This photo was taken in my front yard on a moderately overcast day using the close up setting of a Kodak CX7330. In the "Tuning" section of Picasa I was able to darken the background with the "Shadows" setting. Next, in the "Effects" section I was able to adjust the "Saturation" to bring out the colors. It's a Bradford pear tree bud.

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If you like to take digital pictures and haven't tried Google's Picasa you are missing out. I've used a number of photo editors over the years and Picasa is the best I've seen so far. I wish I could display a small button on my website with a link to Picasa ... so maybe people would follow the link and decide to try Picasa themselves.

I adapated their logo to make this "My pictures are better thanks to Picasa" button. The image is a bit too big but worse what I did is probably technically illegal ... I just wanted you to see an example of what I am suggesting.

Anyway, am I overlooking something like this that is available from Picasa and legal to use?