Archive for August, 2011
Picasa Keyboard Shortcuts
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While many people using a mouse, some prefer keyboard shortcuts; this list shows Picasa’s key board shortcuts and should prove useful as you import, organise, edit and share your travel photographs:
Shortcuts for selecting photos
- Ctrl-A: Select all photos in a folder/album
- Ctrl-D: Deselect photos
- Ctrl-I: Invert photo selection
- Home: Select the first photo in your folder/album
- End: Select the last photo in your folder/album
- Ctrl-H: Hold selected photos in Photo Tray
- Ctrl-O: Choose a file on your computer to display in Picasa
Shortcuts for viewing photographs
- Ctrl-1: View your photos as small thumbnails
- Ctrl-2: View your photos as large thumbnails
- F11: Use Picasa in full-screen mode
- Ctrl-4: Start a slideshow
- Ctrl-5: View your timeline
- Ctrl-Enter: Locate the photo file in Windows Explorer
- Hover over a photo and use Ctrl-Alt: Full-screen photo preview
Shortcuts for editing photographs
- Ctrl-3: Open an image in ‘Edit Mode’
- Ctrl-R: Rotate the image clockwise
- Ctrl-Shift-R: Rotate the image counter-clockwise
- Ctrl-Shift-H: Flip image horizontally
- Ctrl-Shift-V: Flip image vertically
- Ctrl-Shift-B: Add black and white effect
- Ctrl-8: Add a star
- / [slash]: Pause or play video
- , [comma]: Rewind video
- . [period]: Fast forward video
- Miscellaneous shortcuts
- Ctrl-E: Email selected photos
- Ctrl-P: Print selected images
- Ctrl-Shift-P: Print album contact sheet
- Ctrl-T: Add tags to your photos
- Ctrl-N: Create a new album
- F1: View help content
- X: Exclude a photo when importing
- Ctrl-M Open the import room
Shortcuts in the Picasa Viewer
- Ctrl-U: Single image upload
- Ctrl-R: Rotate the image clockwise
- Ctrl-Shift-R: Rotate the image counter-clockwise
- Ctrl-8: Add a star
- Left and right arrow keys: Scroll through images
- Mousewheel: You can both zoom and scroll through photos. Adjust mousewheel behavior by clicking the down arrow menu > Configuration. You have two options:
- Zoom with mousewheel (hold Ctrl to navigate)
- Move filmstrip with mousewheel (hold Ctrl to zoom)
Sharing Photographs with Picasa
Posted by: | CommentsSharing Photographs with Picasa
Sharing photographs from Picasa is quite straightforward and the video shows how to use several methods (the hyperlinks take you to the little bits of software which you need to make it happen) :
- Picasa Web Albums – Google’s own photo sharing site – a built in facility
- Email – interfaces to Outlook and gmail, which allow you to control who can view the photos ( logged in gmail recipients only, recipients and people they send the link to and public)
- Facebook – Facebook albums which are similar to Picasa Web Albums
- Flickr – a favourite photo sharing site
- Bloggr – Google’s blog platform already has a Picasa button
- WordPress blog – this plugin will hep you install a Picasa-to-your-WordPress-blog button
If there are any other sites you want to upload to, then comment below and we’ll try to find something for you
Bonnes Voyages
James
Making Movies with Picasa
Posted by: | CommentsMaking Movies with Picasa
Making movies or videos with Picasa is very simple – select the photos for your movie. Put them in order and ten simply click the Movie button next to the Photo Tray. If you’ve selected a folder or album, you can use the “Create Movie Presentation” button in the folder or album header.
You can then use the Movie, Slide and Clips Tabs to adjust
- The audio
- Transitions
- Slide duration
- Slide overlap
- Captions on/off
- Full frame autocrop
- Add text to the any slide (and adjust the font, colour, size and style)
- Add a new text slide for the title
- Add or remove photos from the movie
- Drag and drop photos in the filmstrip at the bottom of the screen to change the order in which they appear.
After all that, you have the option of creating the movie and saving it on your hard drive or creating it and uploading it directly to YouTube.
Bonnes Voyages
James