The Best Way? Well, okay. the recommended way - to view photos that are on Picasa Web
It's possible to view any of the slideshows in our album archive simply by clicking on the "slideshow" link under an image. Alternatively you can click on the "album" link under the image and see thumbnails and proceed from there. This tutorial is here to teach you how to see the images on picasaweb albums FULL SCREEN and still maintain control of how much time you spend with each picture.
March, 2009. From now on the MLRA photo albums and slideshows will be on Picasa Web. Over time the earlier albums and slideshows on Photobucket will be transferred to Picasa Web. The image at the right shows a photo that is being viewed the recommended way. It fills the entire monitor. No extra stuff surrounding the photo. Instead of a short caption, the photo has a description of several sentences. While the font looks too small in this tutorial, on your monitor, filling the entire screen, the text will be legible unless you have low vision.. |
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Notice that there's a toolbar at the bottom of the first picture, but that it's missing in the picture at the right. The toolbar comes and goes. It appears because it's important and it disappears because it covers up some of the image. .If it's not there and you want it, move your cursor to the bottom of the screen. |
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Here are two closeups of the toolbar. The top image shows the toolbar as it appeared in the first photo above. There is a large PLAY BUTTON - a triangle pointing to the right. . When you see the PLAY BUTTON, you know the slideshow has been paused. In the second image the slideshow is running and you see the PAUSE BUTTON - two verticle parallel lines. To the left of the play or pause button there is a PREVIOUS ARROW and to the right there is the NEXT ARROW. If the slideshow is running and you hit any of those three icons, PREVIOUS, PAUSE, NEXT then the slideshow will pause. When the slideshow is paused (which we recommend) then just click the NEXTarrow when you're ready. AND
THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO VIEW PHOTOS Start the slideshow, then pause it. Spend as much or as little time as you want looking at the picture. Then move ahead (or back). Yes, you can play the slideshow and change it to run faster or slower, but we think it's better to maintain control over how much time you spend with each picture.
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| Now try it. Click (or doubleclick) here or click (or doubleclick) on the photo at the right. Either way, start the slideshow. PAUSE it and move thru the photos with the NEXT arrow. . EXPERIMENT! . Find out for yourself about changing the speed of the slideshow and what happens when you click (doubleclick?) that X in the toolbar. And find out what else you can do when you click various things in a Picasa Web album. |  |
End of Part One - The Best way to View Photos. Part Two - For those who want large-print captions. |
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CAN'T READ THE CAPTIONS? MAKE THEM BIGGER! If you need to make the captions larger, this can be done. This page tells how to enlarge font. Use Control Plus (+). Then to return to normal use Control Zero (0). Unless you're using a Macintosh in which case use Command Plus and Command Zero, The photo at the right shows larger text through a Mozilla Firefox Browser. Using the Control/+ combination several times the font was made larger. The picture stayed the same. |
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This second photo at the right shows larger text through an Internet Explorer Browser (IE). . Using the Control/+ combination several times both the font and the picture became larger. With IE it becomes necessary to scroll over to the right to read all the caption. Different browsers do different things. In either case, though, it is possible for a low vision person to enlarge the font of the caption. I believe you can use this technique to enlarge the font on all browsers (Safari, etc) but the relationship between image and text is handled differently on different browsers. |
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