Showing posts with label picasa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label picasa. Show all posts

Picasa Tutorials

2007-07-30 Posted by Hin Man

After writing many short tutorials and demos on using Picasa 2, it is about time to gather those links for a sitemap of Picasa tutorials.

This blog post is to be updated frequently. Please drop me a comment if there is a certain topic that you like to see along with these short tutorials.



1. IMGP2204, 2. IMGP2152, 3. IMGP2020, 4. IMGP2019, 5. Blown Highlight in Picasa, 6. IMGP1527, 7. IMGP1357, 8. IMGP1354, 9. Not easy to be me, 10. IMGP1064, 11. IMGP1063, 12. UPS & Shell, 13. Pretty Sky, 14. Pretty Sky & Barn House, 15. Home & Blue Sky, 16. DSCF0909, 17. DSCF0896, 18. DSCF0885, 19. DSCF0863, 20. DSCF0857, 21. DSCF0786, 22. Macau Post Office b&w, 23. DSCF0584 in b&w, 24. DSCF0570, 25. P1010012, 26. Mission Blvd McDonald, 27. Looking, 28. bloomingdales, 29. Picasa Focal B&W, 30. Picasa Focal B&W, 31. CIMG3275, 32. CIMG3274, 33. Saturated Bench, 34. sf_bay_bridge, 35. SF Airport Art, 36. CIMG3359


Introduction
Basic Editing
Tuning & Effects
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Picasa 'I am feeling lucky'

2007-07-24 Posted by Hin Man



On a rush, I sometimes use the quick fix with "I am feeling lucky" in Picasa. Other times, I use "auto contrast" and "auto color" with pictures from my Fuji F30. I find "I am feeling lucky", "auto contrast/color" working quite effectively with "lighting" tunning afterwards. I use these features in Picasa to perform quick fix to most of my shots in Fuji F30. I usually zoom in to 100% crop to view the change and alternate between these three basic fixes
  • I am feeling lucky
  • Auto Contrast
  • Auto Color
and "ligting" is adjusted after the basic fix in Tunning section of Picasa. If I am not satisfied with the basic and tunning fixes, I proceed to "Effects" for these two items for color pictures:
  • Sharpen (just one click)
  • Saturation (only when necessary)
The above are few samples of quick fixes that I did in few minutes on candid shots with my Fuji F30. I may ruin the sky color as I have a tendency of overdoing color saturation.

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Picasa

2006-10-02 Posted by Hin Man
It is free
I find Picasa very useful in organizing photos and it provides a very complete suite of basic editing tools. Picasa consists of three sections for photo editing:
  • Basic Editing
  • Tuning
  • Effects
And I highly recommend the tool.

Basic Editing
The basic features are very useful for red eye correction, cropping, straighten and simple adjustment to lighting, contrast and color. I never thought of 'straighten' until I try it on few pictures and I learn that a perspective can be created with an adjusted angle and more often than not, we don't line up the camera straight and Picasa can come in very handy.

Tuning
The next suite of tool set comes into the 'Tuning' section that is more of a life saver especially for 'Fill light' when my pictures are purposely taken in the dark without the flash. I went wild in a series of pictures taken in the mall knowing that the small flash in a point & shoot will definietly ruins a picture with not enough light for the dark background. I have a very bad picture that is out of focus and very shaky due to long shutter speed and a lot of distractions that the picture is close to be placed in my trash folder but Picasa comes in for the rescue. Though it is still a bad picture, I can salvage it for blogging with a black and white tuning with high saturation for a contrasty look.

Effects
The third editing section in Picasa is the superb special effects -- it is plain sweet for a tool that is free and yet it is so rich in features from basic editing to some special effects that add variations -- be it on a good or bad picture. The original picture on the Gymboree poster is not too bad but it is boring to take picture on someone else's great photographic work -- I don't want to clone on other's work and hence I change it the way I want it. It may not come out nicely as the original but that is not the purpose as I want it to be different and Picasa 'Effects' allow that with 'Focal B&W' and I am pretty happy with the alternation.

For comparison with the original pictures, I have the photoset for Picasa Review uploaded in Flickr. Please write me a comment if you are interested in seeing a more thorough tutorial on Picasa.

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