Picasa2 Help
Below is the text of a message from MikeB in the Coffee and Chat mailing list answering a query about Picasa 2.
I'd like to publish the whole of Mike's article re Picasa 2 in Sixteen
Bits, but that wastes space and resources, especially since Mike keeps
his web pages up to date.
I've almost fallen in love with Picasa rather than Paint
Shop Pro. Creating collages and straightening images is easy, but it
would mean using a free application rather than one I've paid for.
Am I denying my Scottish ancestry? Everyone knows that Microsoft Office
does things better than Star Office (tongue in cheek).
Trevor Frew
You can add a descriptive "caption" to any picture. Double click the
thumbnail, then below the expanded view of the picture type in what you like
in place of "Add a caption". Captions are saved into the image files
themselves and are portable across applications.
Display captions under the thumbnails by: View || Thumbnail captions || Caption
Other way to put in a description is to change the name of the file itself,
but I regard that as really retrograde and a total waste of time that is
better spent on creating meaningful FOLDER names (e.g. "2007_02_11 Party at
Prime Minister lodge" ) or Keywords (that are also saved into the image files. All that's explained here:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~boesen/picasa2/picasa2_1.htm
Mike Boesen
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