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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: May 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,262,877
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 619 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on November 20, 2008
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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Publisher's description
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.
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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.
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User reviews of Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 619 votes
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Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
"great program , easy to use, easy to install"
Pros: meets all expectation , great program .
Cons: no cons, very good program . must improve picture size & raster resizing functionality , must improve resolve program features ( menus ) language change .
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Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
Pros: simplest pallattes
Cons: Not as powerful as alot of the programs such as Adobe's Photo Elementsand Photo shop.
Summary: One of the simplest pallattes of serveral photo editing software that I have used .It is not the most powewrful be it is capabile far beyond what the average user will need.
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Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
"Makes playing with my pictures fun again"
Pros: Extremely user friendly. Easy to email pictures, make new folders from other folders.
You can see and work with all of the pictures you have at once, not just one folder at a time.Cons: none yet..
Summary: I have thousands of pictures, and this makes organizing them a blast. I love it.i
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Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
"I have only used it for a few days but excellent"
Pros: Ability to see what is where, Even a dummy as myself can run slide show etc.
Cons: I did not see anything that I did not like
Summary: This version makes it easy to display pictures from different folders
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Version: Picasa 3.1 build 71.43
Pros: Does a lot what other programs do not do
Cons: Have not found anything as yet
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