Understand Picasa's Collections Concept

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Picasa: Understanding The Concept of Collections

Part 2: Picasa Albums

This collection includes albums that you make in Picasa. You can use albums to combine and order pictures based on your own way and named by a simple word or header. For example, you can make an album named "Flowers" to combine all of your pictures of flowers, or you might make an album like "Trip to the Grand Canyon" to order all of your recent vacation pictures. Unlike the "Folders" collection, which groups the matches exactly the folder places on your computer, albums don't match folders on your hard drive. Albums are seen only in Picasa and are like a virtual "playlist" of pictures you have combined. If you remove or move inside the Albums collection, the original files remain in their original places on your hard drive. You can add the exact picture to more than one album without making more than one copy of the exact picture on disk. Any changes you make to a picture in an album will be applied to every minute of the picture in Picasa, including the original in your Folders collection.

• Create a new album. First, click one or pictures (you can't make an empty album). Click "File" then click "New Album" to make a new album in Picasa including the pictures that have been selected. You can do the exact thing by selecting a picture, select the "Add To" selection to the right of the Photo Tray, and click "New Album" on the popup list.

• Add a photo to an existing album. The exact picture can be assigned to many albums in Picasa. Click a picture, select the "Add To" selection to the right of the Photo Tray, and click a created album from the popup list.

• Change an album description. Click on the description of any album two times to open the "Album Properties" box. Type a new title for the album. You can also change the album's date, place taken, or title. Any information that describes the album you add will be searchable in Picasa. When you're finished, select the "OK" selection.

• Delete a photo from an album. Click a picture. Right-click with your mouse and click "Remove from Album" in the menu or tap Delete on your keyboard. Note: Removing a picture from an album doesn't remove the original picture from your computer's hard drive.

• Rearrange photos in an album or between albums. Select and drag a picture to arrange its order within an album or drag it into another album. This doesn't affect the order in which the original pictures that are on your computer.

Note: An album in Picasa isn't the exact as a Picasa Web Album. The Album collection doesn't show you the pictures you may have downloaded to the internet.

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