SUGGESTIONS FOR LEARNING TO USE PICASA

Picasa is a free photography and video utility offered by Google.  Google also offers "Google+," but Google+ is designed for social media and sharing
photographs and videos with "circles."  Regular Picasa is immensely better and free of the social media baggage.  You have control (or Google
tells you that you have control) over who sees your images.  You can use Picasa to edit your images before or after uploading them to the Internet.

Picasa's storage limits are complex, but it appears that one has virtually unlimited free space. 

You can use Picasa without placing your images on the Internet, but Picasa makes sharing images very easy. 


Here are suggestions for learning how to use Picasa. 

-- See Google's introduction to Picasa; it will answer most of your questions. 
Here's the link: https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/157000?hl=en .

-- See this video which introduces Picasa and explores various of its features.  Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M.

-- Download Picasa to your computer (if you haven't already) and open Picasa.  Make sure that you have the latest version; go to "Help" and
click on "Check for Updates."  To download Picasa go to: http://picasa.google.com/ .

-- Sign in to your Google account (that is, your Gmail account).

-- Create a learning folder on your computer and place several images (five or six) in the folder.  The goal is to learn how to edit,
organize, store, share photographs and videos using Picasa.  [For the purpose of this project, I've created a folder named
"y140422_mbmpicasaB"  and uploaded it as an album; it contains a few of the screen shots presented below.  Here is the
link for the album.  https://picasaweb.google.com/jimbolnersr/Y140422_mbmpicasaB?authkey=Gv1sRgCOuB96Wn687eJg

 -- I suggest that after you have created your learning folder with its five or six images, that you go through the screen shots below
and then try to upload your  album with your five or six images to the Internet.