Using Picasa, from Hin's Tech Corner

As promised in his article which I already covered about using Picasa to improve his photos from the mall, Hin Man has followed through with a more technical explanation of how he used the features of Picasa on the photos.

The features he covers include

• straighten - which as well as being used on the surprising number of images that are not lined up, can also be used to deliberately adjust an angle to change the sense of perspective
• fill light - a lifesaver for pictures that are too dark (often by deliberately not using the flash which would have been ineffective anyway)
• conversion to black and white, and changing contrast - to adjust a poor photo into one that looks sufficiently "arty" to be used to illustrate a blog post
• focal black and white - a "special effect" where some of the image is left in colour, whilst the rest is changed to black and white.

There are flickr photosets of the before and after pictures and of all the mall photos.