Remember I mentioned that I was doing an “Introduction to Photoshop” course? Well next week is the last week of the course and we haven’t even opened Photoshop! Granted, the course is being held at the school that Giorgia used to go to and when the TAFE teacher tried to install Photoshop on the computers, she didn’t realise that the Dept of Education would think that it’s not an authorised software program.
So, instead, the teacher introduced us to Picassa (or re-introduced, in my case because I have used it before). But I had no idea how much it can actually do. It’s quite nifty for a free program!
While it can’t do everything that Photoshop can do, you can still crop, fix red-eye and add some basic effects as well as be used as a photo library to help you keep your photos in order.
While walking along the lake this afternoon, I took a photo of a black crow about to fly out of a tree. In Picassa, I played around with the photo, adding a warmify effect, a soft focus effect and a tint effect.
Not bad for free software.
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