Many of the comments on my purple tulip pic asked if I altered the pic in Picasa. I did only in that I hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button- it automatically adjusts the light and contrast, I think. It, nevertheless, usually, improves the pic the best. Since I filled the frame when I captured the image, I did not need to crop or anything like that. Picasa is an AWESOME editing program and it is the easiest way to blog pics- just select pics to blog and hit the "blog this" button on the tool bar at the bottom of the Picasa page. It will bring you right to our blog- just make sure the proper blog is selected in the drop down box if you subscribe to more than one. These pics also were only altered with the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.