Library View

Picasa automatically organizes all your image and movie files into collections of folders inside its main Library view.

Parts of the Picasa window are shown below:

Library Tools

At the top of the Picasa main library screen are several buttons that help you add pictures to the library, view and find pictures in additional ways, and burn pictures to a CD. Frame.

Folder List

The left frame in Picasa library view shows all of the folders containing pictures on your computer and all of the albums you have created in Picasa.  These folders and albums are grouped into collections.

Picture Tray and Output Options

The picture tray at the bottom is used to collect pictures or movies from one or more folders or albums so that you may work with them as a group. The picture tray contains a button for placing the collected items in existing albums or allows you to create a new album.  It also has buttons with various output options for the collected pictures and or movies.

Light Box

The light box on the right hand side displays visual thumbnails of the pictures (or movies) corresponding to the folders and albums in the left frame.

Picasa is a photo management software from Google that helps you find, organize,  edit and share your pictures.

Once you start Picasa, it scans your hard drive to find and automatically organize all your pictures. Picasa finds the following image file types including  JPG, GIF, TIF, PSD, PNG, BMP, RAW (including NEF and CRW). GIF and PNG files are not scanned by default, but you can enable them in the options dialog. Movie file types: MPG, AVI, ASF, WMV, MOV.

Date modified 12-27-121