tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25480671.post-79583923072593566732007-10-28T14:40:00.000-07:002007-10-28T14:51:42.694-07:00<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uO6aYd3iG8Q/RyUBx0bnULI/AAAAAAAADKI/Lgs9UvovyXU/s1600-h/157012_Painting.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uO6aYd3iG8Q/RyUBx0bnULI/AAAAAAAADKI/Lgs9UvovyXU/s160/157012_Painting.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uO6aYd3iG8Q/RyUByEbnUMI/AAAAAAAADKQ/SKr6PnIKY6g/s1600-h/157012_Painting-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uO6aYd3iG8Q/RyUByEbnUMI/AAAAAAAADKQ/SKr6PnIKY6g/s160/157012_Painting-1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"></div>The new Picasa Blog alerted me to a hidden feature - apparently called an Easter Egg (hidden!)<br /><br />If you edit a picture in Picasa and then go to the 'Effects' tab, hold down Ctrl while you select Graduated Tint...and you will see 'Radial Tint'...oooh!<br /><br />I've found that this is great for images that have a source of 'light' in them, like the picture above - I tinted the picture with quite a dark blue but positioned the radial cursor over the lantern and then increased the 'feather' effect so that it looks as if the light is being thrown onto the snow.<br /><br />The second picture was also sharpened to create more of a paper texture to the pic, but that was before I started playing with this new feature!<br /><br />Picasa is free with the Google Pack download.<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1409660772021041"; google_ad_output = "textlink"; google_ad_format = "ref_text"; google_cpa_choice = "CAAQpJKWyAIaCEZx_MVbRzDwKOD-uosBMAA"; google_ad_channel = "5440499213"; //--><br /></script><br /><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"><br /></script><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Web-Wahmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12622611828459054345noreply@blogger.com