Comments on: Making your photos worth 1000 words

By: Anne Baird

Anne Baird — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:42:07 +0000

Hey Chris, thanks for the great post. I didn’t realise that there were those extra things that you could do with Picassa. Will have to check them out. In answer to your question, I use Flickr to share images with family and friends and use PaintShop Pro and Fireworks for image editing. But I as I said I think I’ll check out Picassa a bit more thanks to your post. Coincidentally I blogged about Google Docs tonight. I love it and am finding that I’m using it more and more. As you said it’s great for collaborating and I’m finding that its becoming more and more useful as a way to access, store and work on files from anywhere. I came across a lovely little addon sidebar for Fireworks and Flock. You can click and drag files from your hard drive and it directly uploads them to your Google Docs account. If you haven’t seen it check it out here. http://www.gdocsbar.com/ Cheers Anne.

By: Janet Barnstable

Janet Barnstable — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:27:57 +0000

Got to tell you Chris & Sue, you’ve helped with a presentation I have to make Jan 18th!

Got our folks using blogs, now trying to get them beyond just typing and how great to have this for them to reference.

AND Andrew, thanks for the bit about GDocs.

Hummm, looks as if I’m hoping to get a weeks worth of content into a 3 hour session.

By: Teaching Sagittarian » Twitter Flickr Learning

Teaching Sagittarian » Twitter Flickr Learning — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:12:44 +0000

[...] I mentioned that I love my twitter network? A few days ago a joint post from Chris Betcher & Sue Waters was written about picassa vrs flickr born out of tweets on twitter. I’d already mentioned in [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:39:46 +0000

Sujokat – Yes I hadn’t used Google Docs all that much, but when Sue W suggested we cowrite a blog post it seemed like a great way to have a further play with GDocs. We were still on Skype talking about what a good idea it would be and I created the basic document, added her as a collaborator and sent the invitation to work on it. It really is a very seamless process.
What DID surprise me was the ability of Google Docs to integrate directly into my existing blog so that the finished post, written in GDocs, could be posted to my blog in a single button click. THAT impressed me. Sue and I started adding links and formatting text in the Gdoc, and I kept thinking that all that would need to be redone when we cut and past it to our blogs… but the share/export to blog function preserved all of that formatting. Very impressed! Thanks Google.

Andrew J – Yeah I installed Picasa on my girlfriend’s Dell laptop after she watched enviously as I flicked through my photos using iPhoto on my Mac. Picasa is certainly the next best thing to iPhoto for Windows users. (I’ve heard some Windows users say that Picasa is actually a better tool than iPhoto for photo management – It certainly comes close, but I still think iPhoto wins)
Just on the slideshow/movie thing you mentioned, one nice thing in iPhoto is that it can create slideshows too, and include the soundtrack (well, a single song anyway… more complex soundtracks would be a bit harder) Just pull all the desired photos into a single album, then choose File > Export and select the Quicktime option… Viola! Done, including the currently selected music track. Actually, the slideshow options in iPhoto, along with the options to Fit to Music, add Ken Burns effects, etc, make it very easy to bang out some very fancy slideshows in (quite literally) one click. nice!

By: Andrew J

Andrew J — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:40:41 +0000

Thanks to you both.
I have been fiddling around with Picassa and found that you can easily create a movie / slideshow of your photos. Simply select a folder of photos (or select photos from different folders) and then select ‘movie’ from the ‘create’ menu. It allows you to change the delay between pictures and the size of the movie. You can then deposit this into windows movie maker, add sound files and its done. Doing it this way more than halved the time it took for me to make a short movie by only using movie maker.

By: dswaters

dswaters — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:34:40 +0000

Another interesting aspect of the post is seeing the look of the post on our two blogs with different themes. Your wider template means the post looks a lot cleaner on your site compared to mine — bummer. While not an issue when read in a Feed reader makes me a bit jealous!!! I agree Sujokat — I certainly learned more about Google Documents even if Chris has not explained how to blog the post directly from Google Documents to his blog. Not sure if we have time to go back to work .

Sue

By: Sujokat

Sujokat — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:14:06 +0000

Thanks Chris and Sue I am learning so much and particularly the value of google docs. Sooo glad it is holidays !!!

By: » Flickr, Picasa and loving your photos! Mobile Technology in TAFE

» Flickr, Picasa and loving your photos! Mobile Technology in TAFE — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:41:56 +0000

[...] is a joint post between Chris Betcher and myself on Flickr and Picasa, and has been cross posted on each of our blogs. Please note that we had written different sections and apologies but [...]