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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
2,194,459
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
May 04, 2009
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Publisher's description of Picasa
From Google: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.
Version 3.1 build 71.43 has fixed an issue affecting the layout of Mosaic-style collages and also fixed an issue where canceling the import process with safe delete selected removed photos from the storage device.
Editor's review of Picasa
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- "Easy photo organizing, editing, sharing"
- Reviewed on: November 20, 2008
- Version reviewed: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
This photo organizer strikes us as the picture of simplicity, a hairy task considering that Picasa 3 stacks on over a dozen more features and refinements to improve the editing, creative, and sharing options onto what has for years been a solid consumer app. Although not the most powerful image manager on the block, Picasa has the distinction of being the most easygoing.
Picasa's editing tools now include a retoucher to cover over blemishes and an improved red-eye corrector that detects and fixes all orbs emitting a magenta glow, with fairly good results.
Picasa really shines when it comes to organizing, uploading, and sharing pictures. New syncing and sharing buttons on the album level let you keep folders up-to-date on your Picasa Web album without leaving the desktop app. The same goes with its neighboring 'Share' button, which uploads photos online and e-mails your contacts the link from Picasa's interface.
The latest version also greatly improves the collage tool and adds a basic movie maker that lets you intersperse a wide range of video with stills. Though we love the concept, the bare-bones tool needs work, and greater choice of outputs--right now it only churns out WMV files. One other caveat: Picasa eats a lot of memory, so be wary of a performance drag, oh ye of modest memory. In every other respect, this free photo editor and organizer program is an excellent choice for amateur shutterbugs with plenty of photos to share.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 375 votes
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Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
Pros: easy to use.
Cons: needs more intuitive help system.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
"Perfect Picture tool required for day to day use."
Pros: The interface is great, it works pretty quickly and ,has great features. can even eliminate red-eye effects. the Blogger feature is nice."The geo tag" thing simply rocks . Can create a Collage and so many more features ...just impossible to fit in...
Cons: Absolutely nothing............
Summary: The Picasa3 might not seem very different from it previous version but it is a huge leap forward in terms of user experience. The interface is more refined and the features are plenty if you are just a regular user. You can even upload the pics dire... read more >>
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
Pros: It's Amazing and a Mush Have For anyone who love to edit Picture and all that kind of stuff!! And It's Free. It's Like Getting a PSP For Free!
Cons: No Cons At all..
Summary: Great Software. 10/5
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
"Very good free jack of all program"
Pros: There are plenty of tools and features tor play with. Very performant image database.
Cons: The output quality is IMO so so.
Summary: Useful for most but professionals. But hey it's free :)
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
"actually I have the same problem"
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