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Google Picasa offers so much more than just viewing images on your PC and exporting them to a Google Webalbum. One of the cool ones is of template based webgallery generation. Exporting images using free templates can give your a twist making them very cool to watch.

How does it work?

Well you need ofcause Google Picasa. Then you need to add some “templates” inside the Picasa program. When you have done that you can get another template to choose from when you use the “Export to HTML…” option. What is generated are a folder containing files needed to show a gallery of the images you have selected.

1 Getting Google Picasa

This is simpel: Download and install it from Google: http://picasa.google.com

2 Adding the template

This post uses templates on: http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/. You will probertly find many others elsewhere on the net! We will try to use Piecemaker.

1. Download the ZIP file containing the templates for Picasa
2. Extract them to a temp folder
3. Copy the folder named “Piecemaker” to a folder inside your Picasa installation – something like: “C:\Program Files\Google\Picasa3\web\templates”
4. Start Picasa

3 Exporting some images using a template

You simply choose some images in Picasa. Then you find the “Export to HTML..” under the “Folder” menu (my version is in Danish, so it might be called something in that direction). Here you can see how it looks in my Danish Picasa when I choose the “Export to HTML…”:

When you choose the menu item you get a box with some choices. Here you can see which templates are installed inside your Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Picasa – probertly some basic ones plus Piecemaker which you just “installed” above. Choose Piecemaker and change other settings if you like…

When you have choses the “export” (here: “Eksporter” – in Danish) Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Picasa will generate the static files inside the folder you can see above as “Mappe”. You do not need to worrie so much about it now, because when exporting is done Picasa will launce the file showing the final result!

Usefull links and information

You can read the instructions on how to add templates to Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa’ target=_blank>Google Picasa from the FAQ on the website of Paul Van Roekel. Another page on that site has some videoes showing how to… The example above is IFRAMED into this post, which is okay, but not perfect. Also I have changed the index.html file inside the template to include a link to my blog – ofcause you can make other changes… Perhaps one day you can even create your own template!

• Piecemaker download
• www.easykiss123.com – a collection of templates
• Netsi Cycle Template

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The image above may look like a real newspaper image, but no it is not. I wrote the text an using “The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator”. So funny!

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I love to see the creativity flourish on the internet. Back in the early days when I started using computers I had a Acorn Archimedes computer. An british computer developed by Acorn computers (who by the way developed the StrongARM processor for use in Acorn Archimedes) for use in schools – in the days before PC became the only choice in the area of computers. In those days people all could do some basic programming, and users of BBC computers were blessed with BBC Basic. That program allowed you to do serious, speedy programming in Basic without having to do peeking and poking like on say Commodore 64. Anyway I almost lost track there – sorry – my point is that on that platform many creative small programs were created. In magazines, like Acorn User, people developed “one-liners”. Simple programs which did not fill more than one line! Believe me – it was amazing what could be crammed into one line of BBC Basic code! Flame could have been such a program. Amazing and inspiring!

What you can do is to draw in some funny style using only your mouse and changing the style by adjusting one or more of the many settings. You can save the result – and here are two of my “results”. Let me say that it is not really the result but the experience – the process which is the actually goal in my humble opinion. So go an try it here: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html

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Så ser det ud til at vi skal have 4 år mere her i Århus med Nicolai Wammen – tillykke Nicolai! Du fik ikke min stemme men du får her mine bedste ønsker, godt gået og her har du så en lille tegning!

Billedet er tegnet i Xara Extreme Pro 5 udfra et billede på DR’s hjemmeside på valgaftenen.

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Jeg har fundet et sjovt sted på nettet – det er et sted hvor man uploader et billede af en selv (eller et andet ansigt) og så bliver der lavet et sjovt billede med det. Se f.eks. dette billede.

Sitet er her: http://photofunia.com/ – prøv det, det er nemt og producerer sjove billeder!

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