Organize, Edit, and Send Your Photos with Picasa… Free!

Our clients often ask us for software recommendations, and a frequent request is for decent, cheap photo editor. In this age of digital photography we often find ourselves with hundreds or thousands of images on our systems, but no way to easily edit the images, send them in compressed formats via email, or even get them organized.

Picasa changes all that, and does it for free. It allows you to easily organize and edit your photos, then let the world know about them thru email, prints, or posting on the web.
Some of the free software that comes with digital cameras can do what Picasa does, but Ive always found said software (from Kodak, Canon, etc) to be slow and unwieldy.

Picasa, on the other hand, is very user-friendly, automatically doing what you want it to, and making everything else pretty easy. If you arent inclined to tackle one of the more full-featured photo editors out there (like Adobes Photoshop or Lightroom), Picasas basic photo editing features may be just what you need. Image editing is easy: you can adjust brightness, contrast, color temperature, crop, rotate, convert to black and white, and much more.

As a professional photographer I use Adobe Lightroom for my photo processing, but Ive personally used Picasa for a couple years now as a way to organize my photos and post them to my Picasa Web Album because its easy, fast, and free.

Did I mention its free? Check it out.

Until Next Time,
Eric Schlange
President
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The Kelseyville Pear Festival is an annual event which draws thousands to the small country town of Kelseyville, CA. Now in its 13th year, the festival's board of directors contacted BitSculptor seeking a professional web presence which would present the festival in a cohesive, well-branded, positive light to both tourists and local attendees. Site content includes festival schedules, directions to Kelseyville, sponsor list, and more. As a proud supporter of local events, BitSculptor was happy to donate our web hosting services to the Kelseyville Pear Festival web site. Check it out online at: www.pearfestival.com

Screensaver finished for CEFC Youth Group

Community Evangelical Free Church of Susanville, CA has a hoppin' youth group, and Pastor Steve Schlange saw an opportunity to remind kids of that by creating a downloadable, CEFC Youth-themed screensaver. The first screensaver (created in 2001) was good… but the latest screensaver, created to match the revamped site for 2003, is just plain great.

Click any of the screenshots to the right to enlarge.

As a spin-off from ET, Jurassic Park, and Monty Python, this screensaver is sure to entertain. What else can happen when you watch your youth pastor ride wheelies in front of a hungry T-Rex?

All of the photos and images in the screensaver are pulled from CEFC Youth group (most from the online photo archives).

Watch the screensaver as a Flash animation (1MB).

Download the entire screesaver (1.56MB).

Riverside Community Church site goes live with enhanced content management and secure online member directory

When an fast-growing urban church began to look for a company to partner with in developing an outstanding web presence, BitSculptor's range of services appealed to them because of our mix of quality, custom site development coupled with powerful online site administration tools (OAF). The new Riverside web site features our new "myChurch" application which combines custom homepages for site visitors with a secure, online member directory. Visitors to the site can sign up for a myRiverside account and gain immediate access to a personal homepage which they can customize themselves to display just the information they're interested in. Additionally, site users who want to be listed in the online directory can apply for permission to be listed. (Note: Church staffers must approve the application before the user can gain access to the directory, keeping the directory private and secure.) With a growing weekly attendance of over 1,200, Riverside will be using the site primarily as a means of communication to current and potential attenders. Audio, video, text, and photo content is spread throughout the site and updated by a group of site administrators. See it live: www.riversidepeoria.com

African American Wellness Project web site goes live

BitSculptor has completed the development of the first phase of the African American Wellness Project (AAWP) web site, located at aawellnessproject.org.

Based on Oakland, CA, the AAWP was developed in response to a need to reduce the gap between the health of African Americans and other Americans. It is the AAWP's mission to improve your ability to use the health care system by providing you with tools, resources, and information regarding health and health care.

BitSculptor worked with the AAWP to develop their logo and brand, then to design and develop the site. Web hosting services are provided by BitSculptor as well, making this a full soup to nuts solution.

The web site features a variety of content including a calendar of health events, health tips video archive, healthy recipies, and searchable physician directory. All of this content is maintained by multiple AAWP staff members using simple, secure content management tools developed by BitSculptor.

The site also includes BitSculptor's powerful email list management tools, allowing the AAWP to easily build an email list, distribute information to the list, and track the effectiveness of messages sent to the list.