Google Picasa: Demographics & The Top Feature For A Beginner
Google Picasa 2 is an essential tool for the home user and professional photographer demographic. The second version of Google’s photo manipulation and album tool Picasa 2 incorporates a lot of new features that make it both look good and easy to use, at the same time. The ability to easily store, edit and present your photographs and creations in one program with a stylish interface has been achieved with success by the World’s most progressive Internet company Google.
When I first started using Picassa, the feature that won me over was the “I’m feeling lucky” feature. It does basic editing for you automatically!
Here is what a user of Picasa said about this wonderful feature:
“On a rush, I sometimes use the quick fix with “I am feeling lucky” in Picasa. Other times, I use “auto contrast” and “auto color” with pictures from my Fuji F30. I find “I am feeling lucky”, “auto contrast/color” working quite effectively with “lighting” tunning afterwards. I use these features in Picasa to perform quick fix to most of my shots in Fuji F30. I usually zoom in to 100% crop to view the change and alternate between these three basic fixes
- I am feeling lucky
- Auto Contrast
- Auto Color
and “ligting” is adjusted after the basic fix in Tunning section of Picasa. If I am not satisfied with the basic and tunning fixes, I proceed to “Effects” for these two items for color pictures:
- Sharpen (just one click)
- Saturation (only when necessary)
The above are few samples of quick fixes that I did in few minutes on candid shots with my Fuji F30. I may ruin the sky color as I have a tendency of overdoing color saturation.”ÂÂ
