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#No editing functions present on picasa 3.9 how to#

If you know the real date of the picture and want to record that so they can be sorted by the date they were actually taken, Picasa allows you to do that with Tools, Adjust Date and Time. Harris family, and Tinker family could be tags.ĭates: These ‘old’ pictures will have today’s date on them. Let the face recognition take care of finding individuals, but tags would be a good place to create identifiers for different branches of your family, e.g. Now, when you search for Birthday Parties, your results will include all photos with ‘Birthday Parties’ either in the caption OR tags. For example, if you have lots of old pictures of Birthday Parties, you might want to establish a tag for that. Keywords or Tags: Tags are a separate organizational device. Captions will display on any slide show you create with Picasa, you can even print them right on the picture if you like. Even if nothing is written on the original – try to add a caption now about each picture. You will *love* yourself later when there is identifying information n each picture. If the original pictures have a caption written on the photo album, be sure to type that in to a caption in Picasa. If I have dozens of different folders – I can’t be so confident. If I backup my folder of Old Photos to DVD, I am confident that I have a backup of *all* the old photos that I imported. The main purpose for folders, in my opinion, is for backup. More doesn’t help you find things easier. I only imported about 200 pictures so I just put them all in one folder called ‘Old Photos.’ You can start with that one ‘Old Photos’ folder, then if it gets too big, you can break it up later.ĭon’t make too many folders! Folders on your computer are like file drawers in a filing cabinet. I recommend using folders that correspond to where the picture came from … frames on walls, Mom’s Red Photo Album, etc. The key is to use Albums, Keywords and Captions, rather than folders, for your subject matter groupings.Įvery picture does need to be placed in a Folder when you first import it, but this is just the physical location of the file on your computer. The beauty of Picasa is that you have the flexibility for all of these organizational styles with only one copy of your pictures on your computer.

And others can be geographical – organizing by location. Some people are event oriented and want folders for birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Some people are date-oriented and want all photos in folders by date. There are no set rules for organizing your pictures because everyone has different ideas. This is a MUCH faster method than scanning. It might take a little time to get the album in just the right light, with no glare, but once you’ve managed one good reproduction, then you can just turn the page and keep clicking away. Pictures in old photo albums can be difficult to remove in one piece, and even harder to put back in the album. The new picture looks just like the original.

You can set your camera to the close-up setting – usually represented by a flower icon – then you can fill the frame with just the picture. I even left them on the wall and just walked around with my digital camera and snapped photos of the pictures in their frames. The best part about this method is that you can leave the pictures in their frames. It probably depends on the quality of your scanner – this has just been my experience. Sometimes the new picture is even better when snapped with a digital camera rather than scanned. I have found that simply taking my digital camera and snapping a picture of the old pictures produces results that are pretty good. First you need to take the picture out of its frame, or its album, then place it on the scanner and import, then put it back in the frame or album. However, it is a very time-consuming process. This process works great if you have a flatbed scanner attached to your computer and properly configured. See my past article: Scanning Old Photos with Picasa’s Import Command. What people first think of is to take the photograph and place it on a flatbed scanner. When you’re done, you will be able to have shared family photo albums on the web for all the far-flung family members to enjoy. If your parents have as many pictures as mine – you’re undertaking a lengthy task. Great question MaryAnn, and one I know that a lot of Picasa users have.

#No editing functions present on picasa 3.9 how to#

Question: I am quite excited about learning how to scan my parent’s very old photos and then organizing them with Picasa.