Authors: Heather Burks, Kristen Klay, Josh Hill
Picasa is an interesting program that I was first introduced to by my brother-in-law. He would send me links to photos he was taking of my niece. I thought this was pretty cool because it allowed me to see these pictures. I had no idea what the potential was for this program. For the project listed above I went ahead and registered with Picasa and downloaded the install program and played around with it for a while. I have been using PhotoShop for almost 20 years and Picasa felt a little like the first versions of PhotoShop. Picasa is also very similar to iPhoto which I have also used alot. I like using Picasa because it is very easy and intuitive to use, but i don't see a point in having two photo editors on my computer. I was the original author of our album but we all uploaded photos to it. Heather reminded me to make it public so that everyone could work on it.
I also used the local Picasa application to turn screen captures from Grab an apple program that stores a picture of what ever you have up on your computer in a .tiff format. I eventually figured out how to use Picasa to convert them to .jpgs and eventually started using Picnik. Recently I have learned that if I use Preview to take screen captures you can go directly to .jpg format. Picnik, is a web-based photo editing program with very rudimentary editing options. It does have the ability to change file types witch I found very helpful when trying to upload a few screen captures that where saved in a .tiff format.
I can see using Picnik in a class to convert, touch up and adjust photos and then transferring them into a Picasa album for the distribution. I think I will remove Picasa from my applications because I don't see the point in keeping two volumes of photos on the same computer.
Picasa is an interesting program that I was first introduced to by my brother-in-law. He would send me links to photos he was taking of my niece. I thought this was pretty cool because it allowed me to see these pictures. I had no idea what the potential was for this program. For the project listed above I went ahead and registered with Picasa and downloaded the install program and played around with it for a while. I have been using PhotoShop for almost 20 years and Picasa felt a little like the first versions of PhotoShop. Picasa is also very similar to iPhoto which I have also used alot. I like using Picasa because it is very easy and intuitive to use, but i don't see a point in having two photo editors on my computer. I was the original author of our album but we all uploaded photos to it. Heather reminded me to make it public so that everyone could work on it.
I also used the local Picasa application to turn screen captures from Grab an apple program that stores a picture of what ever you have up on your computer in a .tiff format. I eventually figured out how to use Picasa to convert them to .jpgs and eventually started using Picnik. Recently I have learned that if I use Preview to take screen captures you can go directly to .jpg format. Picnik, is a web-based photo editing program with very rudimentary editing options. It does have the ability to change file types witch I found very helpful when trying to upload a few screen captures that where saved in a .tiff format.
I can see using Picnik in a class to convert, touch up and adjust photos and then transferring them into a Picasa album for the distribution. I think I will remove Picasa from my applications because I don't see the point in keeping two volumes of photos on the same computer.
Thanks for taking the time to experiment. Yep, no need for duplication of programs on any one's computer --- especially with a Photoshop expert. But for most people, Picasa may well be the easiest and most powerful tool they may need.
ReplyDeleteI did really like Piknik and i think now that I know I can capture in .jpg format i will be using it more often. I also can see using it in journalism class for correcting pictures and uploading them to Picasa for storage.
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