If it’s from Google, it should be one-of-a-kind. Google Picasa has always been one of the best and unique Picture Management software of all times. All Google products showcase cutting edge technologies and features not find in any other software. Picasa is no different.
At it’s root, Picasa is a picture aggregator. It collects pictures from all over your hard disk and displays it as a single collection, which can then be categorized based on year taken and folder. Different custom views are also available.
Photo Editing
The photo editing features found in Picasa are some of the most unique set of features.
- Basic Fix – Enables you to do basic touch-up of the photo. This includes Retouch, Auto Contrast, Auto Color etc. Also featured is the “I’m Feeling Lucky” option which analyzes a photo and tries different fixes possible.
- Tuning – Very basic set of option to Fill Light, Highlights, Shadows, Color Temperature, Neutral Color Picker etc.
- Effects – Different kinds of effects that can be applied to a photo like Sharpen, Sepia, B&W, Film Grain etc.
Collages
With Picasa, creating Collage is a breeze. Just select the set of photos that you want to appear in the collage and press Collage button. A randomly order pictures are shown. You can align, rotate or resize the photos to get a perfect effect.
Photo Sharing
Photos Sharing is one of the main purpose of Google Picasa. Picasa supports direct upload to Google’s online Picasa Web Album. This can be very helpful if you want to share pictures with friends and relatives. You can also specify to only allow access to a specific album public access. Another part of sharing supported is the “BlogThis” features. Using this option, you just have to provide the Google account username and password to post the updates to out website.
Conclusion
Google Picasa is a must-have app if you have lots of photos to manage. Quiet simple to use and packed with very powerful features, that is Google Picasa. The above options are just the start. It has tons of more options like Movie Making, Geo-tag, tagging, etc.
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