Picasa preserving tags and bookmarks

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1 Introduction
2 General Audience
3 Organize and Recover
4 Tags for Quick Finding
5 Color search
6 Basic editing
7 Best Printing
8 Filtered B&W
9 Focal black and white, or a “Cutout”
10 Desaturation
11 Check List
12 Sources
13 Authors

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Introduction

If you're a keen clipart collector, you might find your ever-increasing stock of picture files getting hard to manage - so a clipart organizer is the perfect answer. The most recommended would be 'Picasa' - free software available from Google. Picasa is a photo organizer and editor, but for clipart purposes, some of the best reasons to download Picasa are as follows

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General Audience

Photography keen people

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Organize and Recover

All pictures on your computer, even ones you've mis-filed or forgotten about, are found and organized - it's a really nice surprise to find pictures you forgot you had!

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Tags for Quick Finding

Easily find pictures later by using 'tags' or keywords with each image - e.g. tag all your festive clipart as 'Christmas' and when you need to see what kind of holiday clipart you have, just type 'Christmas' into the search box and you will be presented with all your Christmas clipart!

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Color search

You know the piece of clipart you want, but can't remember where it is or you didn't tag it...but you 'do' know it's a blue forget-me-not...search by the color 'blue' and Picasa will show you all the blue pictures you have!

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Basic editing

Basic functions like re-size and cut etc, but if necessary you can even re-colour some kinds of clip art image, or turn them into sepia or black and white if you prefer

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Best Printing

Fewer printing problems because Picasa will tell you whether the quality is any good at the size you want to print at

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Filtered B&W

Picasa can simulate the effect of adding a colored lens filter to the camera as the picture was taken. Filters allow you to allow/prevent certain colors from reaching the film. Picasa shows a number of standard filters, and allows you to custom select a filter from a wide range of tones. From the full color image select “Filtered B&W” then click “Pick a color” And select one of the swatches from the top, or from the color chart that appears.

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Focal black and white, or a “Cutout”

Picasa allows you to select just a portion of your image to remain in full color. Sometimes this is referred to a “Cutout” in Photoshop terms. In this case, you can choose a circular cutout, with a hard-or soft (called a feathered” edge.)

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Desaturation

Desaturation is another way to get the same effect as the plan b&w filter. Often you’ll see Photoshop tutorials that tell you to desaturate a picture rather than to convert to gray scale so that you can retain the color information, just not show it.

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