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Yesterday’s ShootLikeAPro newsletter covered digital image archiving. Whether you choose to use CDs, DVDs or an external hard drive, you need to backup your image files. Hard drive crashes are almost inevitable and you’ll be heartbroken if you lose everything.
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During the past few weeks I’ve been working on a revamp of my photo website www.kpphotography.com and have been looking for various ways to create web galleries. For the time being I’ve settled on a simple approach; Picasa and SimpleViewer from Airtight.
The canned items in Lightroom aren’t bad, but don’t give enough flexibility for my [...]

Since Google bought Picasa a couple years ago, they keep adding cool features to it. One of the newer features is embedding a slideshow from a Picasa Web Album into your website or blog. It’s easier than ever now.
You’ll need the Picasa software and a Google account to get started. Picasa is only Windows based, [...]

If you’ve spent any time here on the Blog or at the TeachMeToShoot website you know I am a fan of Picasa. This wonderfully simple, yet powerful, image management and editing software sould be part of every Windows user’s toolbox. Sorry MAC folks no Picasa, but then you’ve got iPhoto!
In late April of this year [...]

Although I still favor Picasa for it’s ease and simplicity, I’ve stumbled across another free photo editing software with lots more capabilities. It’s PhotoPlus 6 from Serif Software. PhotoPlus gives you all the tools you’d expect in a full fledged photo editor. Layers, adjustable brushes, a clone tool, text effects, web tools and much more.
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Would you like to learn how to organize your photo collection and get a handle on where all your images are? Then you need to read the latest article posted to the TeachMeToShoot website.
Get the lowdown on naming, cataloging, archiving and searching methods and software tools to make your life easier. There’s even free photo [...]