Picasa keeps your pictures safe. The original photo will never be changed. There are different ways to save your pictures.
Save to Disk and File>Save
The Save edited photos to disk button underneath the filename, will be highlighted, when a photo within that folder is edited. The other option is File>Save
These options create a copy of your edited photo. Your original photo will be moved to a hidden folder called “picasaoriginals”.
This will create a backup and allows you to undo or revert your saves.
Save a copy and Save as
“Save a copy” will create a copy of the edited photo into the folder. This Copy will have a ‘1’ at the end of its filename to distinguish it from the original. This copy will not allow you to undo or revert the edits.
Click File>Save a copy
“Save as” is similar to ”Save a Copy”. The only difference is that it allows you to specify the filename and location of the new copy.
Save to Disk and File>Save
The Save edited photos to disk button underneath the filename, will be highlighted, when a photo within that folder is edited. The other option is File>Save
These options create a copy of your edited photo. Your original photo will be moved to a hidden folder called “picasaoriginals”.
This will create a backup and allows you to undo or revert your saves.
Save a copy and Save as
“Save a copy” will create a copy of the edited photo into the folder. This Copy will have a ‘1’ at the end of its filename to distinguish it from the original. This copy will not allow you to undo or revert the edits.
Click File>Save a copy
“Save as” is similar to ”Save a Copy”. The only difference is that it allows you to specify the filename and location of the new copy.
Click File>Save as
Saving to a portable Device
In Picasa there is only one way to Save your photos directly to a portable Device.
Saving to a portable Device
In Picasa there is only one way to Save your photos directly to a portable Device.
- Select a photo in the folder you want to save
- Click create a Gift CD
- Remove the tick “Include Slideshow”
- Remove the tick “Include Picasa”
- Insert CD
- Click Burn Disc
To unhide the picture later Select View>hidden pictures. A picture will appear.
Right click the hidden picture and select unhide.
Saving your pictures to a pen drive
If you want to save your pictures to a pen drive you can do that only from your C:\Drive.
There are two ways to do this.
1. Save them from My Pictures
If you know the name of the folder you want to save
Click Start>My Documents>My Pictures>folder you want to save
Right click the folder
Select Send to>select removable drive or CD-RW drive
2. Export the photo’s from Picasa to your C:\Drive
Select one or more photos or an entire folder and add them to the photo tray (green button).
Make sure the tray is empty, if not click on the red circle. When you click once on the folder name a pile of photos and the words “Folder selected … photos” appear in the photo tray.
When you have selected the photos click the Export Button.
- You can change the location of where you want to store the folder by clicking browse.
When you have selected the entire folder click browse to give it a new location and create a new folder. If not you end up in the opened original folder and have to save the pictures one by one - You can select original size or choose to compress the photos
- You can add a watermark to the photo
Be aware that if you choose the last option, the photo’s you exported will be stored twice on your C:\Drive. In the original folder and the folder you just created.
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