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With a great digital camera comes great responsibility to manage thousands of photos. This can be a pain, especially if you want to use them to docume...
Go to picasa.google.com and download Picasa. It's only for PC right now. Sorry, Mac users.Upon installation, Picasa will catalog all of the images on ...
This is super easy. Picasa can scan a memory card and import new photos. It can also detect new photos on the machine so if you import a photo in a di...
Click the Straighten button on the top left and a grid will appear on the screen. These are guides for your alignment. Now click and drag the slider o...
Just like on google.com, there's an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Click it and it will auto adjust the contrast and color. This usually works pretty wel...
Here are close-ups of the three groups of options for photo tweaking.
Here I opted for a black & white filter.
This is one of the best reasons to use Picasa. You can quickly crop the size and it even has preset ratios for photo sizes. If you print a digital pho...
Instructables likes the square format for the small photos so why not have better control of how the project looks in the list? Choosing the Manual cr...
The other beautiful option is exporting. All of the edits you make aren't really applied to the image until you Save Changes or export the image. The ...
Now that you have the resulting tweaked and resized image you can upload it to Instructables. The smaller file sizes will make for faster uploads. Now...
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