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Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

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  • Price: Free
  • Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7
  • Date added: June 08, 2010
  • Total Downloads: 2,835,322
  • Downloads last week: 22,056
  • Product Ranking: #1 in Media Management
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Reviewed by: Webware staff on January 29, 2010

Picasa Web Albums is Google's Web photo-hosting service. Users get 1GB of free hosting, and images can be uploaded and manipulated using Picasa, Google's free desktop photo management application. Users who want additional storage can shell out up to $500 a year to bump up the hosted space to 400 times the size of the free hosting service.

Much like everything else Google, Picasa is exceptionally straightforward to use, with a tabbed interface offering three options--My Photos, Favorites, and Explore--the last of which lets you browse the public photo library. Next to the tabs, you'll find a prominent Upload button for adding photos to your albums, which you can set to various levels of privacy. Within your albums, you have the option to view a slideshow, share via e-mail, make a collage or movie, order prints, and edit various aspects.

We really like the integration between the desktop and Web application. Similar to .Mac and iPhoto, Picasa makes it really simple to take photos from your desktop and publish them online for others to see. We're also fans of the built-in geotagging that lets you set where photos were taken either by single photo, or by entire albums. It's a great way to browse photos if you feel like exploring.

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Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums. Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), removal of red-eye, and enhancing--even switching from color to black and white. Create slide shows set to your MP3s. Integration with Picasa's free Hello instant picture-sharing software lets you share hundreds of photos in seconds and chat in real time. E-mail photos with Picasa's built-in client to take the guesswork out of compressing images, and order photo-lab quality prints or print at home with no mistakes. You can also make instant backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections, to organize your photos using labels and stars (just like with Gmail), to write captions for all pictures, and to organize videos as well as pictures.

What's new in this version:

Version 3.6 build 105.67 allows to drag and drop in Collage Maker for Mosaic, Frame Mosaic, and Grid.

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  • All versions:
    4.2 stars
    out of 984 votes
    • 5 stars
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    • 2 stars
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  • Current version:
    4.0 stars
    out of 62 votes
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  • 4 stars

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Pretty impressive"

    by alempel on June 9, 2010

    Pros: Fast and quite accurate

    Cons: Very little

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  • 4 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Works well if I choose to use it."

    by DantonF on June 25, 2010

    Pros: Works well.

    Cons: I prefer HP Media center for my photos, my partner uses Picasa, and they say they like it, no accounting for their taste.

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  • 3 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Good picture management"

    by mariettajc on June 17, 2010

    Pros: Face recognition

    Cons: Picasa changes, edits, etc. do not transfer to other programs such as Photoshop.

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  • 4 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Insufficient usage to give accurate appraisal - as yet."

    by wmbriansmith on June 17, 2010

    Pros: I really appreciate the facility of storing photos, viewing them and being able to forward them - in an easy, uncomplicated way.

    Cons: No problems - no complaints - to date

    Summary: As previously described, I really appreciate the facility available to store, view and forward photographs in such a way that even myself, an unprofessional IT user, can find easy to use and enjoy.

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  • 1 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "DON'T INSTALL LAST UPDATE, it messed up my computer"

    by windstar20 on June 10, 2010

    Pros: I liked picasa until last update.

    Cons: The last update screwed up my computer. When I try to copy, it will paste a print screen, not what I copied. Unintalled, did not fix the problem.

    Summary: When picasa was running, it was saving a copy of print screen every few seconds, eating up my hard drive. I cound not find a way to disable it. Now that I have uninstalled, I discovered my copy will not work. I hope Google will get this fixed soon. I saw where other people were having the same problem. I did not have any problems until I updated picasa.

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  • 5 stars

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Great for most functions. Especially good for email."

    by toffie on July 30, 2010

    Pros: Fast import of files
    Good viewing options
    Easy access of files (pictures)

    Cons: Inadequate picture enhancement
    Import from folders tricky

    Summary: Great for everyday use. Does not replace Photo enhancement software.

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  • 4 stars

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Easy to usel"

    by joceemi on July 29, 2010

    Pros: Just downloaded and haven't been able to play with it much but it got to be great. I have used Picasa before.

    Cons: Can't say yet

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  • 4 stars

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Fun to use"

    by Pats3 on July 29, 2010

    Pros: I have only tried the collage portion, so far it's easy to use and fun.

    Cons: None so far, only used one app.

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  • 1 stars

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "SWITCHING BACK & COPY WILL LOSE & DAMAGES THE PICTURES!"

    by henryhyva on July 24, 2010

    Pros: NOT GOOD, LOSE A LOT OF PICTURES!

    Cons: SWITCHING BACK OR COPY WILL LOSE & DAMAGES THE PICTURES!

    Summary: SWITCHING BACK OR COPY WILL LOSE & DAMAGES THE PICTURES!

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  • 5 stars

    Version: Picasa 3.6 build 105.67

    "Great organizer"

    by TarzanJr on July 22, 2010

    Pros: 1. great organizer
    2. Nice ability to do touch ups inside the software
    3. Nice online companion

    Cons: 1. internet companion needs ability to do basic edits on photos.

    Summary: Download it now it is a good unloader for photos and should be on every PC and computer

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