pics52.Picasa 3.9 and Google Plus Sharing #287.Geeks on Tour members may want to review the videos about uploading pictures: If you want it on your computer, you’ll need to use the Download command. This edited picture only exists online, in your Google+ Photos Album. When you’re done, click “Done Editing.” Now isn’t that better?! Increase contrast by clicking on C and dragging to right.Increase brightness by clicking on B and dragging to right.Adjust size of selection to cover the face.Add Control Point, and click on one face.Once you’ve chosen the ‘Selective’ tool, then you click on “Add Control Point.” In this example, I did it twice, once for each face. This feature requires the Google Chrome browser, it won’t work with Internet Explorer, or Safari. If you are using the Google Chrome browser, you will then see the four basic editing tools and several “Creative Adjustments.” We’re using the Basic editing tool of ‘selective.’ This is similar to ‘burning and dodging’ in darkroom terminology. Once the picture is showing on your Google+ Photo album, you can view it then click the Edit menu. If you upload the picture, using the “Share with Google+” button, you will have more editing tools available to you, including the Selective tool. If you use Picasa’s Fill Light tool, you can make it so the faces are bright, but the whole picture is affected. Have you ever wished you could use Picasa’s Fill Light tool on just a selected area of a picture? Take the picture at right as an example, the Lincoln Memorial in the background is perfectly exposed, but the two faces in the foreground are too dark to see. Here’s a video that demonstrates exactly what I did in this article: To watch them all, you need to be a Geeks on Tour premium member. You can learn to use Google Photos with Geeks on Tour tutorial videos. Some are free. No work and all play makes me a happy girl! I can delete them from my phone to free up space for taking more! I also have Microsoft OneDrive grabbing a copy of all my phone’s photos for the ‘belt and suspenders’ protection. All my photos are safely, and privately, stored in my Google Account in the cloud. I love playing with my pictures and trying out the different creations that Google Photos includes. And, worse than the time it takes is when I didn’t take the time and never enjoyed my pictures or shared them. A half hour may not sound like much, but when you multiply that times all the days and all the pictures I like to take – well, I think you get the idea. That would probably take me a half hour using Picasa, much longer with other software. After getting home I would need to transfer them from the camera to the computer, decide where to store them, spend some time doing the editing, upload the best ones to the web, make the collage and upload that too. In years past, I would have taken my digital SLR camera – a Canon Rebel T3i – and taken many of the same pictures. I also tapped the + and added the collage to my monthly Web Album on Google Photos.ĭuring this lovely one hour walk, I took pictures, enjoyed having Mom point out more pictures, had fun editing them, and shared a collage to Facebook, and added the day’s collage to my monthly album … all before even getting back to the car! Google Photos has removed all the work and left only the play While viewing the collage, I tap the share button, choose Facebook, and post to Friends. Still using nothing but Google Photos on my phone: I took a few more pictures, including a selfie of Mom and me that needed no improvement at all! It was such a nice day I wanted to share it with my friends on Facebook, but I didn’t want to post multiple pictures, so I decided to make a collage. The second picture below just has an auto adjustment applied, and the third has a crop and auto adjustment. I tap the checkmark to signal that I’m done with cropping, Then, one tap on the Auto adjustment gives me a better look. No problem, with no tools other than my finger and the phone, I tap on the little pencil that brings up Google Photos editing tools, tap the crop tool and drag a corner in closer to the duck while still leaving some of the lily pads in the shot. Then I looked at the photo on my phone and realized that you couldn’t even see the duck! It needed to be cropped. I was excited to catch the duck in flight just as it came in for a landing. I showed her each picture I took and she would point out something else worthy of a shot. She’s walking pretty slow these days, so I had ample opportunity to take my phone out of my pocket and snap pictures. We have this favorite little park, and it was a gorgeous day. I went for a walk with my Mom the other afternoon.
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