How to Use a Picasa Face Movie
When adding pictures of people to your photo collection in Picasa, a free photo management application from Google, you might want to make a Face Movie out of the pictures of one particular person. Unlike a regular slideshow movie made from pictures which can be of random people, objects and places, a Face Movie overlays similar facial expressions, such as frowns and smiles, in the photos of one person to make smooth transitions from one image to the next.
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Launch Picasa on your computer. A list of your photo albums appears in the left pane of the Picasa application window. When you type a name for someone in a picture, Picasa's automatic facial recognition finds other pictures in your albums that it thinks are the same person, and groups them in different People folders, with each folder named after a person. As you manually add names to photos of the same person, they also appear in that person's People folder.
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Click an album under "People" to select it. Thumbnails of each picture of the person appear in the main Picasa window. Click or drag to select multiple pictures of a person, or click an entire album of pictures to select all of them.
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Click the "Create Face Movie" button, which is marked with an icon of a person's head superimposed over a movie frame, and is located below the name of the album in the main Picasa window. The movie editing window opens.
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Click the "Transition Style" pull-down menu, then click a transition -- such as "Time Lapse" or "Dissolve" -- to use between each image. Click options for how long each image appears in the Face Movie and how much overlap there is between pictures.
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Click "Create Movie." Picasa generates a Face Movie based on the photos you selected.
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Click the "Play" button to watch the movie.
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