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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