Using Picasa to organise and submit digital images to iPath
what is picasa
Picasa is an easy to use desktop image organiser developed by GOOGLE and is freely available for Windows PCs from http://picasa.google.com.
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it easy to send your images by email to iPath, or directly to your friends.
Getting Picasa
Download Picasa from http://picasa.google.com and install it by double clicking on the installer.
Setting up Picasa
Figure 1. select the folders which Picasa should scan for new images (menu tools/folder manager). To use all images in your "my images" folder, select the "my images" and check the "Watch for Changes" option. Picasa will then automatically inlude all new images in the "my images" folder.
Figure 2. Set up the email settings in Picasa (menu tools/options). Select your preferred email program - e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook or GMail. Set the image size for outgoing images. We suggest to set the maximum to 640 pixels which is sufficient for most telemedicine applications.
Using Picasa to send an email
Figure 3. Select all the images that you want to send (hold the ctrl key to select multiple images). Click the "Email" button at the bottom of the window.
