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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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Picasa can 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.
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"Good product overall"
Version: Picasa 3.9.0 Build 136.19
Pros
The software loaded easily and launched immediately. It scanned my photos quickly and fairly accurately.
Cons
At times, I tried to write a name and the program did not recognize the name and tried to create a new file. It also created "unknown person" files and moving those photos to other files is not easy.
Summary
All in all, a good program with just a few quirks.
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"Picasa - One of Googles Best"
Version: Picasa 3.9.0 Build 136.19
Pros
Excellent Organizing and Editing program, Especially for FREE!!
Cons
Can't think of any
Summary
I own PhotoShop Elements 11, and LightRoom 4, as well as having Picasa. - For everyday photo editing, Picasa is 'Spot On' with many excellent features for editing photos. -
If you need to remove background clutter, (power poles or lines, etc.), then you'll need something else, like PSE11. -
"Still happy with Picasa after all these years."
Version: Picasa 3.9.0 Build 136.19
Pros
Picasa is easy and fast to use. Lots of features. The learning curve is steep.
Cons
Not a con, but still missing. It would be very helpful in crop mode to be able to overlay a picture with grids, like the very useful one of "rule of thirds".
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