The life and times of MET student

This e-toolkit experience proved to a be a pleasantly straightforward one! Although there are numerous Youtube tutorial on how to use the various features of the program, PIcasa is so easy to use, that I didn’t find them to be necessary.  As soon as I had created a few copies of photos that I wanted to play around with, I started by trying cropping and resizing.  The crop feature allows you to both manually crop, or has pre-selected sizes that you can apply to your picture.  After that, it’s as easy as pressing the “apply” button, and voila! A newly cropped picture is at your disposal.  I quickly moved on to exploring the other features, including resizing, colour adjustment, adding text, retouching, and filtering effects.  Picasa also has a great tool where you can easily add photos from your library to create a collage.  Check out the one that I created:

A collage created in Picasa of my trip to Australia.