Geeks on Tour - Articles

I took a photo this weekend that I really liked. My Mom came with us on a short RV trip and she was enjoying our cozy cab-over bunk and the view out the front window. It was kind of dark and I didn’t want to use a flash, so I hand held a [...]

Do you have a scanner and some old photos you want to scan? Have you started to read the manual and given up on figuring it out? I have good news for you! You don’t have to figure out the software that came with the scanner, because Picasa can handle it all [...]

If you go to the Grand Canyon in the summer of 2008, do you put the pictures in a folder called Grand Canyon? Or a folder called Summer 2008?
How about when you return to the Canyon in 2009? Do you put them in with your other Grand Canyon photos, or make a new [...]

My computer is very entertaining. Especially when I’m not using it! It’s the photo screensaver. There’s not much that entertains me more than watching photos of our RV travels these last 5 years. Just sit back and watch. And I use two monitors, so I have double the fun. [...]

The normal way that you see folders in Picasa is called ‘Flat Folder Structure.’   In the Flat view you won’t see that certain folders are within other folders.  If you want to see what folders are nested within other folders, you need to view the folder list in ‘Tree View.  To get there, just click [...]

An article that Chris wrote for the Family Motor Coach magazine - reproduced here (with permission), complete with links to all the free software mentioned.

Can you see the difference between the photo on the left, and the one on the right? The one on the left is the original. The one on the right has been ’sharpened’ by Picasa. In Picasa, you double-click on the photo you want, then, in the left column of Editing commands, click on ‘effects’. [...]