Digital Photo organizer from Google
Picasa is a flashy and functional digital photo organizer and editor which has improved considerably since its first release. Picasa is excellent for beginners and casual digital shooters who want to find all their pictures, sort them into albums, do quick edits, and share with friends and family. Folks with very large photo collections and more advanced editing needs should look elsewhere.
Description
- Picasa scans your computer for pictures and organizes them into albums based on folders and dates.
- Automatic import from USB cameras, scanners, memory card readers, and CD drives. Supports RAW files.
- Monitor selected folders for new pictures (including mapped network drives).
- Organize with virtual folders called Albums. Add keywords & search by keyword or album information.
- Remove red-eye, crop, rotate, one-click enhance, auto and manual tuning. All edits can be reversed.
- One-click effects: sharpen, B&W, sepia, warm, tint, film grain, soft focus, glow, saturation, etc.
- Export photos as Web pages, movies, collages, and posters; Create Gift CDs for sharing.
- Email pictures or share online with Google Web Albums, Blogger, Hello, and Google Earth.
- Order prints through online photo labs, or print photo layouts and contact sheets yourself.
- For Windows 2000/XP and Linux An older, Windows 98/Me is available for a limited time.
The new Web Albums feature in Picasa 2.5 gives you 250 MB of free space to post your photos online. This feature is nicely done. Picasa also integrates with Google's Blogger and Hello, a separate peer-to-peer photo-chat program. Geotagging is a new feature which allows you to add GPS location information to your photos and display your photos on Google Earth's satellite map.
Pros
- Picasa is free. Integrates with other free Google services (Blogger, Web Albums, and Hello).
- Provides good red-eye removal, quick fixes and effects, and online sharing options.
- Editing info is stored in INI files, making all edits reversible without saving multiple versions.
- Display your pictures as a custom screensaver, collage, or slide show movie.
- Designed for non-techies and casual digital photographers.
- Its bandwidth friendly. Indian people with their dialup connections can also upload their pictures or send it to your friends quickly.
So check it out now. download it. Play around with it.
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