Picasa Viewer and PNG files
by TheBlooger on Jan.29, 2009, under Miscellaneous
Ever since I upgraded to version 3 of Picasa, I have come to really enjoy viewing images with the bundled Picasa Viewer. It’s light, fast and I really like the transparency effect.
Today, I opened up a photo that had been saved in .PNG format and attempted to print it. To my surprise, the options that are usually available within the viewer, Print, Email, “Blog This!” or even “Edit in Picasa” were grayed out. I switched to a JPG image and the options were again available. So why wouldn’t the viewer, which does support viewing of PNG files, allow me the usual options?
I checked the viewer’s configuration and a checkmark was indeed present next to the PNG file type in the configuration window (evidently, since the PNG file was opened with the Picasa viewer). Committed to find a solution to this, I fired up the actual program, Picasa 3, and after some snooping around I ended in the Options window (Tools menu / Options). On the file types tab, the PNG file type was not checked, so I checked it. I hit OK for the Options and opened up the original PNG file again with the Picasa Viewer. The options for editing with Picasa, printing and emailing were back again!
Why the extra hurdle for some basic operations on a file type that is already supported by the viewer, I don’t know. But at least there was a fairly simple fix to it and I thought I’d share it.
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February 13th, 2009 on 10:20 am
Thanks for posting this up. I’ve just installed Picasa 3 to edit a .png file. I don’t know how to use Picasa and was wondering why I couldn’t edit the .png file. After reading your post, I can now! Thanks.
February 13th, 2009 on 12:40 pm
Glad I was able to help.
June 8th, 2009 on 8:43 pm
Thanks for that. I ran in to the same problem with the BlogThis! button and found your fix via Google.
June 8th, 2009 on 9:00 pm
Hehe, great!
Thanks for letting us know.
November 4th, 2009 on 6:58 am
Awesome – Thanks for your help!
November 16th, 2009 on 4:53 pm
Thank you! I also couldn’t find this information anywhere and got this by Googling your post.
December 7th, 2009 on 4:57 pm
Ditto Jeff’s comment. Had the greyed out “edit in picasa” button, and google search found your blog. thanks!
June 16th, 2010 on 4:05 pm
Thanks for this! Was thoroughly confused until I googled and was fortunate to find your post!
July 11th, 2010 on 7:10 pm
thanks helped me a lot