Picasa 3(beta) - Creative Gene's Enthusiastic

Over on the Creative Gene blog, Jasia has a note about the new Picasa 3 (beta). Thanks, Jasia, as between being away and being sick, I haven't even had a peek. I will now though as her review is so very positive.

I think I'll still like Fototagger for labelling group or 'complicated' pictures, but I see that Picasa has more editing tools, including text, watermarking, multiple tags and a magnifying loupe!

Picasa still helps you locate and view your photos - that's primarily what I'm using it for - but now you can move photo folders around while viewing - that sounds good to me as I am weeding out and 'migrating' my photos right now.

Just as soon as this weekend's conference meeting is over, I'll have a look. Thanks again, Jasia!

Creative Gene: http://creativegene.blogspot.com/2008/09/quick-look-at-new-picasa-3.html

Researching Old Photos?

There's a good article in The Wall Street Journal today about researching family photographs. It mentions Maureen Taylor, who is one of the best known genealogical photograph researchers and Colleen Fitzpatrick, who is now equally well known for her use of forensic techniques to analyze photographs. There is a link in the on-line article to a video featuring Colleen Fitzpatrick.

Maureen Taylor's columns are regularly featured in Family Tree magazine (the U.S. company) & photographs can be sent to her there for possible free analysis of costume, likely dates, etc. : http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/current.htm

Colleen Fitzpatrick, with Andy Yeiser, has a free weekly photo analysis quiz. It's well worth looking at the archived quizzes and participating regularly to sharpen your eye: http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/index.html

"The Photo Detective" , by Alexandra Alter, on-line & in print: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119214969916756801.html?mod=todays_us_no