What is Picasa?
Picasa is a free software download from Google that enables users to easily find, store and edit photos on their computers.
Picasa – Easy Online Photo Storage
Picasa is big on organization. Each and every time you open the program, it locates all the pictures on your computer and sorts them into visual albums. The pictures will be organized in the folders by date and with a folder name that will make sense to you.
Picasa allows users to easily organize and arrange their photos. For example, users can drag and drop photos into different albums as well as make labels and create new groups.
You can even give a star rating to your pictures. This allows you to rate your favorite pictures. You can then search for these pictures by star rating, calling up the best of the best of your photos in seconds.
You can also create a new “instance” of your photo in several albums without taking up any extra space.
Additionally, you can add passwords to collections of photos that you want to protect for more privacy.
Picasa – Sharing Your Pictures
With Picasa, you can e-mail, print photos at home and make gift CDs. When sending photos via e-mail, the software automatically reduces the photos to a size that your friends and family will be able to easily open. You can also post pictures to your own site using Google’s Bloggerbot tool.
Picasa – Online Photo Development and Editing
With the click of a button, Picasa helps users develop their digital photos by choosing from a list of the most popular online photo development sites.
Picasa also contains a powerful editing tool that will help you make your less-than-perfect pictures exactly how you want them. Fix red-eye, change the color of the sky and fix that crooked camera angle.
What Can You Do with Picasa?
Every time you open up Picasa, the software searches your hard drive for all of the pictures on your computer, even the ones you might not have known were there. It then arranges them into easy-to-understand folders. Once you have all the pictures arranged how you want them, you can add titles to the photos, drag and drop them into different folders, edit them, order prints of them from various photo publishing sites and make slideshows. You can remove red-eye with one click of a button as well as play with a variety of fun effects, like making your pictures appear in sepia tone or black and white.
Picasa is a great example of how a broadband Internet connection can be so much fun!
