3 more pictures

Since I just learned how to collage pictures, I did these 3 the same way. Most of my pictures were taken this past weekend. Gentle touch of nature reflects simplicity and enjoyment. The photo was taken near my front door. The plant is on a small stand and faces a window. I open the blinds each morning and rotate the plant around every few days to allow the whole plant to catch the sunshine. Yes, a flash was used since it is indoors.

Morning before Hurricane Ike arrives... was taken Friday morning about 6:40a. I just wanted to look at the cloud movement and rustling tree branches. Of course, it was difficult to catch tree branch movements. No flash was used. I took several outdoor shots at different angles and got views that I did not want to include in the picture. I assume if I developed them, I would have to crop it.

Mid-Autumn Festival is an annual celebration in our Chinese culture. According to our lunar calendar, the official date is August 15. In Chinese history, the explanation of the moon at its brightest on this one night of the year arose from a love story between Houyi the Archer and Chang'e. This year, the date happened to fall on September 14. I went outside during the times of approximately 9:30p, 10:30p, and 11:20p. This picture is the one from 10:30p. Although one cannot see a big bright moon, I saw how the clouds were slowly going across at 9:30p and 10:30p. Even though the moon is just a little speck, a closeup of the picture will reveal the moon and its clouds. By 11:20p, the clouds had completely covered the moon again. However, I was still able to see the moon on this special day.

Collage creation

Does anybody recognize any of these comedy shows? I typed text under the collage after creation, but it did not show. Anyone know what I did wrong? Wow, I cannot believe I was able to do this! This is a great program and I had so much fun doing it. It is really easy (that's what I say now, I don't know about later on). I read the directions for Picasa3 about two times, slowly going step by step and writing down information each time I selected a new tab. When I transferred the pictures from my flash drive to Desktop, I lost the picture of Andy Griffith twice and could not understand why. I went back and looked at each picture. Except for 1 bitmap and 1 gif, the remaining 8 were jpegs. Andy Griffith's picture is a gif and would not transferred. Perplexed, I was not sure what to do, but figured it out. I exported the picture and change the file format from gif to jpeg. I explored the different tabs in Picasa3 as I created the collage ---the settings, grid spacing, background options, page format. After the picture was completed, I also experimented with the basic fixes, tuning, and effects tab. I added a glow to my collage from the effects tab. Once I logged into the blogger site, I was given an option of the collage's setting ---none, left, center, right and the size of small, medium, and large. I chose large, but would have liked to learn how to make it a little larger. If I select "Edit Html," I am afraid the pictures in the collage will be distorted as I try to make it larger. Any suggestions as to how the picture can be increased in size without being too distorted?