Resizing Your Pictures Using Picasa
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Assumptions

• You have installed which is freely available at:
  http://picasa.google.com/
• You have a copy of your website in a folder in your computer.

Introduction

Once you install Picasa, the program will automatically search your computer for folders that contain picture files. You will also be able to import pictures from media devices such as CDs or USB drives. We assume that Picasa already detected the pictures you want to resize. If you cannot find your pictures try to manually add the folder to picasa. For more details check Picasa's documentation.

Resizing Your Pictures

1. Open Picasa and select the folder that contains the pictures to be resized.

Figure 1. Selecting the folder with the picture to be resized in Picasa.

2. Select the picture (or group of pictures) that you are going to resize and add to the website. The pictures you selected should also be shown in the picture tray at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Figure 2. Selecting pictures in Picasa. The picture tray, at the bottom-left corner
shows four pictures selected.

3. Click on the File menu and then click on "Export Picture to Folder..."

Figure 3. Exporting pictures to a folder using Picasa.

4. In the Export to Folder Window, adjust the settings as follows:
   1. Location of exported folder. Click on "Browse..." and select your website's folder. If your website has a folder for images, you should select such folder instead.
   2. Name of exported folder. Type a name that will help you identify the group of pictures you will resize (picasa will create a folder with that name)
   3. Image Size options. This feature allows you to specify the width of the resized pictures. The height will be adjusted proportionally. We recommend the width to be 640 pixels or less. If you are making thumbnails, they should be 150 pixels or less.
   4. Image Quality. Lower quality will result in images that load faster. If you are not sure about this feature, just leave the default setting as it is.
   
   Figure 4. The Export to Folder window.

5. Click OK. The resized pictures will be generated by Picasa.

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