Summer’s here?

24/05/2010 by Bertha.

What a weekend. Temperatures up in the mid 20’s, wall to wall sunshine and not a drop of rain. If like me you were ablt to get out to the countryside (or seaside) then hopefully you took plenty of photos.

Now what though? Don’t you find all those digital photos tend to just sit on your computer doing nothing?

Make today the time to do something with them. Picasa is the free management, editing and production program from Google and is a good starting point. You can download, manage (that’s find again) all your photos and edit them.

This last one is very important. Earlier this year the Imperial War Museum held an exhibition of Don McCullin’s work at Manchester. One of his most famous photos was on show Shell Shocked Soldier, Hue) along with a print without any editing. The two were unrecognizable as being from the same negative. If a professional of McCullin’s standard needs to edit his photos then you certainly do!

As an indication of what can be achieved with Picasa look at the two photos below which were taken on Christmas Eve 2009 about 30 minutes before the sunset and in low cloud.

The original unedited photo	The edited photo

So what to do then? Why not use Picasa to make a video of your pictures? Have a look what can be done by clicking HERE.

There’s plenty of other things to do with your photos. Have then printed (obviously) which can be done stright from Picasa, make a montage of them (Picasa again) or even upload them for the world to see.

Paul’s Flickr collection can be found HERE.

Happy clicking!

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