Setting up Your Downloaded Picasa® for the Tutorials

1. When the Initial Picture Scan dialog box opens, click on the radio button Only scan My Documents, My Pictures, and the Desktop, then click on Continue.

Picasa® now searches My Documents, My Pictures and the Desktop for photos to pull into its Picasa® viewing library (see the search window below that appears in Picasa®).

2.  Wait until Picasa® has completed its search. (This may take several minutes depending upon the number of images you have on your computer's hard drive.)

Displaying only the tutorial photos in Picasa®

Once all the photos in your My Pictures folder and sub-folder/s have been added to Picasa® by the selection mentioned above, to keep things simple for the purposes of this tutorial, you should further narrow down what is displayed in Picasa® to be only the photos in the Tutorial folder.

NOTE: REMOVING DOES NOT MEAN DELETING

Removing folders from Picasa® does not mean they'll be deleted or even moved from where they are currently stored on your computer's hard drive. These procedures apply only to Picasa® which we want to have as uncluttered as possible to make the tutorial easy to follow.

 

1. On the Menu bar of Picasa® click on Tools, then Folder Manager.
 

 

2. In the right-hand pane of the Folder Manager dialog box that opens, click on Desktop to select it.
3. Click on the radio button Remove from Picasa®

 

4. The Confirm Remove Watched Folder dialog box will open
5. In the Confirm Remove Watched Folder dialog box click on Yes and the confirmation dialog box will close.
6. Back in the Folder Manager dialog box, click on OK to remove the Desktop folder.


 

7.  Repeat steps 1 to 5 to remove from Watched Folders, the My Documents folder in the same way.
8. Repeat steps 1 to 5 again to remove from Watched Folders, the My Pictures folder as well.

 

NOTE: ADDING FOLDERS TO BE WATCHED

If you later wish to add any folders containing images back into Picasa® after the tutorial, this can easily be done:

  1. Click on Tools, then on Folder Manager.

  2. In the left-hand pane of the Folder Manager dialog box click on the item you wish to restore to Picasa® (e.g. My Documents, My Pictures, etc.).

  3. Next, click on the radio button Watch for Changes, and any images later added to these 'watched' folders will be detected and added to Picasa®.

You should now see no pictures at all in Picasa®. Now we need to add back just the Tutorial folder and its contents, as follows:


Reinstating the Tutorial folder in Picasa®
 
1.  On the Menu bar click Tools, then Folder Manager and the Folder Manager dialog box will open.
   
2. In the Folder List pane, click on the (+) plus sign next to My Pictures to open it.
   
3. Now click on the Tutorial folder to select it.
4. Click on the radio button Watch for Changes on the right, then on OK, and Picasa® will display the six photos you downloaded to the Originals folder within the Tutorial folder.
   

 

Once you have downloaded the Tutorial photos  from this Web site into your Originals folder, this is what you will see in your Picasa® library window. If you have not downloaded the photos yet, click here and do so now.

 

NOTE:

Where images are stored in sub-folders (e.g. Originals), and not in the main folder (e.g. Tutorial), the Picasa® image library displays only the folder that has the images in it. So in this situation Picasa® displays only the Originals sub-folder and its images, not the main Tutorial folder as well.

You're now ready to begin the tutorials from page 12 of REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EASY DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY.