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A few years ago I used Picasa as my photo managing software. Then with Windows 7 I started using Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG).
A lot of my decision was based around the ability to use nested tags. That is, I tag things like Events/Family Vacation/Seattle and Places/WA/Seattle. These tags are used in Windows Media Center and make it worth the effort. Additionally and more importantly, WLPG saves the values you enter into the actual EXIF data that moves with the photo. Picasa uses a separate method and it can be a giant pain.

Anyway, now that I’m using Google+ more and more, it would be nice to be able to share photos right from within WLPG. On install, the default plugins let you share on Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive and Windows Live Groups. Fortunately there are other plugins available, including one for Picasa Web.  Here is how to get that set up:

• Go to this page http://www.mlsteeves.com/picasapublisher/index.html and download the Picasa Publisher.
• Close WLPG if you have it open and run the install.

Now when you have some photos you want to share, you’ll see the Picasa logo a the sharing box at the top of the screen. Select your photos and click that logo.  You’ll get a dialog to enter the username and password for your Picasa Web account.  Enter your details and click Login.

You’ll then see a dialog showing you your current albums to add to as well as the opportunity to create a whole new album. Click Create new Album and name it something relevant.

You will then see the dialog box showing your photos uploading. After the upload you’ll get a box showing success and a button to view. Clicking View takes you online and to the album you just created. Here, if you are using Google+ you can share your album with your Circles by clicking the Share button on the right.

That’s it. A little effort up front will make it easier down the road to share your photos right from Windows Live Photo Gallery to Picasa Web and your friends on Google+.

The first session at Gnomedex 8 this past weekend was about how to take great photos. The session was lead by Kris Krug. Gnomedex pal and self described non-photographer, Sarah Prevette asked if she could try out her newly learned skills with my camera. She took these pictures of me which are pretty good in light of the fact that I didn’t show her how to change any of the settings on my camera and the lighting at our conference table was not optimal.

By the way, Sarah founded Upinion.com and is the Founder and Managing Director of RedWire. RedWire, which helps you with strategic professional networking, is launching soon. If you are an entrepreneur go sign up now to be notified when it gets launched.

The SONY GPS-CS1 is a new device from Sony that will track your photographs via GPS and then let you create maps with your photos already loaded on them.

Clip the small GPS to your self or camera strap and the SONY GPS-CS1monitors and records your location and stores it. When you get back to your computer, assuming you have the correct time in your camera, you can use the included software to match up times in GPS and the photographs EXIF data.

[via travel gear blog]

Here is a video that shows a handy way to help eliminate camera shake.

$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera – Lose The Tripod – The most amazing bloopers are here

Flickr user Paul the Wine Guy has an interesting set of photos over on flickr he calls ‘Understanding Art for geeks’. The set is several famous photos and paintings with geek phrases or sayings over them.

Be sure to see the whole set.

Veronica Belmont gets tips form Thomas Hawk on Mahalo Daily:

[via dps]

Every once in a while I get the notion that it would be cool to have a compact still and video camera to have along with me to capture those memorable moments in life. I don’t have a camera in my mobile phone and even if I did I’d want something a little better quality. I’m not expecting miracles in such a small form factor but something better than cell phone.

In the past I’ve read about Sanyo’s Xacti HD1 that records high def to SD cards using MPEG-4. Seems pretty cool to me. They’ve updated to the HD2 so I thought I’d see what the latest prices are. Maybe still out of my price range but I thought I’d look at CNet’s review again. While there I noticed the resellers:

Click to enlarge. What? Amazon has the Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 for less than $100?? Even if it’s image quality is about what the reviewer says it is I could handle that for $100 rather than $600.

Think this is for real? Seems like a pretty radical price differential. Guess I could just order one and find out.

Anyone out there have one of these?

Check out this bad boy. Yeah, it’s out of my price range. But at $17K USD it I think it is going to really shake up the high end industry when/if they can get the production quantities up. That can only help us little guys in the long run.

Record 2540 progressive at up to 60 fps RAW. With 4520 X 2540 pixels, Mysterium™ puts pure digital Ultra-High Def in the palm of your hand.

Mysterium™ with RED ONE™ also supports on chip down-sampling all the way down to 1080p and 720p.

Field and selective focus as found in film cameras. Mysterium™ boasts a greater than 66db Signal to Noise Ratio thanks to its large 29 sq. micron pixels. And 12,065,000 pixels deliver resolution that can only be called Ultra High Definition.

Gotta love having to down sample to get to 1080p!!

Red Camera