Digital Image Lab: Photshop vs. Picasa

Over the weekend, based upon the amount of work that I was forced to put into our digital images lab, I would guess that I struggled much more than the majority of the people in our section. I began experimenting with Photoshop, and, because I liked its format and its easy navigability, I began completing my lab on this site. However, when it came time to embed my slide show into my blog, I was completely unable to do so. At most, Photoshop provided me with a link to the slide show that was undersized and  distorted two of my four altered images. Based on what I can tell, I wasn't able to embed my product to my blog (obviously, a Blogger site) because the "video" presentation was not a Google or Youtube product. After deciding that this site had frustrated me for far too long, I decided to flip through the wiki and view other people's work (especially those who also use Blogger as their class blog site). I found that the majority of Blogger users used Picasa, a digital image tool that was created by those at Google. After toying around with the site's features, I found that Picasa was just as easy to manipulate as Photoshop--more importantly, I found that, once I had reworked/reformatted my slide show through this Google-run site, I was finally able to embed it into my blog. This specific lab has taught me an extremely valuable lesson--before beginning any labs, do some research regarding which sites the various technologies are compatible with (i.e., Picasa is a Google site, so it is compatible/can be embedded into Blogger, which is also a Google site). Your life will become much easier and far less stressful!