Besides being a great tool to help you

organize your photos

, Picasa can also help you

create unique gifts

. In this episode, we show you

how to use Picasa

to

create posters, collages and wallpaper

, as well as

make gift CDs, movies

and more.

It's very important to

back up your photos

periodically to avoid the heartache of losing precious memories. Thankfully, Picasa makes it easy for you with a variety of

backup options

. We'll show you how to

create backup photo albums

using Picasa

in this episode.

In this episode, we show you how to

collaborate on albums

using Picasa

. Once an album is created, you can

share your photo album

with others and even allows others to contribute to the album by

adding pictures

to it.

Picasa has many cool features, but we're going to show you one of the coolest and most useful in this episode:

adding nametags

. If you

add a name tag

to one of your photos, then Picasa will

automatically tag pictures

with that person in them so you can always

find pictures

of whoever you've tagged.

In this episode, we show you

how to geotag your photos

using Picasa

. Once you start

geotagging your photos

, you'll not only be able to

find your photos easier

, you'll also be able to see where they were taken in the world

using Google Earth

.

In order to easily

find your photos

it's a good idea to

add tags to your photos

. In this episode we show you how to

tag photos using Picasa

so that you can always find the picture you want.

Tag photos

with the location they were taken, the people in them, or anything other detail and you'll be able to

find similar photos

easily.

Anyone who has taken a few photos has taken one that needed a little touching up. Fortunately you can

edit photos in Picasa

so that they come out looking their best. In this episode we show you how to

apply effects to photos

,

crop photos

and more.

In order to properly

organize your photos on Picasa

you'll need to

create photos albums

to put them in. So in this episode we'll show you

how to create photo albums

as well as how to

add details and descriptions

so you'll be able to

find your photos on Picasa

easily.

Have some last minute edits to make to your photos before you publish them online or share them with friends? Don't have time to download and install software to your computer? Stacy Reed shares five of her favorite

free online photo editing services

that integrate well with third party sites like photo galleries and social networks.

Posting large images online can take a long time hog your bandwidth, so before you post all those high-res photos of your family vacation to Flickr or Facebook, consider resizing them first. We'll show you how to resize multiple images at once, quickly and easily with Fotosizer.