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Photo Editing with Picasa 3

My new laptop came with Picasa 3 as the photo editor. I've always used HP Image Zone, but decided it was time to try something new. But for some reason I can't find a photo resizing tool in Picasa 3, and I resize a lot!

I just tried DrPic.com as suggested on twitter...but I can only save the resized photo as a url. Funny, when all I could do was browse, everyone wanted a url. Now that I have a url...there's only a browse button on twitpic and facebook. So I'm posting the url here so I can hopefully grab the photo.

Worth a try...

Nope...If anyone knows how to resize a photo in Picasa 3...or if you know Picasa three isn't worth a crap and I should just stop using it :) - please let me know.

Thanks!

Posted by ARDELL DellaLoggia on 09/21/2009 09:18 PM

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I use Picassa 3. The only way I know to resize the photo is to email it to yourself. You can specify small, medium or large. I create a separate folder within the property folder and name it "small." This way I have the original photo, as well as the smaller version. It's not ideal, but overall it's a good photo editor.

Picasa has its uses, but overall it is slow and bulky. But it is free. You can upload your photos to the on-line Picasa photo storage and embed the photos in your posts. The embedded photos have several options for sizing.

I couldn't find any resizing feature either. What I do like about Picasa is that you can watermark a date, your name etc. on it. I needed to watermark dates on photos for REO lenders who want proof that the photos are recent. So i use one photo editor to resize and Picasa to watermark when I need it.

I don't have it loaded on this computer right now, but you can resize photos from the same screen that you adjust the colors, add effects, etc.

Hi Ardell, Long time! I dropped over to say hello and read this post about Picasa. I don't use the program but I wanted to read what your commenters had to say. There are many photo editing programs and a lots of them are free or near so. I rather like the on-line program of Picnik.com and the small charge to upgrade makes it especially worth while. CJ Johnson is a real expert on photo editing and probably knows most of these software programs. Type in a search for her on ActiveRain and I will bet she would help you achieve what you need to do.

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Good Morning Ardell...

I use Picassa as well. As the program will not resize I upload to Picnik and resize it there. Picnik has several tools that allow you to do more than just resize. Try it out and see if you like it. Personally I love Picnik. I can do all sorts of strange things with it :)

TLW...ROAR!

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Uggg - I HATE HATE HATE the resizing thing , too - I have a really fancy camera that makes these giant pictures to the point that I can zoom in on a tiny little speck of the picture and get a nice clear shot out of it by cropping. Hubby is in charge of this now - I ask him to download the photos for me into photshop and give me priginals and web versions which are all batch resized. I might look into Picnik in case I need to do some of it myself at some point...

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Thanks all. My avatar was done in picnik by Ines awhile back. In the meantime some people on twitter told me how to resize in Picasa. You export to folder and the export gives you the resize option just before you save it.

I still prefer my old HP Image zone which is on my other computers, because I can resize per direction giving me the ability to stretch a photo. Comes in handy when a room looks too "squat".

Ha...

You just taught me something about Picassa that I didn't know. Thank you :)

TLW...ROAR!

SEP

TLW,

I wish I could have met you on my recent trip to Miami...but the time was too short for "wanderings" to other parts of Florida. My best to you and BlogBoy...

SEP

Hi Ardell,

Picasa was never intended to be a full blown photo manipulation program. It is more of a file program with easy ways to email photos. Picasa allows you to browse your photo files (if they are relatively small) and then attach them to email. Other than that you should get a more powerful program.

My suggestion is Photoshop Elements by Adobe. It is less than $100 and has much of the power of its big brother PHotoshop. In some ways it has things that Photoshop does not have. Your digital camera should have shipped with a good basic image manipulation program, I know Nikon and Canon does. Canon's program Digital Photo Professional is very powerful but takes some practice to use it effectively.

Picasa is worth what you paid for it in my opinion. With your depending on a program in your work and blogging use a program that is made for what you want. You do not use Word to lay out a newspaper so do not use a free web program to Edit your photographs. Yes, I know the programs that come with your digital camera were free - or were they (you paid for them when you purchased your camera).

It has been a year or so since we chatted - so HI hope all is going well.

Ed Bartley

Hi Ed,

Nice to hear from you. I am well and hope you are too.

I have always used and been happy with HP Image Zone, but thought since Picasa come with the "new" laptop that it might be better. Thanks for your thoughts...they are very helpful.

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