[nana2six]

I like to order prints from online photo sites such as Walgreens.. however when I click the browse button to upload pictures I would like to load them from Picasa. I cannot find Picasa. It's not in My Documents, My Pictures, MY Computer, Desktop... I have edited the pictures in Picasa and even though the folders are the same in both Picasa and MY Pictures, my edits do not convey to My Pictures. I would love to totally remove My Pictures. Lately when I click on a picture in one of my folders it copies one picture sometimes as many as 100 times even if I am trying to delete it. Can I make Picasa my default ?

[antimoth]

With Walgreens, you browse either to a specific photo or a folder containing all the photos you want to send. Picasso is a program. It uses folders but cannot be opened as a storage area by the Walgreens browser.

You have to look at which folder is used when you save something in Picasso. That's the folder that contains your edited pics.

[nana2six]

Thank you very much

[fairnooks]

Also another thing Picasa has developed in recent versions is that some edits you make are not applied directly to the photo but are instead stored in a seperate file. That means when you look at them with Picasa, the edits are visible because it reads that little edit list file and applies it, but, looking at those same photos with another program or just as thumbnails in windows explorer, the edits will not show since any other program does not read in that seperate edit list.

You can take actions to save the photo with the edits applied but right now there are not very good options for controlling the quality of the re-saved photo with the edits appied, so I wouldn't recommend it, but I should also note I haven't gotten around to trying 3.5 yet so that may have been improved (abilty to save as .bmp format would have been an easy solution).

I think there's a good chance the My Pictures photos and those that Picasa sees are really the same ones despite the edits so I wouldn't recommend deleting any you want. You might try moving (not with Picasa) a subfolder of photos to an unwatched (by Picasa) area of your drive(s) and see if they stay in Picasa or disappear. You can also right click on any photo in any folder set in Picasa and choose locate on disk...the window that pops up will reveal the location of those files. If its in My Pictures, chances are very good that they are one and the same location.

[nana2six]

WOW... thanks this is very helpful