It's kind of useless like that! He asked me if Picasa could flip the photo so it would read correctly. I thought a minute about how a click of the clockwise arrow would rotate a picture 180 degrees, but I couldn't think of how Picasa could actually flip a picture so that mirrored text would read correctly.
Fast forward a couple days, and we're here at a big RV rally giving our Picasa seminar with over 500 people!! One attendee, Frank Geister, came up to me later and said, "Let me show you something cool I've discovered about Picasa and collages ...." It was a cool tip, and I might share that with you in a future post, but what really excited me was in our continued conversation he mentioned a keyboard shortcut for 'Flipping' a photo. I asked him to demonstrate that one!
All you do is click on the picture (either single click, or double-click) and hold down the Ctrl, Shift and hit the H key ... Ctrl-Shift-H ... is the command to Flip Horizontal (Command Shift H on Mac). Here's the result:
And, check out the list of all the keyboard shortcuts for Picasa.
THANKS Frank! I wish I knew who it was that asked me the question in the first place :-( Maybe he'll read this post!
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Chris, what is needed to "Scan" a slide? I've got a ton of old slides and a scanner, but is there some way to get them to Picasa? By the way, thanks for the article on scanning old photos. I spent 2 weekends scanning hundreds of old photos. Got them out of the shoebox into the computer and 2 backup discs besides. Thanks again! Jim
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed at the things we can do with Picasa. Special thanks for the link to the keyboard shortcuts. That's very helpful.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to each issue of your newsletter. Learning CAN be fun, even for us "Seniors."
Jim - so glad to hear about your old photos! Now - for the slides: Our scanner has a black insert with a cutout place to put a slide. So, the regular scanner will scan slides. The quality is not impressive though. There are fancy, expensive slide scanners you can buy - just google for slide scanner. Most people take the slides to a photo store and have them do it. But, here's another tip ... get out the old projector and have an old fashioned slide show - use your digital camera to take a photo of the projected slides. They come out pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI have a CanoScan 8600f flat bed scanner that will also scan slides and film strips. It can be found for under $175. I have just completed a personal project where I scanned over 50 slide reels. The scans came out beautifully. In addition, if the slide has aged, you can change the picture as well as eliminate dust specks automatically. It's pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteHow did you take that photogrpah backwards ?
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THANK YOU THANK YOU! I just tried out my new wolverine F2D scanner and did not realize I was scanning the slides upside down (printed side of slide holder up). I was going to have to re-scan them all until I saw this horizontal flipping shortcut! THANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteIt's actually Control Shift H on a mac (not Command key)
ReplyDeletethanks a lot sir, this ide/shortcut is very hekpfull for me today!
ReplyDeletethank you again!