Many of you know that I LOVE taking photographs. I travel a lot, my camera is usually with me, and I end up taking many, many, many more photos than I need. For example, I took 1200 photos in Peru, using up 5 gigs of memory. Thankfully, I was able to narrow the 1200 pictures down to 150 to share with my friends.
How did I pick 150 pics out of 1200?? By using my handy, dandy, favorite photo tool, Picasa. Google has made this tool SO EASY it’s ridiculous. Oh and did I mention it is FREE? Love that!
After downloading Picasa, it will scan your computer to find all your photos. Then you can search through them in many ways and fix basic image mistakes easy. Red eye? Check. Crooked Photos? Check. Bad coloring? Check. In fact, you can fix more than one photo at once using their batch editing tools (my fav is I’m Feeling Lucky).
Now that you’ve fixed all your photos, you should be ready to share them with your friends. Join Picasa Web Albums. Once again, it’s FREE. Then you can upload an entire album to the web from Picasa.
And now, for my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE part of Picasa — you can download entire albums with one click from Picasa Web. To my knowledge, no other photo-sharing site offers this. I love this because I am tired of mailing around picture cds to my friends across the world.
Ok, by now you’ve had enough of my gushing about Picasa. If you don’t have it, get it: http://picasa.google.com
