If you're looking for an easy way to find photos on your PC, make a few editing fixes, and then share your images with others, look no further. Picasa, available as a free download from Google.com, makes it easy to instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures in seconds and sorts them into albums. From there, you can apply basic edits to your photos, burn them to CD, post them on your blog, or email them to friends. In this colorful, compact guide, author Steve Schwartz starts at the beginning, walking readers through the Picasa interface and showing readers how to set preferences. From there, he launches into the heart of this book, offering project-based instruction for organizing, viewing, and editing your photos, and then shows you how to use Picasa's built-in tools to print, email, or order professional prints of your images. In addition, readers will learn how to share their photos instantly with Hello, Picasa's free instant messaging software. Throughout the book, full-page, full-color screen shots and simple, step-by-step instructions lead readers through several projects, such as saving an image to the Windows desktop, creating a screensaver, making movies, generating photo-based Web pages, running a slideshow, and creating posters, collages, and contact sheets.

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Needs Updating - 2009-02-11
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This book is about Picasa Version 2 when Version 3 is now available. There are changes between the versions. It is very difficult for a new user when what the book says is different than what is on the computer. Until the book is updated, it is not as helpful as it could be.

Picasa - 2009-02-08
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Book is dated; New version is Picasa 3, but most of the information is relevant. Some of the procedures lack detail and are difficult to follow.

At last, I Understand Picasa! - 2008-05-16
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"Organizing and Editing Your Photos with Picasa" by Steve Schwartz was a blessing to find. Picasa2 came with the new workstation I purchased. I had no idea how Picasa functioned and kept seeing new folders and duplicate pictures. Some photos were among my written files, most not. I knew it had to be me doing something I didn't yet understand. Thanks to "Organizing and Editing Your Photos with Picasa" my digital albums are now orderly and manageable. Great book! Fast shipping too.

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Useless - 2008-09-30
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Picassa is a great program that is somewhat intuitive to use but I was still having trouble moving photos from one folder to another and understanding why some folders ended up as a melange of unrelated photos. I still am. I had hoped that this book, which is aimed at beginners, would help. Unfortunately it didn't tell me anything I hadn't already figured out myself. It's disorganized, confusing and hard to understand.

same great service - 2009-09-22
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Great service book was as you said it would be, i would purchase from this Co. again. Thank you George

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