cartoonizing a picture in picasa

for the longest time, I thought you had to have expensive photo editing software to make a cartoonized picture, but I have discovered how to do it in picasa.  now, it might not be as good as the results from more expensive software, picasa is free and easy to use and that means a lot to me.

1. double-click on the picture you want to cartoonize in picasa
2. click on effects
3. click on saturation and drag the bar all the way to the right for the most saturation
4. click on apply
5. click on tuning
6. drag highlights and shadows until you get the picture to look the way you want it to
7. click on apply

see, wasn't that easy!

facebook 402 -- adding captions and tagging your friends in your pictures

so, now that you have friends on facebook and pictures on facebook, you probably want to tag your friends that are in the pictures that you have on facebook and you may want to add captions to help explain what is going on in the picture. here's how:

1. from your main facebook page, click on the photos tab or click on the photos icon on the bottom left hand side toolbar.
2. your albums will be listed on the bottom of the page. click on the album with the pictures that you want to tag your friends in or add captions to.
3. click on "Edit Photos" above the box of pictures in your album.
4. all the pictures for your album will then be listed on the page with a box on the left-hand side for you to type your captions into and the picture on the right-hand side where you can tag the people in the picture.
5. to add a caption to the picture, simply type what you want the caption to be in the caption box on the left-hand side.
6. to tag someone in a picture, click on them in the picture on the right-hand side.
7. a box will pop up with a list of all your facebook friends. click the check-box next to the friend's name that is shown in the picture.
8. click on tag. the person's name will now show up in the "In the Photo" section under the caption box for this picture and this picture will now show up on you friend's wall, stating that you tagged them in a picture.
   
9. you can repeat steps 6 to 8 for all the people in the picture.
10. repeat steps 5 to 9 for all the pictures in your album.
11. once you are done, click on "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.

see, wasn't that easy!!

facebook 401 -- creating photo albums and uploading photos

now that you have made some friends on facebook, you probably want to share some of your photos with them. personally, this is one of the things that I use facebook for the most. there are two things that you will need to do, create a photo album and upload pictures to that album.

creating new photo album:
you can create as many photo albums as you want to, but you can only put 60 pictures in each album. I typically create an album for each month and add the pictures that I want to share during the month (I find the 60 picture limit keeps me from boring my friends with too many pictures). I will create a separate album for special events (i.e. kids birthday parties, Christmas, etc.)

1. from your main facebook page, click on the photos tab or click on the photos icon on the bottom left hand side toolbar.
2. click on "create a new photo album" on the top right hand side of the page (right under your name).
3. give the album a unique name and add a location and description if you want to.
4. set your privacy for this photo album, by default it is set to let everyone see your photos. (I usually set mine to only let friends of friends see my albums)
5. click on create album.
6. if you want to start adding photos to this album now, start with step 4 on the instructions below.
   

adding pictures to a photo album:

1. from your main facebook page, click on the photos tab or click on the photos icon on the bottom left hand side toolbar.
2. your albums will be listed on the bottom of the page. click on the album that you want to add the pictures to.
3. click on "add photos" or "add more photos".
4. you can browse to the folder where the pictures that you want to add are located using the folder list in the left hand side of the screen.
5. you will then see the pictures that are in that folder in the right hand side of the screen. click the check-box next to the pictures that you want to upload.
6. once you have chosen all the pictures that you want to upload from that folder, click on "upload" (you can only upload pictures from one folder at a time).
7. the pictures will then be uploaded to facebook.