Tips on using Picasa

There's a lot of really good photo-hosting services out there, but of all of them I would have to say that Picasa is by far the easiest (for me, at least) for Sim story blogging, for various reasons. Biggest is probably that I use Blogspot, and Picasa is built right into it--but even if you don't, it has some pretty handy tools that make it really handy to use, anyways~!

But, there are some things about it a little hard to get used to, so I'm gonna try and give a quick explanation of the way to use Picasa to get the most bang for your (free) buck!



A few extra notes:

• Picasa has some really handy photo editing features that make cropping and lightening darker shots really easy and fast--these changes will upload, but won't effect the hard copy unless you manually save.
• You can move each folder on the left sidebar into a new 'Collection' that can make it really easy to keep all your folders with Sim's screenshots together. Just right-click a folder and hit an option under 'Move to Collection...' That way you can collapse everything else you aren't sorting through.
• Picasa has some pretty neat collage-making options--can pry spot some of mine in the video!
• It will take some time to upload the photos when you 'Preserve Image Quality', because it's both resizing the image and maintaing the file size at the same time. Trust me, it's worth it.
• The URL to the page with all your images is probably going to be https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos (when you're logged in).

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