How to get lots of pictures from your computer to other people in the real world who are nowhere near your computer:

HOW TO USE PICASA

If you are using a computer that does not have Picasa, and you want it, sign into your gmail account, click Photos in the upper left-hand corner, and download Picasa. It will walk you through the setup.

1.To upload photos from camera:

plug in white usb chord to camera
move camera switch to down position
push button on top of camera to turn it on.
Camera window opens automatically.
Scroll down and choose Microsoft scanner and camera wizard
click ok
camera wizard opens automatically
click next
all thumbnails show up and are automatically selected
-uncheck the ones you don't want
click next
type in name for this group of pictures (I enter the full date unless they are all from one place, in which case I use the format: date, location)
click next
The window will copy the pictures onto the computer
Then click Nothing
Click next
Click Finish.

The folder on your computer will open, and you can view the pictures.
NOW TURN OFF THE CAMERA TO SAVE THE BATTERY!

You can close the folder, unplug the camera and do any of the following things:

2. WORKING WITH PHOTOS IN PICASA (ON YOUR COMPUTER)

• DELETE PICTURES FROM THE CAMERA ONCE YOU ARE SURE THEY'RE ALL ON THE COMPUTER: turn on camera, press menu button on bottom right of camera, scroll down to "Erase All", press circle button called func. set. Erase all images? Click okay, then func. set again. It will erase. When it's finished, it will say "No Image". Turn off the camera.


• SORT THE PICTURES ON YOUR COMPUTER: Go to the folder of pictures that opened automatically. Click the icon at the right that looks like a box, scroll to "thumbnail' and click. Now you see thumbnails of all the pictures. If you want to select some to move to a new folder, click the first image you want, hold down the shift key, and click the last image you want (you can de-select by holding down control). Click Edit, scroll down to "move to folder". Scroll to location you want to move them or make a new folder. (Usually in My Documents.) Select the one you want and click "move".
  


• EDIT AND ROTATE THE PICTURES: Open Picasa (rainbow icon). It will take a second for picasa to automatically detect the new photos. The name of your new folder will appear in the left of picasa under 'Folders" and it will be at the top of the list. Click that when you see it to view the pictures. To edit a picture, first click file, and scroll down to "save a copy", then you can edit using the buttons on the left. When you like the way it looks, click "file", and scroll down to save.


• TO EMAIL A PICTURE DIRECTLY FROM PICASA: Select the one you want, click hold, then click the email button at the bottom. Enter your gmail password for the account you want to use, and create the email, then send it as usual.


• TO SEPARATE PHOTOS INTO FOLDERS FROM WITHIN PICASA: Select first and last of the photos you want using shift and press hold. You know you've got them when they appear as thumbnails in the lower left with green dots on them. To de-select a picture, press control and click the one you don't want, then press clear. Once you have all the ones you want selected in he box on the lower left, click File, then scroll down to "Move to Folder". Name the new folder and date it, then click okay. The new album you have just created will automatically appear. To clear the tray to the lower left, click CLEAR, then yes. IF YOU MISS SOME, IT'S FINE. Just select the ones you forgot to copy to the new folder, and drag them into the folder on the left.
  


• TO CHANGE FILE NAMES OF A GROUP OF PICTURES AT ONCE FROM WITHIN PICASA: Select the pictures you want (again, using shift click), then click Picture, scroll to "batch edit", scroll to "RENAME". A window pops up. Change names to anything you want. Click include date in filename. Click rename. You're done.


• TO VIEW A PICTURE IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM: Right click on the picture. Scroll down to "Locate", Choose either "file on disk" (for edited version), or "original on disk" (for the original version).
  

• TO UPLOAD TO AN ALBUM ONLINE: Select the photos you want and click hold. Click the button that says "web album". You can create a new album just by typing in what you want the album to be called or: Choose "Add to an existing album." Select the album you want. Click okay. You will know the upload is finished because a new button will appear that says "VIEW ONLINE". If you click the button, you can see the whole album that you added those pictures to.


• TO SHARE AN ONLINE ALBUM: Look at the album online. On the left side, click "link to this album". You want to Paste link in email or IM, so copy the text there in the white box, and paste it into your email. To do this, highlight the link in the white box under where it says paste link in email. Hold down the Control (Ctrl) button, and type the letter c. Then go to the email you are writing in a new window, place your ,pointer in the section where you type your email message, and hold down the control button again, and type the letter v. the link will appear in your email.
  


• IMPORTANT: NEVER EVER CLICK WHERE IT SAYS "DELETE ALBUM" OR THE PICTURES ARE LOST FOREVER.

• One great thing about having picasa on your computer is that once you have uploaded pictures to your web album, as long as you are still logged in (which you are automatically if you have been uploading pictures), you can tell which pictures you have uploaded because there will be a small green arrow on all the thumbnails of the pictures you have stored online. This is very useful because you can use it to avoid uploading duplicate photos.