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I had seen this article before. Now today, in a thread redchic mentioned about Picasa 3 which I had not known. I was using Picasa 2. I think you must try it too, if you have not known about it. I've instantly fallen in love with the wonderful features it has been loaded with. Just what we all need and what to ask more for -- they are all simple to use. Even me. Corrections, editing, text, collage -- they are all so nice. Just have a look and LMK. I'm sure you'll love it too. A simple video demo is available too when you search for Picasa 3 on google. Click and enjoy. I thought I must tell you this.
Thanks for passing along the information about Picasa 3. I will go check it out right now. I have thoroughly enjoyed using this program to improve my family photos for the ancestry project I am working on. Many old photos were discolored and undesirable for the book I am creating. Now those same photos are brought back to life for my family to enjoy. I cannot imagine how they could have improved upon this great program, so I look forward to seeing what's new.
Thanks again for thinking of me when you checked out the program.
That's a most enjoyable project I guess. I wish you luck in coming up with a treasure house of pictures that will be surely cherished by all concerned.
Dinu, This has been a wonderful way to get to know my family and my husband's family also. The research has been very addicting though. Each day I find out something new about the family. I am hoping to have this project finished by Thanksgiving so I can get the book printed out for my family for Christmas.
I like the way the new Picasa looks. It's got some great features. I chose all of the photos of my grandmother and made a collage. I loved the way it looked. I clicked the SAVE button on that folder to save my new collage to the folder. I was going to copy the collage into the book and for some reason, I cannot find it now. I thought maybe I had forgotten to save it. I went back and selected the 25+ photos again. When I chose the collage option, it automatically chose every photo in that folder (175+) and made the collage from them all. No matter what I did, I couldn't re-create the same collage I did at first. I got a bit frustrated about that.
Then I went to update my phanfare site. I noticed a few individual photos that were missing so I went back to Picasa and chose the original 1910 family photo. Saved several copies and cropped out the individuals. Renamed them to just show the individual. Looked like they were there. But then when I clicked on the SAVE button, the newest photos disappeared.
Evidently I did something wrong. I got so frustrated that I gave up on it. Any ideas to get the new program to actually save what has been edited would be appreciated.
Janet,
I think your pictures will be saved in My Pictures folder once you click the save changes button. Please check on that. When it selected 175 pix, you would have ignorantly chosen all. I don't think such a nice program will have such a silly flaw. You have to go back to My Pictures folder and make any changes like renaming.
I know how the pleasure of collecting old pix is. I have done it myself, but not digitized all. Just a few of them. Not for distribution, but for collection sake - at this stage. There were old picture frames in our house. I did that project of saving them first by removing from the frames [used some of the glass to replace broken window panes in our old house!!], then removing pictures carefully from their cardboard mounts [peeling them off was a real test of patience] and then carefully mounting on my self-made black-sheet album. It took me many days to complete that. But I feel worth the effort and the looks on faces of my older relatives that knew my ancestors is quite amazing. My work has won appreciation and that ends there. Few people get interested in saving them, leave alone collect and look at them once in a while. Many forget the past easily. Not so with me. Somehow I've loved the old things from childhood. My brother is opposite. Perhaps I may do a project like you have done in the future. Recently a lady wrote an article in our paper column about such a project some old family had done. She was of the opinion that it is easier for the American Indians to publish such a book instead of bringing it out like a printed book here in India. The satisfaction we derive from it is immeasurable. That nostalgia!
I will check on the My Pictures Folder. I have never saved photos there. I have a folder for each individual family. It could be that the SAVE file is set to default to the My Pictures folder.
Shortly after my husband and I married, his mother died. Her family was located in Ohio and I never met the majority of them. When I began this project, I had very few photos of her family. There was a legend associated with the family of her grandmother, so I "googled" her name. I found that one of his mother's other relatives had already done about 30 years worth of researching and created a family history, complete with photos from at least 2 generations back to the Civil War. That person willingly shared what she'd done with me. She was the nephew of my husband's grandfather. I've taken all of that information and photos and put it together in a book form for my own children and their children.
My husband's father was adopted. He knew who both of his parents were. His (my father in law) brother had begun researching his "roots" and had come to a stump in the search. I found a really neat website called Findagrave. I located the place where his great great grandmother's "new" husband was buried. She was next to him. When I asked the contributor of the memorial page to provide me with a photo of the gravesite, she did a bit of research herself and located a death certificate of one of the half sister's of his great grandfather, which included the great great grandmother's maiden name. I was able to trace HER back several more generations and also to find out the actual name of my husband's great great grandfather, which was only known as Mr. Long.
A few weeks ago, I found a basket of photos that belonged to my paternal grandmother. Most of them were from before 1930. Growing up, I knew very little about her family. Those photos have their own story to tell and I was very blessed to have found them. My mother had no idea they were in the room that my grandmother used to use.
The whole project has been fascinating for me. Each day I find out something more about my family. I have been able to trace back most lines of my children's ancestors to the 1600's. It will be very rewarding for me (even if others don't truly appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into this) to see this project in a book form that can be passed down to generations of family to come. I have included hundreds of full size photos so that they will be able to identify the people who's heritage they share. I can't think of anything better that I could share with my entire family.
I am working on an in-home network. I checked the MY PICTURES folder and sure enough, I found the collage I made. But I still haven't located the other photos that I'd cropped. I'll keep looking.
Thank you for the helpful suggestion of what had happened to my photos.
I was working on some new photos today and noticed that there is now a touch up feature that wasn't there before. I've got a few photos that spent too much time in someone's wallet when they were overseas. I'm hoping to be able to restore these with this new feature.
Thanks again for pointing me in the direction of the newest version.
You are very welcome, Janet. The new features like restoration will help us do basic corrections with simpler methods. I don't know how to use PhotoShop. I tried, but got confused and left off. I sometimes use Neat Image for sharpening and reducing noise levels. It's also free and quite easy.
