Picasa processed mall photos

The "once in a lifetime" wedding days photos from James Mok represent a professional's use of Picasa in their work.

Hin Man represents a quite different demographic - someone who wants to improve the look of more casual snapshots gained from a trip to the shopping mall with a point and shoot.  (Actually I'm doing Hin Man somewhat of a disservice here - his photo blog shows that he's a passionate and talented photographer with a keen eye for a good shot - but he did blog about the mall trip which is sort of the point I'm trying to make).

The mall photos were taken with a Casio ex-z750, which Hin notes sometimes struggles with low light pictures.  To counteract this, he shot all pictures without flash, turning up the ev compensation to +3 and then post processed in Picasa afterwards.  The examples he shows have a number of Picasa's special effects applied - including converting some to black and white.

The article concludes with the comment:

When I find time, I will write up on Picasa in my Tech Corner blog page, it is a wonderful editing tool that everyone can grasp without a long learning curve.

I hope that comes soon - its likely to be an interesting take on the program.  For the moment there is just a short teaser in place on the tech blog which says

I find Picasa very useful in organizing photos and it provides a very complete suite of basic editing tools. I highly recommend it.
More details pending ...