How to make a neat "Golden" effect in Picasa

Today, we're going to make what I like to call a "Golden" effect. I'm going to use a picture of my mom's dog Peanut with his head in the grass for this tutorial.

First, open Google Picasa and select the image you want to try this effect on.

Next open your green effects bucket.

Now click on Cinemascope and uncheck Letterbox

Once you've applied this effect, click on Cross Process.

And that's all you have to do! You should have a nice golden photo.

How To Make A Photo Into A Colouring Page in Picasa

This one is relatively simple, but there are still a lot of people who don't know how to do it, so it's worth doing a tutorial on. What I'm going for is the best possible effect for creating a colouring page.

As usual we'll start by selecting a photo that we really like.

Now I'm going to click on the little "sun" and raise the highlight of my photo.

Now I'll click on the blue effects page and choose "pencil sketch".

Now my photo looks like this. But I want my colours to show up really well on the paper, so I'm going to make the gray areas lighter.

I click on the Strength bar and drag it until I have a very light version of my colouring page.

Now I can print it and colour an amazing picture!