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License:
Free
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Downloads:
1,892,387
- Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
November 20, 2008
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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 improves sharing and syncing online, enhances the collage tool, and adds a movie maker as part of a dozen changes.
Editor's review of Picasa
5.0 stars
- "Easy photo organizing, editing, sharing"
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: 4.2 stars out of 293 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.0
Pros: Absolutely love this software!! Very user friendly & an excellent tool for card making or scrapbooking.Really like the collage technique & great organization of all photographs on file.
Cons: Haven't found any yet.
Summary: I've used other programs which have come with digital cameras but this absolutely tops those software programs! I can't believe it's FREE! For all those crafty people, it is a must have & great asset for xmas coming up to make collage photos for... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.0
Pros: none that i can see
Cons: the so called video maker is total rubbish it claims to upload your videos to youtube but fails miserably with errors everytime plus the fact that you can't do much with it!
Summary: stick to your old version and buy a movie maker.
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Version: Picasa 3.0
Pros: Easy to use,stable,nondestructive editing.
Cons: Only outputs to JPEG,limited resize ability.
Summary: I bought a Kodak camera and the included Easyshare software was buggy so I tried Picasa 3,I like the layout and stability of Picasa but I wish it had more features.Being that Picasa is free I can't complain.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Picasa 3.0
"Movie making feature doesn't work"
Pros: Most everything seems improved. Liked how photos are displayed and edited over 2.7.
Cons: When I tried to make a move of my still it refused to make the movie. After a number of attempts, I uninstalled. Then I couldn't download 2.7 again.
Summary: If you like making movies of stills to send to friends, stay away from the new version, otherwise, it's fine and much improved.
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Version: Picasa 3.0
"No real improvements over previous version"
Pros: So user friendly and still the best photo organiser program that costs nothing.
Cons: Picassa 3 has added movie maker,also Youtube movie edit and upload feature which is pointless as you cannot add sound/music to your video ,also some jpeg thumbnails show as grey blocks.
Summary: Stick with version 2.7
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