With Picasa 3, do more with your photos

The software, free, offers more than just archiving your photos. Discover the tools the most fun and useful.

Picasa 3 has become very popular with photographers. His role? Sort, edit and share digital images found on his PC. But he is capable of much more. You know, for example, that can make a poster, call a pell-mell, to create a custom screensaver or burn a gift CD?

The ability to access the same function by different routes and may confuse the user, whether beginner or not. There are, for example, three methods to arrive at the tool for creating and editing a photo montage. That is why we guide you through the maze of software from Google and show you the possibilities.Micro Hebdo explains everything and takes you by the hand to help you do more with your favorite pictures.Finally, it works perfectly Windows XP and Vista, Picasa is now also Mac!

Create a Gift CD

To provide a slide show to your friends, burn your photos on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM directly from Picasa. But know that this CD-Rom is intended to be viewed on a computer and not on a DVD player.

1 – Consider first to put the pictures in the order you want them to appear. Because once you start writing, you can not change. Click the folder you want to burn on a CD-Rom. Then click Create a Gift CD, placed just above the thumbnails.

2 – In the band that appears at the bottom of the screen, you’ll be able to choose the parameters of the CD-Rom. In the Select Settings and click on Add to select the images found in other files and include them to CD. Check the folders in question. At the bottom of the screen, in Box 1 in the dropdown menu entitled size photos, choose Original Size.In the Name box gift CD, fill in the name of the CD.This is the name of the first file which is selected by default. Change it and replace it eventually by the more explicit.

3 – If the CD is intended to be offered to friends, select the Include Slideshow.As soon as you close the CD launch, they will simply press the Play button to start the slideshow. You can also choose to include software Picasa.

4 – Just above parameters Gift CD display the number of files and their weight. An important fact to know about what media, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, you must burn. If the weight of data exceeds 700 MB, use a blank DVD. Then click Burn Disc.The burn starts.

5 – The people to whom you give it to CD or DVD-ROM can not only view the slideshow, but also copy the files on their hard drive by clicking Save to Disk.