Photo collage Maker – Picasa 3

Easily create a photo collage with picasa 3 as a free collage maker. Earlier We saw how to make photo collage with the free software Photoscape.This tutoiral is on how to create even better photo collages with Picasa 3, a free image editor and photo organizer from google. Picasa 3 is also an excellent free collage maker to make picture collages.

How to create photo collage with picasa 3?

• Free Download Picasa 3 and install
• open picasa 3.Picasa 3 will automatically detect all images on your PC/computer and create a library.From the library, Choose the photos that you want to create as a photo collage. (Note that you can even deselect certain photos later, while editing the collage).

• Click Collage at the bottom ribbon to start creating photo collage

• On clicking collage, you will be automatically taken to a settings tab (on the left), where you can customize the looks of your photo collage (displayed on the right)
• You can choose to arrange the photos either as a picture pile or as a mosaic or frame mosaic or grid or as contact sheet.There is one more option called multiple exposure but I wasn’t very successful with it.You can however give it a try

• If you choose a picture pile setting for your photo collage, you can specify a collage frame (picture border), background color, page format and even draw shadows to all pictures in the photo collage

• If you choose a mosaic or frame moasic or grid display for your photo collage, you can specify grid spacing between photos and a background color

• You can even select an image and remove it from the photo collage. Or you can even shuffle the pictures or scramble the photos on your photo collage
• You can even select a picture from the photo collage and and apply a specific border or background.In my example (photo collage at the bottom), I have applied the “Instant camera” border for one picture alone.

• Click create Collage to create the photo collage
• After creating the collage you can edit it to do some basic fixes like cropping, repairing red eye flaws, adjusting contrast etc.
• You can also edit the photo collage to tune it for light, shadows, color temperature etc.
• Finally you can also edit the photo collage to give some special effects like Focal B&W (Black and white), glow, tint etc.

• Finally you can upload the created photo collage to a web album in Picasa or email it or take a print.You can even do an export, to copy the photo collage to a folder on your hard disk

That is it folks!!! You can create amazing photo collages, as easily as outlined above, with Picasa 3.Enjoy making photo collage with picasa 3 as a collage maker!!!