{"id":5797,"date":"2008-07-04T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T11:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/quick-photo-fixes-with-picasa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:29:34","slug":"quick-photo-fixes-with-picasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/quick-photo-fixes-with-picasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick photo fixes with Picasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/picasa_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Quick photo fixes with Picasa\" align=\"left\" \/>If you want to quickly retouch your pictures or maybe fix some minor visual flaws, there&#8217;s no need to turn to complicated applications like Photoshop. Simply grab hold of <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/index.html\">Picasa<\/a> and you&#8217;ll have access to a wide array of tools to fix light, color, perspective and other elements in your images to make them look just perfect.<\/p>\n<p>To edit any photo in Picasa, double click on its thumbnail in the library to open up the editing tools. You&#8217;ll get a full screen preview of your photo with a tool panel to the left side featuring all the fixes and effects you can apply to your photo. Don&#8217;t be afraid to try them all, because you can see results in real time and also undo any changes.<\/p>\n<p>The quickest way to apply an overall improvement to your photo in Picasa is using the <em>I&#8217;m feeling lucky<\/em> button. This function adjusts the image&#8217;s lightning and color, which generally results in a more visually appealing photo. But if you prefer to fix those two parameters separately, simply use the <em>Auto Contrast<\/em> or <em>Auto Color<\/em> buttons, with which you can work only on light or color without affecting the other one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/picasa02.jpg\" alt=\"Quick photo fixes with Picasa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, if you click on the <em>Tuning<\/em> tab you&#8217;ll access a bunch of sliders to fine tune light and color in your image, perfect for the pickiest users. Again, these changes can be undone at any time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/picasa03.jpg\" alt=\"Quick photo fixes with Picasa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides adjusting light and color, there is a couple of other tweaks you can easily perform with Picasa to improve your pictures. One is the straightening tool, with which you can fix a crooked horizon in no time. Just click on the <em>Straighten<\/em> button and align the photo to the overlaid grid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/picasa04.jpg\" alt=\"Quick photo fixes with Picasa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other one is the red-eye fixing tool, whose function is pretty easy to understand. Click on the <em>Redeye<\/em> button and select the subject&#8217;s eyes by holding and dragging your mouse over them. Picasa will fix them automatically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/picasa05.jpg\" alt=\"Quick photo fixes with Picasa\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to quickly retouch your pictures or maybe fix some minor visual flaws, there&#8217;s no need to turn to complicated applications like Photoshop. Simply grab hold of Picasa and you&#8217;ll have access to a wide array of tools to fix light, color, perspective and other elements in your images to make them look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/quick-photo-fixes-with-picasa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick photo fixes with Picasa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2907],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpicasa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336005,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/336005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}