This workshop introduces techniques for editing and managing digital photos using Google Picasa. During this workshop, participants will edit flawed photos taken with a digital camera. These images will be straightened, cropped, and resized, and corrected for contrast, color, red eye, and dark areas. Finally, participants will save the finished images for print, email, and Web.

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Participants will:

• Organize a group of photos
• Straighten an angled photo
• Crop a photo
• Sharpen the focus
• Adjust photos with poor exposure and lighting
• Correct red eye
• Check for resolution and dimensions
• Save images for print, email, or web

The following workshops are suggested prerequisites to this workshop:

• Windows: Basic Computing Skills

Participants should already be able to:

• use the mouse
• work with windows and menus
• save, copy, and organize documents in a Windows or Macintosh environment