Retouch

In "Basic Fixes", you can find stuff like retouch. Were you can remove things like pimples, and other things you don't want to be shown.

 First, you click on retouch, then you can change the size of the brush. You then click on the thing you want to "retouch", and drag the mouse to another spot that look alike so the place where the thing was, looks like that spot. After this you click again, and voíla! Underneath you see the outcome. Remember to click on Apply when finnished!

This post is made by Iris and is therefore written in very bad English. Do not blame May-Helene!

Coooooool Effects

Check this out! We made this by using Picasa, and Picasa only!

This is a major fail, made by us. We did applied a bunch of effects and things to the lollipop, and we were trying to take it back.- There are these tiny two arrows at the bottom under the lollipop. You might be able to see them. We thought these two buttons were back buttons, so we clicked them, and the picture rotated... so we thought the other one had rotated it, so we kept on clicking the button. After about 10 minutes of it rotating, Iris realized it wasn't the back button. It was the rotate one. 

You see how this picture has a bit of a blue tint at the top? This is called Graduated tint, and is under the tab Effects. This tab come up when you click on a picture in the library. Then you can chose a color and drag the mouse to where you want it. It's very simple, and looks awesome. 

This is one of the coolest effects. It's called Focal B&W and it turns the whole picture black and white, except for one circle of color. You can move this circle, and also make it bigger, smaller, sharper or more non-sharp. SO it doesn't have to look like the very sharp circle on the lollipop that you see above. On the picture before this one you can see how the circle on the lollipop isn't very sharp, which we think creates a nicer effect.

Some random FACTS about Picasa!

• "Picasa" is a blend of the name of famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso; the phrase mi casa for "my house", and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). 
• Originally developed by Idealab, but is now owned by Google.
See more here. 

One of Pablo Picasso's works.

People

On Picasa, there is something called People. People allows you to tag the faces in your pictures, then creating a library with all the faces. It will recognize what faces fits with what names. This makes it easy for you to find pictures of an exact person when you are looking for a specific someone.

Picasa 3 Vs. paint.NET

	Picasa 3	Paint.NET
Photo Library	x
Retouch	x
Effects	x	x
Magic Wand	x	x
Mac&Windows	x
History		x
Tuning	x	x

 

Here we have made a chart, comparing Picasa 3 to paint.NET.  Picasa 3 won, and that's why we're doing a blog about Picasa 3 and not paint.NET

How to get Picasa 3

So, it's really easy to get Picasa 3. You go to google.com and you search Picasa 3 download, and you will get to the site. But we have made it even easier. Just follow this link by clicking here! Then, to the right, there is a blue rectangular button that says Download Picasa. Click on this button. It will automatically pop up on you download list. From there you can open it, and voila! You have Picasa 3. 

Isn't it beautiful?

Hi from the Dudes in Trondheim

About once a week, we will submit updates about PICASA. This is a school(technology) project. Our task is to make a manual.

- Picasa3 Dudes