Learning to use Picasa

Got a little spare time and some photos to organize or share?

Here again are direct links to Atomic Learning video tutorials. These lessons demonstrate how to begin to use the free online photo editing and sharing tool Picasa 3.5. In addition to these tutorials, the Atomic Learning Picasa series has many more showing how to add labels, edit and share photos. While the first couple of links in this list may be freely viewed, you must be signed into Atomic Learning to view the others.

• Picasa 3.5
  
  
  
  • A. Get Started
    
    
    
    • Downloading Picasa 3.5
    
    
    • Exploring the Picasa interface
    
    
    • Importing photos from a digital camera
    
    
    • Importing photos from a removable drive
    
    
    • Importing screen captures
    
    
    • Adding photos from a folder on your hard drive
    
    
    • Controlling how folders are monitored
    
    
    • Selecting which file types are displayed
  
  
  
  
  • B. Organize
    
    
    
    • Organizing photos in folders
    
    
    • Editing Folder properties
    
    
    • Creating a new album
    
    
    • Adding photos to an album
    
    
    • Deleting photos from an album
    
    
    • Editing Album properties
    
    
    • Sorting photos
    
    
    • Sorting albums and folders
    
    
    • Hiding and unhiding folders
    
    
    • Hiding and unhiding pictures
    
    
    • Password-protecting a collection
    
    
    • Deleting photos
    
    
    • Recovering deleted photos
    
    
    • Renaming photos
    
    
    • Searching for photos
    
    
    • Viewing Photo properties