User Guide

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Saturation – Increases color saturation.
Soft Focus – Soften the focus around a center point that you select.
Glow – Give pictures a gauzy glow.
Filtered B&W – Make a picture that looks like it was taken with black and white film and
a color filter
Focal B&W – De-saturate color around a center point with adjustable size and sharpness sliders.
Graduated Tint
– Add a graduated filter from a color you select. Useful for making gray
skies blue.
Captions
You can add a caption to any photo while you’re in the “Edit Picture” screen. Underneath the
individual picture, click on the text that says “Make a caption!” Type in your caption. You can
show or hide the caption from the photo using the button on the left. You can delete the
caption simply by clicking the trash can icon on the right.
Captions in Picasa are stored in each image’s EXIF data, so they stay with your pictures. If
you share a picture with a friend who has Picasa, your captions will appear in your friend’s
Picasa view, and vice versa.
Captions are also searchable inside Picasa.
Sharing, printing and more ways to enjoy pictures outside of Picasa.
The Picture Tray and Controls
Any picture you select in the folder list appears as an active selection in your picture tray on
the lower left corner of the main library screen. Pictures in the “Picture Tray” are affected by
the buttons to the right of the tray.
Hold
Use the “Hold” button to keep a picture in the tray as you add more pictures. You can add
multiple pictures to the tray by holding down the Shift key as you select pictures.
Clear
Click the “Clear” button to empty the “Picture Tray” of all pictures on hold.
Label
Click the “Label” button to add a new or existing label to the picture(s) in the tray. This creates
a virtual album of the selected pictures or adds the photo to an existing label.