TY - BOOK AU - Schwartz, Steve TI - Organizing and editing your photos with Picasa SN - 9780321369017 U1 - 006.686 PY - 2005/// CY - Berkeley, Calif. : USA PB - Peachpit KW - Image processing - Digital techniques N1 - Age Group: Adult; Introduction -- Installing the software -- Picasa essentials -- Viewing photos -- Organizing pictures -- Editing photos: basic fixes and tuning -- Editing photos: effects -- Printing and emailing photos -- Special features and projects -- Saving and backing up photos -- Sharing photos with Hello -- Index.; Includes index (p. 135-142) N2 - Picasa 2, a free download from Google, is a multi-purpose program which the author describes how to use "to take control of and organize all the digital images on your hard disk, CDs and DVDs. It doesn't matter where the images originally came from -- whether they were taken with a digital camera, scanned, received in email, or downloaded from the Web." Many full-color illustrations demonstrate the program's capabilities. Use of other programs such as Hello, a free chat utility from Google, and using Picasa /Hello combinations to upload images to a blog are also covered ER -