Manual: Picasa - crop your images
Cropping photos with Picasa
Do you find photo editing software too confusing for you? Words like rasterized, layers, curves, saturation, RGB and etc may not be in every one vocab. Does the your digital camera comes with its own photo editing software CD-rom? I have two cameras which provide their own photo-editing softwares. However it was the camera shop’s sales personnel who highly recommended Picasa from Google to me.
Though I do know how to play around with Adobe Photoshop CS2, Paintshop Pro and also Picture It! (original, licensed software that comes with my original, licensed Microsoft Office Suite ) and other freeware like Irfan View, Photostylist etc etc, I still love Picasa because it is kids’ friendly. All my children, including my three years old toddler know how to manipulate photos with it.
Let’s see what we can do with the crop button. Cropping a photo means trimming it, sort of like take a scissors and cut the part you do not like. Snip, snip off the edges a bit and voila, your photo looks less cluttered and there aren’t ugly objects to distract.
Do you find photo editing software too confusing for you? Words like rasterized, layers, curves, saturation, RGB and etc may not be in every one vocab. Does the your digital camera comes with its own photo editing software CD-rom? I have two cameras which provide their own photo-editing softwares. However it was the camera shop’s sales personnel who highly recommended Picasa from Google to me.
Though I do know how to play around with Adobe Photoshop CS2, Paintshop Pro and also Picture It! (original, licensed software that comes with my original, licensed Microsoft Office Suite ) and other freeware like Irfan View, Photostylist etc etc, I still love Picasa because it is kids’ friendly. All my children, including my three years old toddler know how to manipulate photos with it.
Let’s see what we can do with the crop button. Cropping a photo means trimming it, sort of like take a scissors and cut the part you do not like. Snip, snip off the edges a bit and voila, your photo looks less cluttered and there aren’t ugly objects to distract.
I snapped this random photo this morning while my toddler and I were waiting for my husband to bring the car. We were at the EPF (Employees Provident Fund) office tower. It is located by the sea and my son was standing there along the esplanade.
I like the curves of the and the way my toddler was leaning against them. So, snap, snap like every proud mom would do. But I notice that the proportion isn’t right and the background with the hydrant and the coconut tree trunks plus the lam-posts don’t match the mood.
So, one click with Picasa crop button and I get this.
I read about this 1/3 rule in photos. It means, try to form your photo in the proportion of 1/3. Eg. 1/3 of the sea, 2/3 of the sky. Avoid the 50/50 proportion which is too mundane. Over here, it is one third of the grass (because I can’t go back any further as I want to avoid the stiff, steely, lamp posts) and two third of the pavement which have some nice shadows of coconut leaves.
So, enjoy cropping your photos. With Picasa, you don’t have to worry about making mistakes because you can always “Un-do’ and get back the original picture. What are you waiting for? Go enjoy playing the maestro in the darkroom with Picasa.
Errmmm.....You can download Picasa from this Link!
http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasaweb-current-setup.exe
