I Love Picasa - It's How I Make My Collages!

Joy & Carol asked how I make my collages.  Good Question!!  I use Picasa which is a free picture management system from google.  It has so many great features:

1. Picture Management:  sorting, cataloging, etc.
2. Face Recognition:  You can identify a face and Picasa will search your photos for other instances of these faces.  So far, Alaina has won the "most pictures" award in my stash of photos.  Impressive for only being 2 years old!! 
3. Collaborative Albums:  We can share albums, embed albums, e-mail albums, etc.
4. Geotagging:  You can map out where your photos were taken.
5. Photo Album Synchronization:  Always keep on online back up of your photos.  I do pay for extra space every year for our blog and for my mountain of photos.
6. Tags:  You can tag, sort, and search your photos
7. Photo Editing:  Enhance all of your photos.
8. Photo Collaging:  Make several different type of photo collages (picture pile, mosaic, blocked, etc.)

Here is a quick tutorial I found on YouTube on how the collages are made!