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Janet, my hat's off to you for the great job you did in putting this together. Taking all those screen caps and inserting them had to be very time consuming, but I think that really helps. And it's good to get the perspective of someone learning along with you. I was introduced to Picasa a couple of years ago, and although I do use more expensive editing software, Picasa has become my go-to app for organizing and quick edits. One comment about importing your photos - you do have the option to have it import just certain folders rather than your whole computer. Which is best depends on the individual - but in my case, I have backups of all my photos on an external drive attached to my computer. So if I let it search the whole computer I end up importing everything twice - and that can get really confusing. You lose track of which folder you're in. Also, if you direct it just to My Pictures or even My Documents you won't get folders for every little icon that programs use.
Thank you for your kind words Marty Jo. I noticed when I was installing the program that I did have options when it came to putting the files into Picasa to work with, but I figured I'd spend more time trying to decide which ones to choose than just letting it do the whole sheebang.
Quoting:One comment about importing your photos - you do have the option to have it import just certain folders rather than your whole computer. Which is best depends on the individual - but in my case, I have backups of all my photos on an external drive attached to my computer. So if I let it search the whole computer I end up importing everything twice - and that can get really confusing. You lose track of which folder you're in. Also, if you direct it just to My Pictures or even My Documents you won't get folders for every little icon that programs use.
I can appreciate these statements and thank you for bringing that up. Because I work on a home network, I've not used the My Pictures folder in many years. All of my picture files are on shared folders, within named folders. One thing I did notice (after the initial scan was finished) was that I could also set certain extensions for Picasa to work with. Because certain extensions were excluded in the default, many of those program icons didn't show up when it scanned my drive.
One thing I really do appreciate about this program is that I can slide down through my many folders to see all of my photos without having to physically open and close new windows. I do a lot of moving and copying within my folders. So seeing right away what is where helps me to keep up with the photos better. That is especially good when I haven't actually NAMED the photo, but know the general vicinity of where it is.
