'm
working when editing photos.
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1. Getting StartedWhat's new in Picasa 3| 00:00 | There is a lot new in Picasa 3.
| | 00:03 | It's a huge update from Picasa 2
including ability to sync the edits between
| | 00:09 | Picasa the client
application and the online albums.
| | 00:12 | Retouching your images become
increasingly easier as you remove blemishes and
| | 00:17 | artifacts from your images.
| | 00:19 | Previewing your images is now easier
than ever with the Picasa desktop viewer.
| | 00:24 | You can use it specifically with certain
file formats and override your image editor.
| | 00:31 | You can opt in or out of this at any
time and you can do it outside of Picasa.
| | 00:36 | Creating and editing movies is new to Picasa 3.
| | 00:39 | It's a great feature.
| | 00:40 | It allows you to combine photos and
videos to allow you to create and edit and
| | 00:45 | export your own movies.
| | 00:46 | You can even upload them directly to YouTube.
| | 00:50 | In addition, there is greater text control.
| | 00:52 | You can add watermarks to your
exports or position multiple layers of text
| | 00:57 | inside your photos themselves.
| | 01:00 | In addition, uploading is made easier
with Picasa web albums. The access to and
| | 01:06 | the control you have as you upload into
web albums is improved in this release.
| | 01:11 | Global settings and setting all of your
specific privacy controls is even easier
| | 01:16 | with added controls.
| | 01:19 | Along with better management, you can
edit and move and easily flow between your
| | 01:24 | folders, making it seamless with the
operating system you are working on.
| | 01:28 | There is greater control for RAW.
| | 01:30 | If you ever shooting both RAW and
JPEG formats, Picasa is becoming an
| | 01:34 | increasingly great way to edit
and export your original RAW images.
| | 01:40 | All edits are non-destructive.
| | 01:42 | So this is a great way to bring
in and import your RAW images.
| | 01:48 | What's updated in Picasa 3? Quite a lot.
| | 01:51 | Cropping assistance helps you start with
great suggestions on what might be a great crop.
| | 01:56 | In addition, there is
dynamic online screensaver support.
| | 02:00 | What does this mean?
| | 02:01 | That means your screensaver can be
connected to a web album or an RSS feed.
| | 02:06 | In addition to the tagging,
there is multiple keyword support.
| | 02:10 | Improved importing, basically when you
connect your camera, it delineates by
| | 02:16 | date allowing a better interface to
delineate and associate which images were
| | 02:21 | taken on which day.
| | 02:23 | The Collage tool has a lot of
updates including multiple templates and
| | 02:28 | adjustments, allowing for
greater creative control.
| | 02:32 | Lastly, one-step sharing helps consolidate
the upload and email tasks into one easy step.
| | 02:38 | You can send messages directly as
email, in the background as uploads.
| | 02:44 | This one-step sharing
helps out your workflow.
| | 02:48 | Finally, one-step sharing helps
assist in emailing and uploading your
| | 02:54 | photographs into one easy task.
| | 02:56 | That's just a few of the updates.
| | 02:58 | Let's get started with
Picasa Essential Training.
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| Downloading and installing Picasa on the PC| 00:00 | I'm going to talk about
installing Picasa from scratch.
| | 00:03 | To do so, open the browser of your
choice and go to picasa.google.com.
| | 00:08 | The browser will automatically detect
which platform you are on and present to you
| | 00:13 | the appropriate version.
| | 00:14 | Go and click on Download Picasa 3.
| | 00:17 | You'll be presented with an executable file.
| | 00:19 | Go ahead and save that file.
| | 00:21 | This should download rather quickly.
| | 00:24 | Once it's complete, double
-click on the executable.
| | 00:28 | If you have any dialog box, make
sure that you are comfortable with the
| | 00:31 | executable, go ahead and click OK.
| | 00:34 | You'll be presented with a license agreement.
| | 00:36 | Make sure that you're comfortable with
the license agreement in the terms of use.
| | 00:40 | When finished, go ahead and click I Agree.
| | 00:44 | The next step is to make sure that
the destination folder is appropriate to
| | 00:47 | where you install your programs on your machine.
| | 00:49 | If it's correct, go and click Install.
| | 00:55 | You'll be presented with a couple of choices.
| | 00:57 | Let's talk about those now.
| | 01:00 | To create a shortcut on your
desktop, leave this box checked.
| | 01:03 | To add a shortcut to the quick
launch, go ahead and leave it checked.
| | 01:06 | There are some other choices here,
which have to do with setting Google as your
| | 01:10 | default search engine.
| | 01:11 | If you're not comfortable with that,
uncheck any of these to meet your preferences.
| | 01:18 | In this case, we're going to run
Picasa after we've installed it.
| | 01:21 | So I'm going to leave this one checked.
| | 01:22 | When completed, go ahead and hit Finish.
| | 01:27 | The next step it's going to ask you
for is where do you want to point it.
| | 01:31 | People keep their photos in many
different types of locations on their hard drive.
| | 01:35 | For the purposes of this
demonstration, I have a group of photos located
| | 01:39 | inside My Pictures folder.
| | 01:40 | If you're importing from iPhoto, or
from other areas on your computer, we'll
| | 01:45 | talk about that in another movie,
when we'll talk about installing for Mac.
| | 01:49 | Go ahead and click Continue.
| | 01:51 | Notice in the lower right, the
images will be pulled in automatically.
| | 01:56 | What's new to Picasa 3 is a Photo Viewer.
| | 01:59 | You could configure that
right now, or opt out of it.
| | 02:02 | This will override any
default photo viewer that you have.
| | 02:05 | If you navigate in View photos on your PC,
you can opt back into this at any time.
| | 02:11 | For right now, go ahead and
click Don't use Picasa Photo Viewer.
| | 02:15 | When done, select Finish.
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| Downloading and installing Picasa on the Mac| 00:00 | Installing Picasa 3 on the
Mac is really straightforward.
| | 00:03 | All you need to do is go to the browser
of your choice, go to picasa.google.com
| | 00:08 | and it should redirect you
automatically to this page.
| | 00:11 | This is the page where you
can download the Mac version.
| | 00:14 | Go ahead and click on that now.
| | 00:17 | Clicking OK will download the
entire application to your desktop.
| | 00:22 | You can go ahead and close
these windows, store them away.
| | 00:26 | On your desktop, you'll see a nice dmg
file, go ahead and double-click on that.
| | 00:30 | You will be presented with this Picasa icon.
| | 00:35 | Go ahead and click on that.
| | 00:35 | It will ask you to make sure that it's
been downloaded, go ahead and click Open.
| | 00:40 | You may need to move some
of the images out of the way.
| | 00:43 | The Picasa Terms of Service
are important thing to read.
| | 00:46 | Go ahead, once you've read it,
go ahead and click, I Agree.
| | 00:49 | You want to make sure that it looks at
your specific area on your hard drive.
| | 00:55 | There are two choices;
| | 00:57 | either it's going to look at your
entire hard drive or only the items specific
| | 01:01 | to your Documents, Pictures and Desktop.
| | 01:04 | I recommend that if your photos are
located in this location, go ahead and
| | 01:07 | choose that now and it will
automatically index all of your photos that are
| | 01:12 | currently on your hard drive.
| | 01:14 | This begins the process.
| | 01:15 | You have now successfully installed
Picasa and you are ready to begin.
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2. Image Library BasicsOrganizational paradigms| 00:00 | So once you're in Picasa 3, there's a
few things I want to talk about with
| | 00:04 | regard to organizational paradigms.
| | 00:06 | Now, I'm looking at my photographs,
so at this point you should be looking
| | 00:09 | at your photographs.
| | 00:11 | So, a lot of the same things I'm going
to demo now, you can do the very same way.
| | 00:16 | The first thing I would like you to do
is to understand the relationship between
| | 00:20 | Picasa and the file system.
| | 00:22 | One way to do that is to
look at the folders here.
| | 00:25 | Here I have got a folder called Demo_
photos and there is 103 images within them.
| | 00:31 | Yours will be different.
| | 00:32 | Another folder called personal_images
and there is 55 photos within there.
| | 00:36 | Well to show the relationship
between Picasa and the file structure,
| | 00:40 | I'm going to go ahead and
click on this folder icon.
| | 00:43 | You'll do the same on any
respective folder within your library.
| | 00:48 | When you click on it, you'll see that
there is an exact relationship between the
| | 00:53 | images and the folders
that are on the file system.
| | 00:56 | Well, you can organize in Picasa the
same way you do on the file system and
| | 01:01 | in some respects it's even easier.
| | 01:03 | Let me give you an example.
| | 01:05 | Within this Demo_photos folder, I'm
going to create a separate folder of things
| | 01:09 | that I was doing in Paris.
| | 01:11 | In this case I'm going to pick out a
couple of photographs of things that I
| | 01:14 | either drank or ate.
| | 01:16 | Let's find those now.
| | 01:17 | By using the scroll wheel, I'm just
going to immediately start to scroll down
| | 01:21 | and look for individual photographs.
| | 01:24 | Here are some nice photographs of
some macaroons. And some espresso.
| | 01:32 | By holding down the Ctrl key
I can select individual photos.
| | 01:35 | Notice as they're selected,
they get added to this tray here.
| | 01:38 | This gives me an ongoing
list of things I have selected.
| | 01:42 | I'm going to go ahead and right-click
on any photo that's selected and I'm
| | 01:47 | presented with a lot of choices.
| | 01:48 | Well, the first one is I'm going
to do is select Move to New Folder.
| | 01:52 | Next, I'm going to give it a name.
| | 01:54 | You can name it anything that relates to
your photographs. I'm going to call this food.
| | 01:59 | It defaults to a Date that
corresponds to when they were taken.
| | 02:03 | What is optional is the Place Taken.
| | 02:05 | This corresponds with Google Maps.
| | 02:07 | I'm going to go ahead
and enter in Paris, France.
| | 02:11 | Go ahead and click OK.
| | 02:13 | Notice now that there is a new
folder that has been created.
| | 02:17 | It has taken the photos that I have
selected and put them in a new folder called food.
| | 02:21 | Let's take a look at what
it did in the file system.
| | 02:24 | You can see here that now I have those
photographs nicely located inside of this folder.
| | 02:29 | And corresponding I have got
my demos, my food, and my walk.
| | 02:35 | So again, you can use Picasa as a way to
organize your photographs into distinct folders.
| | 02:41 | You can use those folders in which
way you want and locate them on your
| | 02:45 | hard drive respectively.
| | 02:46 | The next organizational paradigm I'm going
to talk about has to do with this Timeline.
| | 02:50 | One thing that can be somewhat
daunting is that if you index your entire
| | 02:55 | hard drive, you're going to have lots
of photographs that automatically show
| | 02:58 | up inside of Picasa.
| | 03:00 | One way to quickly navigate
those is via the Timeline.
| | 03:04 | Go up to the View menu, and
select Timeline. Also Ctrl+5.
| | 03:08 | This will take the program into a
Timeline mode and allow you to navigate your
| | 03:14 | images through a Timeline.
| | 03:16 | This allows you to navigate through the
whole range, from the beginning of your
| | 03:21 | photographs to the end.
| | 03:23 | This is also helpful when you
want to locate specific photographs.
| | 03:26 | You can escape the Timeline at any time
just by selecting the Back button,
| | 03:32 | which will take you back to the interface.
| | 03:34 | Anything that you select within the
Timeline will automatically navigate you to
| | 03:38 | the corresponding folder within there.
| | 03:42 | Another organizational paradigm
is to think about the view itself.
| | 03:46 | The default view here on the
left is to organize by folder.
| | 03:50 | You can click this button to actually
show the tree structure or hierarchy, if
| | 03:54 | that's more conducive to the
way you are used to seeing things.
| | 03:57 | This is helpful if you nest
folders within others and you would like to
| | 04:00 | actually navigate by
navigating the hierarchy itself.
| | 04:04 | To toggle back and forth, you just
toggle between the folder view and
| | 04:07 | the hierarchical view.
| | 04:08 | The last piece that I want to talk
about is little bit about adding new content
| | 04:13 | to your system itself.
| | 04:14 | To do this, go up to the File
menu and Add Folder to Picasa.
| | 04:18 | What you will bring up is
the Folder Manager itself.
| | 04:22 | This allows you to navigate all of
your hard drives in your entire system.
| | 04:26 | Let's talk a little bit about the icons.
| | 04:28 | An eye are those that will always be scanned.
| | 04:31 | I have a particular folder that I have
just added to my Desktop here called Travels.
| | 04:36 | To select a particular or add a
particular folder to Picasa, you have a couple
| | 04:41 | of different options.
| | 04:42 | With the folder selected, you can have
Scan Once, you can have it removed from
| | 04:47 | Picasa, or you can have it Always Scan.
| | 04:49 | This is really helpful if you add
specific exports or if you're working inside
| | 04:53 | another program and you add
photos directly to this folder.
| | 04:56 | Go ahead and click
Scan Always and select OK.
| | 05:01 | You can see that immediately it begins
to pick up the photos that are located
| | 05:04 | inside of that new folder.
| | 05:06 | You can see now that I have got this
new folder called Travels that has
| | 05:10 | automatically been added.
| | 05:11 | And there is two ways to look
at the File and Folder Manager.
| | 05:16 | The first way is to select Add Folder to Picasa.
| | 05:20 | The second is to go directly under
Tools and select the Folder Manager.
| | 05:26 | Once you have a good grasp on the
Folder Manager itself, you'll have a very
| | 05:30 | great understanding on the
organizational paradigm on which photos you can add
| | 05:34 | or remove to Picasa.
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| Exploring the interface| 00:00 | Now it's time to explore the interface.
| | 00:02 | I'm going to do a quick walk-through of
the things that you actually see while
| | 00:06 | you're driving the interface itself.
| | 00:08 | On the left-hand side, you'll use the
left hand column to navigate between
| | 00:14 | the content itself.
| | 00:15 | By clicking on the individual items, it
will redirect the pane on the right-hand side.
| | 00:20 | So you can use this for gross
navigation of your photos itself.
| | 00:24 | Along at the top you have some buttons
here that will correspond to different
| | 00:27 | types of actions that you want to take.
| | 00:29 | You've got an Import button, which will
allow you to import when connected to a
| | 00:34 | particular device or hard drive.
| | 00:36 | You've got a new album that you can
create directly which allows you to create
| | 00:40 | an empty area that you can
drag photos directly within it.
| | 00:43 | We've talked a little bit about the Folder
Views, and then we've got the Sort methods.
| | 00:48 | Then lastly, if you have a web cam
connected, you can use that as an input
| | 00:52 | device directly into Picasa itself.
| | 00:54 | Now one of the things that you'll
want to take a note of here is the very
| | 00:58 | powerful tools that are used
for searching and for filtering.
| | 01:01 | So you can imagine Picasa is made by Google.
| | 01:04 | Google is fantastic at searching on things.
| | 01:06 | We'll talk a little bit more
about searching in a moment.
| | 01:08 | But one of things that you can start
to do is search on everything within
| | 01:12 | the metadata itself.
| | 01:13 | For example, if I was looking for a RAW photo,
I know that the file extension is a .nef.
| | 01:19 | So if I just type nef, you can see
that all of my RAW photos are immediately
| | 01:24 | presented within the View pane here.
| | 01:26 | Additionally, there are Sort methods.
| | 01:28 | So I can begin to start to look for
individual things and just look at movies only.
| | 01:33 | You could see that I have just movies.
| | 01:35 | Or one of the things that's very
valuable is the facial recognition
| | 01:39 | within Picasa itself.
| | 01:41 | Here you can actually click on photos
that have detected faces within them.
| | 01:45 | This is new within Picasa 3.
| | 01:49 | Starred photos are those that you've
specifically gone through and selected
| | 01:53 | stars or favorites within them.
| | 01:56 | To do this, you can go ahead and select a
particular star, directly from the pane below.
| | 02:02 | By selecting the star, you can select
photos that aren't something that you like
| | 02:06 | as a favorite photograph.
| | 02:09 | Then when filtering, go ahead and
select the star and you can see all the
| | 02:12 | photographs that have the star within them.
| | 02:14 | So the Search Filter can be used very,
very powerfully in terms of navigating
| | 02:20 | and locating photos within your library.
| | 02:22 | Here are some new tools that allow
synchronization between the program of Picasa
| | 02:28 | and the web albums themselves.
| | 02:31 | This gives you the ability to save to a
specific disc or synchronize with the web.
| | 02:35 | We'll go over to that in more detail.
| | 02:37 | The central area here is very powerful.
| | 02:40 | If I use the navigation pane, I can
begin to navigate the entire library.
| | 02:46 | Notice how it speeds up or slows down,
the more I move the progress bar down.
| | 02:54 | I can also use my scroll wheel on
my mouse as I'm doing now to quickly
| | 02:57 | navigate through the items.
| | 03:01 | In the lower right, you'll have
controls that relate to zooming.
| | 03:05 | Here I can zoom in my photographs directly
or zoom them out just by sliding the bar.
| | 03:12 | I can control the view that I have
over all of the photographs at once.
| | 03:16 | The last straight at the bottom are
specific tasks and actions that you may want
| | 03:20 | to take on the photographs themselves.
| | 03:22 | Once items are selected, you can
group them into a series of tasks.
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| Using the Task tray| 00:00 | One of the important parts of
the interface is the Task Tray.
| | 00:04 | Task Tray is located at the bottom.
| | 00:05 | The most important part of navigating your
photographs is performing actions on them.
| | 00:11 | Let's grab a couple.
| | 00:12 | Just by holding down the Ctrl key
I've added a bunch to my selection.
| | 00:16 | I can put a hold on that anytime.
| | 00:18 | Now hold is like tacking them up to the wall.
| | 00:21 | It gives me the specific functionalities
so that I can navigate to other folders
| | 00:25 | and they stay intact.
| | 00:26 | One of the things that Picasa does
is if I don't have them tacked to the
| | 00:32 | specific tray I may lose them as a selection.
| | 00:34 | Let me show you an example.
| | 00:36 | I'll select a few photographs and
then I'll navigate to a different folder.
| | 00:41 | Notice how they're automatically gone.
| | 00:43 | Sometimes this can be frustrating.
| | 00:45 | So be sure to use the Hold button in
order to select and to honor your selections.
| | 00:50 | Let's do that again.
| | 00:52 | If I hold down the Ctrl key,
I can select multiple photographs.
| | 00:55 | If I select the Hold button, this icon
indicates that they are tacked into the
| | 01:00 | specific Selection Tray.
| | 01:01 | Let me navigate to another folder here.
| | 01:04 | Now when I select, I have photos that are
added in addition to the selection itself.
| | 01:11 | Now I'm able to perform a task.
| | 01:13 | Now the Task buttons are
located down here in the lower right.
| | 01:17 | There are some default tasks related
to uploading to web albums, emailing
| | 01:22 | specific photos, printing them locally or
exporting them to another location on your disk.
| | 01:29 | Additional services like shopping or
printing photos through services or
| | 01:34 | blogging can be externally
facing and customized.
| | 01:38 | Let's talk a little bit
about that customization.
| | 01:41 | If you go up to the Tools menu, you have
a selection here called Configure Buttons.
| | 01:46 | Configuring your buttons allows you to
reorder and sort them. Let's do that now.
| | 01:51 | You'll see a correspondence between,
in this case, the Geo-Tag and the Blog.
| | 01:57 | If I just move this down, you can see that
I'm moving it further right in the selection.
| | 02:03 | I can even take things such as the Geo-
Tagging and remove it completely from the list.
| | 02:08 | This doesn't delete it.
| | 02:09 | It just removes it from the list.
| | 02:11 | This might be helpful, if you want
to free up specific places for other
| | 02:14 | additional tasks that you want to do.
| | 02:15 | Now Picasa has done a really nice thing.
| | 02:18 | They've made this button framework
external so that developers can start to
| | 02:22 | develop specific services so that
they can add custom buttons and services
| | 02:27 | onto this tray.
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| Adding a custom button to the Task tray| 00:00 | Next thing I'm going to talk about adding
a custom button to the Picasa Task Tray.
| | 00:04 | The buttons down here below are
extensible, which means that they are an open
| | 00:08 | framework that developers can
develop against and create their own custom
| | 00:11 | icons for services.
| | 00:13 | This is super helpful if you
belong to a social network or you have a
| | 00:17 | particular website that you wanted to
sent your photos directly up towards.
| | 00:22 | So let me give you an example.
| | 00:23 | I've opened up a browser and I've
logged into my Facebook account.
| | 00:28 | If you have a Facebook account, go
ahead and go to the Applications folder and
| | 00:34 | go ahead and browse More Applications.
| | 00:37 | You'll be looking at a page similar to this.
| | 00:39 | Up in these search applications,
go ahead and search for Picasa.
| | 00:43 | Now Picasa is pretty popular.
| | 00:46 | It has quite a bit of applications on it.
| | 00:48 | The one that you'll be interested in is
the one that allows you to add a simple
| | 00:51 | button to Picasa itself.
| | 00:54 | Go ahead and click on that.
| | 00:55 | You can see that the screenshot is
very helpful, and you can see that it will
| | 00:58 | add a Facebook service, and button
to your Picasa application itself.
| | 01:05 | Go ahead and go to this application.
| | 01:07 | It gives you a nice installer.
| | 01:09 | It gives you a chance to install it directly.
| | 01:11 | Go ahead click on that now.
| | 01:14 | Go ahead and select Picasa as
the application and select OK.
| | 01:19 | To Confirm, go ahead and confirm
that you want that button to be placed
| | 01:22 | directly inside your tray.
| | 01:24 | Notice the Configure
Application dialog comes up.
| | 01:28 | Remember how we removed the Geo-Tag and
there is an available button now called Facebook.
| | 01:34 | Go ahead and add that to
your current list of buttons.
| | 01:37 | Once selecting, select OK.
| | 01:40 | Now we have a custom Facebook button
that allows me to take photographs and
| | 01:44 | movies and send them directly up
to the Facebook social network.
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| Exploring the Help and Tools pulldown menus| 00:00 | Exploring your interface is really
important setup for any image library.
| | 00:05 | We've already explained some of
the items on the interface itself.
| | 00:08 | But let me show you a couple of
things that you might miss that are inside
| | 00:11 | the menu bar itself.
| | 00:13 | The first of which is the Help menu.
| | 00:14 | If you ever want to know if your
running the most recent version of Picasa,
| | 00:19 | go ahead and select Check for Updates.
| | 00:21 | This will do a quick connection online
and ensure that you have the right version.
| | 00:27 | The second thing that's really helpful
is to know what version your running.
| | 00:31 | This gives you a chance to do
that by selecting About Picasa.
| | 00:35 | This gives you a chance to triage which
version you're running, and see if there
| | 00:38 | is any conflicts to make sure that your
running the most recent version, and the
| | 00:42 | version you're running.
| | 00:44 | The second thing I'll probably
explain is the Tools menu itself.
| | 00:47 | This is helpful in getting your setup
environment exactly the way you want it.
| | 00:52 | First thing I'll show you is the Options menu.
| | 00:54 | Most important is a couple of
these checkboxes that I found useful.
| | 00:58 | There's a really version
here called Single-click exit.
| | 01:02 | When this is checked, that gives you
quick way to go in and out of a photograph
| | 01:06 | between the Detail View and the Library View.
| | 01:09 | I'll explain what that does in a moment.
| | 01:11 | The second one that's really helpful
relates to the size that you email.
| | 01:17 | Oftentimes, I share photographs and
the default size is set pretty low.
| | 01:22 | I like to move that up about 800 pixels.
| | 01:24 | This gives just enough resolution for
the person on the receiving end to receive
| | 01:29 | a nice clear photograph.
| | 01:32 | Other things that are
helpful relate to the File Types.
| | 01:35 | When you first install Picasa,
oftentimes people ask me, hey!
| | 01:39 | Some of the photos aren't showing up.
| | 01:41 | Oftentimes, that relates to the file format.
| | 01:43 | Let's say you work in Photoshop a lot.
| | 01:45 | This allows your Photoshop files to show up.
| | 01:48 | Sometimes, you shoot in RAW,
Picasa supports RAW beautifully.
| | 01:51 | When you show up and select the RAW
format, all of your photos can be edited and
| | 01:57 | seen inside of Picasa with RAW.
| | 01:59 | Now RAW are large files, so sometimes
if you have another editor you want to
| | 02:03 | use, you may unclick this.
| | 02:05 | The last part is if you're a web designer
and you export a lot in format related to GIF.
| | 02:10 | This allows you to navigate all of your
exports and things that you've done in GIF format.
| | 02:14 | That's just a quick tour of some of the
options that I use that are really helpful.
| | 02:18 | Let's quickly go back to this one right
here and see Single-click to exit, and
| | 02:22 | I'll show you what that means.
| | 02:24 | We're navigating your library.
| | 02:26 | You oftentimes want to
look at something in detail.
| | 02:29 | To do that, you double-click.
| | 02:31 | By having that one item selected, you
can see that I can go ahead and edit, but
| | 02:35 | on a single-click I can exit.
| | 02:37 | This just saves you a lot of time, I found.
| | 02:39 | Because if you double-click, the
default is that you've to move your mouse all
| | 02:43 | the way over here and go back to the library.
| | 02:45 | That's the only way to exit the Detail Mode.
| | 02:48 | By having that one option selected, you
can quickly select the image itself and
| | 02:52 | your back at the library.
| | 02:54 | That's a quick tour of the Tools menu.
| | 02:56 | Let's move on to the next one.
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| Importing photos and movies from a camera or card reader| 00:00 | Next, we're going to talk about
connecting your camera or card reader to the
| | 00:05 | computer, and importing your photos itself.
| | 00:08 | So, most of you probably have a SD
card reader, or a camera, or some way of
| | 00:12 | connecting to your computer.
| | 00:14 | My favorite method is just this USB
Dongle with the actual card slot itself.
| | 00:20 | A lot of them out there allow you to
connect an SD card or a CompactFlash.
| | 00:24 | This gives me a lot of flexibility
because I can just pull it right out of my case,
| | 00:27 | connect it, I don't even
have to worry about a long cable and
| | 00:30 | connecting my camera to it.
| | 00:32 | When you plug it in, one of the things
that might happen on a PC is this AutoPlay.
| | 00:38 | When you have Picasa installed, you have
the choice of actually selecting Picasa
| | 00:43 | directly from the list.
| | 00:44 | This will take you directly into Import.
| | 00:47 | If for some reason you've turned
AutoPlay off, let me show what you can click on.
| | 00:52 | With your card reader connected,
go ahead and click on Import.
| | 00:55 | This is the same as clicking
on Picasa, from the AutoPlay.
| | 00:59 | You'll go directly into the Import
functionality and in Picasa 3 it has been improved.
| | 01:05 | Let me some of the things
that have been improved here.
| | 01:08 | First of all, you'll notice that there
is an ability to just pivot between the
| | 01:11 | different import devices.
| | 01:13 | This can be a separate drive, this can be a
USB stick, or dongle, or the camera itself.
| | 01:18 | The next thing you'll notice
is the delineation by date.
| | 01:21 | This is super helpful, because as the
items start to come in, you can start to
| | 01:25 | just visually pick up on the fact that you
know that you shot certain things on certain days.
| | 01:30 | Just by selecting the camera, it will
select everything on that particular day.
| | 01:37 | So, whether I select the individual
photos themselves or the clock, I can go
| | 01:42 | ahead and select multiple days.
| | 01:44 | In this case, I'm going to
go ahead and do that now.
| | 01:46 | Here I've three days selected.
| | 01:48 | Other options that are very helpful
is this notion of excluding Duplicates.
| | 01:52 | Let's say you are able to shoot multiple
days and you copied just one particular
| | 01:57 | day, and you've already imported it into Picasa.
| | 02:00 | This is very helpful, because when you
exclude duplicates, it will keep from
| | 02:04 | there being duplicate files on your system.
| | 02:07 | Sometimes, you want to just import
everything on the card itself, this allows
| | 02:11 | you to do that just by selecting it.
| | 02:14 | Importing selected, you can see I've
39 photos selected, all delineated by
| | 02:18 | the blue outline here.
| | 02:20 | I'm going to go ahead and do that now.
| | 02:22 | When I select any Import task, it
will ask me where I want to put them.
| | 02:26 | Well, many times, you can see here.
| | 02:28 | I've lots of photos
distributed over multiple days.
| | 02:31 | It gives you just one folder location initially.
| | 02:34 | You can't break them into
individual folders at this point.
| | 02:37 | So, I'm going to give this a
folder called my London trip.
| | 02:40 | You can see here it's been
added to My Pictures folder.
| | 02:45 | The default date is taken in here,
based on the metadata, and I'm just going to
| | 02:49 | say that it was actually
happening in the London, UK.
| | 02:52 | I can give an additional description if I want.
| | 02:55 | Now, below is really important,
take note, the default is Do nothing.
| | 02:59 | That means on the source
card, just leave it alone.
| | 03:02 | Leave all the photos there.
| | 03:04 | This what I recommend.
| | 03:05 | The Safe delete is a nice feature.
| | 03:07 | Oftentimes, you want to delete just
the things that have been copied, so I
| | 03:12 | suggest don't delete anything until
you've confirmed a safe confirmation that
| | 03:16 | your files have gone to the computer.
| | 03:18 | The last one, I would steer clear this.
| | 03:20 | Wiping the card clean is oftentimes kind
of risky, so I wouldn't do this very often.
| | 03:25 | But what it will do is it will actually
run a complete batch delete across your
| | 03:29 | entire card, and it will be
indiscriminant across anything that is on the actual
| | 03:34 | card itself, whether those be files,
or any other format that you may not be
| | 03:38 | seeing at this time.
| | 03:39 | So, I select Do nothing,
go ahead and click Finish.
| | 03:42 | This will import your specific photos
directly, and they should show up right in
| | 03:47 | the name of the folder that you've created.
| | 03:49 | You've just successfully
imported your first files.
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| Searching and archiving your growing library| 00:00 | It's important to talk about
your growing Picasa library.
| | 00:04 | You can see very quickly that as you
add photographs, you are going to start to
| | 00:09 | have a growing library.
| | 00:11 | So there is two important things that I
thought I would mention at this point.
| | 00:15 | The first is the ability to search.
| | 00:17 | Now, the power of searching for
photographs is absolutely a paradigm shift in
| | 00:23 | how you should think about retrieving
and finding the things that you want.
| | 00:27 | One of the greatest things about
Picasa 3 is its search functionality.
| | 00:30 | I'm going to give you some functionality tips.
| | 00:33 | So the Search Bar itself allows you to
reach into just about any part of the metadata.
| | 00:39 | One example that blows my mind is the ISO.
| | 00:41 | Let's say you know that you should
ascertain ISO speed. Here I can immediately
| | 00:46 | pull up all 15 photographs, where I
shot an ISO 1000, or let's say I want to
| | 00:52 | pull up all of the photographs where the flash
went off, where I may want to triage red-eye.
| | 00:58 | All I have to do is type in flash.
| | 01:00 | To prove this to you, I'll just select
the photograph and I'll right-click to
| | 01:05 | show you the properties.
| | 01:06 | Notice there on the flash itself
it says that the flash was used.
| | 01:10 | It's pretty remarkable.
| | 01:11 | Well, it not only searches within
the metadata itself or the actual
| | 01:15 | attributes of the photo.
| | 01:17 | It will bring up things like
comments or pull in even captions.
| | 01:22 | So let's find my favorite espresso in Paris.
| | 01:25 | Just by typing espresso, you can see
that it's found that one particular
| | 01:28 | photograph and it's found this
particular caption right there from espresso.
| | 01:33 | So one thing that you will want to
absolutely take advantage of is the ability
| | 01:37 | to retrieve your photographs,
whether they are taken in April.
| | 01:41 | You can see that these
were actually taken in April.
| | 01:45 | So you can start to think about your
photographs in a completely different way.
| | 01:49 | Notice that none of the things that I
did even related to clicking on these
| | 01:53 | items here in the folders,
which is a traditional paradigm.
| | 01:57 | Searching for photographs, searching
for items within your library are going to
| | 02:01 | become increasingly
important as your library grows.
| | 02:04 | Now, the second and probably one of
the most important parts of your growing
| | 02:09 | library is backing it up.
| | 02:11 | Let's talk about that now.
| | 02:13 | Inside the Tools menu is the
ability to backup pictures.
| | 02:17 | So one of the first things you are
going to want to do is back up your
| | 02:21 | photographs periodically.
| | 02:22 | When you select back up pictures
for the first time, it invites you to
| | 02:27 | think about a backup set.
| | 02:28 | Now, a backup set in this regard has to
do with a particular set of attributes.
| | 02:34 | So let's set a new one now.
| | 02:36 | The default is that there are no backup sets.
| | 02:39 | I'm going to select a new one.
| | 02:41 | Let's give it a name.
| | 02:42 | Well, the way to think about this
conceptually is maybe the location or the
| | 02:47 | frequency or the place that
you want to back it up to.
| | 02:50 | I'm going to call this My Passport Backup.
| | 02:55 | Now, this is a series of settings.
| | 02:58 | Now, I often travel with a
little tiny Passport drive.
| | 03:01 | It's a USB drive that I use just
to kind of back up my photographs.
| | 03:04 | This particular backup could be to a CD
or DVD, which I could do periodically,
| | 03:09 | or in this case, a
particular disk-to-disk backup.
| | 03:13 | I work off of my current hard drive.
| | 03:14 | So I don't want to back it up to my
existing hard-drive. In fact, I want to
| | 03:20 | choose the Passport drive.
| | 03:23 | So this is located under My Computer,
and you can see the Passport drive is
| | 03:27 | located right there.
| | 03:28 | Now, I can select specific folders or
areas. I'm just going to select a new
| | 03:33 | folder and I'm going to call this My Backup.
| | 03:36 | When I select OK, it's going to set
that path and it's going to save all those
| | 03:41 | attributes every time the Passport
drive is connected to my computer.
| | 03:45 | And this backup set, which will be saved in
this pulldown, will be one of my attributes.
| | 03:50 | Now, I can give it specific attributes.
| | 03:52 | Like I wanted to save all files, which
will be a complete backup, which will
| | 03:56 | save all the JPEGs, all the RAW files,
and even videos that I have shot, or
| | 04:00 | I can specifically have just only JPEGs.
| | 04:03 | Once I hit Create, it sets that new
backup Passport and it saves all of my
| | 04:08 | individual settings and it
locates it on the individual F drive.
| | 04:12 | The next thing we want to do is select
the individual areas or the photographs,
| | 04:16 | so you can see that I have specific
folders that I haven't backed up in a while.
| | 04:20 | So the first thing we'll want to do is
select all the individual photos and go
| | 04:25 | all the way down here and select even
things that you have exported or projects
| | 04:29 | or even tagged albums, and you
can go ahead and do a full backup.
| | 04:33 | A quick way to do this you can see is that
they have added a Select None or Select All.
| | 04:38 | You can see when I
selected None, they were all gone.
| | 04:41 | If I select All, they have all been added.
| | 04:44 | So you can use this as your kind of
guide to see how many of the photographs are
| | 04:49 | needed to be backed up.
| | 04:51 | Now, what's super nice is this information here.
| | 04:53 | You can see that I have six folders,
about 234 files, and it's just over
| | 04:58 | a gigabyte that needs to be backed up.
| | 05:01 | The last step is to go ahead and hit Backup.
| | 05:04 | Selecting Backup will
initiate the backup right away.
| | 05:06 | You can go ahead and continue to work
and it will go ahead and backup your work
| | 05:11 | to that external drive.
| | 05:12 | This is critical, if your growing
library requires that you back up. This will
| | 05:18 | save all your changes, your edits, and
it will create duplicate files in case
| | 05:21 | your core hard-drive ever fails.
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| Remembering your memories| 00:00 | Your growing Picasa library is getting
larger and you are starting to enjoy the
| | 00:05 | benefits of finding and
also archiving your photos.
| | 00:09 | But here is something that's really important.
| | 00:11 | This is the lost art of browsing behaviors.
| | 00:14 | Many times when I ask people about
their library themselves, they'll tell me,
| | 00:18 | well, I don't really have that much time.
| | 00:19 | It's a great place to be, but then
they'll end up showing me some of their
| | 00:23 | photographs and in the process of them
showing me their photographs, they begin
| | 00:27 | to tell me some stories.
| | 00:28 | So I call this Browsing Behaviors and
it really takes advantage of the fact that
| | 00:33 | everyone needs more time.
| | 00:35 | But while you are browsing your
photographs, start to remember the actual
| | 00:40 | events that took place.
| | 00:42 | So I'm going to invite you to select
a couple of photographs from one of
| | 00:46 | your albums, and we are going to turn them into
something what I call author while you browse.
| | 00:50 | I'm going to tell you a little story
about this little walk in France one
| | 00:54 | morning, and I found this little painting here.
| | 00:57 | So just by holding down the Ctrl
key, I'm going to make this little
| | 01:00 | selection, and authoring while you
browse, takes advantage of reminiscing
| | 01:05 | over the sheer fact of browsing.
| | 01:08 | So what I'm going to do first is I'm
going to do one of my favorite little
| | 01:13 | things that's Collage.
| | 01:14 | So when I go into the Collage, I now
have the ability to kind of manipulate this
| | 01:20 | memory a little bit, I can start to author it.
| | 01:23 | This is authoring while I browse.
| | 01:25 | I can create a new asset.
| | 01:27 | I can start to remember and create a little
type of memory just by grabbing the selections.
| | 01:35 | I'm going to go ahead and create that collage.
| | 01:37 | Now, while it's doing that, I'm going
to go back to the library, and I'm going
| | 01:41 | to go back to my Travels, and I'm going
to go through and reminisce some more.
| | 01:46 | So while this is working
for me, I'm back browsing.
| | 01:49 | There is the photographs I just had, and
then I went through the park and I took
| | 01:53 | a picture, and I remember this really
cool photograph here, and this would
| | 01:57 | actually be a really great
little story to tell my mom.
| | 02:01 | So I'm going to go in, and I'm
going to email these directly to my mom.
| | 02:05 | Again, I have taken these photographs,
and I'm going to go ahead and give her a
| | 02:08 | little mail message.
| | 02:10 | So I'm going to open up Google mail,
and I'm going to login real quick.
| | 02:14 | Now that I have logged into Gmail, I
can send these photographs directly to my
| | 02:18 | mom and tell her a little bit about my trip.
| | 02:20 | So again, this is authoring while you browse.
| | 02:24 | My mom and dad will now benefit from
some of these photographs that I have sent
| | 02:27 | directly to them as I have just been
thinking about my trip and they get to
| | 02:31 | benefit a little bit from this
time that I have spent inside Picasa.
| | 02:35 | Again, you can see how powerful this concept is.
| | 02:41 | Just in a few moments, I have been
able to just take my browsing session and
| | 02:45 | remind myself of a couple of things.
| | 02:47 | Again, this little photograph reminds me
of the walk I had with a good friend of
| | 02:51 | mine Bryan as we were
working on a project together.
| | 02:54 | I'm going to add a quick little
note to this, my conversation to Bryan.
| | 03:00 | This is where we talked about the
design conference and how we may want to
| | 03:02 | work together later.
| | 03:03 | I am going to add this specifically
to my particular item, and in fact, I'm
| | 03:08 | going to upload it because I
want to share it with him later.
| | 03:10 | Well, now that I'm logged-in my account,
you saw me logged into Gmail, it gives
| | 03:16 | me a brand new interface
here called the Web Albums.
| | 03:18 | This is my first
invitation to go into Web Albums.
| | 03:21 | So I'm going to go ahead and select a
new album, and I'm going to call this
| | 03:26 | Walks to remember, because this will
be a good context for things that I want
| | 03:30 | to be jogged later.
| | 03:32 | When we go back, we are going to refer
to this photograph, and we are going to
| | 03:35 | share this photograph with Bryan and a
few other of his colleagues, and these
| | 03:38 | are just photos, remind me
of great walks and visuals.
| | 03:46 | Now, this is going to be an online
album, we are going to get into this
| | 03:49 | in-depth later on, but you can see just
by having this little trigger of a jog
| | 03:54 | of a memory, I'm going to take this
single photograph and I'm going to upload
| | 03:57 | it to a new online place.
| | 04:00 | This is totally going to do
this automatically for me.
| | 04:02 | You can see that already that
photo is online and ready to be viewed.
| | 04:07 | I'm going to store that away for a second
here and get back to my browsing behavior.
| | 04:13 | Back in my London trip, you can see
that I have some other photographs here.
| | 04:17 | This was Jamie Oliver's headquarters.
| | 04:19 | I'm going to make a little note that
this is the Jamie, so just putting this
| | 04:23 | little note in here, gives
me a sense of what it is.
| | 04:26 | So in four different examples, I have
sent an email, made a collage, uploaded a
| | 04:32 | photograph, and edited some
captions to refer to later.
| | 04:36 | This is a very powerful concept that
you remember to actually take actions on
| | 04:41 | the groups of photos that jog your memories.
| | 04:44 | You will benefit greatly, and you
can use the Taskbar to your advantage.
| | 04:49 | The last little example, I'm going to
give a quick little upload in real-time
| | 04:53 | here of some of the
photographs that I took in London.
| | 04:55 | I'm going to hold down the Ctrl key, and
I'm going to upload them directly to my
| | 05:00 | Facebook account, so the world can
take advantage of seeing the photos that I
| | 05:04 | have taken in London. Let's do that now.
| | 05:07 | So I have selected some photographs, and
I'm going to click on the Facebook Uploader.
| | 05:11 | Now, we've added this a few
moments ago as a Custom button.
| | 05:15 | I'll log-in right now, and when you log-
in using the Custom button, it makes a
| | 05:19 | secure connection between Picasa, and your
social network account, in this case, Facebook.
| | 05:25 | I am going to create a new album.
| | 05:27 | Well, I'm going to add to my album
here called UK Trip, and I'm going to go
| | 05:30 | ahead and upload it.
| | 05:32 | Now, this takes the photographs
directly from Picasa and posts them up on
| | 05:37 | my Facebook account.
| | 05:38 | The moment it should open that
up, I'll be able to post those
| | 05:43 | photographs directly.
| | 05:44 | So it asks for confirmation, and it will
redirect me to those photos that I just uploaded.
| | 05:49 | So very quickly I have taken these
photographs and go ahead and select All
| | 05:54 | and I'm going to approve these photographs
because they have come from a trusted source.
| | 05:58 | Now, these photographs have
been added to my Facebook account.
| | 06:02 | It's as easy as that to author while you browse.
| | 06:06 | Remember that as you use Picasa,
this is a critical part of getting your
| | 06:11 | photos out there, getting them shared,
and taking the most and making the most
| | 06:15 | of your time.
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| Using the new Desktop Photo Viewer| 00:00 | Well, we have talked about turning
the new photo browser on and off.
| | 00:04 | This is a new tool within Picasa 3.
| | 00:08 | Let's review real quickly what that does.
| | 00:10 | On typical systems, when you go to
your file system, you double click on a
| | 00:14 | photograph and this is really the
default Windows Vista picture browser, okay.
| | 00:19 | Well, Picasa has created one that
will override that functionality.
| | 00:23 | Now, remember, you can go to
Tools and configure your photo viewer.
| | 00:28 | Now, you can use this as a specific way
of showcasing your photographs when you
| | 00:32 | are outside of Picasa and you can
associate with certain file formats.
| | 00:37 | So, in this case, I'm going to turn it on,
and by clicking this radio button,
| | 00:41 | it will override the default
Windows version that I just showed you.
| | 00:45 | And now, when I select OK and go to
that same folder, I'm going to double click
| | 00:50 | and notice what happens.
| | 00:52 | The new Picasa viewer shows up.
| | 00:55 | There's a couple really cool
features that are located inside of this.
| | 00:59 | One thing that you will notice is orientation.
| | 01:02 | So, a lot of times photographs aren't
rotated in the file system, which means
| | 01:08 | that it may kind of degrade the photo
if you rotate it in the original source.
| | 01:13 | So, what the Picasa one does really
nicely is it maintains the rotation
| | 01:18 | information for you.
| | 01:20 | So, in case I wanted to rotate this
photograph, if I thought that looked like a
| | 01:24 | better photograph, it will
honor that back in Picasa.
| | 01:27 | I can also do some really nice things.
| | 01:29 | Like I can star it.
| | 01:30 | I use this often times to actually find
really good photos that I want to star,
| | 01:36 | for later, for maybe editing or
doing some other things with it.
| | 01:40 | I can also have a select photograph
and I can edit it directly in Picasa,
| | 01:44 | which is brilliant.
| | 01:45 | It allows me to go in and start to edit
the individual photograph and to change
| | 01:50 | the aspects of it directly.
| | 01:53 | We'll talk about editing photographs a
little bit more but I wanted to show you
| | 01:56 | the relationship between the actual
program and you can see in the Photo Viewer
| | 02:01 | itself, how brilliant it is
when you use them together.
| | 02:05 | So, that's how you can take advantage
of the new Picasa Photo Viewer within
| | 02:10 | the Windows tool suite.
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3. Organizing PhotosUsing folders and albums| 00:00 | Now, I'm going to talk a little bit
about managing and organizing this
| | 00:04 | increasingly growing library and we
have done a few things where our library
| | 00:10 | is starting to grow.
| | 00:11 | So, I want to bring your attention a
little bit to the types of categories,
| | 00:14 | created automatically for us.
| | 00:16 | So, in the Folder list to the left,
you will see some cascading areas.
| | 00:21 | So, you can see now that we have
exported some things, you can see that there's
| | 00:24 | a whole folder area.
| | 00:26 | Now, on your computer, this will be
pretty large, because if you've indexed
| | 00:30 | your hard drive, you'd probably have a lot
of folders and a lot of images inside there.
| | 00:35 | Also, you will see a
growing list here of Projects.
| | 00:38 | In a previous movie, I created a collage.
| | 00:40 | You can see that those are kept
track of very neatly and carefully.
| | 00:44 | Additionally, it's your Albums view.
| | 00:46 | You can see that there's a difference
between what was called Recently Updated,
| | 00:51 | Starred Photos and this album that we
created online and you can see the little
| | 00:56 | globe there refers to that it's an online album.
| | 01:00 | We uploaded a photograph
called the walks to remember.
| | 01:02 | So, we'll kind of discern some of these
types and we are going to organize and
| | 01:08 | remind ourselves a little bit about some
of the organizational tasks that we can do.
| | 01:12 | So, the first thing I'm going to do
is going to this London trip because I
| | 01:15 | imported those from my camera.
| | 01:17 | But if you recall, I
imported them over a couple of days.
| | 01:20 | So, I want to actually pull some of
those things out, because you can see here
| | 01:24 | that I was shooting in
Black and White on one day.
| | 01:27 | This was my trip in the city and then
I went out to Notting Hill and had a
| | 01:31 | completely different day and experience.
| | 01:33 | So, I want to create a
Notting Hill group of photos.
| | 01:36 | Well, how would I do that? There's two ways.
| | 01:38 | I can go through and select the
individual photos from Notting Hill, I just
| | 01:43 | hold down my Shift key here and I can
select them and then right-click and say
| | 01:48 | Move to New Folder.
| | 01:49 | That's one way to do it.
| | 01:50 | We did that in a previous movie.
| | 01:52 | Here's another way.
| | 01:54 | Up here is a Create a new album, and
this will open up just an empty album prior
| | 01:59 | to me selecting anything.
| | 02:00 | I'm just going to call this Notting Hill.
| | 02:03 | On Notting Hill, I know which day I was there.
| | 02:06 | I was there May 30th.
| | 02:08 | I'm going to call this Notting Hill
and I want to call Notting Hill, UK,
| | 02:13 | even though I know it's in London,
but it will help me find it if I want to
| | 02:16 | search for it later.
| | 02:17 | And this was, visiting my friend Santi.
| | 02:20 | I am going to go ahead and hit OK and now you can
see that I have a new album. It's not a folder.
| | 02:29 | This is very different.
| | 02:30 | There's a folder called London trip
but I can distinguish certain images that
| | 02:36 | are distinctly Notting Hill. Let's do that now.
| | 02:38 | So, I'm going to go and hold down the
Ctrl, I'm going to start dragging images
| | 02:43 | into my Notting Hill album.
| | 02:46 | Now, this is really important
organizational paradigm because I can start to
| | 02:50 | select those individual photographs
and they are not being removed from the
| | 02:55 | original London folder.
| | 02:58 | Watch the number here.
| | 02:59 | If I drag them over to Notting Hill,
this number from Notting Hill goes up, but
| | 03:05 | this number here in London stays the same.
| | 03:07 | I still have all of my original
photographs in the London folder.
| | 03:12 | So, I don't have to create
dozens and dozens of folders.
| | 03:14 | I can start to organize them by albums
and I can start to give these rich metadata.
| | 03:19 | When I right-click on Notting Hill and
say Edit Album Description, I can add
| | 03:24 | additional key words here.
| | 03:25 | I can say that it was a sunny day.
| | 03:27 | I can say that I bought
something and put a dollar sign in there.
| | 03:32 | I can actually do some really fun
things where I can -- again, remember, I can
| | 03:36 | search on all of these items.
| | 03:38 | These are just like little tags of things.
| | 03:40 | I can also say that's one of my
favorite photographs right there.
| | 03:43 | So, I'm starting to build a richness
around my London trip even without having
| | 03:49 | to literally move the file
around into different folders.
| | 03:52 | That is an important part of navigating
and organizing as your library begins to grow.
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| Tagging and rating your photos| 00:00 | We are talking about organizing your
photos in this increasingly larger Picasa album.
| | 00:07 | First, we talked about moving
your photos directly across folders.
| | 00:12 | Then we talked about adding them to albums.
| | 00:14 | And you can see here that we start
to have some additional icons here.
| | 00:18 | So, let's talk about those.
| | 00:19 | We have exported some images into a
folder called personal_images and
| | 00:24 | it's nicely put inside of this category.
| | 00:27 | The folders themselves, these will be
very different on your computer as you are
| | 00:31 | looking at folders within your computer.
| | 00:33 | We have created a collage.
| | 00:35 | That's denoted by the icon there.
| | 00:37 | And then we uploaded a photograph into
an online album called walks to remember,
| | 00:43 | denoted by the little earth icon.
| | 00:45 | That's going to create a new type of
organizational paradigm where we use
| | 00:49 | albums and we use tagging.
| | 00:51 | So, to do that let's actually click on
this icon here, under Create a new album.
| | 00:57 | It will open up the Album Properties.
| | 00:59 | Now, I went on a London trip but I
went to Notting Hill on one of my days.
| | 01:04 | So, inside of this London trip
there is 39 photographs but they are all
| | 01:08 | co-mingled across different days,
because when I imported them I imported them
| | 01:12 | across multiple days.
| | 01:14 | So, I'm going to create an album called
Notting Hill because I want to tell that
| | 01:17 | story independently.
| | 01:19 | The next thing I'll do is I'll select
a specific day on which that happened.
| | 01:23 | I know that happened on May 30th.
| | 01:24 | Now, the Place Taken, I'm going to
go ahead and say Notting Hill, UK.
| | 01:29 | And I'll give it a little
Description, when I visited my friend Santi.
| | 01:36 | So, all this information can be
edited and can be described later.
| | 01:41 | I'm even going to put a little dollar
sign because I know I bought something there
| | 01:44 | and I'm going to hit OK.
| | 01:46 | Now, what that did is it
didn't create a new folder.
| | 01:50 | In fact it created a new thing called an album.
| | 01:53 | So, let's go ahead within the London
trip and let's go find some of those
| | 01:56 | images from Notting Hill.
| | 01:58 | If you recall this can be done in
other way when we were organizing folders.
| | 02:03 | I could select a lot of these
photographs specifically from Notting Hill,
| | 02:06 | right-click and I could say Move to New Folder.
| | 02:10 | We did that before, but this
time we are going to do something
| | 02:13 | a little differently.
| | 02:14 | We have created an album, and I'm going to
drag those photos directly into that album.
| | 02:20 | Well, that increased by 12 but
notice that the actual folder from London
| | 02:24 | trip did not decrease.
| | 02:25 | So, we are not moving the images from
folder-to-folder. This is a new type of album
| | 02:32 | where it just keeps track of
the images associated with it.
| | 02:35 | So, if I click within the London trip, all
of the images in Nothing Hill are still there.
| | 02:41 | If I click over to Notting Hill, I have
them essentially duplicated or replicated.
| | 02:46 | Now, this is really great
organizational paradigm because I don't have to
| | 02:50 | have thousands and thousands of folders just
to keep my folders and my images organized.
| | 02:55 | Let's do that again.
| | 02:56 | I have a couple of images here, I'm
going to go ahead and hold down the Ctrl key
| | 03:00 | and I'm going to add some of
these images from Notting Hill.
| | 03:05 | Next, I'm going to add them or drag them
directly over to this Notting Hill album itself.
| | 03:10 | Now, the Album Properties, if I right-
click and select Album Description,
| | 03:16 | they are very similar
to those in the folders.
| | 03:19 | So, I can go ahead and select my
London trip, and you can see that the folder
| | 03:22 | description has very similar attributes.
| | 03:24 | But again I haven't moved the
media and that's really important.
| | 03:28 | Well, here is a second
organizational paradigm and we call those tags.
| | 03:33 | Now, think of tags as just merely
post-it notes on the back of a photograph.
| | 03:39 | Now, to access it, go up to the View
menu and select tags or Ctrl+T. Now,
| | 03:45 | this is a floating palette that gives you
the ability to give attributes to one or
| | 03:50 | several photos at a time.
| | 03:52 | So, I can go ahead and select multiple
photographs and I'll say that this is outside.
| | 03:57 | I'll go ahead and hit Notting Hill.
| | 04:00 | You can see that's already in there.
| | 04:01 | And I actually want to denote a
couple of things around architecture.
| | 04:06 | So, I'm going to go down and hold the
Ctrl key and I'm going to select a couple
| | 04:10 | of my shots that I really like that
relate to architecture, and I'm going to
| | 04:15 | type in architecture.
| | 04:16 | So, I'll add those and just to show you
the benefit of the tags, I'm going to
| | 04:22 | go to completely different area in
my folder here and within my trip.
| | 04:26 | I'm going to go down here to Travels
to a completely different part of London
| | 04:30 | here and I'm going to select this
and I'm going to type architecture.
| | 04:33 | So, I have added the keyword
architecture to the Tower of London.
| | 04:39 | It's not even located in Notting Hill.
| | 04:41 | So, I can go ahead and do that.
| | 04:44 | The benefit is when I retrieve it I can
start to type architecture and you can
| | 04:48 | see that I have 10 items that are
distributed across these keywords here.
| | 04:53 | So, this is very, very powerful.
| | 04:55 | Keywords are really interesting, but
let me show you some words of caution and
| | 05:00 | also a word of encouragement.
| | 05:02 | So, what I'm going to do is I'm
going to pretend something right now.
| | 05:05 | I'm going to pretend I live in Notting
Hill and this is my scooter, let's say.
| | 05:08 | So, I'm going to bring up the tag, and
I'm going to say that it's a motorcycle
| | 05:16 | at my house in Notting Hill.
| | 05:18 | So, that might be really helpful.
| | 05:20 | I have told that it's a motorcycle.
| | 05:22 | I want to keep track of images
near my house and also Notting Hill.
| | 05:26 | Well, I have just told people where I
live and that I have a really cool scooter.
| | 05:31 | Well, if I share this photo
online that may or may not be that bad.
| | 05:35 | Well, what happens if you start to
associate that same information with a little
| | 05:39 | bit more personal information?
| | 05:40 | So, here I have got my son and I
have got basically the same types
| | 05:45 | of information here.
| | 05:47 | So, if I go into the tag cloud here
and I say my house, this was taken at my
| | 05:54 | house, and also Notting Hill.
| | 05:58 | Now, we start to have a little
bit more private information and
| | 06:02 | delicate information.
| | 06:03 | And not only do people know that when
I do a search for Notting Hill, imagine
| | 06:08 | people know that there's browsing
through photographs and they say he has a
| | 06:12 | pretty nice scooter there.
Also his son lives there.
| | 06:15 | So, this is just a word to the wise
and little bit of caution that the tags
| | 06:19 | can be very powerful when retrieving
particularly in an environment when
| | 06:23 | you are in your computer.
| | 06:25 | But later we are going to talk about
adding these photographs online and if you
| | 06:29 | start to add photographs online all of
the tags and all of the items go with it.
| | 06:34 | They will be searchable.
| | 06:36 | So, we'll talk about public and
private albums later but most importantly
| | 06:41 | make sure that your data, both
public and private, is secure and
| | 06:46 | you want to not get too much
private information out there.
| | 06:49 | So, that's one of the words to the wise.
Otherwise have a great time adding tags
| | 06:54 | and albums and having fun
organizing your photographs.
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| Using filters effectively| 00:00 | Okay, so we've talked about organizing
your material little bit more effectively.
| | 00:05 | Well how about retrieving it?
| | 00:06 | Well, we have illustrated it in some of the
benefits of search, but what about filtering?
| | 00:11 | Now, filtering, as I have kind of been
demoing, I have added something called
| | 00:16 | this Favorites and I'll
add one just to show you.
| | 00:19 | If you find a particular image that
you like, you can add or remove the star
| | 00:24 | directly from the actual image.
| | 00:26 | You don't have to do it with a single image.
| | 00:28 | You can do it with multiple at a time.
| | 00:30 | Well, why is this helpful?
| | 00:31 | This is super helpful when using filters.
| | 00:34 | So, if I want to just retrieve out of
all of my library, I actually want to show
| | 00:39 | just the ones that are starred.
| | 00:42 | I can then hop between my different
libraries or galleries and I can view just
| | 00:47 | the things that are starred.
| | 00:50 | I can use these in combination.
| | 00:51 | So, if I have a starred set of movies,
I can do that or if I have a starred set
| | 00:56 | of uploads, I can start to combine those two.
| | 00:58 | It's like what they call Boolean search.
| | 01:00 | It combines this plus this.
| | 01:03 | To untoggle it, we'll go ahead and untoggle
it and then now I can just show the uploads.
| | 01:08 | Well, in a previous movie, I
uploaded a photograph of my friend Bryan and
| | 01:11 | I walking together.
| | 01:12 | It reminded me of what we had talked about.
| | 01:15 | Well, this is so far the only upload
that I have and you can see that this
| | 01:19 | photograph is a member of the walks to
remember online album but the photo is
| | 01:24 | also located in a folder called Demo Photos.
| | 01:28 | Also part of the filters that's really
helpful as a part of Picasa 3 is it does
| | 01:33 | automatic facial detection.
| | 01:35 | Now, it started to move some of that
functionality into this client, so we can
| | 01:39 | see yes, there is a photo there, there
is an image there, so it's starting to
| | 01:42 | use some of that resonant
technology to locate faces.
| | 01:45 | We'll talk more about that as it
becomes a really powerful tool in the
| | 01:49 | online album space.
| | 01:51 | But it is very powerful just to begin
to start to triage photographs that have
| | 01:55 | faces in them directly by filters.
| | 01:58 | So, that's very powerful.
| | 02:00 | The third is actually to be able to
locate movies directly within your albums.
| | 02:03 | So, I don't know about your camera but
my camera will shoot images and video,
| | 02:10 | and so a lot of times when you copy
your photos into these folders, they
| | 02:14 | commingle photos and video.
| | 02:15 | Let's say you are looking at this
like large Demo_photos and it's hard to
| | 02:19 | denote which ones are photos and which
ones are videos and a lot of times it's
| | 02:24 | hard to find this little movie icon, especially
when it's really kind of a tiny little thumbnail.
| | 02:30 | Well, the filters will help you.
| | 02:32 | All you have to do is select the
movies only and you can see exactly which
| | 02:37 | images are movies and you can
select them right off the bat.
| | 02:41 | So that's a little bit about how you
can use filters effectively, locate, and
| | 02:46 | find the items located within your library.
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| Searching for photos| 00:00 | I'm going to spend a few minutes
talking about the powerful use of search.
| | 00:06 | Now, as you can expect, when you add a
bunch of metadata or specifics about your image,
| | 00:10 | you want to retrieve them or
you use them in really helpful ways.
| | 00:15 | I'm going to refer to some of the things
I have done in earlier movies just to show
| | 00:18 | you the power of what's been
going on in the background.
| | 00:21 | Well, first off, to find anything,
you go up into the Search box and as you
| | 00:26 | start typing, you will be reminded
of what you have inside the metadata.
| | 00:31 | First example will be ISO.
| | 00:34 | So, when I type ISO you can see all
the different ISOs that I shot in.
| | 00:38 | I didn't enter this information.
| | 00:40 | This came from my camera
directly, which is super cool.
| | 00:43 | You can start to see which things I
shot at 200 ISO or 800 ISO and for some of
| | 00:48 | you photographers out there that are
more technical, you start to get in a
| | 00:52 | certain mode and you can start to see
and retrieve those photos that you know
| | 00:56 | that you've shot in a certain technical way.
| | 00:58 | This is incredibly
helpful. Well how about flash?
| | 01:01 | Sometimes you want to like triage red-eye?
| | 01:03 | Well, how do you do that in Picasa?
| | 01:05 | Well, this way is pretty unbelievable.
| | 01:07 | Is there going to be red eye on
anything where the flash didn't go off?
| | 01:10 | No, but red-eye, we are not trying to
find and locate like faces or whatever.
| | 01:16 | All I do is type flash.
| | 01:18 | And you go, wait a second.
| | 01:20 | Did the flash really go
off here? Well, let's look.
| | 01:23 | Right-click. Look at Properties.
| | 01:25 | You can see all this metadata that
comes automatically in your photograph and
| | 01:31 | sure enough, do you see where
the flash went off? It was used.
| | 01:34 | So, they did some amazing things in the
Search functionality that allow you to
| | 01:38 | triage your photographs in any way you want.
| | 01:41 | Well, here are some more examples.
| | 01:43 | I think, I told you that I went to
Notting Hill and in Notting Hill, all I have
| | 01:47 | to do is type Notting Hill and you can
see that I have the album and I have got
| | 01:51 | the tags that are associated with
Notting Hill and you can see that they are
| | 01:55 | located in an album.
| | 01:56 | That's the Album icon and all of the
photos that have been put into the Notting
| | 02:01 | Hill album, as well as the London trip.
| | 02:04 | You can see that anything that's been
tagged as Notting Hill within the London
| | 02:09 | trip has being showing up.
| | 02:10 | Well, that's super cool.
| | 02:12 | Well, here is what's amazing. I think
I remember showing you a dollar sign and
| | 02:16 | I didn't write the entire sentence.
| | 02:18 | I mentioned that I went shopping in Notting
Hill and all I did was put in the dollar sign.
| | 02:23 | Well, just to illustrate
to you the power of that,
| | 02:27 | I'll show you that within my album description,
| | 02:31 | I said when I visited my friend I went shopping.
| | 02:34 | There is the dollar sign.
| | 02:35 | It found it and it presented my
entire album to me. That is very cool.
| | 02:42 | Well, as I mentioned, searching can be
a great way of finding things, but what
| | 02:46 | if it finds something you don't want it to find?
| | 02:49 | Now, let's talk about that.
| | 02:51 | We talked a little bit about the
sensitivity of having information that might be
| | 02:55 | a little bit more private.
| | 02:56 | So, I think I mentioned that I had
a son and my son's name was Tucker.
| | 03:01 | You can see here that tucker, son, Notting Hill.
| | 03:06 | Uh-oh. I just said that hypothetically my son
may live in Notting Hill and his name is Tucker.
| | 03:11 | Well, that's a little bit too
private information, and even though I was
| | 03:14 | retrieving it, I'm going to put
this photo online and I don't want that
| | 03:17 | information on there.
| | 03:18 | Here is a good way to remove it.
| | 03:20 | With the photo selected, you have this
nice little icon here called Photo Tags.
| | 03:25 | When you click on that, that's the
same menu that you would have goten if you
| | 03:29 | would have just gone under View and under Tags.
| | 03:32 | So, there is two ways to access that menu.
| | 03:33 | Well, you can see here that any
one of these tags are selectable.
| | 03:37 | All I need to do is just
remove let's say the context.
| | 03:40 | That's my son and Tucker and
now I have removed all the tags.
| | 03:46 | I want to add something a
little bit more nondescript.
| | 03:49 | Let's call this family, okay?
| | 03:52 | And even taking up the context, if it's okay
that people know my son's name. That's fine.
| | 03:58 | So in the context of just being
sensitive to what the tags are, that's how you
| | 04:03 | edit and manage some of the
information that's around your information.
| | 04:07 | Now, if I would do a search for
Notting Hill, you can see that all these
| | 04:13 | properties start to have information
associated with it but I can kind of remove it
| | 04:21 | directly from that context.
| | 04:23 | So that's a little bit about
searching and finding things within Picasa.
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| Deleting, hiding, and removing photos| 00:00 | In the next topic I just want to
touch on the idea of removing, deleting,
| | 00:06 | showing, and hiding media within Picasa.
| | 00:09 | We talked about the relationship
between Picasa and the file structure itself
| | 00:13 | and if you recall, you can click on
any folder any time and it shows the data
| | 00:17 | inside the file system, but here is the thing.
| | 00:20 | You can go to any particular image.
| | 00:23 | In this case, it's a bunch of food.
| | 00:25 | So all of this image of the box
that contains the food is less needed.
| | 00:29 | So I want to remove it.
| | 00:31 | There are a couple of different things.
| | 00:32 | I mean I could literally right-
click and have a bunch of options here.
| | 00:36 | If I hit Delete, it's
going to remove it from disk.
| | 00:41 | Deleting something where it's a good
thing that it has you confirm it, because
| | 00:45 | it's actually telling do you want to
send the selected file to the Recycle bin.
| | 00:50 | This is some recycle bin in
Picasa. This is from disk.
| | 00:54 | So when you hit Delete, you are removing this
file from disk. It's gone. It's gone forever.
| | 00:59 | I don't want to do that.
| | 01:01 | What I may want to do in
this circumstance is hide it.
| | 01:05 | When you hide something, it actually
just removes it from view and you can see
| | 01:09 | there is no confirmation there.
| | 01:11 | Now let's go to the actual folder itself.
| | 01:13 | You can see that the file is still there.
| | 01:15 | So thank goodness, but what this does,
they used to call this remove from Picasa.
| | 01:20 | Well, hiding is something that they
called it and you can do this to multiple
| | 01:24 | photos or you can do to entire folders.
| | 01:26 | So let's talk about that real quick.
| | 01:28 | So I just did it within the context of
the food, but let's say I want to take
| | 01:31 | this other folder where I have these
images where I connected the card and I
| | 01:36 | right-click on the actual folder itself.
| | 01:39 | You can see here that it says Hide Folder.
| | 01:41 | Well, something else comes up.
| | 01:43 | The hidden folders is a way that you
can essentially password protect or
| | 01:47 | essentially control what is shown and
hidden and what it does is something unique.
| | 01:52 | I'm going to say No, because I'm not
going to add a password right now, but what
| | 01:55 | I can do is you can see that it removed
it from the folders and it actually put
| | 02:00 | it inside of this like hidden folders area.
| | 02:02 | You can see that they
kicked those right at the bottom.
| | 02:05 | And the reason they do this is
pretty straightforward, is that so you can
| | 02:08 | remove certain folders as a way of
cleaning up your primary way of looking at things
| | 02:13 | and then you can cascade it
and that goes way at the bottom here.
| | 02:17 | So you can have certain folders that are hidden.
| | 02:19 | They are still on disk, you can see
that they are not removed from the actual
| | 02:24 | hard drive, but it just basically
allows you to essentially remove certain
| | 02:28 | folders within Picasa itself so that they
are not tracked inside of the folders item.
| | 02:34 | So something to remember.
| | 02:35 | There is a difference between removing it,
hiding it, and actually deleting it from disk.
| | 02:40 | So keep that in mind as you navigate
your folders and keep track of your media.
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| Creating and editing a new online album| 00:00 | We are going to talk a little bit more
about the Photo Tray and how to use it
| | 00:04 | and how to best kind of gather your
work across a number of your pieces of
| | 00:08 | your folders and albums.
| | 00:10 | Remember in a previous movie
I created this online album called "walks to
| | 00:13 | remember" and I liked that premise very much.
| | 00:15 | On any particular vacation, there will
be a subject matter, which might be walks
| | 00:21 | to remember, and these might be a
handful photographs that go across your
| | 00:25 | organizational paradigm.
| | 00:27 | So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
zoom into some photographs here and
| | 00:30 | I'm going to start moving through them very quickly.
| | 00:33 | To date, we haven't really gone
into the Detail View that much.
| | 00:37 | The Detail View can be accessed just
about anytime, just by double-clicking.
| | 00:42 | Remember we went into that one mode
where I can click to move out just by
| | 00:46 | adjusting the Tools > Options.
| | 00:48 | So I'm going to scroll down and I'm
going be jogging a little bit of memory here
| | 00:53 | of certain walks that are worth remembering.
| | 00:55 | I remember this particular
photograph and I'm going to tack it in.
| | 00:59 | I loved being near the Big Ben
and I loved my walk in London here.
| | 01:10 | There was a night walk that was
really great after dinner as well.
| | 01:15 | Certainly, the walk in the
morning around the Louvre.
| | 01:17 | That was fantastic.
| | 01:18 | So all of these have this context that
I'm adding to, which is walks to remember.
| | 01:24 | So one of the things that I'm going to
do and I have been able to move across
| | 01:28 | these galleries by
pinning everything into my tray.
| | 01:30 | Well, what's really nice is I can
select things from my tray itself and
| | 01:34 | what's really cool is I can drag those
directly into any item here and I'm just
| | 01:40 | going to drag this over to that existing
gallery that I created called a walk to remember.
| | 01:45 | So let's do that now.
| | 01:46 | So I have seven items in this
album called walks to remember.
| | 01:50 | Well, remember this was an online album.
| | 01:53 | Now if you recall, you can see
a really neat little icon here.
| | 01:57 | I'll zoom in to show you.
| | 01:58 | This icon represents
something that I've already uploaded.
| | 02:03 | So you can see here there is 1 file(s)
edited, View online: public (1).
| | 02:06 | So this is something that's really
powerful about creating and editing online album.
| | 02:12 | So I've got something, I'm going to
right-click called Edit Album Description.
| | 02:15 | Now what I've got here, because I have
uploaded one album online, think of now
| | 02:20 | I have two versions.
| | 02:22 | So I have the local version
and I have the online version.
| | 02:24 | And online, I've got this
folder called walks to remember.
| | 02:28 | I've got the creation date, the place taken.
| | 02:31 | Since these were taken in multiple
places, I may or may not want to put a
| | 02:34 | particular location.
| | 02:35 | I may just want to say well,
this all happened in Europe.
| | 02:37 | The context is still the same;
| | 02:39 | photos that remind of great walk and visuals.
| | 02:41 | So what I want to do is something
that they've added here called Sync to Web.
| | 02:45 | I'm just going to toggle this on.
| | 02:47 | Now this is pretty cool. Sync Album to Web.
| | 02:50 | What does that mean?
| | 02:51 | Upload this album and all the contents
and everything will be automatically
| | 02:55 | uploaded and synchronized with the web.
| | 02:58 | Let's look at some of the
settings that this has given us.
| | 02:59 | Well, remember back when we went to
Tools > Options and we had some of these
| | 03:04 | web album settings?
| | 03:06 | Well, these are the some of the ones
that are going to come into place.
| | 03:08 | So here I can have a recommended size.
| | 03:11 | So you can see that's not too big,
but not too small, and it will be a nice
| | 03:15 | viewing experience online and then the
online, I want to basically have my web
| | 03:19 | albums have public or private.
| | 03:21 | So let's talk about that real quick.
| | 03:24 | So the default here is Unlisted.
| | 03:26 | Think of this as unlisted phone number
where no one can discover it, no one will find it.
| | 03:31 | It won't be indexed and it will only
be seen by those that you share it with.
| | 03:35 | Now Public is a little different.
| | 03:37 | Public is that all of your
private and metadata will be online.
| | 03:41 | It'll be searchable.
| | 03:42 | It can be discovered.
| | 03:43 | So in a way, both of these can be shared,
but you have a little bit more control
| | 03:47 | over the unlisted version.
| | 03:49 | Then last one is much like of a private
album where Sign-in is required to view.
| | 03:53 | So you may distribute a very specific sign-
in or a specific private access to this album.
| | 03:59 | This one is fine as Unlisted
and I can go ahead and hit OK.
| | 04:03 | So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to say Yes to this and what it's going
| | 04:06 | to do as you can see that the synchronizing
is happening and the uploading is happening.
| | 04:11 | Well, this possible because I'm logged in.
| | 04:14 | As we move into this part of
educating you into the type of benefits of the
| | 04:20 | differences between the online
version versus the local version.
| | 04:24 | This is where the power of web
albums start to come to life.
| | 04:27 | So in the upper right here,
you can see that I'm logged-in.
| | 04:30 | There are really two states.
| | 04:32 | There is the logged-in
state and the logged-out state.
| | 04:34 | What we want to be able to do is
benefit from the standpoint of being logged-in
| | 04:39 | while we are using Picasa.
| | 04:41 | We can leverage the web album seamlessly and
now that you can see that icon has changed.
| | 04:46 | You can see that every thing is
synchronized beautifully up online.
| | 04:51 | Later, we are going to go on are we are
going to view this online and I'll show
| | 04:53 | you exactly how that can be done.
| | 04:55 | What we'll do is I'll go back to my
travels and my London trip really quick
| | 05:00 | and I'll add one more
photograph to this and I'll show you the power
| | 05:03 | of what this means.
| | 05:04 | I'm going to add this little
photograph from my Notting Hill.
| | 05:08 | I'm going to drag it over to walks to remember.
| | 05:11 | Now notice, as soon as I have added
that, the Synchronize button has been
| | 05:16 | there and as if I've just added
the photograph and it's automatically
| | 05:20 | synchronized online.
| | 05:21 | So I have a mirror between
what's local and what's online.
| | 05:25 | This is a fantastic way to start to
build relationships between online
| | 05:29 | albums and local albums.
| | 05:32 | So let's think about that when you
start to build online sharing experiences.
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| Screen captures made easy| 00:00 | The next thing I'm going to
talk about is screen captures.
| | 00:03 | So I'm going to create a scenario where
I'm basically going to share a couple of
| | 00:06 | screenshots from a website that I know
from a client as an example of something
| | 00:10 | I may build for them.
| | 00:12 | So let me just go to
website that I'm familiar with.
| | 00:14 | Here is one called futureofmemories.
| | 00:17 | And I'm going to just
basically go to a screenshot.
| | 00:19 | I'm going to get this screen right
in the way I like it and I'm going to
| | 00:23 | hit Alt+Print Screen.
| | 00:26 | Notice what happens. This nice little thing
comes out and it says screenshot has been saved.
| | 00:30 | Oh! That's great.
| | 00:32 | So next thing I'm going to do is I'm
going to kind of edit move the pieces
| | 00:35 | around a little bit and I'm going to
say well, maybe there is another part of
| | 00:39 | screenshot on screen. Alt+Print Screen.
| | 00:41 | The second one has been added.
| | 00:44 | I'm going to add one more and we're
going to go through-- I'm going to add this
| | 00:50 | little piece right here and I'm
going to say Alt+Print Screen.
| | 00:55 | Three of now have been added.
| | 00:56 | Let's go see what it did back in Picasa.
| | 00:58 | So one of the things that you've noticed
is Picasa was running and it was opened
| | 01:02 | at the time that I did this.
| | 01:04 | So let's dove the browser, and you can
see now that there is a new project thing
| | 01:09 | that's been created here.
| | 01:09 | It's called Screen Captures, and sure enough
there are three images that have been added.
| | 01:15 | So let's take a look at those. Oh!
| | 01:17 | This is brilliant.
| | 01:18 | It's added these screen captures to
remove all of the browser stuff in there and
| | 01:24 | it's just the items that
were inside of that window.
| | 01:26 | Well, this is fantastic.
| | 01:28 | Because if you have done screenshots
what's kind of a pain is removing all of
| | 01:32 | the gooey and the chrome around it.
| | 01:34 | Well, now I've exactly what I want,
which is the pieces of the website that I
| | 01:37 | can use to share with my client.
| | 01:39 | So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
hold down the Shift key and I'm going to
| | 01:42 | go ahead and upload these to new web album.
| | 01:44 | This is going to invite me to say
well, what you want to call this album?
| | 01:47 | I'm going to call this Screen Captures.
| | 01:49 | Here is the recommended size and I'll
just go ahead and keep it Unlisted and I'm
| | 01:54 | going to upload this.
| | 01:55 | So this is creating a new online album.
| | 01:57 | Here is our upload manager, and you
can see it's very quickly uploaded them.
| | 02:02 | I'm going to go ahead and view these online.
| | 02:05 | So one nice and brilliant thing about
Picasa 3 is the ability to screen captures
| | 02:11 | quickly and effectively.
| | 02:13 | Now I have the ability to direct my
client to these screenshots, and I can have
| | 02:17 | a conversation with them very, very quickly.
| | 02:20 | That's just one way of
taking advantages of screenshots.
| | 02:23 | If I wanted to, I can share them or I
can even right-click and say Open With and
| | 02:28 | if I had some other program installed
where I wanted to edit this photograph in,
| | 02:32 | I can do that directly from there.
| | 02:35 | So use this to your advantage
and love and enjoy this screen
| | 02:39 | capture functionality.
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4. Editing PhotosUsing the Basic Fixes palette| 00:00 | Well, this is where the fun begins.
| | 00:02 | We're going to start photo-
editing some of these images.
| | 00:04 | This gives us the chance to edit,
crop, resize, adjust the color.
| | 00:10 | This is where the fun begins.
| | 00:11 | What I really love about Picasa is
that it allows me to do these basic
| | 00:16 | tasks very quickly.
| | 00:18 | All of my image organization, all of the
speed and performance is right in front
| | 00:23 | of me, and allows me to adjust the photos.
| | 00:25 | In this section, all of the images
that I edit will be available to you in
| | 00:30 | the exercise files.
| | 00:31 | When you download the exercise files,
this folder Travels will be available to you,
| | 00:36 | so that you can compare and edit,
even have some images to compare against.
| | 00:40 | So the first thing we're going to do
to go into photo-editing mode is simple,.
| | 00:44 | Just double-click on any
image that you may want to adjust.
| | 00:48 | Some Basic Fixes are the default tab.
This gives you the chance to crop,
| | 00:53 | straighten, remove redeye, adjust
automatic color, and even retouch the
| | 00:58 | photograph right in place.
| | 00:59 | It gives you chance to edit and add
some text or adjust the fill lighting.
| | 01:05 | So they've put some of the basic
controls that were across most of the
| | 01:09 | photographic needs on one palette.
| | 01:12 | So first let's talk about cropping.
| | 01:14 | You find an image that I'd
like to crop a little bit.
| | 01:17 | So I'm going to go to this image.
There's couple of things wrong with this image.
| | 01:22 | I think it's little too dark. I also
think it could benefit from a better cropping.
| | 01:27 | First thing I'm going to do is I'm
going to crop and everything inside Picasa
| | 01:30 | is nondestructive, which means that I
can edit and change and undo without
| | 01:35 | hurting the original.
| | 01:36 | This is really helpful.
| | 01:37 | So we'll see that it defaults to a manual
crop, but it gives me some choices here.
| | 01:42 | They've done a real nice
job of creating some previews.
| | 01:45 | If I select a preview, it starts to
give me an idea of different types of crops
| | 01:49 | that could be applied.
| | 01:51 | Use this as inspiration or a starting point.
| | 01:54 | So I like the panoramic approach.
| | 01:56 | I'm going to do more of an
aggressive crop on this particular image.
| | 02:02 | I still like the offset and they've
added the preview, which gives me a chance
| | 02:06 | to look at it without committing.
| | 02:08 | So it will temporarily give you a
preview and then go back to the Editing tool.
| | 02:11 | If you like what you see,
go ahead and hit Apply.
| | 02:15 | Now the second thing that I think about
this image is I like it to be a little
| | 02:19 | bit lighter and I could go in and
lighten some specific areas, but I want to,
| | 02:24 | overall, lighten the image.
| | 02:26 | To do that, go ahead and click on Fill Light.
| | 02:29 | This will lighten the image and give more
detail to some of the things in the shadows.
| | 02:34 | Other things you can do is
adjust the straightening.
| | 02:36 | So I can just adjust this just a little
bit, hit Apply, and some of the compound
| | 02:44 | adjustments relate to Auto Contrast,
which is just an algorithm that combines
| | 02:49 | the overall image and just gives you a chance.
| | 02:51 | We can click on this if we want.
| | 02:53 | You can see that it just
gave you some auto contrast.
| | 02:55 | And again, everything is undoable.
| | 02:57 | You can try out I'm Feeling Lucky or Auto Color.
| | 03:00 | You can see what that does.
| | 03:01 | In this case it warmed it up a little bit.
| | 03:04 | These are just experiments, we'll
explore some of these other tabs later.
| | 03:07 | It's a way to combine and add
more complex edits across this.
| | 03:12 | But for right now, let's click
out of this image and edit one more.
| | 03:18 | Here's an image I shot in black and white.
| | 03:20 | One of the first things I want to do
is lighten this image a little bit and I
| | 03:24 | want to straighten it.
| | 03:28 | Next thing I want to do is crop it.
| | 03:29 | I'd be inspired here by a
couple of their suggestions.
| | 03:33 | Now I'll use that as a beginning
point for the edit that I want to do next.
| | 03:40 | I'm going to preview, go ahead and apply.
| | 03:48 | So use this as a way to move through
your images and look very quickly to begin,
| | 03:56 | as you can see, I'm hitting the Right
Arrow key and making these adjustments
| | 04:00 | very quickly, and use them as a way of
triaging your images in such a way that's
| | 04:06 | really, really fast and equivalent.
| | 04:09 | Now oftentimes you can apply the same type
of edits to a JPEG as you can, a RAW image.
| | 04:18 | So here is a JPEG and here
is a RAW image for my camera.
| | 04:22 | If you have a camera that shoots in
both, Picasa does a great job at allowing
| | 04:27 | you to look at the histogram and to be
able to really make subtle nuances on the
| | 04:31 | actual RAW image itself.
| | 04:33 | And again, these are nondestructive.
| | 04:34 | We'll talk a little bit more about some
of the more advanced editing a little bit.
| | 04:38 | But use the histogram as a way to look
across the information to see exactly the
| | 04:43 | details that you want.
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| Using the Tuning palette| 00:00 | Whether you're editing a JPEG or a RAW
image, the Tuning menu will be really
| | 00:06 | valuable to you as you adjust Shadows,
Highlights and Color Temperature of
| | 00:10 | your image and when used in combination with
the Basic Fixes, provides some powerful results.
| | 00:16 | We talked a little about Fill Light.
| | 00:19 | This is the exact same slider that's on
the Basic Fixes, just used as convenience.
| | 00:24 | Tuning is done a little bit more detail.
| | 00:26 | Think of these as levels in other programs.
| | 00:29 | We have control over the Shadows.
| | 00:32 | So as I move this slider further to
the right, it will make the darks darker.
| | 00:36 | And think of the Highlights
| | 00:39 | as getting brighter, as
I move that to the right.
| | 00:42 | Color Temperature will also be
something you want to play with.
| | 00:45 | This allows you to move slider
to warmer or cooler scenarios.
| | 00:50 | Now the Neutral Color
Picker is somewhat helpful.
| | 00:54 | What this does, as you select the
eyedropper, gives you a chance to go in and
| | 00:58 | select a color that is denoted as neutral.
| | 01:01 | Once you select that neutral color, it
will color-shift and adjust the histogram
| | 01:06 | according to that neutral color.
| | 01:07 | You get entirely different results, if you
select a much darker neutral as like gray.
| | 01:13 | You see how it keeps a little bit warmer?
| | 01:15 | Let's try it again on a darker image.
| | 01:18 | So what it does is it keys off of
that color pixel as if that's the neutral
| | 01:23 | color and color-shifts it entirely differently.
| | 01:26 | Once you get the hang of this, you can
start to understand the basics of how
| | 01:30 | this color-shifting works.
| | 01:31 | So the Tuning palette is really valuable.
| | 01:34 | So what happens if you click on this guy?
| | 01:35 | Well, this is One-click, what this
does is it uses all of them together.
| | 01:40 | This is kind of like auto-adjustments
from the previous Basic Fixes palette.
| | 01:45 | If you want more control, I would
suggest just working on the sliders
| | 01:49 | themselves independently.
| | 01:51 | If you wanted to go with a quick fix,
go ahead and click on the One-click fix.
| | 01:56 | That's the basic of the Tuning palette.
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| Using the Effects palette| 00:00 | When using the palettes, you can use
them in sequence or in nonlinear way.
| | 00:04 | The third one that I'm going
to use is the Effects palette.
| | 00:07 | This is a series of effects that can
overlay in a nondestructive way on a
| | 00:11 | RAW image or a JPEG.
| | 00:14 | You can choose to keep the
histogram open or you can close it.
| | 00:17 | One of the nice things when looking at
a very specific part of the image is you
| | 00:21 | can zoom in, denoted here or select on the
Fit View, which fits the entire image in.
| | 00:27 | So a couple of things I
want to do to illustrate.
| | 00:30 | There is Sharpen, Sepia, Black and White,
not to be confused with Filtered Black and White.
| | 00:37 | Filtered B&W is a little different.
| | 00:39 | If I select on B&W, it will just use the
default B&W. I'm going to undo that now.
| | 00:45 | When you choose a Filtered B&W, it's as
if you had put or simulated a lens or a
| | 00:52 | colored filter over your lens at the
time that you've shot the photograph.
| | 00:56 | This is what I mean.
| | 00:57 | Let's say you wanted to put a red
filter over and simulate the red filter.
| | 01:03 | You can see as I move the color dropper
over this Color palette, you can see the
| | 01:08 | subtle differences in how the
grays and the blacks are represented.
| | 01:12 | This is really helpful if you want to
start to pull out different parts of an image.
| | 01:16 | So that's how I play with Filtered B
&W. I'll go ahead and cancel that.
| | 01:20 | Here's basic B&W, here is Filtered
B&W. The Sepia is a default Sepia.
| | 01:26 | It will basically give you some
adjustments and unify it on a default way.
| | 01:32 | What I like to do is what's called Tint.
| | 01:35 | Tinting gives you chance to give much more
control over essentially the Sepia or the Tint.
| | 01:41 | I'll show you an example.
| | 01:42 | I'm going to go into the Color palette,
something that's my choice of a color of
| | 01:48 | a sepia, something more-- but now, I
can go into the Color Preservation.
| | 01:53 | I can start to adjust and bring a
little bit of a color directly into this.
| | 01:59 | This is a nice way to give a
sepia with a little bit of color.
| | 02:04 | If it's too saturated, you can combine these.
| | 02:07 | So I can take what is essentially a
tint and combine it with a saturation.
| | 02:13 | Now I can pull some of that saturation out of
the image and I still have a nice, warm image.
| | 02:18 | Again, to get back to the original,
all I need to do is undo saturation.
| | 02:24 | Undo the tint and I'm back to
where I was with the Tuning.
| | 02:30 | Use these effects as combinations of
things that are built on top of each other.
| | 02:36 | You can start to see that each time you
use them, it gives you a little history,
| | 02:40 | by which, what you've already used.
| | 02:42 | Another thing I like to
use is the Graduated Tint.
| | 02:46 | In skies, for example, you can see how
just by pulling the Graduated Tint down,
| | 02:52 | may add some darkness to the sky.
| | 02:54 | I'm going to adjust the Feather, to
adjust the gradation and then the Shade itself.
| | 03:02 | By adjusting this, it gives
a nice effect into the sky.
| | 03:05 | And you can play with this with
both the angle and the location.
| | 03:11 | Another thing that's somewhat
fun to play with is the Glow.
| | 03:16 | What the glow does is give a
nice softness to some of the images.
| | 03:21 | You can play with the Intensity here.
| | 03:23 | What this does is it gives a little
bit of softness around the whites.
| | 03:27 | Let's zoom in to here.
| | 03:31 | You kind of see a little bit of the softness.
| | 03:34 | For those that really like sharp
images, this may not be for you.
| | 03:37 | You can start to see the difference between,
with it there and not there versus Sharpen.
| | 03:43 | You can see a subtle sharpening of the
image itself, with a slider bar into the
| | 03:51 | degree of sharpening.
| | 03:52 | So whatever your preference, these
effects are used to help combine in to offer
| | 03:59 | some really nice and
booming effects into your images.
| | 04:05 | One nice thing that simulates
an effect is this Soft Focus.
| | 04:09 | This gives you a chance to drag an area
around the screen where something might
| | 04:13 | be in focus, and adjust the width
and height of the circle as well as the
| | 04:20 | amount of the blur.
| | 04:22 | You can use this as a really neat way to
simulate tilt effects or a type of lens
| | 04:27 | that might be on your camera where
it gives more of a depth of field.
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| Using the Retouch tool| 00:00 | I am going to talk really quickly about
the new Touch-up tool and the Touch-up
| | 00:04 | tool is used to help to remove blemishes
or little marks or dust or parts of the
| | 00:09 | photograph that you may want to quickly remove.
| | 00:12 | Let me show you how that works.
| | 00:13 | Inside the Basic Fixes palette, clicking
on Retouch will give you the ability to
| | 00:18 | adjust size of the brush
that you want to adjust.
| | 00:22 | When you click inside the area itself,
you presented with an area that you want
| | 00:27 | to then clone and remove.
| | 00:30 | Let's do that again.
| | 00:32 | So what I'm going to do is select
this particular dot, and then move to an
| | 00:40 | area that's similar.
| | 00:44 | What that does is it helps to
remove the spot in place, by clicking and
| | 00:51 | then adjusting.
| | 00:53 | It helps to remove some
of the spots in the area.
| | 01:00 | And you can do this at a fine
detail level or as much smaller detail.
| | 01:06 | You can see as I drag over
another cloud, exactly what it does.
| | 01:09 | So by putting something next to it,
it essentially removes obvious spots and blemishes.
| | 01:15 | This is the attempt by Picasa to
essentially give you little bit of ways of
| | 01:20 | editing in a simple way.
| | 01:22 | Other programs have attack this
by cloning tools and what not.
| | 01:26 | It takes a little bit of practice to
get it right, particularly if you want to
| | 01:30 | remove dust or scratches.
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| Applying red-eye repair| 00:00 | Next let's talk about red eye.
| | 00:02 | I'm going to use an image of my own
that's not located in your Exercise Files.
| | 00:06 | You can apply the same
technique to your own photos.
| | 00:09 | Now red eye happens when the flash goes off.
| | 00:11 | We've all probably seen it.
| | 00:13 | And one of the things that I strongly
recommend is just turn off the flash.
| | 00:18 | A lot of digital cameras are extremely
sensitive to light and can actually have
| | 00:23 | amazing images even without the flash firing.
| | 00:26 | So just take your camera out of Auto
Mode and make sure the flash doesn't fire.
| | 00:30 | But Picasa has recognized that a lot of
people do shoot with the flash on and
| | 00:36 | they have the red eye.
| | 00:37 | So to do is go ahead and click on Redeye,
and what it'll do is it'll detect an
| | 00:42 | area of the eye and you can start to
triage your red eye directly within.
| | 00:48 | So to do this click and hold the area
you want to triage and it'll go through
| | 00:52 | and it'll remove the red eye.
| | 00:55 | So to do that it's doing some initial
detection, so that you can go through and
| | 01:00 | select the area of the eye that you want.
| | 01:02 | And again, everything is nondestructive.
| | 01:04 | So you can go ahead and preview and
apply it and remove the red eye directly
| | 01:08 | from the image itself.
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| Flirting with black & white, sepia, and tinting| 00:00 | In this next section, I call it
flirting with black and white.
| | 00:04 | And for years people have told me you
can always change it to a black and white,
| | 00:07 | which is true, which means that you can
always go to the Effects palette and see
| | 00:12 | what a black and white will look at.
| | 00:14 | Well, I've even taken it to the next level
where I start to shoot in black and white.
| | 00:18 | And my digital camera has a mode where
I can literally shoot in black and white
| | 00:22 | and quickly move between
color and black and white.
| | 00:25 | I love the effects of seeing
it in camera in black and white.
| | 00:28 | But we're talking about photo editing here.
| | 00:31 | So what we'll do is flirt with black and white.
| | 00:34 | And I encourage you to do this because
when you go through this exercise,
| | 00:38 | you'll see this image in a new way.
| | 00:40 | You start to see it differently.
| | 00:41 | And again, making things in black
and white brings out new elements of
| | 00:46 | the photograph itself.
| | 00:48 | As you can see here,
experimenting won't take a lot of time.
| | 00:52 | In fact, I could go through a couple of
these landscape shots. I'm going to very
| | 00:56 | quickly find something inside my image
that I want to play with and flirt with.
| | 01:01 | So by applying the Filtered B&W, I can
start to pull out elements of the image
| | 01:07 | itself that I really am starting to enjoy.
| | 01:09 | And start to give it some more contrast,
and some dynamic effects and even give
| | 01:18 | it some more dramatic sky and some clouds.
| | 01:25 | So use the black and white as a way to
really quickly visualize something that
| | 01:30 | you may not have seen before.
| | 01:33 | Then go back in and see if you want
a warm or saturated or remove color.
| | 01:39 | In fact, you can kind of turn a black
and white photo in to almost to sepia
| | 01:43 | tone, just by adjusting the
Temperature and warming it up very quickly.
| | 01:48 | I'm using the Left and Right Arrow keys
to move very quickly through these images.
| | 01:54 | As you can see when I zoom it up, I now
have three unified images that allow me
| | 02:00 | to see things in a completely different way.
| | 02:02 | Here is another example.
| | 02:04 | Here is a color image, maybe not as
ordinary as you would have thought.
| | 02:09 | But let me go into Black and White, and
let me start to flirt with this little bit.
| | 02:12 | Let me pull out some of this
contrast and the Highlights here.
| | 02:17 | Let me give it a Glow.
| | 02:19 | Let me play with this just a little bit more.
| | 02:24 | Let me warm it up or cool it down.
| | 02:26 | Let me just begin to give this
a little bit more dramatic feel.
| | 02:35 | I'm moving very quickly.
| | 02:37 | You can follow along and start to see
that what was somewhat a normal photograph
| | 02:43 | is turned into a very dramatic photograph.
| | 02:46 | And when I reorder those images, now I have a
sequence that I never would have had before.
| | 02:51 | If I hadn't been thinking or
flirting in black and white.
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| Effective cropping and straightening| 00:00 | Now, I think everyone has
cropped an image, but this is called
| | 00:04 | effective cropping.
| | 00:05 | And I think by adding the word effective
to creative process, you begin to think
| | 00:11 | about where you want the eye to go
and what you want the photograph to say.
| | 00:16 | So, we're going to experiment
with that in the next couple minutes.
| | 00:19 | In the previous movie,
we added some more contrast.
| | 00:21 | We began to think in black and white.
| | 00:23 | You can see here that there is
really no rules but the tools allow you to
| | 00:28 | play very creatively.
| | 00:30 | So, just by using the Straightening
tool, I'm essentially cropping, aren't I?
| | 00:38 | Let's move on to another example.
| | 00:41 | Now a horizon line, by straightening the
image, does it make it more interesting
| | 00:48 | or less interesting?
| | 00:49 | It's really up to you.
| | 00:51 | In some regards, tilting the
image might be more interesting.
| | 00:54 | It might give it more energy.
| | 00:55 | It might give it more of an effect, an emotion.
| | 00:59 | So, use the Straightening tool to
even bend or break the rules a little bit.
| | 01:03 | And do the same thing with the Crop tool.
| | 01:06 | What is going to make
this a more effective image?
| | 01:09 | Well, immediately, I'm kind
of drawn in by this format.
| | 01:12 | This is something that's presented
to me by the automatic cropping tool.
| | 01:16 | This is a nice start.
| | 01:17 | Something that starts with a little
bit of energy is reinforced with this
| | 01:21 | type of aspect ratio.
| | 01:22 | I may like this a little bit more.
| | 01:25 | In fact, I might like it combined with
a little bit more highlights in there to
| | 01:31 | give it a little bit more contrast.
| | 01:33 | Let's move on.
| | 01:35 | Horizon line, most everyone thinks,
oh, that needs to be straight across.
| | 01:39 | Well sure, you can use the
Straightening tool to straighten a horizon.
| | 01:43 | But does that make it a
more interesting composition?
| | 01:45 | It's right in the center.
| | 01:47 | We're combining the rotation in
the Straightening tool with cropping.
| | 01:52 | You start to get
something you didn't have before.
| | 01:54 | If we preview that we may
have something very interesting.
| | 01:59 | If we extend it a little bit more,
we've something that we didn't have before.
| | 02:06 | So, in this respect, I have
something that's more focused on the city.
| | 02:12 | If I re-crop this in a completely
different way by clicking Undo Crop, I can
| | 02:17 | start over and completely
enjoy a different composition here.
| | 02:24 | So, this one is going to be focused on the sky.
| | 02:26 | And very quickly I'm going to go
into the Graduated Tint and I'm going to
| | 02:29 | emphasize the Feather and the Shade.
| | 02:32 | I'm going to make this much more interesting.
| | 02:34 | I'm going to go into the Effects and
then make this a Glow and then I'm going
| | 02:41 | to go into the Tuning palette and it
combined all the tools that we had before.
| | 02:45 | Let's say you wanted a version with
the sky and you wanted a version with
| | 02:48 | the city.
| | 02:49 | Well, let's go into the Tools
palette. I want to a little retouch here.
| | 02:56 | That's too big of a brush.
| | 02:57 | I'm going to give it a little tiny--
| | 02:59 | We're going to take out
this little blemish, there.
| | 03:03 | It's gone.
| | 03:04 | That's a good use of the Retouch tool.
| | 03:06 | Now I've got this version. Well, I
want to also have a version of the city.
| | 03:10 | Well, let's do this.
| | 03:12 | Let's go ahead and export this image.
| | 03:15 | Let's create a copy and I'm
going to call this my city_crop.
| | 03:20 | Now I'm going to use the
original size, so it doesn't resize it.
| | 03:23 | I'm just going to go ahead and hit OK.
| | 03:27 | It shows me that it's exported it.
| | 03:29 | But let's also see what happens in the Library.
| | 03:33 | Notice down here under Exported
Pictures, I've this version called city_crop.
| | 03:38 | Well, that's fantastic!
| | 03:39 | But let me go back to the original
edit and let's change it even further.
| | 03:44 | Let's go to our Travels
folder and there is that version.
| | 03:49 | Well, this is the one
that has all the retouches.
| | 03:53 | So let's go ahead and undo these retouches.
| | 03:57 | That's going to think about.
| | 03:58 | That's going to undo the tuning.
| | 04:00 | That's going to undo all
the little pieces that we had.
| | 04:03 | To quickly do this, you can right-
click and Undo All Edits on the image.
| | 04:08 | And again, this is non-destructive.
| | 04:09 | So you can see that I've
the original image back.
| | 04:12 | Well, remember that other version here.
| | 04:14 | Let's go and let's really
start to play with this again.
| | 04:17 | And to do this, it just gives you a
total amount of freedom to be able to
| | 04:21 | play with this image.
| | 04:24 | And to create varieties of it in a
really prolific and interesting way.
| | 04:29 | This one I'm going to think I'm
going to do in black and white.
| | 04:31 | I'm going to pull out some of
those pieces, bring out the Highlights.
| | 04:39 | Darken the Shadows a little bit.
| | 04:40 | Warm it up just a touch.
| | 04:43 | And I'm going to do
something kind of crazy here.
| | 04:45 | I'm going to replicate the fact that I
might have a tilt lens, because I want to
| | 04:48 | bring the eye right into
this building right here.
| | 04:51 | I think that's pretty interesting.
| | 04:56 | And then I'm going to go
into the sky just a little bit.
| | 04:58 | I'm going to bring down the Shade just a touch.
| | 05:01 | See how that looks.
| | 05:04 | Wonderful. I am going to export this
and I'm going to call this city_crop2.
| | 05:12 | Use the original size and export that.
| | 05:14 | So, now I've got two
versions of this photograph.
| | 05:20 | I basically can move them into the same thing.
| | 05:22 | I can rename, skip this
and it will rename it for me.
| | 05:25 | Let's go ahead and rename it.
| | 05:27 | Now I have, within city_crop, I've
got this really wonderful version.
| | 05:32 | If I hold down the Shift key, I can
drag this entire thing back in into the
| | 05:36 | Travels folder, or remember our
Organizational tools. We go into our Tags and
| | 05:42 | I'll call this cityscape.
| | 05:45 | I'll add a tag called cityscape.
| | 05:49 | So, when I go back to my Travels,
I'll add this guy, add a tag.
| | 05:55 | We'll call this Cityscape.
| | 05:57 | So, if I want to keep track of this,
all I've to do is go back to Search
| | 06:05 | for Cityscape.
| | 06:06 | I've all three of my versions that
are easily accessible within my world.
| | 06:11 | Here we're starting to
bring all the tools together.
| | 06:14 | We're using Organization, we're
using Edit, we're using Export.
| | 06:17 | This is the beginning of the
power of Picasa, all working together.
| | 06:23 | Now, it's time to have
some of these principles and
| | 06:26 | I want you to take some of these and
create different variations and different
| | 06:30 | edits of the same image.
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| Adding captions, text, and watermarks| 00:00 | An important part of image
editing can be the addition of text.
| | 00:05 | You can use this in really creative ways.
| | 00:07 | I'm going to take this last image that
I edited and I'm going to add some text
| | 00:11 | directly to the image itself.
| | 00:13 | When you use the text editor,
you can click anywhere inside the image.
| | 00:18 | I'm going to add a little piece of text here.
| | 00:21 | Call this my London trip 2009.
| | 00:27 | By adjusting the Color and the Opacity
gives me a chance to get exactly, what I
| | 00:34 | want and place it in the right location.
| | 00:37 | So, that's one way to apply it.
| | 00:39 | And now that text is editable.
| | 00:42 | I can select it, I can go back into the
text, you could see that I can show it
| | 00:47 | and hide it at any time.
| | 00:50 | So this is part of that
nondestructive part of editing.
| | 00:53 | Now text, there is three different
basic kinds of text and I can keep
| | 00:57 | adding text if I wanted.
| | 00:58 | Let's say I wanted to illustrate
where we stayed. Let's say our hotel.
| | 01:03 | And then I'll illustrate that.
| | 01:05 | So, if I wanted I could set the text to
be black and I'll bring up the opacity.
| | 01:13 | So, now I've a layer that says that's our hotel.
| | 01:16 | That was our London trip and I can
start to illustrate a photograph this way.
| | 01:20 | Well, this is super cool.
| | 01:22 | That's one way of doing text.
| | 01:24 | The second is the caption itself,
which is outside of the image.
| | 01:29 | I can just call this image, say
this is a view of London and our hotel.
| | 01:37 | And this is more of a
traditional way of captioning.
| | 01:40 | Any of this caption text is
searchable, as we described earlier.
| | 01:44 | Well, the third is actually a watermark itself.
| | 01:47 | And you actually create it.
| | 01:49 | So, what I'm going to do is I'm
going to turn off this text layer.
| | 01:52 | You can see it's nondestructive.
| | 01:54 | It's all part of the editing.
| | 01:55 | What I'm going to do is I'm going go to Export.
| | 01:57 | This is the third type of text that you can add.
| | 01:59 | So, I'm going to call this and put this
in my city_scapes folder and it's this
| | 02:07 | little button here, Add a watermark.
| | 02:10 | What this allows you to do is add things
like copyrights or if you have a company name,
| | 02:16 | this is really helpful when you
want to just export a whole bunch of
| | 02:21 | images and put a watermark
directly inside the image.
| | 02:25 | So, let's take a look what that looks like.
| | 02:26 | So here we've got the city_scapes.
| | 02:29 | Here's the location.
| | 02:30 | It generates a new image.
| | 02:32 | The only thing is it's non-editable.
| | 02:33 | So, let's go to our city_
scapes and there is the watermark.
| | 02:40 | And that's permanently in the image now.
| | 02:42 | This is always going to be in the
lower right-hand corner and it's always
| | 02:45 | going to be in the image.
| | 02:47 | That's the difference between this
other version that we had before but
| | 02:53 | we had actually the
nondestructive text located within it.
| | 02:56 | Hopefully, that makes sense.
| | 02:59 | That's a little bit of the highlights
around having text inside the image,
| | 03:04 | having it permanently burned as a watermark.
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| Using effects effectively| 00:00 | Now we're going to talk about the
Effects palette and how to use a bunch of
| | 00:03 | effects in an effective way.
| | 00:06 | So I'm going to go into an image where
I have already done a few just to show you
| | 00:10 | the non-destructive nature of the effects.
| | 00:14 | And by right-clicking on the image
itself, I can go down to Undo All Edits.
| | 00:21 | What this will do is it will basically
remove all of the different things that
| | 00:25 | were part of the original image.
| | 00:26 | I'm going to use my Right Arrow and
I'll compare these two images and both of
| | 00:32 | these are exactly how they were in camera.
| | 00:33 | But what I'm going to do is a couple of
edits on each to show you the starting
| | 00:39 | point, and the finishing point of
each to see how the progression and the
| | 00:44 | addition of effects can add to your image.
| | 00:47 | So the first thing I notice
is this image is pretty dark.
| | 00:51 | So I'm going to combine the Fill Light
with the Graduated Tint because I want to
| | 01:00 | darken the sky a little bit.
| | 01:03 | The next thing I want to do
is give it a little Soft Focus.
| | 01:10 | Again I like the emphasis on
this particular part of the image.
| | 01:17 | I don't want it too blurry, so
I'm going to reduce the Amount.
| | 01:23 | The next thing I'm going to do, I'm
going to flirt with the warming up a little bit
| | 01:28 | just to give it a little bit of a
warm feel, and I have no control over
| | 01:32 | Warmify, so if you don't
like it you can undo it.
| | 01:35 | Another way, as I mentioned, to warm it
up with a little bit more control is go
| | 01:40 | to the Tuning palette and just give it a little
bit of warmth on the Color Temperature piece.
| | 01:45 | It gives a little different effect.
| | 01:47 | So that's the first image.
| | 01:48 | Now let's go to the second image.
Slightly different exposure.
| | 01:52 | So what I'm going to do is I want
these two images to kind of be the same.
| | 01:56 | So I'm going to play with the Soft Focus.
| | 02:00 | I'm going to bring some of that
darkness into it, bring up the Highlights,
| | 02:06 | just the Temperature, just a bit, go back
to the Effects, pull in some of that
| | 02:11 | Graduated Tint, Feather, Shaded.
| | 02:18 | Now, I've got two images that are
pretty close to each other. One is warmer
| | 02:24 | than the next.
| | 02:25 | I can pull it back, or warm up the second one.
| | 02:31 | That's what I'm going to do.
| | 02:35 | Pretty happy with those.
| | 02:37 | So now I've got two images that I've
just began to play with the Effects palette
| | 02:43 | and get it more towards something that I like.
| | 02:46 | What's really lovely about this is
I can move. I've got my left hand on
| | 02:50 | the arrow keys and I can really
adjust and create an entire array of
| | 02:56 | cohesive imagery just by being in
this Detail mode and working between the
| | 03:02 | different palettes.
| | 03:03 | The next step here is tacking it to my tray.
| | 03:07 | I can start to grab specific images
that I want to put into an array or a
| | 03:12 | collection that I want to share, print,
upload, blog, put on a social network.
| | 03:19 | That is the power of
pulling all these things together.
| | 03:23 | Now I want you to go into your
library and begin to find some cohesiveness
| | 03:27 | between one or two images, and see if
you can use the Effects palette to bring
| | 03:32 | a couple of the images together in
cohesiveness and make them a part of visual array.
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| Batch-editing for speed| 00:00 | We have illustrated that you can edit
photos really quickly, but what happens if
| | 00:04 | you want to apply those effects across
multiple images? Well, with Picasa you can.
| | 00:08 | I'm going to show you two techniques.
| | 00:11 | Now the first applies to an image
where you already have effects, like this
| | 00:15 | one right here.
| | 00:16 | This used to be a color image, and
it's got a bunch of effects already
| | 00:19 | applied to it.
| | 00:20 | So one of the coolest things you can
do is go up to Edit, while the image is
| | 00:24 | selected, and say Copy All Effects.
| | 00:27 | That will take the effects from
this particular image and copy to
| | 00:30 | your Clipboard.
| | 00:31 | Now the next thing you want to do
is select the photos that you want to
| | 00:35 | apply those effects to.
| | 00:36 | Go back up to Edit and you'll see
that you can paste all those effects.
| | 00:41 | Now watch what happens.
| | 00:42 | It will take those black point
settings and those compound adjustments and
| | 00:46 | everything we did on that image and
it'll apply it to these other images.
| | 00:50 | Now you may or may not get exactly
what you want because of course these
| | 00:54 | are different images.
| | 00:55 | But again you start to pre-
visualize what's going on there.
| | 00:59 | This is a super-cool way to pre-
visualize and apply certain settings to others.
| | 01:05 | Everything is non-destructive, so I
can select these images, right-click,
| | 01:09 | and say Undo All Edits.
| | 01:10 | It says are you sure you want to do this? Yes.
| | 01:13 | And you are back to the original.
| | 01:17 | So here is the second way of doing that.
| | 01:18 | Second way involves you
selecting the images themselves.
| | 01:22 | First, then you go up to the
Picture menu, and you say Batch Edit.
| | 01:27 | Now this will give you a limited list.
| | 01:29 | I wish this is a more comprehensive
list, but this is what it gives you.
| | 01:32 | You can perform Auto Contrast, Auto Color.
| | 01:35 | These are the same types of things
that you would see in the palette menus.
| | 01:38 | I am just going to show you
Black and White as an example.
| | 01:42 | Now notice the difference, this just
performs the basic black and white.
| | 01:46 | It's a little different than
all of these compound effects.
| | 01:49 | But what you do benefit from is
performing multiple things across multiple
| | 01:54 | images at the same time.
| | 01:56 | Be careful, Batch Edit can get
you in trouble really quickly.
| | 01:59 | Try it out on a couple of images
first, and then see where it takes you.
| | 02:03 | Once you get used to it, you can do
entire folders and turn them into black and
| | 02:06 | white, and it will save you a lot of time.
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5. Sharing PhotosCreating and playing a slideshow| 00:00 | Next, I'm going to talk about making slideshows.
| | 00:02 | This scenario is that you invite
someone over to your computer and you want to
| | 00:06 | show them some of your images full
screen, but there are a couple of ways to do it.
| | 00:11 | First way is to find the
media that you are looking for.
| | 00:14 | So in this case, I've located Travels.
| | 00:16 | But I may want to jump to the London trip.
| | 00:18 | To do that, just click on the folder.
| | 00:20 | If I go directly from here into the
Play button, which is located at the top of
| | 00:25 | every gallery, you can go ahead and
go right into a slideshow from there.
| | 00:29 | The default is that it goes full
screen and it will present your images
| | 00:33 | and immediately begin to cross-
dissolve them according to the time that
| | 00:36 | you've selected.
| | 00:39 | If you move your mouse during this
session, what you get is some controls.
| | 00:44 | Controls give you ability
to pause, rotate, enlarge.
| | 00:49 | This gives you the chance to pan and
talk about a specific part of the image,
| | 00:52 | and tell a little story.
| | 00:55 | And you can even adjust the timing, you
can Favorite, if I like this image, you
| | 01:00 | can give it a star or un-star it,
and adjust the transitions, okay.
| | 01:05 | So this is a really helpful way to go
in to a particular image and adjust the
| | 01:09 | Display Time, and then if you want to
go back to the slideshow, just hit the
| | 01:13 | Play button, this will continue the slideshow.
| | 01:16 | If you want to exit at any time, you
can either hit the Escape key or just
| | 01:20 | click on the Exit button.
| | 01:21 | So that's the first way to enter a slideshow.
| | 01:24 | The second is to
actually go up to the View menu.
| | 01:27 | The View menu allows you to go into the
slideshow directly, or hitting Ctrl+4.
| | 01:33 | By doing this, it takes
you into the exact same mode.
| | 01:36 | There is only one mode of slideshow,
but there are a couple of ways to enter it.
| | 01:39 | I'm going to press Escape
and show you one more view.
| | 01:42 | And the view might happen, if you
want to show something way back in
| | 01:46 | your library in Time.
| | 01:48 | Earlier we talked about the Timeline.
| | 01:50 | This is a separate mode in itself.
| | 01:52 | It allows you to navigate
through your entire library.
| | 01:55 | That's a little different interface.
| | 01:56 | So in this case, I may want to show
some of my Demo photos and they have
| | 02:00 | provided a really nice button here
called Slideshow, directly from the Timeline.
| | 02:04 | This allows you a nice interface to
go back in time across the whole array
| | 02:09 | of your images.
| | 02:10 | If you wanted to go back even years
and find a specific album or folder.
| | 02:15 | Go ahead and click on the Play button.
| | 02:17 | It takes you directly into
the slideshow from there.
| | 02:22 | As you've noticed photos and video
will be able to display directly inside of
| | 02:27 | your slideshow, which is a brilliant
way to illustrate and to put together a
| | 02:31 | nice presentation in an array.
| | 02:33 | You get full sound and audio when you do that.
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| Creating gift CDs| 00:00 | So we've talked about demonstrating
slideshows when people are at your computer.
| | 00:04 | What if you wanted to share a
slideshow with someone via CD or DVD?
| | 00:08 | Well, in next movie, we
are going to talk about that.
| | 00:10 | This is called a Gift CD, and if you
go directly up to any part of any shared
| | 00:17 | folder, you are able to click on a Gift CD.
| | 00:21 | Well, the Gift CD is very similar to
archiving because it takes the media and
| | 00:25 | creates a copy of it
onto another piece of media.
| | 00:28 | If you look at the previous movies when
we talked about archiving you'll see a
| | 00:31 | very similar interface.
| | 00:34 | So one thing to note about creating a
Gift CD or DVD is the size of the media.
| | 00:39 | Now a CD is about 700 megabytes,
but a DVD is much larger than that, up
| | 00:45 | to almost 2 gigabytes.
| | 00:47 | So one thing you want to do is make sure
that when you reach into your packet of
| | 00:50 | DVDs or CDs, make sure you know what
size you are working with, because if it's
| | 00:55 | a very small slideshow,
you might just want a CD.
| | 00:57 | So you may not have to fill it up,
but the program will help you.
| | 01:01 | Toss a CD or a DVD into the CD drive.
| | 01:04 | Make sure you have a CD writer or DVD writer.
| | 01:07 | The next thing you want to do is
navigate to the part of your library that
| | 01:11 | you want to share.
| | 01:12 | Click it anytime to create a Gift CD.
| | 01:15 | To do that, you'll be presented with
interface at the bottom, and what it did
| | 01:19 | was captured everything that
was in that particular folder.
| | 01:23 | You can do this with albums.
| | 01:24 | You can do this with folders.
| | 01:26 | It will start to collect things for you.
| | 01:28 | In fact, it gives you a
nice button says Add More.
| | 01:31 | To do that, it'll give you selection interface.
| | 01:33 | So if I wanted to give a presentation
about my Travels and my London trip and
| | 01:39 | remove the Demo photos, I
can do that very simply.
| | 01:42 | In previous movies, we also created a
whole album about just Notting Hill.
| | 01:47 | If I wanted to tell that
story, provide that as well.
| | 01:50 | So now what it does is it begins to
add up all that media and begins to
| | 01:53 | arrange it for you.
| | 01:55 | Something is really nice to note is
the calculation down here at the bottom.
| | 01:59 | You can see here that there is a
series of files that are being added up, and
| | 02:04 | the megabyte estimation is starting to
add up here, but what's really nice is
| | 02:08 | that the CD or DVD equivalent is
beginning to show you how large a disc
| | 02:14 | you'll need.
| | 02:15 | If you only have CDs, don't worry.
| | 02:17 | It will distribute the
slideshow across multiple CDs.
| | 02:20 | If you have a DVD Burner, it
will add all that up because it's a
| | 02:23 | larger capacity.
| | 02:24 | The other thing nice to note here is
the slideshow capability itself will be
| | 02:29 | included on the disc.
| | 02:32 | Photo Size is also very important, if
you wanted to share this for a large
| | 02:36 | format or if you wanted to share it
with someone so that they could just do
| | 02:38 | it for playback only, or the
possibility of print, you may want to have the
| | 02:42 | original size.
| | 02:43 | This nice pull-down menu gives you a
series of photo sizes that you may want to share.
| | 02:48 | Now again it will automatically compact
the image for you and adjust the size.
| | 02:53 | This will also adjust the calculation.
| | 02:56 | So if I adjust the size here,
you can see that my estimation went
| | 02:59 | down considerably.
| | 03:00 | So use this to your advantage if you
want to share very large library, but you
| | 03:04 | don't really want to give
them the original files.
| | 03:07 | This is very helpful.
| | 03:08 | The next thing you want to do is name your CD.
| | 03:12 | This is what will show up when the
person puts it inside of their computer.
| | 03:15 | Now let's call this Dane's Europe Trip.
| | 03:20 | The other thing that's nice is that it
will include Picasa with it, which is
| | 03:25 | your option to include or not,
and this is sometimes helpful.
| | 03:28 | This is Google's way of
distributing and sharing this nice program
| | 03:31 | that's including.
| | 03:32 | In this example I'm not going to include it.
| | 03:34 | You are all set to burn the disc.
| | 03:36 | Make sure your disc or DVD is in the
tray and the last thing you will do
| | 03:40 | is select Burn Disc.
| | 03:42 | For the purposes of this movie, I'm not
going to actually burn the disc just to
| | 03:46 | save some time, but you can explore
this option on your own and have fun
| | 03:51 | burning Gift CDs.
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| Uploading photos| 00:00 | Sharing your photos at Picasa is one
of the most exciting new features and
| | 00:04 | progressions that's happened in Picasa 3.
| | 00:06 | Picasa has added some online web
albums, which allow you to take your
| | 00:10 | photographs and seamlessly put them
online into folders that you can describe
| | 00:15 | and you can share with friends or family.
| | 00:18 | You can also think of the online
albums as a way of uploading backups,
| | 00:21 | because you are essentially making copies
of the photographs into a secure location online.
| | 00:27 | So let's talk about that right now.
| | 00:29 | Uploading your photographs can be
seamlessly through the Upload button.
| | 00:32 | This is a particular button
that can't be configured or moved.
| | 00:35 | This is always there.
| | 00:37 | So there is no worries about
having it be lost, and it uploads to the
| | 00:41 | same location.
| | 00:42 | Now, the location is enabled once you
have a Gmail account, and you have free
| | 00:47 | disc space up there, about 1 gigabyte
that you can upload as many photos as you
| | 00:52 | want up there until it reaches that tolerance.
| | 00:54 | We'll talk a little bit
about upgrading that in a while.
| | 00:57 | So the first thing that you'll notice,
in the upper-right is your login.
| | 01:02 | Most of the time once you're logged-in,
you don't even have to think about it.
| | 01:05 | You are seamlessly working inside of Picasa.
| | 01:07 | I'm going to sign out and show you the default.
| | 01:09 | It says Sign In to Web
Albums up here in the upper-right.
| | 01:13 | Everything inside of Picasa that you
do locally, once you download the free
| | 01:16 | software, you can have it as an image
library, you can use as editing, you can export.
| | 01:21 | The online component is
accessible through this upload task.
| | 01:25 | Now the first thing you want to do is
grab the image that you want to upload.
| | 01:28 | So I'm inside of my Travels folder here.
| | 01:30 | I'm just going to create a couple selections.
| | 01:33 | I'm holding down my Ctrl key.
| | 01:34 | I have some images that I
really like that I want to share.
| | 01:38 | So I'll add those to my tray and
I'll just put a hold on them to make
| | 01:42 | sure everything is okay.
| | 01:43 | The next thing I want to do is select Upload.
| | 01:46 | The first time you do this and if
you are not logged in, it's going to
| | 01:49 | invite you to sign in.
| | 01:51 | So from here, you can actually sign-up
for web albums, which is essentially the
| | 01:55 | same as creating a Gmail account.
| | 01:57 | You can also just log in.
| | 01:59 | So to do that, enter in your Username
and Password, and to keep from doing
| | 02:06 | this over-and-over, you can go ahead
and check this box to say Remember me on
| | 02:10 | this computer.
| | 02:11 | Go ahead and sign-in.
| | 02:13 | When you are signed in, this is the
screen that you will be presented with, and
| | 02:17 | most of the time when you come into
Picasa in successive returns, you'll always
| | 02:21 | be logged in which is really, really
convenient, and this is the interface
| | 02:24 | you'll be presented.
| | 02:25 | This is almost like a Print dialog
or it's like a way of taking all these
| | 02:29 | photographs and sending them online seamlessly.
| | 02:32 | So let's talk about what is
presented in front of us here.
| | 02:36 | Upload to this album.
| | 02:38 | Well, it's created an album called Travels.
| | 02:41 | And in a previous example, I did upload
some things already to this album, but I
| | 02:45 | want to create a new album.
| | 02:48 | I'm going to call this Travels Demo,
because I'm giving a demonstration right
| | 02:51 | now, and I can give it a description
if I'd like, and I can also designate the size.
| | 02:57 | Now the size is something to think about,
and the idea here is how do you want
| | 03:01 | to use your online web albums?
| | 03:03 | We talked a little bit about archiving,
and archiving to other drives that
| | 03:07 | you have locally.
| | 03:09 | But think about online storage for a moment.
| | 03:11 | Think about the benefit of having
backups of all of your images online in
| | 03:16 | the Cloud securely.
| | 03:18 | That's one way that people use it.
| | 03:19 | Another way is just to use it for
sharing and to have nice copies that can be
| | 03:24 | shared and printed, and there is a
recommended size for that because the size of
| | 03:28 | the file corresponds to how
much disc space it uses up.
| | 03:32 | So let's click on a couple of the options here.
| | 03:34 | The Original says slowest
upload, which is correct.
| | 03:37 | If you have a 10-megabyte RAW file,
it's going to take a while to upload.
| | 03:42 | Recommended size, it will
resize the photo for you.
| | 03:45 | Still keep it at a pretty good size
for sharing and printing, but that copy
| | 03:49 | will be online for you.
| | 03:51 | These others I don't recommend so much.
| | 03:53 | The one I use predominantly is
Recommended, the 1600 pixels wide.
| | 03:57 | Now, Google gives you about 1 gigabyte
online of free storage and you can have
| | 04:01 | that pretty much indefinite until you
fill it up, and if you think about this
| | 04:06 | particular size, that's a lot of
photos that you can add up in there.
| | 04:09 | About a year ago, I upgraded it, and
upgrade can be done very easily right here.
| | 04:14 | When you click Upgrade, you can add
about 15 gigabytes for about $20 a year.
| | 04:19 | This is a pretty good deal.
| | 04:20 | It's about the price of a
latte every month, about 2 bucks.
| | 04:24 | So for $2 a month, you can have
about 15 gigabytes online of storage.
| | 04:29 | Now, let's talk about the
visibility of this album.
| | 04:31 | Now this is like a folder.
| | 04:32 | It's a place that people can visit.
| | 04:34 | So this can be public which means that
things can be searched for, an index.
| | 04:38 | That means that your caption data,
anything that you put in your image, people
| | 04:42 | can find and discover.
| | 04:44 | To some people that's okay.
| | 04:46 | Others they'd like it to be
a little bit more private.
| | 04:48 | The next level of the
security is called Unlisted.
| | 04:50 | Think of this as an unlisted phone
number, and the only people that can see it
| | 04:54 | are the people that you
give that information out to.
| | 04:56 | So think of it at that way.
| | 04:58 | It's still kind of public, and open,
and people can discover it but only if
| | 05:03 | they have the direct information which
is the direct URL or location of that
| | 05:08 | particular folder.
| | 05:10 | This is mostly what I do for
family items that I'm uploading.
| | 05:15 | The last security level is that the
signing is required, and this is where you
| | 05:19 | have a more locked down album and the
people that can only see it are the ones
| | 05:24 | that have a specific sign-in and that
you designate certain permissions to.
| | 05:27 | So that's a quick little overview of
the attributes around the upload of
| | 05:31 | the albums.
| | 05:32 | Let's go ahead and upload itself.
| | 05:33 | When I click Upload, it's going to take
all of those eight photographs and it's
| | 05:37 | going to upload them in real-
time up into my Upload Manager.
| | 05:42 | You can see here that I have a
couple of different things that I have
| | 05:44 | uploaded in previous.
| | 05:46 | If I have this button, Clear or View
Online, this does not clear the data.
| | 05:51 | This will just clear it from the queue.
| | 05:53 | If I clear on this previous one, I can
go ahead and remove things from my queue.
| | 05:58 | If I click on View Online, what it will
do is open my Default Browser and take
| | 06:03 | me directly to that online album.
| | 06:05 | In other movies we're going to talk
about the web albums, and all the things
| | 06:09 | that you can do, but now we successfully
uploaded our pictures with our specific
| | 06:15 | permissions into an online web album.
| | 06:19 | Let's go back to Picasa and
learn about the next sharing control.
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| Emailing photos| 00:00 | The next sharing control we are
going to talk about is emailing.
| | 00:03 | You can email photos directly from Picasa.
| | 00:07 | And some of the techniques here are pretty cool.
| | 00:10 | So, one of the first things I'll
remind you of is the E-mail tools.
| | 00:15 | Now these are found under going
to the Tools > Options folder.
| | 00:20 | You want to just browse through
some of the options here, because they
| | 00:22 | are important.
| | 00:24 | When you open up the Email button
which is located down here, you will be
| | 00:28 | presented with either your default mail
program, which could be Outlook, if you
| | 00:33 | have it installed or your Google account.
| | 00:36 | What I usually do is leave the
default on, which is give me choice, because
| | 00:39 | I have certain email that I sent via
my Outlook account and others through
| | 00:44 | my Google account.
| | 00:45 | Now I often want that choice.
| | 00:47 | Well, they give you that choice here
just by leaving this radio button selected.
| | 00:51 | The second thing to think
about is your Output Options.
| | 00:53 | When you send more than one picture,
you can tell it what is the default size
| | 00:57 | you want to resize it at.
| | 00:59 | I found that their default, which is
around 480, is not quite big enough.
| | 01:03 | So, I move it up a little bit to around 800.
| | 01:05 | It seems to be a nice tradeoff
between the size of the attachment and the
| | 01:09 | fidelity of the image.
| | 01:10 | When we send a single picture, resize to
800, which is designated by this slider
| | 01:15 | or the original size.
| | 01:17 | And I always resize it.
| | 01:18 | Then the second is sometimes you kind
of accidentally select a movie and that
| | 01:23 | can be a pretty daunting attachment to email.
| | 01:26 | So, they have a nice feature here,
which is just extract the First Frame, and
| | 01:30 | I'd leave this as a safeguard.
| | 01:31 | If you select Full Movie, you will
find that you are going to send the entire
| | 01:36 | movie and it's going to spend quite a
bit of time resizing that movie and then
| | 01:40 | sending that movie via email.
| | 01:41 | I don't really recommend
sending full movies via email.
| | 01:45 | So, the last part here is
has to do with Output Format.
| | 01:49 | You can basically send inline, with
captions, which is like HTML email or it
| | 01:54 | will just send links to it.
| | 01:55 | And I found that I'd just
basically leave that alone.
| | 01:58 | So, once you've set those, go ahead and hit OK.
| | 02:01 | Now, you've got your email setup
ready to share any of your photographs.
| | 02:05 | Well, in the previous movie, we've
talked a little bit about uploading.
| | 02:09 | Uploading is just about the same as
emailing, because you are creating a copy of
| | 02:14 | the photograph and you are
sending it to an online destination.
| | 02:19 | That destination just happens
to be a recipient via email.
| | 02:24 | So one of the things you will
notice is that as you begin to share your
| | 02:27 | photographs, this little arrow
indicates things that you've already uploaded.
| | 02:31 | You can see here from one of the
previous movie, I have maintained my selection.
| | 02:37 | So, what's great about the Share
controls is I can diversify my Share task.
| | 02:41 | I can upload some into a web album and
then I can send people a link to go visit
| | 02:46 | it or I can email the photos directly.
| | 02:49 | Now, the biggest difference there when
you share is that in one regard you are
| | 02:52 | creating a destination that they can
go visit and that's the web albums.
| | 02:56 | The difference is that when you email
them, all the recipients in that email
| | 03:01 | receive the actual photos
and copies of that photos.
| | 03:04 | So, that's a major distinction.
| | 03:06 | Then think about that in terms of your
efficiency, because when we talk about
| | 03:10 | sending people your online web album,
you can still email them and you can still
| | 03:15 | use Gmail to email all of your friends,
but you will email them a location and
| | 03:19 | that's very different.
| | 03:20 | Let's go ahead and click on Email.
| | 03:22 | Here is that choice dialog that will show up.
| | 03:25 | The reason it comes up right
away is because I'm logged in.
| | 03:29 | Remember we talked about logging in directly.
| | 03:32 | So, once you are logged in into your
Online Preferences through Gmail, you
| | 03:37 | don't have to this again.
| | 03:39 | So, it will present your choice between
Outlook or Gmail and then it gives you
| | 03:42 | a chance to say well, if you don't
have a Gmail account, you can go ahead and
| | 03:45 | sign up for one.
| | 03:46 | Go ahead and click on Gmail and it
will present to you a nice dialog
| | 03:50 | right inline there.
| | 03:51 | Now, this is not necessarily the exact
same interface you have when you are in
| | 03:55 | Gmail, but it interacts beautifully for it.
| | 03:58 | So, this is some of the first things that I do.
| | 04:01 | You can see the different pictures that
are going to be attached to this email
| | 04:04 | and they have already been
resized according to your preferences.
| | 04:07 | So, the first thing I do is I kind of
delete all of these things in the mail
| | 04:11 | and I just say Hey!
| | 04:13 | There, did you see these photos?
| | 04:17 | Now, all of these images will be
attached, let me go ahead and send this to
| | 04:20 | my wife here.
| | 04:22 | So, what we are going to do is I'm
going to send these directly to my wife and
| | 04:27 | she will receive them via email.
| | 04:30 | The last thing you need to do is just hit Send.
| | 04:33 | Now, if you want to add multiple
people to the mail, notice how it
| | 04:37 | remembers your send list.
| | 04:40 | So, if I would also wanted to send
this to, let's see, my dad, I can also
| | 04:44 | include him in the mail as well.
| | 04:46 | The last thing you do is hit
Send and those will be sent.
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| Using the Share button to upload and email photos at the same time| 00:00 | A Sharing control that's brand new to Picasa 3
actually saves you time and a couple of steps.
| | 00:06 | It combines the upload capability with
the email capability and it's located in
| | 00:11 | the upper right-hand side here, called Share.
| | 00:14 | Now, what it's going to do is it's
going to take any currently selected folder
| | 00:18 | and if you go ahead and select
Share, it opens up this new interface.
| | 00:22 | If you look at it carefully, it
combines both email, as well as album upload.
| | 00:27 | Let's do an example right now.
| | 00:29 | I'm going to send this to myself.
| | 00:30 | I'm going to share this and this will
just look up your whole list of emails.
| | 00:36 | It will send in an invitation.
The album visibility will be set.
| | 00:41 | Here you can see it's set to Unlisted.
| | 00:42 | I can even send a quick
note like, "hey, check this out."
| | 00:48 | So in one step, you can see that very
quickly they've made it really nice and
| | 00:53 | easy for you to both share and upload.
| | 00:55 | Now again, you are not attaching these
photos to the email. You are uploading
| | 01:00 | them, creating the album.
| | 01:02 | It will generate the link and you can
share the photos and the people on the
| | 01:06 | other end will be really happy to get
that nice click-through to that web album.
| | 01:10 | So, be sure to use this as a way to save
yourself some time and consolidate a couple of steps.
| | 01:15 | Uploading and emailing all at once.
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| Setting printing controls for local printing| 00:00 | The next sharing control we are
going to talk about is printing.
| | 00:03 | Now printing is a little
different than this feature called Shop.
| | 00:08 | Because Shop is taking your
photographs and going externally to a service
| | 00:12 | to have them printed.
| | 00:13 | When you print, it's printing locally.
| | 00:16 | So, one of the requirements is
that you have a printer connected to
| | 00:20 | your computer.
| | 00:21 | So, let's talk about, we have all the
different images in the tray itself, they
| | 00:25 | are on hold and we've illustrated that
you can use the same photos to upload,
| | 00:29 | email and now we are going to
do the same thing for print.
| | 00:31 | So, when you select Print, what
you will see is the Print dialog box.
| | 00:36 | Now Picasa has made some pretty
amazing updates to the printing
| | 00:39 | functionality within Picasa.
| | 00:41 | It's very visual and it gives you a
real time feedback of what's going on here.
| | 00:45 | Let's talk about what's
going on with the Print Layout.
| | 00:47 | Now the Print Layout is directly
corresponding to the paper that's sitting
| | 00:51 | in your printer.
| | 00:53 | So, by default, it's going to
keep those last attributes set.
| | 00:56 | So, first thing you want to think about
is what size do you want to print it at.
| | 01:00 | Everything from 8x10. Well, an 8 x 10
would look great on 8.5x11 piece paper,
| | 01:06 | which you can see down here.
| | 01:07 | Well, you may want to print 4 x 6.
| | 01:09 | 4x6 size on 8.5x11, what kind
of paper do you have in your printer?
| | 01:14 | Is it regular paper or do you want to
quickly remind yourself to go switch
| | 01:17 | into the photo paper.
| | 01:19 | So, this is really a critical step,
because you want to think about the size in
| | 01:23 | relation to the piece of paper
that's sitting in your printer itself.
| | 01:27 | So, think that through a little bit
and if you want to change the paper size,
| | 01:30 | that's easy to do.
| | 01:32 | I am going to go down here to the
printer and in this case, we have multiple
| | 01:36 | printers, so if you are in a work
environment or if you have multiple printers
| | 01:39 | on a network, well make sure you
have the right printer that's set forth.
| | 01:43 | So, you can see here, there is
Upstairs Color and Upstairs Black and White.
| | 01:47 | What's really nice though is see how
I changed it? Immediately it gave me a
| | 01:51 | preview of black and white.
| | 01:53 | Now wait a second, I know these
were in color. Where is all the color?
| | 01:56 | Well, be sure to check your printer
and make sure that you are pointing to
| | 02:00 | the color printer.
| | 02:01 | It's smart enough to know that
your prints are going to be in color.
| | 02:04 | It's a really nice feature.
| | 02:06 | The second is the setup itself.
| | 02:08 | Some printers have multiple
types of paper that can accept them.
| | 02:12 | This is going to be a slightly
different interface based on whatever printer
| | 02:16 | you have connected.
| | 02:17 | But the concept is generally the same.
| | 02:20 | You want to click on the Paper
Size and make sure that you have the
| | 02:22 | corresponding paper size.
| | 02:24 | For instance, if I had little 4x6
photo paper in my printer, I'd want to
| | 02:30 | select that from that list.
| | 02:31 | This printer that I'm looking at right
now accepts 11x17, just to show you the
| | 02:36 | different relationship.
| | 02:37 | Now, I've got 11x17 selected.
| | 02:40 | Notice how when I select a variety of
different choices here, notice also that
| | 02:45 | the page count also is updated.
| | 02:48 | So, you can see here that I
have a bunch of 8x10 prints.
| | 02:51 | But if I change it to 6,
it's going to rearrange them in a
| | 02:54 | slightly different way.
| | 02:56 | And now I only have two pieces of
paper that are going to run through the
| | 02:59 | printer at this size rather than four.
| | 03:02 | Let's change this back to 8.5x11,
just to illustrate a little bit further.
| | 03:08 | This is called Letter and we have
the paper that's laid out accordingly.
| | 03:14 | So, I'm going to print 4 x 6 prints on 8.5 x 11.
| | 03:18 | It's going to print out four pages
and let's explore a couple more of
| | 03:22 | the options here.
| | 03:23 | The default is Shrink to Fit.
| | 03:25 | This is actually not going
to crop any of the image.
| | 03:27 | It's going to fit it, as best it can,
within the constraints you have given it.
| | 03:31 | The other option is Crop to Fit.
| | 03:33 | Now, if I toggle between
those, look in the preview.
| | 03:36 | Slight differences depending on the
images you have chosen. One will actually do
| | 03:41 | a full bleed against that 4x6 area.
| | 03:44 | I'm going to leave it Shrink to Fit
and the next thing I'm going to do is do
| | 03:47 | what they have added here
called Borders and Text Options.
| | 03:50 | This is a fantastic new option here and
I'm just going to show you a few of the
| | 03:54 | options and the real time feedback.
| | 03:57 | So, the first is a Border.
| | 03:58 | Let's say you wanted to add a nice
colored border because you were going to cut
| | 04:01 | this or trim this with an X-
Acto knife or paper cutter.
| | 04:03 | Now the color that I wanted,
it would be just a little bit of a black.
| | 04:07 | So, I have a choice to have an even
boarder and to preview it, just click Apply.
| | 04:13 | You can see that there is a
nice black border around there.
| | 04:15 | That's a nice look.
| | 04:17 | You can click on the eyedropper
here and select from an entire range of
| | 04:21 | different kind of color borders.
| | 04:23 | Now, when I apply, it's blue.
| | 04:24 | I'm going to change it back to black.
| | 04:27 | You can see there is another
option here, which is Bottom only.
| | 04:30 | Sometimes this is helpful if you want
to just do, say, a caption or some text
| | 04:35 | overlay, which is the next option.
| | 04:37 | So captions itself allow you to go in
and say well I want to add the caption and
| | 04:42 | I want to have it at the bottom or
I can do it within the image itself.
| | 04:47 | So, you can see here that the
caption, we can control the font size and
| | 04:51 | even where it shows up.
| | 04:53 | Let's go ahead and apply there.
| | 04:55 | So, now I've got some particular text
and I can set the text color say to white.
| | 05:00 | I can start to get real time
preview of everything that's going to
| | 05:03 | happen there.
| | 05:04 | So, if you want to play with borders
or if you want to play with a variety of
| | 05:08 | different techniques, just go
ahead and experiment with this option.
| | 05:12 | You can get real time feedback.
| | 05:14 | That's a little bit about the border and text.
| | 05:16 | We talked about pointing to the right printer.
| | 05:18 | The last option is just to say
how many copies do you want of each.
| | 05:22 | You can see that you can increase
that or decrease that and you can see the
| | 05:26 | real time feedback.
| | 05:27 | Now, I have got 12 different
pages I'm going to print here.
| | 05:29 | So, let's reduce that down to one and
the last little piece here is that you
| | 05:35 | want to review all of your different
pieces here and say actually I didn't
| | 05:40 | want to print this one.
| | 05:41 | Well, the Review function is really nice.
| | 05:44 | Without exiting you can click on Review,
you can go through the whole array of
| | 05:47 | photographs, select the one and I can
just remove that directly from the array
| | 05:52 | and I can go ahead and update my
print and I have a really nice preview of
| | 05:56 | everything that's going to be printed.
| | 05:58 | The last part is to go ahead and hit Print.
| | 06:00 | For this movie, we are not going to
actually print them, but all you get is a
| | 06:04 | dialog box that will show the
progress and you will see some nice beautiful
| | 06:07 | prints on the other end.
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| Exporting photos| 00:00 | Next, I'm going to talk about sharing
photos in a way that takes copies of the
| | 00:05 | images and puts them in a folder
somewhere else on a hard drive or remote drive
| | 00:09 | and that's called export.
| | 00:11 | So, we talked about non-destructive
editing, which means that any type of edit
| | 00:16 | you put on an image, doesn't actually
effect the original, but when you export
| | 00:20 | images, they actually combine all of the
edits and it will actually create a new
| | 00:25 | copy and when you export you put all
those copies into a new folder, you are
| | 00:30 | actually generating new images.
| | 00:32 | So, let's talk about how you might use Export.
| | 00:35 | Well, I have got a bunch of images here,
the same set of images I've been using
| | 00:39 | and we have illustrated how you can
upload them, email them and even print them.
| | 00:43 | The last benefit of sharing is creating
copies and now you have all these great
| | 00:48 | uses for individual copies.
| | 00:50 | Well, when you click on Export, you
will get a dialog that allows you to say
| | 00:54 | well, what do you want to name this
folder and this is really the fundamental
| | 00:58 | basis of creating these copies is that
you want to browse to a particular area
| | 01:02 | and you can see the default here is
that there is My Pictures and it creates a
| | 01:06 | default folder called Picasa Exports.
| | 01:09 | I think, they do this just so that you
can have a nice clean way of managing
| | 01:13 | your exports, and a way to think about
that also is that it keeps track of all
| | 01:17 | of your exports here because you are
creating copies and so when you think
| | 01:21 | about creating edits and creating
variations of your image, you want to
| | 01:25 | actually access them later.
| | 01:27 | So, we have exported a couple of other
examples and we created some collages and
| | 01:32 | we created some different projects.
| | 01:33 | Now, I'm going to call this Travels_demo.
| | 01:38 | This Travels_demo will be part of
something that we want to use and
| | 01:41 | leverage later.
| | 01:42 | Maybe it's like specific size or maybe
it's a serious set of edits and it gives
| | 01:48 | us a lot of the same
controls that we had on upload.
| | 01:50 | Now, how would you want to use this,
do you want to use the original size, do
| | 01:54 | you want to share them with someone
or you might want to resize because you
| | 01:57 | have this idea of putting them into
another type of project, or putting them
| | 02:00 | into another program?
| | 02:02 | In this example I'm just going to pull
them up to about 1200 pixels wide and
| | 02:06 | then you have choice here on
how the images will be exported.
| | 02:09 | Now, these are going to create
JPEGs and JPEGs have certain level of
| | 02:13 | compression in them.
| | 02:14 | So, you have Normal, Maximum, Minimum
or Custom, where you actually can set
| | 02:19 | the slider here.
| | 02:20 | So, you can see here even with the
Custom it starts at 85, which is pretty high.
| | 02:23 | If I just set it to Normal,
that's pretty much the default.
| | 02:28 | That's a good JPEG quality, just
to let you know that you can control
| | 02:32 | the quality.
| | 02:33 | Another type here is it's detected
that there is no movies in this selection.
| | 02:36 | So, if you were to export them, you
can actually use this to export entire
| | 02:41 | movies or just the first frame of them.
| | 02:43 | Another nice thing that's in here
is the ability to Add watermarks.
| | 02:47 | So, when you add a watermark, it's
going to put a tiny little piece of text
| | 02:51 | in the lower right.
| | 02:52 | You've done a nice job by
putting a Drop Shadow around it.
| | 02:55 | You can't control the color or the
size or any of that but this just gives
| | 02:58 | you the ability to put a particular
type of watermark on all of your images,
| | 03:02 | if that's your choice.
| | 03:03 | I am going to deselect that and
I'm going to go ahead and click OK.
| | 03:07 | The Progress bar will happen in lower
right and you can always tell that there
| | 03:11 | are some type of activity going on in
Picasa when look at the lower right.
| | 03:15 | When it's completed the default is
that it opens up the location on the
| | 03:20 | operating system before that's located.
| | 03:21 | You will also notice that there is
a little bit activity here in the
| | 03:24 | lower right.
| | 03:25 | Let's see what happens.
| | 03:26 | So, I drag this over, you will see that
it's not only pointing me to the folder
| | 03:30 | of where it exported to you, but it also
brought them back into Picasa, which is
| | 03:35 | a nice convenient way of just
kind of keeping everything intact.
| | 03:39 | By double-clicking on this folder,
you'll see I have all of those images that
| | 03:42 | are ready to go and all of the edits are in it.
| | 03:45 | If I added any kind of updates to this
image, you can see that this started as
| | 03:50 | color image, this is now
permanently a black and white image.
| | 03:54 | I still have the original and I can go
back to its original state but this is
| | 03:59 | now a copy of that image.
| | 04:00 | So, have fun with the export capability
and use it to create duplicate exports
| | 04:06 | of your images for other uses that you may want.
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| Advanced exporting to HTML galleries and Flash| 00:00 | Next, we are going to talk about some
advanced techniques for exporting, not just
| | 00:04 | original images but you want to
export them to Custom Galleries.
| | 00:07 | We talked about uploading them to albums
and which formats them and puts them into
| | 00:12 | HTML automatically for you using
Picasa's web albums, but what if you want to
| | 00:16 | export your photos into a custom gallery?
| | 00:19 | Well, a little known feature within
Picasa has been around for a while and it's
| | 00:24 | accessible through the Folder menu.
| | 00:26 | Now, under the Folder menu, it will
take everything that's currently in your
| | 00:30 | tray and you are able to Export as HTML.
| | 00:35 | This is a really nice extensible
part of the Picasa Export tool.
| | 00:42 | So, you will recognize a couple of
things like the size and the types of things
| | 00:47 | that you want to output to,
respecting to the size and possibly load time.
| | 00:51 | It also gives you an ability to name
it, so I'll call this my Travels_Demo
| | 00:56 | and I'm going to put a little i next to it,
because the i to me will mean interactive.
| | 01:01 | Because what you are exporting is not
just a group of photos, but you are going
| | 01:04 | to exporting them into an interactive gallery.
| | 01:07 | So, I'm going to set this to about 800
pixels wide and there is no movies in
| | 01:11 | this particular set.
| | 01:12 | If there was, it would
just export the First Frame.
| | 01:16 | Now, the next step is pretty important.
| | 01:17 | We can see that My Documents\
Picasa HMTL Exports\Travel_Demo.
| | 01:23 | So, that was little different than the
previous Export, where it was just put
| | 01:26 | into a folder called Picasa_Exports.
| | 01:30 | Now, the exciting part is the next part.
| | 01:33 | Picasa has a bunch of extensible,
customizable templates, via XML that you can
| | 01:39 | change update and there has actually
been a whole ecosystem of people that have
| | 01:44 | been developing templates
both in HTML and in Flash.
| | 01:48 | Now, if you are interested in any
kind of customizable template, we'll talk
| | 01:51 | about that in a later movie, but it
gives you a way of selecting a variety of
| | 01:55 | different templates that you
can export directly into HTML.
| | 01:59 | And it gives you the full HTML and
everything works, so you can just drag that
| | 02:03 | up to a personal website,
you can customize it further.
| | 02:06 | So, I have seen a lot of
wonderful projects in this way.
| | 02:09 | I'm just going to choose the Template 2.
| | 02:11 | 2-page back background.
| | 02:13 | When I select it, I'm going
to go ahead and hit Finish.
| | 02:16 | What it's going to do, it's going to
take all the photographs and it uses the
| | 02:20 | XML and it puts together a nice little
folder that allows me to have a local
| | 02:24 | version on my machine of the HTML.
| | 02:27 | I mean that's completed here,
will be able to interact with it.
| | 02:31 | Once the Export is complete, it will
open up your default browser and it will
| | 02:35 | present you the HTML it just created.
| | 02:37 | What's very, very nice about this is
that now you have something that probably
| | 02:41 | would have taken you a lot of
time to code or put together.
| | 02:44 | Now you have got a really nice
customizable gallery that can be put online,
| | 02:50 | can be put inside of your website and
it all interacts beautifully, all the
| | 02:54 | HTML is all set up.
| | 02:56 | In this particular example,
it passed in the title here.
| | 02:59 | It knows that there are 37 images, so
that's dynamic and then it's put in some
| | 03:04 | instructions that is just part of this template.
| | 03:06 | So, if you have some CSS skills or you
want to go into any of these files, you
| | 03:10 | can actually customize the CSS and the styling
to make this just exactly the way you want it.
| | 03:16 | So, have fun with this
Export HTML functionality.
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| Customizing your export templates| 00:00 | Picasa has made it easy to customize
your export templates in HTML and in Flash.
| | 00:06 | Where this is located is
inside the folder Export as HTML.
| | 00:11 | Now, we've talked a little bit about
the default templates that they give you.
| | 00:14 | These are HTML galleries.
| | 00:16 | Well, there's a whole underground of
developers and designers that have
| | 00:20 | developed templates against this
schema and it's really beautifully and
| | 00:24 | easily setup.
| | 00:26 | So in order to customize this
list, I'll show you that right now.
| | 00:29 | Go to any default browser, and
inside Google just do a search for
| | 00:35 | Picasa export.
| | 00:37 | What you'll find is a bunch of
different types of examples of templates that
| | 00:42 | have been created by designers and programmers.
| | 00:45 | This is one of my favorites.
| | 00:48 | This is a project where I
collaborated with a bunch of different designers
| | 00:52 | across the world to create
some customized Flash templates.
| | 00:55 | You can download all of them in a
single zip file directly from this page.
| | 01:00 | You can also preview and
see who designed each one.
| | 01:05 | By clicking on the Download
button, you download a zip file.
| | 01:08 | Go ahead and open it up, and you'll see
all the different examples right there.
| | 01:13 | Next, you want to go inside of the
programs where Picasa is installed.
| | 01:18 | To do this, go to your Computer, locate
the disk where you've installed Picasa,
| | 01:23 | go inside of Program Files, and
then Google, and then Picasa3.
| | 01:29 | Inside of the Picasa3, you'll find
a web folder, and inside there is a
| | 01:34 | folder called templates.
| | 01:36 | So this list right here is the same
default list that I just showed you.
| | 01:39 | What we're going to do is we're going
to drag all of the new template files
| | 01:44 | directly into this list here.
| | 01:48 | As soon as that's done
copying, we'll go back to Picasa.
| | 01:53 | I have a series of folders that I've selected.
| | 01:56 | I'm going to go ahead and
select this Travels folder.
| | 02:01 | What happens when you export from
the folder, it's going to do the
| | 02:04 | entire folder.
| | 02:05 | So if you want a smaller set, you
can do that by exporting a smaller set.
| | 02:10 | We'll go up to Folder,
and say Export as HTML Page.
| | 02:15 | Go and select your size, and I'll call
this my Travels_demo and select Next.
| | 02:21 | You can see here that a whole new
set of templates have been added.
| | 02:26 | You can experiment with these and
play with the ones that you like.
| | 02:30 | But what this will do is give you a
lot of flexibility into the actual
| | 02:33 | exporting capabilities of Picasa,
which will create a local gallery that you
| | 02:38 | can play with.
| | 02:39 | I'm going to go and select one my from
Josh Ulm created this gallery right here
| | 02:44 | and go ahead and hit Finish.
| | 02:46 | This will export all the HTML,
and the Flash, and the XML together.
| | 02:51 | Once it's finished exporting, it will
open up your default browser, and go
| | 02:54 | directly to the file itself.
| | 02:56 | You can see now that we have a really
nice gallery, here I can just use my arrow
| | 03:00 | keys and navigate between
each individual photograph.
| | 03:03 | What's nice about Flash is that we'll
basically be resolution independent.
| | 03:08 | As I resize my browser here, you can see
that I can embed this Flash file inside
| | 03:12 | of any webpage that I want.
| | 03:14 | What's really nice about these
templates is that they've been designed
| | 03:16 | for scalable media.
| | 03:18 | So this particular template allows me
to go back and forth directly and export
| | 03:21 | and use my Picasa in a
really lovely and beautiful way.
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| Reordering and customizing your share buttons| 00:00 | It's time to talk a little bit about
the customization of the share controls
| | 00:03 | down here, the buttons themselves.
| | 00:06 | Picasa has made a nice extensible
framework, which allows Picasa to talk to a
| | 00:09 | lot of different services out there.
| | 00:11 | In earlier movie, I talked about
how I installed a Facebook button.
| | 00:15 | You can go to Facebook and just
do a search for Picasa export.
| | 00:19 | You can download the button directly.
| | 00:21 | It's very, very nice and convenient.
| | 00:22 | Well, the format itself has been
created by lot of different developers.
| | 00:26 | And I want to share with
that a little bit with you now.
| | 00:29 | So if you go to any browser and you do
a search for your service of your choice,
| | 00:34 | in this case, Flickr.
| | 00:35 | I did a search for Flickr Picasa button.
| | 00:38 | And what I found was this .PBZ file.
| | 00:41 | The PBZ file is the information
needed to put a button inside Picasa.
| | 00:45 | Well, how do you do that?
| | 00:47 | Let me show you.
| | 00:49 | Go to your computer where
you have Picasa installed.
| | 00:52 | Go into the Program Files,
click on Google, Picasa3.
| | 00:57 | In earlier emails, we talked about web.
| | 00:59 | That's where we put the templates.
| | 01:01 | Well, the buttons has its own folder.
| | 01:03 | You can see that there
is a PBZ file right there.
| | 01:05 | Well, it's pretty straightforward.
| | 01:08 | I'm going to go for my Downloads and
I'm going to go to the folder where it was
| | 01:11 | downloaded and I'm going to drag the
PBZ file directly into that location.
| | 01:18 | This is where Picasa will
refer to the button format.
| | 01:21 | We're back at Picasa. I haven't
had to close it and reopen it.
| | 01:25 | I'll go directly to the Tools >
Configure Buttons page and you'll see at the
| | 01:31 | bottom of the page there
is the new Flickr button.
| | 01:33 | So what's really nice about this
entire setup is I can move these services
| | 01:39 | around to make it fit exactly my needs.
| | 01:41 | I have a Facebook profile.
| | 01:43 | Also I have a Flickr profile.
| | 01:45 | Once it's done, go ahead and hit OK.
| | 01:47 | You can see that the Flickr
button is now inside my tray.
| | 01:51 | Well, we're going to systematically
go back through and go through each
| | 01:55 | individual service so that you can
know how to shop and export prints,
| | 02:00 | collage, movie, blog, Facebook, and Flickr.
| | 02:02 | So stay tuned we're going to have a
lot of fun, exporting and sharing with
| | 02:07 | each of these services.
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| Printing commercially| 00:00 | So the next share control I'm going to
talk about is this button called Shop.
| | 00:04 | Now in previous versions this used to
be called export to print, or buy prints,
| | 00:08 | and you can get that indication just on hover.
| | 00:12 | But essentially, you're going to take
your photographs and when you add them to
| | 00:16 | your tray, you are going to take all of
those, and when you click on Shop,
| | 00:20 | it's going to redirect you to a series of services.
| | 00:23 | You might recognize some of these services.
| | 00:24 | These are all online printing services.
| | 00:29 | And if you can find one that you work
with or have an account with, go ahead
| | 00:33 | and choose it now.
| | 00:34 | The example I'm going to choose the Shutterfly.
| | 00:36 | I have an account with Shutterfly.
| | 00:38 | Once you select your service,
it will invite you to log in.
| | 00:40 | I'm going to go ahead and do that now.
| | 00:43 | Now remember, Picasa can keep a lot
of different accounts for you.
| | 00:47 | Just because this is my Gmail account, this
is not the same login as I use for the web albums.
| | 00:52 | This is your specific
account for that printing service.
| | 00:57 | Make sure you remember that.
| | 00:59 | You can save the password if you like
for return visits, and then also enter
| | 01:03 | the album name.
| | 01:04 | Now the album name is
different than the web album.
| | 01:07 | This is not up on Picasa.
| | 01:08 | This is a new folder that's going
to be created up on my Shutterfly service.
| | 01:12 | I'm going to call this Travels_prints.
| | 01:19 | Once I hit OK, you get some dialog
box that it's uploading those photos
| | 01:23 | directly into the service.
| | 01:26 | Once your upload is complete,
you can see that it redirects you into your
| | 01:29 | default browser and automatically logs
you in into the corresponding interface.
| | 01:34 | Since I chose Shutterfly, this is
the place where it's going to send me.
| | 01:39 | You'll be presented with
the corresponding interface.
| | 01:41 | Now that your photos are uploaded in the
respective service, you can do anything
| | 01:45 | you want that corresponds to that service.
| | 01:47 | In this case, order prints,
make photo books, cards, etcetera.
| | 01:51 | Use this to essentially print and
deliver commercialized quality prints.
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| Creating a collage| 00:00 | The next share button I'm going to talk
about is Collage and this is a really
| | 00:03 | exciting way of combining a bunch
of photographs into a single image.
| | 00:08 | Now the default is that whatever is
in your picture tray will be passed
| | 00:11 | into the Collage.
| | 00:12 | Now mind what folder you also have selected.
| | 00:15 | So what will happen is a couple of new things.
| | 00:18 | Notice in this new version that it
allows you to tabulate between the Library
| | 00:22 | and the Collage project itself.
| | 00:24 | This is really helpful if you want to
add new photos to the Collage itself.
| | 00:28 | Another thing that you'll
notice is that the settings are a lot
| | 00:32 | more customizable.
| | 00:34 | So the default collage
would be the last setting.
| | 00:37 | So in this case you can see
there is a lot of different layouts.
| | 00:40 | This one's called Mosaic.
| | 00:42 | Some other things that you can do is
adjust the spacing, and that spacing the
| | 00:46 | layout directly corresponds
to the format that you want.
| | 00:50 | So if I wanted to maybe show this
on my TV I'd show something like a
| | 00:54 | 16x9 format.
| | 00:56 | If I wanted to show something that was
more like something I wanted to print,
| | 01:01 | I'd have a completely different layout.
| | 01:03 | Now the layout I can't really control,
but what I can control is how the
| | 01:07 | pictures are actually laid out,
and they can be shuffled around.
| | 01:11 | So this is pretty helpful, when I
start to see all of my images together.
| | 01:15 | Another thing that's really nice is
the ability to go in and actually adjust the images.
| | 01:20 | So I remember this one that was in
black and white, or this particular piece
| | 01:23 | here, and I can go in and View
and Edit directly from the item.
| | 01:28 | So if I wanted to undo something that I
had done previously or undo some of the
| | 01:33 | tuning, or even take out some of the
glow, I can start to do all of those
| | 01:38 | things, and get back to the original.
| | 01:41 | Now if I go back to the Collage, you
can see that that image no longer has the
| | 01:45 | black and white capabilities in it.
| | 01:47 | Well, one thing that's nice is if I
go ahead and create this Collage, I'll
| | 01:51 | generate the new image asset.
| | 01:54 | So what happens is that it generates the
draft and gives you some feedback as it
| | 01:58 | pulls all of these pieces together.
| | 02:01 | Once it's finished, it gives you
an update on what's going on here.
| | 02:04 | It has generated the new asset, and
it has re-imported that into Collage.
| | 02:08 | So it's written it out as a new file.
| | 02:10 | This little piece will hang
around, in case you've been off doing
| | 02:13 | another things.
| | 02:14 | Go ahead and close it down.
| | 02:15 | Well, with this is a brand new image.
| | 02:18 | It honors the layout and the
aspects that you set prior.
| | 02:21 | With that, you can edit it,
like give the entire thing Sepia.
| | 02:26 | Let's go ahead and undo that, or I
wanted to adjust the entire image.
| | 02:31 | Notice how this entire image adjusts.
| | 02:33 | So what I've lost is the ability to
edit the individual images, but this is
| | 02:38 | a single asset.
| | 02:39 | But where did it put it?
| | 02:40 | Well, under your Projects, you
have something called Collages, and it
| | 02:44 | automatically creates the collage.
| | 02:46 | If you want to know where that is on
your file system, go ahead and open that
| | 02:49 | up, and you'll see you've
variety of different projects.
| | 02:52 | Here is one called Travels that we just created.
| | 02:55 | Let's create another one.
| | 02:57 | To create another one go ahead and go
into Collage, once again, and it's going
| | 03:01 | to inherent everything from the picture tray.
| | 03:04 | So the picture tray allows
you to create a starting point.
| | 03:07 | Let's choose a different layout.
| | 03:09 | Let's choose this one called Picture Pile.
| | 03:11 | Picture Pile gives you little bit more
flexibility than in previous versions.
| | 03:15 | You can see that I'm starting to
drag-and-drop the items around in this
| | 03:19 | collage itself.
| | 03:21 | Little bit about the controls.
| | 03:22 | If I click on the image
itself, I get the four arrows.
| | 03:25 | This gives me a chance to literally
move the images from one part of the
| | 03:29 | screen to the next.
| | 03:30 | Some of them go in front
and some of them go in back.
| | 03:33 | Well, in order to reshuffle or re-
layer them, let me just right-click on
| | 03:38 | any selected image.
| | 03:40 | When you right-click I have a bunch of options.
| | 03:43 | I can set this image as the background,
I can change the border, I can rotate
| | 03:47 | it, or I can bring it to top.
| | 03:51 | Use this to actually arrange some of
your photographs, rotate them and enlarge
| | 03:55 | them to the way that you like.
| | 03:59 | Other options that it provides, I'll
show you on a white background, just by
| | 04:03 | clicking on the Eyedropper,
you'll see that the Drop Shadow is more
| | 04:08 | prominently displayed.
| | 04:09 | This is where I can turn Drop Shadows on or off.
| | 04:12 | This is another type of
collage that you can create.
| | 04:16 | Again, the layout corresponds directly
to the format that you want to export.
| | 04:22 | In this case, if I wanted to show
this via print, I keep it 8.5 x 11.
| | 04:26 | If I wanted to show this via my
monitor, notice how it reshuffled.
| | 04:31 | Basically honored my layout, but
I might want to do some tweaks.
| | 04:34 | So this is going to be an example of
something I might want to show inside of
| | 04:38 | a slideshow.
| | 04:40 | So I can add this as a more complex image.
| | 04:43 | Once I'm done, I'm doing the same type of thing.
| | 04:45 | I'll go ahead and create the Collage.
| | 04:48 | Once the collage is complete, it will
right out a new version of the file, and
| | 04:53 | it will re-import into Picasa.
| | 04:55 | Go ahead and click on the X
to remove the progress bar.
| | 04:59 | Again we still have a new asset here.
| | 05:01 | I'm going to click and you'll see that
it's been added to my Collages project.
| | 05:05 | Use collages in a really creative way.
| | 05:07 | Try putting a bunch of them together
and creating a nice collage project where
| | 05:12 | you can upload or create prints,
posters or a whole variety of quick layouts
| | 05:18 | that you can use to share, upload,
or create a whole book of images.
| | 05:23 | Combined with other projects and exports,
you can export these as prints, books,
| | 05:29 | projects, or blog accounts
in a really interesting way.
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| Creating and editing movies and uploading to YouTube| 00:00 | New to Picasa 3 is the
ability to make and export videos.
| | 00:04 | So you can imagine the power of taking
your photos, your collages, your video,
| | 00:09 | and combining them to make videos
that could be uploaded to YouTube or even
| | 00:14 | exported directly into making new movies.
| | 00:16 | Let's talk about that now.
| | 00:18 | Well I have been mainly using
everything from my system tray, which are
| | 00:22 | photos themselves.
| | 00:23 | To locate a video that you have already
taken, I'm going to go down and select
| | 00:27 | this one here, by using the Filters.
| | 00:29 | I'll go ahead and pin that to my system tray.
| | 00:33 | Back at the View, I'm going to go
ahead, and enter the movie interface.
| | 00:37 | There are couple ways to do that:
| | 00:39 | by selecting the Movie button itself,
or by entering it directly through the
| | 00:43 | Movie Presentation button
located on every single folder.
| | 00:47 | I am going to go select
the Movie button from here.
| | 00:51 | What's new to the interface is you
notice the tabulated structure, which gives
| | 00:54 | me flexibility to go back and forth
between the Library and Movie Maker itself.
| | 00:58 | You'll see that there is a quite
a few clips from the folder that I have selected.
| | 01:03 | Let's go through some of these tabs.
| | 01:05 | The Movie itself does not have an audio track.
| | 01:08 | You can add an MP3 or a WAV file.
| | 01:10 | There is a Transition.
| | 01:11 | I like the Dissolve but you
can choose any type of Dissolve.
| | 01:14 | This is the same transitions
that you would find in slideshows.
| | 01:17 | And then the Slide Duration itself
is how long do you want to stay on any
| | 01:20 | particular image, before
it fades to the next image.
| | 01:23 | And then the Overlap represents the
amount of overlap between the two.
| | 01:27 | Now the Dimensions of the
video are specific to the output.
| | 01:30 | You may want to think about something
large, if you want to show this locally.
| | 01:34 | Something little bit smaller if you
want to upload it to YouTube itself.
| | 01:38 | You should have the ability to Show
the Captions or the Full Frame Crop.
| | 01:40 | Now let's talk a little
bit about the Slide itself.
| | 01:43 | What you are looking at here is just
brought in from the default last name
| | 01:48 | of the folder itself.
| | 01:49 | So you can see here that this
organized by Font, Size, and Template.
| | 01:55 | This is the content itself.
| | 01:56 | So I'm going to call this My Europe trip.
| | 02:00 | I can put a date, I can put just
about any text in there I want.
| | 02:03 | I can also style it, based on
the type of font that you have.
| | 02:07 | The font is just going to look
up in your normal Font Library.
| | 02:12 | It's going to place it directly inside there.
| | 02:14 | There is also a Template here.
| | 02:16 | You can start to imagine all the
different types of templates that you
| | 02:20 | are putting in here.
| | 02:21 | Sometimes it's Caption, sometimes -- I
like this one called Music Video, where
| | 02:25 | it basically puts at the lower left.
| | 02:28 | Giving it a little extra size here,
I'll just give it a little nice legibility,
| | 02:31 | if it's a little bit smaller.
| | 02:32 | So that has to do with the Slide.
| | 02:36 | The next thing you can do is
think about the Clips themselves.
| | 02:38 | Now this is like your bin,
you can always go and Get More.
| | 02:42 | Down here is really the order, if I
select individual photos, you can see, how
| | 02:46 | it moves between them.
| | 02:48 | Now as you move through your piece,
you can start to see the photos and
| | 02:52 | the video themselves.
| | 02:53 | Now this is a video piece, so this is
actually going to play the video and
| | 02:56 | the audio.
| | 02:57 | Now if I wanted my video to go
different order, I click and I drag different
| | 03:05 | photographs to different parts of the sequence.
| | 03:07 | So you can see here, I can even take
my Title screen and I can delete it if
| | 03:11 | I want.
| | 03:12 | So a lot of the flexibility is up to you.
| | 03:15 | But since I'm doing something that's
basically between the different photos, I
| | 03:20 | want to keep this exactly
in order the way I want.
| | 03:24 | Let's go back to the movie part.
| | 03:26 | Movie, Slide, and the Clips.
| | 03:28 | I wanted to take this particular photo,
so you know this isn't quite right.
| | 03:32 | I can go ahead and remove it.
| | 03:33 | That's easy to do.
| | 03:35 | Also point through your Clips bin, you
can grab something from another slide and
| | 03:39 | drag directly into the sequence.
| | 03:42 | Now let's talk a little about exporting.
| | 03:44 | Exporting a movie is a
little bit of science in itself.
| | 03:46 | It's the difference between the
Aspect Ratio, the Size, and the
| | 03:49 | Compression Settings.
| | 03:51 | Well with Picasa, it's pretty straightforward.
| | 03:54 | Either have the ability to create the
movie, which will create a local version
| | 03:57 | of what's called a WMV file.
| | 03:59 | That's the format.
| | 04:00 | It's a Windows Media Video
file, pretty universally.
| | 04:03 | That's the only codec it will provide.
| | 04:05 | The other option is pretty nice.
| | 04:07 | It allows you to create a YouTube video.
| | 04:08 | Let's go ahead and do that now.
| | 04:10 | When you select YouTube what will happen,
this will bring up a particular Title.
| | 04:15 | Now one of the things that
you will want to do is log in.
| | 04:18 | And it will either tell you that
it's logged in as you, or you may want
| | 04:23 | to change the user.
| | 04:24 | I'm going to call this my Europe
trip and give it a Description.
| | 04:28 | Video Category if needed, this is
Travel, call this London, call this travel,
| | 04:36 | or call this Europe.
| | 04:37 | Tags are just helpful when you
want to associate particular metadata
| | 04:39 | around them.
| | 04:40 | If you want this to be public you select that.
| | 04:43 | And from there pretty much go ahead.
| | 04:46 | I'll give it a quick
description here, my trip to London.
| | 04:51 | So reason the things here with the
star is that they required for upload.
| | 04:56 | So you notice as soon as I finished
the Description here, the Upload button
| | 04:58 | was enabled.
| | 05:00 | So make sure you fill in all the
information that it needs, in order to upload.
| | 05:03 | Once you are done go ahead and hit Upload Video.
| | 05:06 | You will be presented the same
draft progress that you have seen from
| | 05:12 | other projects.
| | 05:13 | This is pretty straightforward.
| | 05:14 | There is some feedback in the lower right.
| | 05:16 | It's going to make the movie first
and then it's going to upload it.
| | 05:21 | When your video is complete, it
will automatically playback for you.
| | 05:24 | You can see that you can play and
pause directly from this detail interface.
| | 05:29 | What you are looking at is the media detail.
| | 05:38 | So as it's been playing back, you
can also see that the Progress Bar has
| | 05:41 | uploaded the video directly, and it
also says do you want to view it online.
| | 05:46 | So what happens normally when you
upload a video to YouTube, what happens is
| | 05:49 | that it has to encode it and
get it into its system as well.
| | 05:52 | What we'll do is we'll go
ahead and playback this video.
| | 05:55 | And then we'll go click to see it online.
| | 06:08 | This will open up your default browser,
and you can see here that the video we
| | 06:12 | just uploaded is now upon our YouTube account.
| | 06:15 | Now what this does is it will
basically take some time to encode.
| | 06:19 | This icon here will then change
into the icon once it's ready to view.
| | 06:24 | In a few moments, it will be
ready to be seen on YouTube.
| | 06:27 | Once your videos done
processing, it will say Live.
| | 06:31 | You can go ahead and click on Play.
| | 06:33 | This will take you directly to the
YouTube interface where you can watch your
| | 06:36 | brand new video file directly on YouTube.
| | 06:39 | So just in a few short moments, you
have gone from Picasa and whole entire
| | 06:48 | world, into the world of YouTube where
you can share, edit and distribute your
| | 06:52 | video to a worldwide audience.
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| Blogging photos quickly using BlogThis!| 00:00 | The next thing I'm going to talk about
is sharing your photos on a blog, and
| | 00:04 | one of the nice things about the Picasa
is in the ecosystem of Google is they own Blogger.
| | 00:11 | So directly from the button is Blogger.
| | 00:15 | So this sharing task is pretty straightforward.
| | 00:16 | Let's take a particular
photo that you are interested in.
| | 00:20 | I'll post it right there.
| | 00:21 | I'll click on Blog This.
| | 00:24 | If you don't have a Blogger account,
you can easily set one up using the same
| | 00:28 | Gmail account Username and Password.
| | 00:30 | Click on this and you'll get an overlay.
| | 00:33 | If you haven't signed in, do that now.
| | 00:36 | If you want it to remember your
Username and Password, go ahead and
| | 00:38 | click Remember Me.
| | 00:39 | So the next time you don't have to sign in.
| | 00:42 | Signing in will talk directly with
Blogger and present to you one or several of
| | 00:47 | the blogs that you have.
| | 00:48 | I have two blogs upon Blogger.
| | 00:50 | One called Visual Portals,
other one called Visual Experiments.
| | 00:54 | Then they invite you to choose a layout.
| | 00:56 | You can see where the picture goes,
and you have words wrap or words go
| | 00:59 | underneath the posting left or right.
| | 01:02 | The Image size is also important.
| | 01:04 | I just usually set it as Medium.
| | 01:06 | Go ahead and click Continue.
| | 01:08 | Now the default here is that
it shows you the exact code.
| | 01:10 | To some people this is like pretty
straight forward, and they understand
| | 01:13 | the language.
| | 01:14 | If you click on Rich Text, it actually
shows you what the piece will look like.
| | 01:20 | You have more control over what's
going on, you have a WYSIWYG Editor.
| | 01:24 | So if I wanted to put the text up
above, I can go ahead and do that.
| | 01:27 | Say this was a great shot from my trip.
| | 01:32 | And I'll just call this,
a few scenes from London.
| | 01:39 | That becomes the title of the blog entry.
| | 01:41 | Additionally, you can go in into the
Text Editor and you can add a little bit
| | 01:43 | of styling.
| | 01:44 | I'll just add a bold to that.
| | 01:47 | From here you can either Save
as a Draft or Publish directly.
| | 01:50 | And it looks fine, I'm just
going to go ahead and publish.
| | 01:53 | What it's going to do is prepare
Publish, and then redirect into your
| | 01:57 | blog account.
| | 01:58 | Now it invites you to log in once again.
| | 02:01 | So I'm going to go ahead and do that.
| | 02:01 | Once you do that, you'll be
presented with the interface itself.
| | 02:09 | You can see that the newest entry is
right there, and I can Edit, View and I
| | 02:13 | can go right into it.
| | 02:14 | I'm going to go ahead and View this listing.
| | 02:16 | Here is the particular listing of
my blog, and there is the photograph
| | 02:21 | that's been published.
| | 02:22 | It takes on all the styling, and all
the particular parts of the CSS that are
| | 02:26 | your own blog itself.
| | 02:27 | Now one thing to note is that it
inserts a little tiny bug here that lets you
| | 02:31 | know that this has been
published directly from Picasa.
| | 02:33 | Some people don't like that.
| | 02:35 | So I'm going to show you in few
moments another way to publish directly into
| | 02:39 | your blog or website.
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| Creating a blog post via email| 00:00 | We're here inside of Blogger and
I'm looking at one of my blogs,
| | 00:03 | Visual Experiments.
| | 00:05 | We just posted something directly
to the blog using the interface.
| | 00:10 | Well, I'm going to show you one other option.
| | 00:12 | Now if you have a Blogger account,
go over to the Settings here.
| | 00:16 | This is really the main
control panel once you login.
| | 00:18 | If you're familiar with those
Settings, you can start to go into Postings
| | 00:21 | themselves or Settings.
| | 00:25 | I want you to roll over this
little part here called, Email & Mobile.
| | 00:29 | So there is another way to get your
posting directly up on to your website.
| | 00:36 | So under this Posting Options, what
might be very interesting to you is its
| | 00:40 | ability to publish directly from email.
| | 00:43 | What does that mean?
| | 00:44 | Well, it means that your Blogger account
in your particular blog, you can assign
| | 00:48 | it a designated E-mail address.
| | 00:50 | Now you wouldn't want to give this to
anyone because this is only specific to you.
| | 00:54 | And anything that's sent to this E-
mail address goes up as a posting.
| | 00:58 | This is my primary way of posting
these days because I have a lot of ways to
| | 01:02 | E-mail via my mobile phone, my iPhone,
my Gmail, I have a lot of ways that I can
| | 01:07 | go to directly to my Posting.
| | 01:10 | So what it gives you is the beginning
of your E-mail address and then basically
| | 01:15 | you can fill this in.
| | 01:17 | And this ability to fill it in allows
you to create a variable and how you're
| | 01:20 | actually going to decide to write it down.
| | 01:23 | And again, you can change this at anytime.
| | 01:24 | And it gives you a couple of choices,
like Publish it immediately, or just Save
| | 01:28 | the emails as draft posts.
| | 01:30 | This gives you a chance to put into a queue.
| | 01:33 | Once you save that setting, then you
can go directly to any E-mail client,
| | 01:37 | and began posting.
| | 01:39 | So what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to save these Settings, and I'm going
| | 01:42 | to go back to Picasa.
| | 01:44 | So let's take this scenario, I just
published this one using the Blogger button.
| | 01:50 | But what I'm going to do is I'm
going to do a blog post but via E-mail this time.
| | 01:54 | So I'm going to grab this one.
| | 01:55 | I'm going to remove everything from my tray.
| | 01:57 | I'm going to select this other image
that I took, on sunset, and instead of
| | 02:02 | hitting Blog This, I'm going to
use a different kind of interface.
| | 02:04 | I'm going to use the Email
interface and I do it via Gmail.
| | 02:09 | So here I have this E-mail address
that I've set and instead of sending to
| | 02:13 | someone, I'm going to send it to the website.
| | 02:17 | So I'm going to go down to this one
that was the same E-mail address as my Blogger.
| | 02:22 | And then in the title, this is really critical.
| | 02:24 | The Subject is really going to be
replaced with the title of the blog posting.
| | 02:29 | I'm going to call this One of my favorites.
| | 02:34 | That becomes the title of the blog entry.
| | 02:36 | The attachment or any successive
attachments will be inside the blog
| | 02:39 | posting itself.
| | 02:40 | And then this is inside the details.
| | 02:43 | I'm actually going to
write in a few of the things.
| | 02:46 | So just by authoring E-mail, what's
nice is I can post this directly to
| | 02:50 | my Blogger account.
| | 02:51 | Additionally, I'm actually going to
show and illustrate something else.
| | 02:56 | I'm going to go and type in another
thing and I'm going to send it to myself.
| | 03:01 | And I'm going to send it directly to
my Gmail account as well, so I have copy of it.
| | 03:06 | So what's really nice is that I can
start to add multiple people, and these
| | 03:10 | things are destinations for my posting.
| | 03:13 | So I begin to think differently about my
photographs, particularly how E-mail is
| | 03:17 | used as an interface for posting.
| | 03:20 | Now if you have a Twitter account
or a FriendFeed, a lot of the same
| | 03:24 | principles can apply.
| | 03:25 | Even Facebook, Facebook has
its own destination as E-mail.
| | 03:31 | Use this to your advantage and once
you leverage the power of this, a lot of
| | 03:35 | your services can be addressed
by the E-mail address itself.
| | 03:38 | I'm going to go ahead and hit Send, and
it's basically going to send that off.
| | 03:42 | It's going to resize it based on those
preferences, and we're going to compare
| | 03:46 | the difference in the Blogger account
between what was posted through their
| | 03:49 | interface and what's posted through Email.
| | 03:52 | So we're back at the blog, and
you can see it's already there.
| | 03:57 | You can see that One of my favorites, I
loved the sunset... this time of day...
| | 04:00 | This entry was sent via Email, which is so cool.
| | 04:04 | Compare that with this entry here
which looks exactly the same but it's minus
| | 04:08 | this little Picasa button here.
| | 04:10 | So again, love the
ability to post from anywhere.
| | 04:13 | And this workflow is something that
I've started to use and leverage all the
| | 04:17 | time and I want you to do the same.
| | 04:19 | Enjoy the power of blogging from Picasa.
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| Sharing via Facebook| 00:00 | Next, I'm going to show you how to
upload directly into a social network
| | 00:03 | like Facebook.
| | 00:05 | Now I've downloaded this button directly
from Facebook itself, just by searching
| | 00:08 | through applications on Facebook.
| | 00:11 | Then I uploaded it into Picasa, and
was able to reorder buttons themselves.
| | 00:17 | Once I've selected the photos I want to
share, click on the application itself.
| | 00:20 | It will actually invite me to login.
| | 00:27 | Once logged in, I'll be able to take
the photos and I'll be able to upload them
| | 00:31 | to a new album or an existing
album that you can see here.
| | 00:34 | I'm going to go ahead and create a new album.
| | 00:36 | I'll call this my travels demo.
| | 00:40 | And give it a Location, type in London, UK.
| | 00:43 | I'll go ahead and set the Privacy to Everyone.
| | 00:46 | Once you are done, go ahead and Upload.
| | 00:49 | Next, it should redirect
you into Facebook itself.
| | 00:54 | Once Facebook loads, it
may ask you to login again.
| | 01:01 | Then it will redirect you
directly into the new album.
| | 01:04 | Depending on your security settings,
you may be asked to authorize the
| | 01:08 | photos you just uploaded.
| | 01:10 | From here I can do all kinds of things.
| | 01:12 | I can share this album.
| | 01:13 | I can put it on my profile.
I can write comments about it.
| | 01:16 | It's inside the world of Facebook.
| | 01:18 | This is just one more way of quickly
getting your memories and your images
| | 01:22 | into another service.
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| Sharing via Flickr| 00:00 | The button framework is pretty smart.
| | 00:02 | It allows programmers to tap into
others services like Flickr, Facebook.
| | 00:07 | And we've demonstrated how you can
blog directly from the share tray.
| | 00:11 | Well, I'm going to demonstrate
how you connect with another service
| | 00:14 | called Flickr.
| | 00:15 | Well, one of the things that Flickr has
is a really nice program called Uploadr.
| | 00:20 | To download the version of the
Uploadr, go to flickr.com/tools.
| | 00:25 | Then depending on your platform,
download the Windows or Mac version.
| | 00:29 | Once you've installed this, you'll
be able to upload photos directly into Flickr.
| | 00:34 | Well, the Flickr Uploadr has a nice
little handshake between Picasa and
| | 00:39 | the Uploadr itself.
| | 00:40 | So you can be within Picasa and choose
all the different photos and your edits,
| | 00:44 | but export them directly into the Uploadr.
| | 00:46 | It saves you a little bit of time.
| | 00:47 | So I have added a few of the photos here.
| | 00:50 | Next thing I want to do is go
ahead and click on the Flickr Uploadr.
| | 00:53 | What this will do is automatically
find my images and send them directly into
| | 00:58 | the Uploadr application.
| | 00:59 | So this is the one application on
your Desktop talking to another one.
| | 01:03 | It'll open up the Flickr Uploadr
and put all those photos directly into
| | 01:08 | the Uploadr itself.
| | 01:09 | If you've ever worked with the
Uploadr, it's a pretty neat tool.
| | 01:12 | I can grab a bunch of photos and
I can call these my London shots.
| | 01:17 | You can also give them tags, so
I'll call this London, travel.
| | 01:22 | I won't do a whole lot of detail work here.
| | 01:25 | The next thing I want to do is
just Upload them directly into Flickr.
| | 01:28 | Progress bar will be based on the size
of the images that you decide to upload,
| | 01:33 | and when it's complete you'll be
redirected into the Flickr website and confirm
| | 01:38 | images you just uploaded.
| | 01:40 | Once your upload is complete, go ahead
and either Stay Here or Go to Flickr.
| | 01:44 | Let's go ahead and Go to Flickr.
| | 01:45 | I may be invited to log back in and
there are the brand new photographs that
| | 01:52 | you've just uploaded in Flickr.
| | 01:54 | Gives you the choice to edit the Title
and Description if you want, go and hit
| | 01:58 | Save, and these will be back in your account.
| | 02:02 | Fantastic!
| | 02:03 | That's just one more way that Picasa
uses open framework to connect to great
| | 02:07 | services, like Flickr.
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| Uploading photos to SmugMug| 00:00 | Next, I'm going to demonstrate how
you upload your photos to a very popular
| | 00:05 | photo-enthusiast site called SmugMug.
| | 00:07 | If you haven't noticed there
is no SmugMug button down there.
| | 00:10 | So how do you find it?
| | 00:12 | Well, this is a chance to reiterate
how to go out there and find a Picasa
| | 00:16 | button of the service of your choice.
| | 00:19 | So what I did, it's pretty easy.
| | 00:21 | I went up to Google.
| | 00:22 | I just did a Google Search
for SmugMug Picasa uploader.
| | 00:25 | The very first entry is
directly from SmugMug itself.
| | 00:29 | Go ahead and click on that page.
| | 00:32 | This is great.
| | 00:33 | Have you got Picasa?
| | 00:34 | Yes, I do. Here is how.
| | 00:36 | Click here.
| | 00:37 | Perfect.
| | 00:39 | Opens up an application.
| | 00:40 | It says use Picasa to install this.
| | 00:42 | Sure enough. Let's do that.
| | 00:45 | Launch Picasa and import the buttons?
| | 00:47 | Yes please.
| | 00:48 | Let's do it.
| | 00:49 | There is the SmugMug button.
| | 00:50 | I want to add it directly to my service.
| | 00:53 | I'm going to move it down to the
last one here, right after Flickr, and
| | 00:57 | I'm going to hit OK.
| | 00:58 | That's exactly how you
add a new service to Picasa.
| | 01:02 | It's that easy to find it.
| | 01:03 | It should be that easy to install.
| | 01:05 | So I've got some images that I
want to upload to my Picasa account.
| | 01:08 | From my Picasa into SmugMug.
| | 01:10 | I've basically chosen them here in
my tray, next thing I do, I'm going to
| | 01:14 | select SmugMug itself.
| | 01:16 | Here's the overlay, go ahead and
hit Login, you will be presented with
| | 01:21 | your Email and Password.
| | 01:23 | Go ahead and type in your login credentials.
| | 01:28 | Once logged in, it will ask you.
| | 01:29 | Do you want to put it in a new
gallery or let's create a new one?
| | 01:33 | Go ahead and enter a new one.
| | 01:37 | If there is a category that this
feels important to, go ahead and enter it there.
| | 01:41 | There are lots of categories to choose from.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to choose Travel.
| | 01:47 | The next step is Picasa prepares
the files for upload, and uploads them
| | 01:50 | directly into the service.
| | 01:53 | Once the upload is complete you'll
get feedback directly in your browser.
| | 01:56 | Go ahead and click here to view the gallery.
| | 01:58 | The images may take a moment to process
as it creates multiple versions on the
| | 02:04 | server itself to accommodate your needs.
| | 02:09 | Once the images have been processed, a
simple refresh on your browser will allow
| | 02:13 | you to see the full detail of your uploads.
| | 02:17 | Yet just another way of connecting
Picasa to some of the great photo sharing
| | 02:21 | services that are out there.
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| Posting photos from iPhone to your web album| 00:00 | I am going to share a very powerful
mobile scenario that originates from any
| | 00:05 | mobile device, but in this
case I'm going to show the iPhone.
| | 00:08 | And in this particular scenario I've
taken a photograph and I want to email it.
| | 00:12 | Well, instead of emailing it to someone,
I'm going to take this photograph that
| | 00:16 | I took in London and I'm going
to email it to my Picasa account.
| | 00:20 | Now the power of email here is that
I can take this particular photograph --
| | 00:24 | in this case of a Nissan Figaro.
| | 00:26 | It's really a cool little authentic
looking car and I can email it using
| | 00:30 | my address book here.
| | 00:32 | I've added an email address
that I just call Picasa Upload.
| | 00:37 | And this talks directly with the web albums.
| | 00:40 | Now the auto-complete is helping me here.
| | 00:42 | I typed in pic and I named this contact
Picasa Upload, and behind it is an email
| | 00:48 | address that goes directly up to Picasa web.
| | 00:51 | The second address is I want to
start to blog this photograph directly.
| | 00:56 | So imagine I'm in the field and I saw
this really cool thing and I want to put
| | 00:59 | it into my Twitter account or my Blogger
account. I can basically use my address
| | 01:03 | book in a powerful new way.
| | 01:06 | In the subject line, I'm just
going to call this, The Figaro.
| | 01:10 | This allows me to provide a
particular type of subject matter or caption in
| | 01:15 | the Upload itself.
| | 01:16 | So there is the image itself.
| | 01:18 | Now in the Email, I can go
ahead and just send this away.
| | 01:21 | Now what it's doing over the
connected device is it is allowing me to take
| | 01:25 | photographs and literally
post them from a mobile scenario.
| | 01:28 | I've been waiting for
years to be able to do this.
| | 01:31 | In the next movie we're going to go on
to web albums and I'm going to show you
| | 01:35 | the particular image that
was uploaded that we just did.
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| Viewing web albums on the iPhone| 00:00 | We just uploaded a photograph using our iPhone.
| | 00:05 | One of the things I wanted to show you
is the quickness of how everything works.
| | 00:08 | So we go from the photo application.
Let's go out to the browser itself.
| | 00:13 | When I pop into Safari, I'm going to
go directly to the browser and I'll be
| | 00:17 | loading the Picasa web albums.
| | 00:19 | Now this is a really nice
Picasa web albums scenario.
| | 00:23 | I'm going to go to the albums themselves,
and I'm going to look at the Drop Box.
| | 00:27 | Now the Drop Box is one of the
albums that's created for you when you
| | 00:30 | directly upload using email.
| | 00:33 | When I click on the Drop Box, I'll be
presented with all my different photos
| | 00:36 | that I've uploaded directly.
| | 00:38 | Over the Wi-Fi connection, it's pretty fast.
| | 00:40 | So this orders them in the
order that they were uploaded.
| | 00:43 | So you can see here I'm literally
browsing and sharing these photographs in
| | 00:47 | Picasa web albums through my mobile
device and this is the photo I had just uploaded.
| | 00:53 | You can see that the title,
The figaro, is added right there.
| | 00:56 | That just shows you the mobile
capabilities, and excellence, and synchronization
| | 01:01 | between the mobile, the email, the
online web albums, and Picasa itself.
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| Downloading and synchronizing web albums| 00:00 | So we just uploaded a photo from our
mobile device into the Picasa Web Albums.
| | 00:05 | This is a great introduction to
bring you into the web albums itself.
| | 00:08 | If you go to picasa.google.com from
your favorite browser, you'll be presented
| | 00:12 | with a page similar to this.
| | 00:14 | If you go ahead and click on Picasa Web
Albums, while you're logged in, you'll
| | 00:19 | be presented with all of your galleries.
| | 00:21 | Now look at this. Fantastic.
| | 00:23 | This is something called the Drop Box,
and when you upload directly via email,
| | 00:27 | you can see a lot of these
mobile images that I've uploaded.
| | 00:30 | In fact, here's the one we just
uploaded directly on to the web.
| | 00:34 | Now this could be immediately shared.
| | 00:36 | I can use this to share
this with family and friends.
| | 00:38 | What's something amazing here is I can
download the photograph or I can download
| | 00:42 | the entire album directly into Picasa.
| | 00:45 | Let's do that now.
| | 00:46 | Step one, just download the photograph.
| | 00:48 | You will be presented with an
interface that will ask you, how do you want to open?
| | 00:51 | You can save it directly or open
it with a program of your choice.
| | 00:55 | In this case, Picasa Photo Viewer.
| | 00:57 | Let's do that now.
| | 01:00 | This has now been downloaded,
and it was very, very quick.
| | 01:03 | And you can see that I can do a lot of things.
| | 01:05 | I can view it, and actually that was
the image I actually took from the iPhone.
| | 01:09 | Well, let's add it in Picasa.
| | 01:10 | It's pulled into Picasa rather seamlessly.
| | 01:13 | Here I've got all the Tuning
effects that I can use on it.
| | 01:16 | I can give it some highlights.
| | 01:18 | I can give it a tint if I wanted.
| | 01:19 | I can give it a nice, warm tint.
| | 01:23 | I can bring in some of that color.
| | 01:25 | Make it look a little bit more authentic.
| | 01:27 | May give it a little Glow,
because it was kind of magical.
| | 01:29 | I can go back here and give it a little
tiny crop if I want, just to give it a
| | 01:33 | little bit of nice feel for it.
| | 01:36 | I can take this particular photograph,
and I can do a lot of things with it.
| | 01:39 | I can export it.
| | 01:41 | I can go and Email it back up to
the Drop Box, or I can share it on
| | 01:46 | social networks.
| | 01:47 | This type of thing has been fantastic.
| | 01:49 | That's one way to get your photos off
of the mobile device and into Picasa.
| | 01:55 | Let me show you in a second.
| | 01:56 | Well, this particular photograph was
uploaded into an album called Drop Box,
| | 02:02 | this is inside of the browser, or in Web Albums.
| | 02:05 | Now one of the things that it gives
you the opportunity to do is actually
| | 02:09 | download the entire album to
Picasa, which is fantastic.
| | 02:14 | And when I do that, it will ask me
which application do I want open this
| | 02:17 | entire album in?
| | 02:18 | Go ahead and choose Picasa now.
| | 02:21 | The Drop Box will be pulled
into your entire web interface.
| | 02:24 | You can take all these photos
and download them and begin the
| | 02:27 | synchronization process.
| | 02:29 | Go ahead and do that now.
| | 02:31 | The downloading progress will be
as large as the album would take.
| | 02:35 | This is a fantastic feature.
| | 02:37 | Imagine you upgraded your computers, and
you want to pull in some of your images
| | 02:41 | from the web albums locally on to your machine.
| | 02:44 | Notice how these will start to be
added in a beautiful way into your Picasa Web Albums.
| | 02:50 | And what we're going to do is synchronize them.
| | 02:54 | Once it's complete, understand you've
got a brand new type of gallery that
| | 03:00 | you can begin here.
| | 03:01 | You can see here that a new category
has been created called Downloaded Albums.
| | 03:05 | Let's click on that now.
| | 03:06 | The Downloaded Albums allows me to edit,
manipulate and color correct all the
| | 03:11 | different images that are in my album.
| | 03:13 | There is that same image we uploaded
just a few moments ago inside of our
| | 03:18 | mobile device.
| | 03:20 | Now this is where the magic happens.
| | 03:22 | I'm going to take one of these pieces
here, and I'm actually going to make it a
| | 03:25 | black and white, just to
show you the difference.
| | 03:28 | I'm going to take a black and white,
and I'm going to give it a little bit of
| | 03:31 | color, and I'm going to make it pretty sharp.
| | 03:35 | Get a little bit of a Glow, just to
show you the black and white version.
| | 03:39 | Now the next thing, I'm going to do is
go back to the Library, and I'm going to
| | 03:42 | go up to this capability here and
I'm going to Sync this to the web.
| | 03:47 | When I synchronized it to the web, it
will invite me to log in, so I'll go
| | 03:50 | ahead and do that now.
| | 03:51 | Synchronizing your albums to the web
is something that's amazing to be able
| | 03:57 | to keep your images synchronized from
things that you upload to those that
| | 04:00 | are on the web.
| | 04:02 | As this does it, you'll be able to see
the relationship between the photographs
| | 04:06 | that you've taken on a mobile device
with the rich iterations and editing you
| | 04:10 | have been able to do on Picasa.
| | 04:13 | Once it's completed, you'll see the
updated device, and the updated pieces
| | 04:17 | inside of that account.
| | 04:19 | Once the synchronization is complete,
you can see that I've synchronized my
| | 04:23 | photograph, and just that one that I
took just a few moments ago has been
| | 04:27 | edited, and you can see this
is the black and white version.
| | 04:30 | This is an unbelievable capability.
| | 04:33 | So to seamlessly synchronize between
Picasa as the photo editing, the mobile
| | 04:38 | solution, and the web album drop box.
| | 04:42 | This type of functionality will blow
your mind and make your photo editing
| | 04:46 | behavior from the standpoint of where
you were literally a few moments ago,
| | 04:51 | you can see in London.
| | 04:53 | You can see that the location was
picked up, brought up to Picasa, edited, and
| | 04:58 | then synchronized back to the web.
| | 05:00 | Use this workflow to absolutely
revolutionize the way you work from a mobile device.
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| Turning a web album into a live RSS feed| 00:00 | I wanted to introduce you to a
really interesting concept about
| | 00:03 | synchronized albums.
| | 00:05 | Now, in previous movies we took a
particular photograph that we uploaded
| | 00:08 | from our iPhone.
| | 00:09 | Then we made some edits and changes to it.
| | 00:11 | Those edits and changes were reflected
directly on the Web Albums themselves.
| | 00:15 | This album is called the Drop Box.
| | 00:18 | The Drop Box is automatically
created when you upload directly via email
| | 00:23 | into Picasa Web Albums.
| | 00:25 | Here is the image itself.
| | 00:26 | Now, it's a very powerful concept to
think about a dynamic online Web album
| | 00:31 | that's synchronized with
your Picasa local program.
| | 00:34 | But here is another take.
| | 00:36 | Now, a Web Album feels like a static
folder, feels like a destination, something
| | 00:41 | that people may want to visit.
| | 00:43 | Well, think of it in another way.
| | 00:45 | Think about it as a dynamic feed.
| | 00:47 | Now, over here you will
see a little link called RSS.
| | 00:49 | What do we think about when we think about RSS?
| | 00:51 | We think about news, we think
about subscribing to things.
| | 00:54 | When I click on it, it redirects
you within Firefox into the ability
| | 00:59 | to subscribe to it.
| | 01:00 | There is a lot of different ways to
subscribe to RSS feeds these days.
| | 01:05 | I'm going to do it via Google.
| | 01:06 | I'm going to say subscribe now, and
it's going to give me a choice, do I want
| | 01:09 | to I add it to my homepage, or they
have this really great thing called a Google Reader.
| | 01:13 | I use Google Reader a lot when I want
to read blogs, or I want to just read
| | 01:16 | some RSS feeds.
| | 01:17 | So I'm going to click on that now.
| | 01:19 | While I'm logged in you will see
something amazing, you will start to see
| | 01:23 | the feed of my box that's turned
directly into this brand new world that I
| | 01:29 | just subscribed to.
| | 01:30 | It feels like a feed, doesn't it?
| | 01:33 | Now, imagine the power of having your
photo feed dynamically updated from your
| | 01:39 | iPhone or from your mobile device and
that when you synchronize from Picasa, you
| | 01:43 | now can basically distribute
this entire photo feed to the world.
| | 01:48 | It's a very powerful concept and
something that I absolutely want to encourage
| | 01:52 | you to think about, in that when you
make updates or changes to any synchronized
| | 01:57 | album, it's like you are
distributing those changes around the world.
| | 02:00 | So leverage this idea of synchronizing
your work with online power of Google
| | 02:06 | Reader or an RSS feed.
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6. Picasa Web AlbumsGetting started| 00:00 | We are going to talk about the
exciting world of Picasa web albums.
| | 00:03 | Now, this is an online component of the
Picasa client software that we have been
| | 00:08 | talking mainly about.
| | 00:09 | You may be introduced to the Picasa
web albums in a couple of different ways.
| | 00:13 | The first that you are seeing
right here is via the website itself.
| | 00:18 | We talked about downloading
Picasa, the client software.
| | 00:22 | You can also just jump right into the
Web Albums, because the Web Albums is an
| | 00:25 | online network of all these different
types of photos that people have uploaded,
| | 00:29 | think of it as an online community.
| | 00:31 | Back at the Picasa client, we talked
about ways to upload your photographs.
| | 00:37 | The only requirement for Web Albums is
that you have a Gmail account and
| | 00:41 | you must be signed-in in order to do that.
| | 00:43 | So if you select photographs and
upload them, that's one way you might
| | 00:47 | be introduced to it.
| | 00:48 | Now, the second way might be if you
actually click on Web Albums itself.
| | 00:52 | Let's go ahead and do that.
| | 00:53 | So as you can see here, we are
presented with the ability to sign in.
| | 00:58 | It's telling you a little bit more
about what to expect when you get in here.
| | 01:00 | You can share photos with family
and friends or explore public photos.
| | 01:04 | Let me go ahead and sign in right now.
| | 01:06 | So what you are going to see here is a
pretty mature version of a whole bunch
| | 01:12 | of different albums.
| | 01:13 | When you log in for the very
first time, you won't have any albums
| | 01:17 | essentially in your account.
| | 01:18 | But the opportunity here is to do a
little walkthrough of what to expect when
| | 01:22 | your gallery begins to mature and
you begin to have different types of
| | 01:26 | galleries itself.
| | 01:27 | The very top here, you will start
to recognize that you are inside the
| | 01:31 | photos world of Google.
| | 01:33 | If you use some of their other
services, you may be familiar with Gmail,
| | 01:36 | Calendar, Documents, and this is
how they tease you into the world of photos.
| | 01:40 | I have talked a little bit about the
idea of your Web Albums and the photos that
| | 01:45 | you upload, and you will see some
new tabs that they have added recently,
| | 01:49 | particularly the People.
| | 01:50 | They have done some great
recognition of facial software.
| | 01:52 | You can see here, behind here
is all the different people that
| | 01:56 | it's recognizing and you start
to associate faces with names.
| | 02:00 | It's very, very exciting.
| | 02:01 | The third tab is Explore.
| | 02:03 | Explore is really, if you are
interested in seeing other things that are out there.
| | 02:07 | Picasa is an entire photo community.
| | 02:09 | Now, I have about 62 albums and
you can see here that this is my view logged in.
| | 02:16 | So what this means is
that I get to see everything.
| | 02:18 | I get to see my Drop Box.
| | 02:20 | I get to see my private and my public albums.
| | 02:23 | If you have a interest in how your
public gallery may look to other people,
| | 02:27 | you can click on that right there and you
can see exactly the type of view that
| | 02:30 | someone may see of your world here,
sometimes that's really, really important
| | 02:35 | to take note of.
| | 02:36 | To get back to that, you
just click on My Photos.
| | 02:39 | So let's talk a little bit to what
we see on the right-hand side here.
| | 02:42 | Right now the default is that
they are organized by the Album date.
| | 02:46 | You can also click on the Upload date.
| | 02:48 | This really looks at the metadata and
when you actually created that album
| | 02:51 | versus when you uploaded it.
| | 02:54 | You may be interested to actually
create a little icon associated with
| | 02:58 | your username.
| | 02:59 | Then down below, you see all the
different types of faces that have been
| | 03:03 | recognized, and you can see I have
started to associate certain names of family
| | 03:06 | members with these faces.
| | 03:08 | Down below you see most Recent Comments,
and as you get further down here,
| | 03:13 | you will begin to see your whole tag cloud.
| | 03:16 | The tags are really the means by which
you start to associate similar photos.
| | 03:20 | So I have a bunch of Europe, Italy, travel.
| | 03:23 | These are some of the things that I
primarily tagged and then anything that I have
| | 03:27 | given a location starts to
show up on the map itself.
| | 03:30 | This is a really quick tour
of what you can kind of expect.
| | 03:34 | Next we are going to talk a little bit
about creating your very first album.
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| Creating web albums| 00:00 | Next I'm going to talk about
creating your very first Web Album gallery.
| | 00:04 | Now, there is two ways to do this.
| | 00:06 | One is through the interface itself,
and to do that you can do it through
| | 00:10 | the Upload tab.
| | 00:11 | To upload, you can go directly into
upload into an existing gallery, but notice
| | 00:16 | this part right here, create a new album.
| | 00:19 | When you click on that, you will be
presented with an interface to invite you
| | 00:22 | to name that album.
| | 00:25 | So we can call this our test gallery.
| | 00:30 | A Date of origination, so this
might relate to a specific day, which is
| | 00:34 | today, or when those photos that you
know that you are going to put in there
| | 00:38 | were actually taken.
| | 00:39 | Let's go ahead and leave it today.
| | 00:41 | I'm going to call it my test images.
| | 00:44 | Then the place that that was taken.
| | 00:46 | Now, this is pretty cool.
| | 00:48 | Since this is just a test and I'm
recording here in Ventura, California,
| | 00:52 | I'm just going to enter Ventura,
California, and sure enough, it shows up
| | 00:57 | right there.
| | 00:58 | If you have specifics on the actual
location, you can go ahead and put that in
| | 01:02 | there, but this is where the
location information gets put in there.
| | 01:06 | Now, a word of caution
and a word of encouragement.
| | 01:08 | A word of caution is that you want
to use the location very carefully.
| | 01:11 | If this is family related photos
or things that include children or a
| | 01:15 | particular event, please use these
wisely, because this is information that you
| | 01:19 | can see right here, if this is a
public album, that people can start to
| | 01:22 | associate certain events or things that
are happening on location, you want to
| | 01:26 | be really mindful of this.
| | 01:27 | If this was just a sign in required,
you have a lot more privacy just by
| | 01:31 | combining the visibility.
| | 01:33 | Since I want to make this an unlisted
album, this is going to be something
| | 01:36 | that's just like an unlisted phone number,
and only the people that I share with
| | 01:40 | will be able to discover it.
| | 01:41 | So I just want to be really
straightforward here and say that location is a
| | 01:45 | fantastic thing, just be very
mindful of the type of photographs that you
| | 01:49 | associate with location.
| | 01:51 | Further down here, you will
see the Name tag visibility.
| | 01:54 | This is another part of your security.
| | 01:57 | You may have people within these, and
you want to make sure that if you start to
| | 02:01 | show names with faces, that
you want to be secure here.
| | 02:04 | So it says Use my current account
settings, which is Hide name tags, and
| | 02:08 | unlisted sign in required.
| | 02:10 | Hide name tags or Show name tags.
| | 02:13 | I'm going to go ahead and Hide name tags.
| | 02:16 | But it's important that when you
create any new gallery, you understand some
| | 02:20 | of these attributes.
| | 02:21 | Now, a little note here says it
relates to my account settings.
| | 02:25 | We are going to get into account
settings in a little bit, which is a little bit
| | 02:28 | about setting up your environment, we'll
get into that and its a little bit more
| | 02:31 | of an advanced topic, but
we'll make sure that we cover that.
| | 02:34 | Go ahead and hit Continue, and you
will be presented with an interface that
| | 02:38 | invites you to upload your photographs.
| | 02:40 | If you don't know Picasa itself, this
is just an interface that allows you to
| | 02:45 | upload photos directly.
| | 02:46 | So just for the sake of clarity, I'm
going to go into my Pictures folder here,
| | 02:50 | I'm going to upload one of my food photos.
| | 02:52 | The food photos, open one that's
oriented like this, and another one that's
| | 02:58 | going to be oriented the other way.
| | 03:00 | So it's going to upload two photos here.
| | 03:02 | Once I'm done, you can see that the
path is there, and I'm going to go ahead
| | 03:05 | and Start the Upload.
| | 03:06 | What's really nice is the online storage piece.
| | 03:09 | Talked a little bit about the free
capacity that they give you when you
| | 03:12 | first log in.
| | 03:13 | I think they give you 1 gigabyte of
free storage just to use the service, and I
| | 03:20 | found it really helpful to upgrade.
| | 03:22 | I think it's about $20 a year to
basically have up to an additional 10 gigabytes
| | 03:28 | of storage there, and you
can get up to 15 gigabytes.
| | 03:31 | There are the two photos within this gallery.
| | 03:33 | What's really nice is that
there is a little cookie crumb here.
| | 03:35 | You can see from My Photos, I now
have within my test gallery the two
| | 03:40 | photos themselves.
| | 03:41 | That is the very first way of being
introduced to creating a new gallery.
| | 03:46 | Well, what's really nice now is
I'm going to show you the second way.
| | 03:50 | The second way within Picasa
can happen within Picasa itself.
| | 03:54 | Let's go to those food images right here.
| | 03:57 | Now, I want to just introduce if you
wanted to create a new album, you can
| | 04:00 | certainly do that from Picasa itself,
which is predominately the way that I do it.
| | 04:04 | I am going to hold down these three
photos and I'm going to put them a hold,
| | 04:09 | then I'm going to click Uphold here.
| | 04:10 | This is pretty exciting, because this
gives me an interface, very similar to
| | 04:14 | what I just saw online.
| | 04:15 | You can see here that there is a bunch
of the same galleries that are in this
| | 04:20 | list, and I'll just tab right over to
here, are the same galleries that are
| | 04:25 | up here.
| | 04:26 | So you can see that this is a new
gallery I just created, but I have been
| | 04:30 | presented this whole list of
galleries that I can upload to, directly from
| | 04:34 | that area.
| | 04:35 | What's brilliant is that the food
gallery that we just created already shows
| | 04:38 | up in this list.
| | 04:40 | But look at this right here, New gallery.
| | 04:43 | So you can see if I wanted to create a
new gallery, that's how I could do it,
| | 04:46 | exactly from that list.
| | 04:48 | So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to go ahead and select Upload, and I'm
| | 04:52 | going to show you the relationship of
the album that we just created to what we
| | 04:55 | are going to upload into.
| | 04:56 | You can see the correlation there.
| | 04:58 | So I'm going to upload into
this existing food gallery.
| | 05:01 | The next thing I'm going to do
is I'm going to give it a Size.
| | 05:04 | This is an Unlisted gallery, and that
was the setting that we had before, and
| | 05:07 | I'm going to go ahead and
upload into it right there.
| | 05:09 | Well, as that's uploading, it's
going to provide some feedback, as far as
| | 05:13 | progress, and then I can
go ahead and View Online.
| | 05:16 | Let's go ahead and do that.
| | 05:17 | When I View Online, it's going to open that tab.
| | 05:20 | It's going to show me the photos
that I just uploaded into there.
| | 05:23 | So here I have got the food gallery
and then I have got my test gallery.
| | 05:27 | So you can see here, I had the food
gallery and now I have my test gallery.
| | 05:34 | You can see that I can move back
and forth between those two galleries.
| | 05:37 | But here is what's pretty amazing, if
you ever are confused about what gallery
| | 05:43 | and where the photos are, you can always
edit and manipulate the things that are
| | 05:48 | going on inside of a particular gallery.
| | 05:50 | So let's talk about that in the next movie.
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| Organizing and reordering albums| 00:00 | I'm going to talk a little bit more
about editing the properties within a
| | 00:04 | particular online gallery.
| | 00:05 | Covered a little bit about album
properties themselves, changing the cover,
| | 00:10 | and before we get to the map or
Captions, I want to talk a little bit about
| | 00:13 | organizing and reordering, because
what I did is I uploaded two of these
| | 00:17 | photographs into the test gallery,
and then I uploaded three into the food gallery.
| | 00:22 | What I'm going to do is I'm going to
show an example here of how you can
| | 00:25 | organize and reorder these.
| | 00:27 | When you select Organize & Reorder,
you are presented with an interface that
| | 00:30 | allows you to literally drag the
items and reorder them if you would like.
| | 00:34 | This method also allows you
to set your Sort preference.
| | 00:36 | You can set it by date or by file name.
| | 00:39 | Additionally, you can take any one of
these selections and Copy or Move them to
| | 00:44 | another particular online Web Album.
| | 00:47 | In this case, I'm going
to do a Move, not a Copy.
| | 00:50 | I'm going to do a Move.
| | 00:51 | So I'm going to hold down my Shift
key while I select and I'm going to move them.
| | 00:55 | Now, the default is that it invites
you to move them into a new album.
| | 00:59 | Well, be sure to take note of this
piece here, which is choose an existing
| | 01:03 | album, and this allows you to
move it to another online album.
| | 01:09 | Select the one that says food.
| | 01:11 | In this case, you can just practice
with any of your different media by moving
| | 01:15 | them or copying them from one area to the next.
| | 01:17 | I'm going to select this album and it
should redirect me to that food album.
| | 01:21 | Now, let's review what we just did.
| | 01:24 | We just moved two photos from
one online Web Album to the next.
| | 01:29 | So it removed it from the test
gallery, you can see there is no media inside that.
| | 01:33 | I wanted to show this because if you
create a new online web gallery but don't
| | 01:37 | put any media inside of it,
this is what you will see.
| | 01:41 | Down here with the food gallery,
I'll click on it and you can see all
| | 01:44 | those photos are there.
| | 01:45 | That's really important, a little
housekeeping, if you end up uploading to
| | 01:49 | a different gallery or if you are
wondering how to move your media once its
| | 01:52 | uploaded up there.
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| Deleting an album| 00:00 | Next, we're going to talk about
something you should be mindful of is
| | 00:03 | deleting an album.
| | 00:05 | Whenever you have something that says
Delete or Remove, make sure that you know
| | 00:09 | what you're doing here.
| | 00:10 | If you go up to Edit and select Delete,
this would absolutely delete the album
| | 00:15 | and all of the contents from within in it.
| | 00:17 | I'm not going to do this right now,
but if you recall, I had an empty album
| | 00:22 | that I had created.
| | 00:23 | I had some photos in there that I
moved directly into the food album.
| | 00:27 | Well, this is empty now.
How do I know it's empty?
| | 00:29 | Well, that icon helps let me
know there's nothing in it.
| | 00:32 | This helps confirm that.
| | 00:33 | I can go ahead to edit.
| | 00:35 | See, there is different
items in here when it's empty.
| | 00:38 | I'm going to go ahead and delete this album.
| | 00:40 | Look at the nice confirmation it gives you.
| | 00:42 | "Are you sure you want to delete this album?"
| | 00:44 | Go ahead and say OK.
| | 00:45 | This will take you back to your default
Album screen, now we're about ready to
| | 00:51 | have a starting point here
and we can continue to move on.
| | 00:54 | So, just be mindful when you copy,
move and, in particular, delete.
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| Adding locations to albums and images using the Album Map| 00:00 | We're talking about editing the
properties within a particular online album.
| | 00:04 | This one is going to be talking
about adding a location to the photos
| | 00:07 | within your album.
| | 00:09 | Go up to the Edit and select Album map.
| | 00:12 | You'll be presented with an interface
that associates your particular photos
| | 00:16 | with their location.
| | 00:18 | Now this can be an exacting or
it can be something that you just
| | 00:21 | are approximate.
| | 00:22 | Now if you wanted to just drop them
right on to Paris, you can go ahead and do that.
| | 00:25 | Some people like to have
more exacting locations.
| | 00:28 | The map interface allows you to do this.
| | 00:30 | Let me first drag-and-drop a place
where I had espresso. I remember it was
| | 00:33 | along the Rue Descartes.
| | 00:37 | By dragging-and-dropping, you can
see that there is an icon placed right
| | 00:40 | inside the thumbnail.
| | 00:42 | It means that a location is
associated with that photograph.
| | 00:46 | Now, if I select another and hold down
the Ctrl key on the PC, I can start to
| | 00:50 | grab multiple at the same time.
| | 00:52 | If all these happened in the
specific location, I can drag-and-drop those
| | 00:56 | directly under the map themselves.
| | 00:58 | By clicking on the individual photograph,
you will be presented with the number
| | 01:02 | within this particular item.
| | 01:04 | So, you can even see that
the Lat and Long is included.
| | 01:07 | Now if you have a mobile device that
has GPS-enabled, lot of the Lat and Long
| | 01:12 | will be included already
when you allow that to happen.
| | 01:16 | For example, on the iPhone,
oftentimes you'll be enabled to include the GPS
| | 01:20 | with your photo itself.
| | 01:22 | So, a lot of these locations will be included.
| | 01:25 | That's pretty much the ins and
outs of locating your photos.
| | 01:29 | Just some words to the wise is make
sure that before you add any location on
| | 01:33 | that, these are great for travel
photographs, but again, be little mindful if
| | 01:37 | you're doing family photographs and
associated with children or loved ones, once
| | 01:41 | you're done, go ahead and hit Done.
| | 01:43 | Now you've essentially associated
locations with these particular photographs.
| | 01:49 | You can edit them at anytime.
| | 01:51 | Go ahead and hit back to the Album,
you'll be back at your properties of
| | 01:55 | your particular album.
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| Adding captions to albums | 00:00 | We're talking about editing
the properties of your album.
| | 00:03 | Specifically, we're going to
talk about adding captions.
| | 00:06 | Now captions can be added
from the Picasa client itself.
| | 00:10 | But once they are uploaded online,
you're free to overwrite them or edit them.
| | 00:14 | With any synchronized album,
be sure to note that your captions will be
| | 00:18 | synchronized and brought down
correctly on the client, if you ever change
| | 00:22 | them online.
| | 00:24 | To edit your captions or add them, go
ahead and select Edit and Captions now.
| | 00:28 | You'll be presented with
a really nice interface.
| | 00:30 | I really like this because it allows me
to add a lot of captions very quickly.
| | 00:33 | I'm going to go ahead and paste in
a piece of text here, 'a few pastries from Laderee.'
| | 00:38 | If you're ever in Paris, oh my goodness!
| | 00:41 | You'll love these pastries.
| | 00:43 | I'm going to go here and add another
piece that says my favorite espresso
| | 00:50 | in Paris.
| | 00:51 | What to be mindful of is that any
additional information you add to your
| | 00:55 | photograph becomes almost metadata.
| | 00:58 | So, espresso, Paris, favorite,
pastries, all these things are added to the
| | 01:04 | searchability of your photographs.
| | 01:05 | So, I just want to be mindful that if
you wanted to add a little variant on this,
| | 01:10 | like the packaging, this
little bit of effort to add adds in the
| | 01:16 | retrieval phase of this.
| | 01:18 | Just be mindful that this is something
that if it's searchable or if you share it,
| | 01:22 | just be mindful of
what you're putting in here.
| | 01:24 | Notice there is no Save button on this,
because as I move from one particular
| | 01:28 | field to the next, you get a little checkbox.
| | 01:30 | So if you lost Internet connection,
the little check lets you know that this has,
| | 01:35 | in fact, been saved and preserved and
even hitting Done is just a method of
| | 01:39 | going back to the album itself.
| | 01:41 | Now, you can see what captions look like.
| | 01:44 | On hover, anything that's larger than a
line would actually be shown like this.
| | 01:49 | Same thing with any of
those that you share it with.
| | 01:51 | So, this gives you a little chance to
see what captions look like once they're
| | 01:55 | transferred into an online web album.
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| Adding tags in web albums| 00:00 | I want to spend a moment
and talk about tagging.
| | 00:02 | Someone described tagging once to me
in a way that helped me understand.
| | 00:06 | Think of placing a little word on a
post-it note and put it on the back of
| | 00:10 | the photograph.
| | 00:11 | Then every word that's written on a
separate post-it note allows you to retrieve
| | 00:15 | that word and all the other
photographs that have that word on it.
| | 00:20 | That helped me understand tagging.
| | 00:22 | Now, we've created web albums,
which is a way of grouping photographs.
| | 00:26 | We understand what that means.
| | 00:28 | But tagging can be very powerful.
| | 00:30 | I'll show you what I mean.
| | 00:31 | I'm going to go in to one of my albums.
| | 00:33 | I'm going to find something
that I want to choose here.
| | 00:36 | I'm going to, for instance, choose this image.
| | 00:38 | I really like the clouds.
| | 00:40 | What will help remind me of the
clouds is by adding the tag here.
| | 00:43 | I'm going to put
essentially this word here, clouds.
| | 00:48 | I'm going to go back to one of my
other albums and I'm going to add another
| | 00:53 | image to this group and selection.
| | 00:55 | Let's try this one out here.
| | 00:56 | When I add this tag here, I'm
going to call this one, clouds.
| | 01:00 | So, let's add one more, just to
show you that there are three totally
| | 01:05 | separate galleries.
| | 01:07 | Within there, I'm going to add the
association of all of them to the tag clouds,
| | 01:14 | because they all have clouds within them.
| | 01:16 | Now that I've added a keyword,
clouds to all three of those images,
| | 01:21 | this becomes a link itself.
| | 01:22 | So, when I click on it, it takes me
directly to a virtual collection of all the
| | 01:27 | things that have that word,
clouds, associated with those images.
| | 01:31 | You can use this in powerful ways to
create virtual clustering or virtual
| | 01:35 | galleries that are based on any
particular word, interest, keyword, but you can
| | 01:40 | use the tagging interface to do that.
| | 01:43 | Have fun with the tagging interface!
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| Changing General settings| 00:00 | I want to spend a few moments talking
about some important settings as your
| | 00:04 | online web album begins to grow.
| | 00:07 | You can see here this is a very
mature series of online albums.
| | 00:12 | Besides the settings of individual
albums themselves, there are some settings
| | 00:16 | located in the upper right-hand
corner here that are associated with your
| | 00:20 | Picasa web album account.
| | 00:22 | As your albums begin to grow, you should
be mindful of some of these global settings.
| | 00:27 | Let's take a look.
| | 00:29 | When you're logged-in, you'll see this
type of interface, which correlates to
| | 00:32 | some of your large, kind
of overarching settings.
| | 00:36 | Let's talk about what some of those are.
| | 00:38 | Well, in general, you
have a particular nickname.
| | 00:41 | My nickname is Dane.
| | 00:43 | You can also add a picture.
| | 00:44 | If this is part of a photo community
that you want to contribute to and be known
| | 00:48 | at, you can choose a profile picture.
| | 00:51 | To change your picture
is pretty straightforward.
| | 00:53 | Go ahead and click the picture, and
you can select from any number of your
| | 00:56 | photos that are contained within your album.
| | 00:59 | The gallery URL is kind of interesting.
| | 01:01 | This is what they call a permalink.
| | 01:02 | Instead of it being somewhat obscure,
you can associate it with something that's
| | 01:06 | a little bit more legible.
| | 01:08 | To change URL, just click on Change URL.
| | 01:11 | If you want to add a new Google user-name,
this is where you can do that as well.
| | 01:15 | For your language preferences,
this is where you can set it.
| | 01:17 | Now, this is an international offering.
| | 01:19 | So what's nice is some of the
functionality that's been added.
| | 01:23 | Recently, I read if someone actually
wrote a comment on your photo, and it
| | 01:26 | was in a different language, then
they would actually translate it for you
| | 01:30 | through Google Translate.
| | 01:31 | Now, one of the next features is
something that I think is very powerful.
| | 01:35 | We mentioned the idea in previous movie
that you could upload a photo via email.
| | 01:40 | I demonstrated how you could do this via
an iPhone or from any connected device.
| | 01:44 | This is where you set that up.
| | 01:47 | By checking this box, it allows
you to upload photos via email.
| | 01:50 | Next, it will ask you to enter a secret word.
| | 01:53 | Now that secret word will be
inserted as a secure mandate as a part of
| | 01:58 | assigning this email address.
| | 02:00 | Now this is critical, because as you
enter this, this is something that you
| | 02:03 | don't want to share with anyone.
| | 02:05 | In this training video, this is
something that will be blurred out.
| | 02:08 | So don't worry if you can't read this.
| | 02:10 | As you type it, it will
automatically be passed into this particular
| | 02:14 | email address here.
| | 02:16 | That becomes your email
address for this particular account.
| | 02:19 | Don't share this email address.
| | 02:21 | This is very important.
| | 02:23 | This is only for you.
| | 02:24 | What the power of this brings is I now
associate this particular email address
| | 02:29 | with a contact on my iPhone or becomes a
contact within any of my email clients.
| | 02:35 | Usually, I name this contact like
Picasa Upload or My Picasa Account.
| | 02:41 | That is a contact that is
associated with this email address.
| | 02:45 | This is private to you and if it ever
gets compromised, you can quickly change
| | 02:49 | this secret word and it will change.
| | 02:51 | But this is one of the coolest features
that once I understood how it worked, I
| | 02:54 | use it all the time now.
| | 02:57 | So have fun with this one.
| | 02:58 | I mentioned a little bit
about the Language Preferences.
| | 03:01 | Comment Translation, this is where you
automatically translate any comments that
| | 03:05 | come in from the separate language.
| | 03:07 | They've recently added this
and this is a nice setting.
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| Changing Email Notification settings| 00:00 | Located in your web albums
account are the Global Overall Settings.
| | 00:04 | We talked a little bit about the
general ones. Now I'm going to talk about
| | 00:07 | e-mail notification.
| | 00:09 | E-mail notifications are important to
talk about because the idea is that you
| | 00:12 | maybe want to be notified via e-mail
on certain things that are happening.
| | 00:16 | These are certain activities that happen
when there is activity on your account.
| | 00:21 | Now Picasa can notify you on things
that are happening relating to your photos.
| | 00:24 | So you can choose to be notified
Daily, Weekly, Monthly or really never.
| | 00:29 | Then sometimes it's nice to know if
someone has commented on your photo.
| | 00:33 | So use these preferences as it relates
to your interest and how often you want
| | 00:37 | to be involved in this online community.
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| Changing Privacy and Permissions settings| 00:00 | The next settings are very important,
usually overlooked. They are called
| | 00:03 | Privacy and Permissions, and they are
located inside one of the tabs on your
| | 00:08 | Global settings within Picasa Web Albums.
| | 00:11 | Now let's take note here.
| | 00:13 | There has been a lot of things that I
have referenced to that relate to Privacy
| | 00:17 | and Permissions and particularly when
you are saving, uploading and sharing
| | 00:22 | family photos, or those that are
private photos, this is an important topic.
| | 00:27 | Be mindful of each category and
read through anything that you want as
| | 00:32 | many times as necessary.
| | 00:33 | There is even really nice tutorials
located underneath each category to give
| | 00:37 | you more information.
| | 00:39 | I'll try my best to explain
everything in this particular tutorial.
| | 00:43 | Name tags.
| | 00:45 | Picasa 3.0 has added facial
recognition to a lot of the functionality.
| | 00:49 | This is really helpful in
helping you understand who is in a
| | 00:52 | particular photograph.
| | 00:53 | It's a great piece of technology.
| | 00:55 | What you want to be mindful of is how
those tags are shared outside of your
| | 01:01 | particular viewing world.
| | 01:03 | When I say that, if you have a public
album, all these settings here as it
| | 01:09 | relates to name tags that people are
in my photos, if you don't want to use
| | 01:13 | that, or if you want to in fact hide them,
you can start to see the relationship
| | 01:17 | between un-hide and hide.
| | 01:20 | You can see that there is a
cascading functionality there.
| | 01:23 | If I hide my name tags in my public
albums, this is really important, which
| | 01:27 | means I'm not associating a particular
name to the face, but it is helpful in
| | 01:31 | my organizational tasks.
| | 01:32 | The last one here is Hide name tags in
my unlisted and sign-in required items.
| | 01:39 | It's somewhat of a preference in terms
of, well, you are already offering some
| | 01:42 | hidden functionality.
| | 01:43 | So do you want to
associate those names and faces?
| | 01:47 | This is very critical, as you start
to associate names with faces, and
| | 01:52 | it associates with the privacy
and visibility of your albums.
| | 01:55 | Next, let's talk about location.
| | 01:58 | Now the relationship between
names and locations is very critical.
| | 02:03 | If you are pretty liberal on the
names, be very mindful of the locations,
| | 02:07 | particularly if it involves
family members, children, etcetera.
| | 02:11 | You can see here it automatically maps
photos if they contain location data.
| | 02:16 | Now this might be prominent on a
particular mobile device, and you may or
| | 02:20 | may not know that photos that are
automatically going up to one of your web albums,
| | 02:25 | may have a location associated with them.
| | 02:27 | So be mindful of this.
| | 02:28 | So it's okay to have
location data associated with it.
| | 02:31 | But the next one is interesting.
| | 02:33 | Show my photo location to others.
| | 02:36 | When this is checked, that's actually
going to be most critical. You can see
| | 02:39 | that my preference is that
I don't want to show this.
| | 02:43 | So be very mindful of your rigidity
between the names, faces and locations
| | 02:48 | associated with this particular item.
| | 02:50 | In conjunction with this, you have to
think of these not only as individuals,
| | 02:54 | but how they work together.
| | 02:56 | The next one is Public search.
| | 02:58 | Note this.
| | 03:00 | Make my public album searchable.
| | 03:03 | Even within a public album, they give
you the choice here on whether or not this
| | 03:07 | is searchable. Well, what does this mean?
| | 03:08 | I have been pretty adamant about
describing that much of your information can be
| | 03:14 | indexed so that it can retrieved.
| | 03:16 | This is a tool for you, but it also is
a tool for other people to find things.
| | 03:22 | If I were to check this, you can
see that it immediately brings up a
| | 03:26 | toolbox here and it will let you
know that everything is going to be in
| | 03:30 | your public albums searchable.
| | 03:32 | That means all of your data and
everything that will be associated with that,
| | 03:36 | location, captions, allow it to be searchable.
| | 03:39 | Make sure that this is a
preference that you want to enable.
| | 03:43 | And this will be applied to all
public albums, not specific ones.
| | 03:46 | So if you have sensitivities, you can
change a public album into an unlisted
| | 03:51 | or private album.
| | 03:53 | The next one is Allow any visitor
to order prints and download photos.
| | 03:57 | Some people are totally
fine with sharing their photos.
| | 04:01 | I have a little bit more
flexibility around this.
| | 04:03 | I allow people and my family
members to actually download them.
| | 04:06 | It helps me out instead of them asking,
hey, can I get copies of those?,
| | 04:10 | I just direct them to the
ability to order prints directly.
| | 04:13 | So you can setup in the first part
you permissions. Pretty straightforward.
| | 04:18 | And if you know those permissions
are going to be setup to only be shared
| | 04:21 | with family members, it's okay to
allow them to order prints directly, or
| | 04:25 | even download them.
| | 04:27 | So be mindful of all
these things working together.
| | 04:31 | The Creative Commons is a new and up
and coming attribution that's going
| | 04:35 | around the web.
| | 04:36 | If you ever want to learn a little
bit more, you can find out more about it
| | 04:39 | on the web.
| | 04:40 | You can see it has a lot to do with
reuse and there is copyright, there is
| | 04:46 | remixing, there are different types of
things you may want to put as attribution
| | 04:50 | next to your images.
| | 04:51 | This all has to do with how you
feel about the types of photos you are
| | 04:55 | putting up there.
| | 04:56 | So you can follow along here. You
can see that I allow reuse and I allow
| | 05:00 | remixing, but Require Share-Alike,
but I don't allow commercial use here.
| | 05:06 | So this is just based on my own comfort level.
| | 05:08 | So I can't say this loud enough,
just make sure you take good use of this
| | 05:15 | understanding of Privacy and
Permissions, because the extra time will pay off,
| | 05:19 | because you will feel better about
sharing, you'll feel better about your
| | 05:22 | settings, and you know exactly what
kind of comfort level you will be able to
| | 05:27 | have putting your photos online.
| | 05:29 | Once you are done with all of this, go
ahead and save changes and you will be
| | 05:33 | done with the Privacy and Permissions
settings, which is located right there.
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| Changing Storage settings| 00:00 | Next, I'm going to talk about an
important setting that relates to storage.
| | 00:04 | When you are first given an account
with Picasa Web Albums, it's free and
| | 00:10 | you have I believe up to one gigabyte and
at the time of print, don't hold me to
| | 00:15 | this because it could change.
| | 00:16 | But the idea is that you have a lot of
free storage that you can use and
| | 00:20 | you can use it when you think about
uploading your photographs, particularly if
| | 00:24 | you are not using the originals, you
could have quite a bit of use out of that
| | 00:29 | one or two gigabytes.
| | 00:30 | So it lasted about a year-and-a-half
with the storage that I had up there.
| | 00:35 | But the nice thing about the storage
upgrade is that it applies to all of
| | 00:38 | the services.
| | 00:39 | It applies to your Gmail, your
Documents, you can imagine here, photos will
| | 00:44 | probably take up the lion's share of
that space, but it applies across your
| | 00:48 | entire offering here.
| | 00:49 | So you can just see my storage here,
I have thousands and thousands of photos
| | 00:54 | up on my particular web albums account,
and I have used only 2.4 GB, because I
| | 00:59 | use smaller versions.
| | 01:00 | If you ever want to upgrade, go
ahead and click on Upgrade your storage.
| | 01:05 | When you are logged-in through your
Gmail account, you'll be presented with this
| | 01:09 | interface here, and you can see that it
tells you exactly how much you are using
| | 01:13 | out of your allotted sum,
they've already tabulated that.
| | 01:17 | If I wanted to upgrade, I can do that.
| | 01:20 | If you log-in one day, and this price
instructions change, just take a note of
| | 01:24 | what that is, but it looks like
they've got 10 GB for $20, which I think is a
| | 01:29 | pretty darn and good deal, and I have
no problem paying basically $2 a month on
| | 01:34 | this type of value that I have.
| | 01:36 | It also makes me feel good that a lot
of my photos are backed up, because I've
| | 01:39 | put a lot of them up online, and I feel
comfortable with that kind of commitment
| | 01:44 | for my memories and my photos.
| | 01:46 | So when you think about storage, think
of it in this way, is that it's a great
| | 01:50 | way to backup your photos, and if you
ever had to retrieve those memories due to
| | 01:55 | a failed hard drive, I always say
there are only two types of people in this
| | 01:59 | world, those that have lost
data, and those that will.
| | 02:02 | This is a very good safe card that
allows you to have some extra storage space
| | 02:05 | that you can put your photos online.
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| Identifying people in photos using face recognition| 00:00 | I am going to talk about an exciting
new feature that was added to Picasa web
| | 00:05 | albums, and it relates to
recognizing people that are in your photos.
| | 00:10 | Now the way to think about this can be
very powerful, particularly when sharing,
| | 00:14 | or specifically when recalling memories.
| | 00:18 | So a little while ago this whole area
here was added to Picasa Web Albums.
| | 00:23 | I'll show you how this works.
| | 00:26 | So the first thing that you do
is you want to add name tags.
| | 00:30 | When you add name tags, what
happens is it starts to go through your
| | 00:33 | particular photo library, and what
it's doing behind the scenes is it's
| | 00:38 | recognizing faces for you.
| | 00:41 | This is a pretty amazing interface.
| | 00:43 | So due to security reasons, some
of these are kind of blurred out.
| | 00:47 | They shouldn't be blurred out on your interface.
| | 00:49 | We are just doing this to protect
the identity of some of the people in
| | 00:52 | my photographs.
| | 00:54 | This is indiscriminate, in the sense
that I'm going to pick out some of the
| | 00:56 | photos here, and it does a really
great job at recognizing the photographs
| | 01:01 | that are here.
| | 01:02 | These all happen to be of my son.
| | 01:05 | What's interesting here is you can
start to see like some of the preferences
| | 01:08 | that have been setup.
| | 01:09 | So I'm going to start to
type the name of this person.
| | 01:13 | You can see that matches that are
showing up from previous entries, or those
| | 01:19 | that are from my Gmail
account, are starting to match.
| | 01:22 | This is pretty interesting, because
you are mapping faces to those that are
| | 01:26 | in particular albums.
| | 01:27 | So I'm going to go ahead and
say this is my son, Tucker.
| | 01:31 | The next one you can see that most
of these are my son Tucker, but except
| | 01:34 | this one here.
| | 01:36 | Don't worry if it's blurred out, just
because it's going to be something that
| | 01:39 | is associated with this particular
technology, and I can say that this in fact
| | 01:43 | is Tucker, so I can either type the
name Tucker, or since it's been identified,
| | 01:48 | I go ahead and click.
| | 01:49 | Now you can go ahead and click
through this type of interface until you see
| | 01:54 | quite a few of the different faces.
| | 01:56 | What's amazing is what this does to the
facial recognition when you start to do
| | 02:02 | this a couple of times.
| | 02:03 | I was amazed how quickly just by
spending maybe 20 minutes in this, how quickly
| | 02:09 | I was able to build-up a bunch of
faces, and how smart it began to come.
| | 02:14 | So I'm going to jump out of this.
| | 02:16 | I'm going to show you what this does.
| | 02:18 | So you can see that when I clicked
into this, I'm now in the People tab.
| | 02:21 | So there is a couple of ways to go into it.
| | 02:24 | There is My Photos, and
then there is the People tab.
| | 02:28 | How I got into it was really
the same as adding name tags here.
| | 02:31 | So there is a couple of ways into this.
| | 02:33 | But let me show you what this does.
| | 02:35 | Let me go down here to one of my
family albums, and I'll show you what this does.
| | 02:40 | This is pretty amazing.
| | 02:42 | Here is a photo of my wife and my two
kids here, but as I go over the faces,
| | 02:47 | look how amazing the facial recognition works.
| | 02:51 | So that means that this is the little
face that was detected and associated
| | 02:55 | with my daughter Chloe.
| | 02:56 | When I go back to View All, it starts
to become a really important attribute.
| | 03:01 | Well, let's say I wanted
to share this with people.
| | 03:05 | Well, the share task makes
this extremely interesting.
| | 03:09 | You can see that it's recognized the
people that are in this album through the
| | 03:13 | technique I just showed.
| | 03:14 | So when I go to click Share, it
starts to become a very interesting task.
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| Sharing web albums| 00:00 | We're talking about sharing entire
albums and we just did some facial
| | 00:05 | recognition work and I'm going to
show the benefit of why that's important.
| | 00:08 | So in this particular album, you can
see there's quite a bit of faces, all of
| | 00:12 | these are members of my family here.
| | 00:13 | But once those faces are recognized,
it makes the share task little easier.
| | 00:17 | So when you go up to Share, in a
particular album, watch what happens.
| | 00:23 | It gives you an email interface and I
can start to type an email address of who
| | 00:27 | I may want to share this with.
| | 00:28 | That's someone that's not even in
this album, like grandma or grandpa.
| | 00:32 | But what's really nice is
what's happening on the right.
| | 00:35 | The benefit of doing some of this
work ahead of time is going to start to pay off.
| | 00:40 | Let's say you're out with a bunch of
people and you also correspond with those people.
| | 00:45 | Once you associate the face with that
particular person, it makes a lot easier
| | 00:50 | to share it with them.
| | 00:51 | So now, I can just share and click the
box here and those email addresses are
| | 00:55 | automatically added.
| | 00:56 | If I also wanted to add
grandma, I can also do that.
| | 01:00 | You can start to see like the benefit of
starting to type and you get all of the
| | 01:04 | different email addresses
associated with that Gmail account.
| | 01:09 | On the receiving end of that, let me
show you little bit about what's going on.
| | 01:12 | I'm going to say Hey folks,
check out the cool photos.
| | 01:20 | Next, we're going to kind of see what
happens on the receiving end of when you
| | 01:24 | share photos and what it looks like.
| | 01:26 | Once you're done, you can kind of see
what happens here and this is going to be
| | 01:29 | taken from the cover image.
| | 01:31 | This is the title of the gallery here.
| | 01:34 | If you want, you can send yourself a
copy, just to ensure that it was sent.
| | 01:38 | Go ahead and send email.
| | 01:43 | Once you've shared an album or an email,
you get nice confirmation, because it
| | 01:48 | sends you back to the
particular place where you just were.
| | 01:51 | So take note of this nice,
yellow confirmation piece here.
| | 01:55 | Now, the next thing we're going to do
is, since I was on the two line of the
| | 01:58 | recipient, I'm going to go ahead
and show you what it looks like on the
| | 02:01 | other end.
| | 02:02 | There is oftentimes confusion between
did I send the photos themselves or a link to them?
| | 02:08 | Well, here is what this
particular email looks like.
| | 02:10 | You're invited to view Dane's
photo album, santa_cruz_boardwalk.
| | 02:14 | It gives you the name.
| | 02:15 | They're invited to view the
album, play the slideshow.
| | 02:18 | Here's that custom message I
made just a few minutes earlier.
| | 02:21 | There's no photos attached to this email.
| | 02:24 | This is really referring
to the image that's inside.
| | 02:26 | This is what's called an HTML email.
| | 02:28 | So if you're worried about large
attachments, this is not one of those.
| | 02:33 | When they view the album, they're
redirected into the album itself.
| | 02:37 | Let's show you what this does.
| | 02:39 | By redirecting, it opens up a
browser and shows you the album itself.
| | 02:44 | Now remember, we gave
permissions to an Unlisted album.
| | 02:49 | This is an unlisted album, so
you're saying well, wait a second.
| | 02:51 | Should this even be seen?
| | 02:53 | The answer is yes.
| | 02:55 | You've shared it with people and you
can see exactly and keep track of the
| | 02:59 | people that you shared it with.
| | 03:00 | You can see here that this ongoing list
that they've added, reminds you of the
| | 03:05 | people that you've shared your album with.
| | 03:09 | This is very helpful within an unlisted
album, because it reminds you who you've
| | 03:13 | given URL and the location out to.
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| Downloading albums and downloading images | 00:00 | Next, I'm going to talk about
downloading specific images or entire
| | 00:05 | albums themselves.
| | 00:06 | Now, this is related to the share
experience and the public permissions.
| | 00:10 | I'm going to take a particular album
here, this Paris 2009, and at the top of it,
| | 00:15 | we're going to talk about this
particular Download feature here.
| | 00:18 | Now, what shows up in this download
capability is related to the settings.
| | 00:24 | Now remember when we set the
settings, we actually set the permissions right here.
| | 00:31 | So you can see how the permissions
in our settings correlate to what we
| | 00:36 | allow people to do.
| | 00:37 | Now, if this is something that I
shared with someone, you may or may not be
| | 00:42 | able to download it.
| | 00:43 | You are the author of this.
| | 00:44 | So while you're signed in, you'll be
able to allow yourself to download these
| | 00:48 | because you own these.
| | 00:50 | But based on how you share it with
someone, you may or may not allow them to be
| | 00:54 | able to download this entire
album or individual photos.
| | 00:58 | So let's go ahead and
download this album to Picasa itself.
| | 01:03 | Downloading Picasa will allow
me to take the entire album.
| | 01:07 | When it opens up in Windows here,
you can see that allows me to choose a
| | 01:10 | particular application in order to open it.
| | 01:14 | Go ahead and select OK and you'll
be redirected into the Picasa Client.
| | 01:19 | You can see here it's identified the 55
shots, you can see those here and this
| | 01:25 | will initiate the download.
| | 01:27 | Now, we've done this in previous movies here.
| | 01:30 | But watch this area here, the
lower left, Downloaded Albums.
| | 01:34 | In a previous movie we
downloaded something called our Drop Box.
| | 01:38 | But as we download this album here,
in the lower right, you can see
| | 01:41 | the progress.
| | 01:42 | Then it will start to pull those in.
| | 01:45 | You can see that the Downloaded
Albums correspond a little differently than
| | 01:48 | those on the Web Albums.
| | 01:50 | It treats that a little differently
here because the Paris album is something
| | 01:55 | that I had previously.
| | 01:58 | It allows me to download those and
Picasa keeps a nice organizational
| | 02:02 | structure to all of these.
| | 02:03 | So you can see here what's denoted by
the little Earth icon here means that
| | 02:09 | it came from the web.
| | 02:11 | This is really helpful feature
when I've essentially moved albums or
| | 02:15 | essentially I've been granted
permission by someone else, to download entire
| | 02:20 | album that I may want to print locally
or view locally, because they've given
| | 02:24 | me this permission.
| | 02:25 | So keep that in mind, when you start
from a particular web album and you're
| | 02:30 | given access or the permission to download.
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| Creating projects using the Download tab| 00:00 | Picasa has made it really easy to
initiate creative projects directly from
| | 00:05 | an online album.
| | 00:06 | This is related to the sharing task
because you could either be the author of
| | 00:10 | this album or the recipient of
someone who shared it with you.
| | 00:15 | So, depending on the permissions
inside the Download tab, you may see other
| | 00:19 | things, like Print with Picasa,
Make a Collage or even Make a Movie.
| | 00:25 | Just because you don't have these
photos in your Picasa to start with doesn't
| | 00:30 | mean you can't jump into a project with them.
| | 00:32 | So, I just wanted to cover very quickly
that Picasa now allows you from the web
| | 00:37 | albums interface, now we are online,
I could actually print someone else's photos
| | 00:42 | directly from this particular
interface. Let's take a look.
| | 00:45 | I am inside of the Paris album here
and if I select Print with Picasa it will
| | 00:52 | invite me within the Windows machine to
choose which application. Go ahead and
| | 00:56 | hit OK and it will open up this
interface which allows me to go directly from
| | 01:02 | this particular interface,
and to print the entire album.
| | 01:05 | We have covered printing, but this is
just a way to show you that you have a
| | 01:10 | creative and quick way to jump from
online assets into the print interface.
| | 01:15 | I'm going to go ahead and cancel out of
that and go back to the interface prior.
| | 01:20 | Let's cover the similar one, where we
can make a specific collage or even a
| | 01:26 | movie and you will be presented with
the exact same functionality to say launch
| | 01:30 | with Picasa and then you will
go into those respective tasks.
| | 01:34 | In the background, we'll
be downloading the assets.
| | 01:37 | If this takes a little bit of time
don't worry because you are basically asking
| | 01:40 | it to download the entire album
but also perform a task on top of it.
| | 01:45 | The reason downloading happens first is
that you need to be able to take all the
| | 01:49 | assets to perform the creative task.
| | 01:51 | Think of these as just shortcuts
into these ways of quickly getting into
| | 01:55 | that creative task.
| | 01:57 | I just wanted to cover that so, people
will understood that you could initiate
| | 02:00 | these creative projects
directly from the web interface.
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| Ordering prints| 00:00 | Picasa makes it really easy to print and
order prints directly from any web album.
| | 00:07 | If these have been shared with you,
you may be presented with this menu, Prints,
| | 00:11 | and you may have the
ability to order them directly.
| | 00:13 | Now, certainly with your photographs you can
order prints directly because you own them.
| | 00:18 | But if these have been shared with you,
you can order prints from other people
| | 00:21 | if they give you the correct permissions.
| | 00:23 | From here, go ahead and select Order prints.
| | 00:26 | Directly from the web interface you
are given particularly build-in to remove
| | 00:30 | certain photos as I'm doing here
and I can add them to an order.
| | 00:34 | But the next thing I need
to do is select my provider.
| | 00:37 | This provider allows you to log in
securely into your specific account and
| | 00:42 | it will take these photos and
add it to a particular order.
| | 00:44 | This is fantastic functionality and
speeds up a lot of the nuances between
| | 00:50 | trying to get prints from someone
that you maybe were hanging out with or
| | 00:54 | sharing those memories.
This helps out tremendously.
| | 00:57 | So, have fun with this functionality,
and make sure that when you do share them,
| | 01:01 | when people ask for that permission,
that you know to go into your settings and
| | 01:05 | then select the appropriate permissions
that allow people to do this, if you so desire.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | In conclusion I'm going to show you a
bunch of images because that's what is all about.
| | 00:04 | Remove the GUI, remove the
tools, and it's all about great images,
| | 00:08 | and enabling you to see the world
and to get your vision out there.
| | 00:12 | So from me to you, that's it.
| | 00:14 | Have fun.
| | 00:15 | We are out of here!
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