Picasa SIG

October 22, 2009

 

Find your Photos with Filters

 

Picasa provides several filtering icons ( see center of line of icons under the menu and above the lightbox ). Left to right the icons look for Starred photos. Uploaded photos, photos with Faces, Movies, and Recent photos.Search bar is most powerful filter.

 

Search Bar (Preparation and planning needed for some of these)

a.     Enter folder name, file name, tag, or color

b.    Filenames

c.     Captions

d.    Tags

e.    Folder or album names

f.       Camera maker

g.    Date (i.e. 'November' or '2008')

Clear Search Bar when finished

 

Starred photos - Brings up all photos that haved been starred as an Album

Mark selected photos with a star by toggling icon next to photo tray.

 

Uploaded Photos - Shows all photos which have been uploaded to Picasa Web Albums

 

People - Only shows pictures containing faces

 

Movies - Only displays movie files

 

Timeline - narrows down folder list to more recent folders

 

Project Collections- automatically created by Picasa to specifically store collages, movies, screen captures

Collage - several photos merged into one photo

Movie - several photos processed with the movie icon

Screen Capture - a snapshot of your computer screen created by pressing the Print Screen button on the keyboard when Picasa is open