Tricks to organize and manage photos with Picasa

Surely, we are all too familiar with Picasa - a professional photo editing and management application designed specifically for Windows and Mac users. However, not everyone can easily manipulate it. So today Download.com.vn will show you how to add photos to Picasa and organize your photo collection in a more convenient way. Please refer to the article below!

• Download Picasa for Windows
• Download Picasa for Mac

Part 1: How to add photos

Use Picasa to view photos available on your computer or to import photos from the camera.

Method 1: Add photos available on your computer

Once you have successfully downloaded and installed Picasa on your computer, select the photo you want the program to display.

Control the file type to be displayed

Picasa will show you the types of photo and video files you need by taking the following steps:

• In Picasa , click Tools -> Options

• Select the File Types tab
• Select the checkboxes for the file types you want Picasa to detect and display
• Click OK

Control the display directory

• You do not need to import photos and videos from a device to Picasa if they are already saved on your computer. Instead, Picasa will provide users with 2 tools to allow them to choose the exact image and video to be displayed. After choosing the type of video and photo, the program will search the folder you specify.
• Click Tools -> select Folder Manager to control which folders are displayed

Method 2: Import new photos

Of course, not all of your photos are saved on your computer. You can import photos into Picasa from various sources, including: cameras, CDs, memory cards, scanners, webcams, etc. Photos that you import will be saved on your computer and displayed automatically in Picasa.

• In Picasa , click Import
• Select the source of the new photo (such as your camera) from the " Import photos from " drop-down menu at the top

• Select the destination folder on your computer for the new photo, from the " Import to " drop-down menu at the bottom

• If you want to upload photos that you are importing into Picasa Web Albums at the same time, please select " Upload "
• Select the photos you want to import and click Import Selected or Import All to import the photos shown

Part 2: How to organize photos

The list of folders at the bottom will be used to organize photos in Picasa. Thanks to that, you can access all photos displayed by Picasa . To understand how to organize your photos in Picasa, you need to understand the following 3 items:

Folders

Folders in Picasa shows you which folders are available on your computer. You can control which folders will be scanned and displayed by Picasa. The changes you make to folders in Picasa will affect the corresponding folders on your computer's hard drive. For example, if you delete an image in the Picasa folder, that image will also be deleted from the computer.

Albums

Unlike Folders, this option only shows albums that exist in Picasa. Albums will allow you to create virtual photo groups taken from multiple folders on your computer. Albums will display those photos without actually having to move them. When you delete or move an image from an album, the original file remains in the folder on your computer.

People

Picasa uses face recognition technology to search and group similar faces across a photo collection. By adding name tags to this face group, new people 'albums will be created. These People albums are similar to the Albums section above. That is, when you move or delete a face, the original file remains intact.

I wish you successful implementation!