![]() ![]() Currently, Google has only officially offered Picasa 3.0 Beta for Linux. Google has announced that there will be no Linux version for 3.5. It is not a native Linux program but an adapted Windows version that uses the Wine libraries. Since June 2006, Linux versions have become available as free downloads for most distributions of the Linux operating system. KDE Image Plugin Interface (KIPI) export to Picasaweb Version 3.9 also removed integration with Picasa Web Albums for users of Google+. Version history Windows Īs of January 2015, the latest version of Picasa is 3.9, which supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and has Google+ integration for users of that service. Picasa Web Albums, a companion service, was closed on May 1, 2016. On February 12, 2016, Google announced it was discontinuing support for Picasa Desktop and Picasa Web Albums, effective March 15, 2016, and focusing on the cloud-based Google Photos as its successor. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from Lifescape and began offering it as freeware. An iPhoto plugin and a standalone program for uploading photos were available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and macOS were available, and for Linux, the Windows version was bundled with Wine compatibility layer. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa (Spanish for "house") and "pic" for pictures. Picasa was a cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. As they’re video clips, you can also save them to USB sticks and play them back from media players.3.9.141.259 (9 October 2015 7 years ago ( )) ģ.9.141.306 (9 October 2015 7 years ago ( )) Setting up video clips is a great way to showcase your photography. So with Picasa you can convert your images to video clips with a variety of effects. It saves as a wmv video that you can play with numerous media players. Click on the video thumbnail to play it in Picasa as in the shot below. That will then save your photo video in a Videos project folder on the Picasa Library tab. When your finished with the editing, press the Create Video button. Press the Play full screen option for an expanded video preview. That will then play through the clip within the Picasa window. ![]() ![]() You can preview the videos by pressing the Play button. Then select the new slide thumbnail, which you can drag to alternative positions in the video. To add new slides to the video, select one of the photo thumbnails at the bottom of the window and press the Add a new text slide button. The tab also includes Bold, Italic and Automatic Outline text formatting options. Click the Text colour or Background colour options to choose new colors for the slide. Select the Font drop-down list to choose alternative fonts for the slide. There you can enter new text in the text box. Click the Slide tab to edit the slide’s text. Select the Fit photos into audio option to make sure the full track plays during the video. Then choose an audio track to play in the background. To add background audio to the video, press the Load button. Below that you can also adjust the slide duration by dragging the Slide Duration bar to the left and right. Click the Transition Style drop-down menu to select one of the effects. That will open the Video Maker tab in the shot below.įrom the Video tab you can select a variety of transition effects. Then click Create > Video and select From Selection. Open Picasa and select a group of photos to include in the video by holding the Ctrl key. The freeware Google Picasa 3.9, compatible with both the Windows and Mac OS X platforms, is one of the programs that has options to set up videos with your photos. They are similar to slideshows, except that you can play back the videos with media players. You can set up video clip presentations for your photos with a variety of software packages. ![]()
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