Picasa Tips & Tricks – Burn specific pictures for a Gift CD in Picasa

Posted on March 23, 2007 at 7:57 pm

Make sure to read other posts from the Picasa Tips and Tricks series!

  1. How to setup Google’s Picasa Web Album for newbies!
  2. Google Picasa Tips & Tricks – Creating a slideshow movie of your pictures that you can upload to YouTube or MySpace
  3. Picasa Tips & Tricks – Burn specific pictures for a Gift CD in Picasa
  4. Picasa Tips – Use Picasa HTML templates to create a unique story of pictures
  5. How to use the new Map Your Photos feature in Picasa Web Albums
  6. Quick Picasa tips for organizing your photos
  7. Google Picasa Tips & Tricks – Creating Collections for your photos
  8. Managing photos better in Google Picasa

If you use Picasa (like I do) and use it to quickly burn gift Cd’s that you can give to your friends or family, then you might find it a little annoying that Picasa does not let you uncheck pictures that you may not want to burn from your folder. Well, there is a way around that and it involves hiding the picture first and then burning the Gift CD, and then un-hiding your pictures.

Here’s how to do it:

Go to the folder and select the pictures you do not want to include from that set by pressing the CNTRL key, then right click and click on Hide.

Once the pictures are hidden, click on Gift CD located in the top menu bar:

You will notice that Picasa’s count for the number of pictures in the folder is less because it does not count the hidden pictures.

Once you’ve burned your CD, now we can un-hide the pictures by going to the View menu and clicking on Hidden Pictures:

Your hidden pictures will now show up in the folder as greyed out pictures. Select them again, right click and select Unhide.

Hope that helps!

Source: http://www.pcug.org.au/members/16bjul05/Picasa2%20Tips.htm

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One Response to “Picasa Tips & Tricks – Burn specific pictures for a Gift CD in Picasa”

  1. j gunther said on : August 14th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    I have found that burning the gift cd is easy and it comes out great. However, even though I check the one photo album I want to be put on the cd, and it shows that only that album and its collection of 33 photos will be put on, instead all of my photos from all albums are put on. It’s happened repeatedly and I know that I’m doing the right steps. How do I get all of my picture files to stay away except the ones I want?


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