Picasa Special Interest Group

January 22, 2009

 

Sharing your Photos Part 1

Making a Gift CD

 

What is a Gift CD?

  • Picasa provides for you to gather together photos for a presentation slide show on a CD.
  • The CD will keep related photos grouped in folders.
  • File names and captions will appear on each slide. The CD is suitable for playing on another computer.
  • The CD will contain the photos for the slide show and Picasa's program for running the slide show automatically.
  • Optionally, you may add the original photos and a copy of the Picasa installation program.
  • Music can be added to the slide show to play on your computer but Picasa does not include the music on the Gift CD

 


When to use:

Create a gift CD when you have many photos and printing them will be costly. Consider a CD to replace a book album or to accompany a professionally made album of your best photos.


Preparations:

  1. Prepare your photos. Edit them. Add captions. Rename them.
  2. Group related photos in the same folder. Arrange them in the desired order within each folder by dragging and dropping into place within the folder.
  3. Play a slide show of each folder to preview the sequence of photos that will be saved to the CD.
  4. To change the order of the photos, drag and drop into new position.

Using Picasa 2

  1. Use Paint to create a slide as a sub heading when the location of a group of slides change. Example: On a trip to Colorado, create a slide which introduces Pike's Peak, another for Garden of Gods, another for Air Force Academy.

Using Picasa 3

  1. Create transition slides or a lead-in title slide for similar groups of photos as above using Picasa3's collage feature.
  2. Use Picas 3's text on photo options. Use the eye dropper or colorpicker to match the color of the text to a prominent item in the photo.

 


Making the CD:

  1. Select a folder to begin the Gift CD Process.
  2. Click Gift CD.
  3. Select the drive containing the CD
  4. Make your settings and selections
    1. Photo Size
    2. Click Add More to include more folders (check mark each)
  5. Name the Gift CD
    1. Type in a title for the opening screen. Folder names appear on the opening screen.
    2. Leave checked or uncheck Include Picasa Install program
  6. When complete, choose to view slideshow or eject disk.
  7. DO NOT add any unapproved stickers or labels to the CD. Write any information of front of CD with a Sharpie. Labels which are not expressly for the purpose of applying to a CD may cause the CD to be unbalanced in the drive and not play properly.