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Create Amazing Photo Collages with Picasa



Photo collages make a great personalized photo gift for anniversaries and birthdays. They are the perfect way to narrate an entire event from one place in a single glance. And the best part is that you don't need any expensive photo collage software to make good looking collages.

All you need is Picasa, a free photo software from Google that has an inbuilt Picture Collage maker to convert your digital photos into impressive collages quickly without any effort. [If you like to see an example, the photo collages above were also created using Picasa Collage Maker]

To create a photo collage, select the images that you would like to see in the final picture [You can select non-consecutive images in Picasa by pressing the Ctrl key while choosing pictures]

Once you have shortlisted the pictures, they would appear in your photo tray near the status bar of Picasa. Now click Create -> Make Picture Collage or click the Collage button located near the photo tray.

Now this sounds simple but there are two secret tricks about the Picasa Photo Collage Maker:

Trick 1: If you are not satisfied with the order of the pictures in the photo collage, click the preview windows and Picasa would shuffle the pictures for you.

Trick 2: If you are not happy with the layout of the photo collage, press shift and click the preview windows. Picasa would create a new photo collage layout for you. You can keep clicking the preview window the collage maker until you get that layout you were looking for.

Other than the default picture pile style, you can also use Picasa to create a photo strip or a rectangular frame with all your pictures arranged inside the squares.

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