Picasa, Great Photo Editing Software
by: Photo Fanatic on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 at: 8:45 PM Go to: Previous Article Article
Picasa is a great program for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and now owned by Google since 2004. The name "Picasa" supposedly comes from a mix of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase casa for "house" and "pic" for pictures.
In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering Picasa for free download. At the time of the acquisition, the company's management team consisted of Lars Perkins as CEO, Mike Herf as CTO, and Dan Engel as VP Market Development.Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X are available through Google Labs.
For Windows 98 and Windows Me, only an older version is available. There is also an iPhoto plugin or a stand-alone program for uploading photos available for[Mac OS X 10.4 and later.FeaturesOrganization and editingFor organizing photos, Picasa has file importing and tracking features, as well as tags and collections for further sorting.
It also offers several basic photo editing functions, including color enhancement, red eye reduction and cropping. Other features include slide shows, printing and image timelines.
Images can also be prepared for external use, such as for e-mailing or printing, by reducing file size and setting up page layouts. There is also integration with online photo printing services.SearchingPicasa has a search bar that is always visible when viewing the library. Searches are live in that displayed items are filtered as you type.
When a word is typed into the search bar, an image will be displayed if that word is all or part of a keyword, or part of the file name. If the search word is part of a folder name, all images in that folder are also displayed (but not necessarily images in subfolders, unless the word also exists in a keyword or filename.)
Picasa also supports boolean operators for searching in much the same way as Google's web search.
All search terms are required by default (as with the operator "AND"), and images tagged with specified keywords can be excluded by using the hyphen (as in the boolean operator "NOT"). For example, searching for family children -friends will cause Picasa to display all images with the keywords family and children, but which do not include the keyword friends.ViewingPicasa has no separate view window. There is only an "edit view" with a viewing area.
Fullscreen view is available in slideshow mode, by holding down the ctrl+alt keys while in "edit view", or by pressing the Alt Gr key. This feature is also available through the context menu of Windows Explorer, and provides a way to start the Picasa editor as well.BackupIn Picasa 2 and later versions, changes to pictures made in Picasa overwrite the original file, but a backup version of the original is saved in a hidden folder named "Originals" in the same folder as the original picture.
In Picasa 3, changes to pictures made in Picasa are saved to a hidden file in the same folder as the original picture. Viewing the photo in Picasa or using the Picasa Photo Viewer would reapply modifications. Viewing through other programs such as Windows XP's Photo and Fax Viewer would display the original image.In previous versions all changes to a picture (but not the picture itself) were stored in a separate file, and the original image file was left untouched.
When the image was opened in Picasa the software would reapply the modifications; opening the photo with any other program displayed the original version.
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Brittologo designs websites and uses photo manipulation programs like Photoshop, Picasa, Irfanview and many others, and sometimes can be seen cruising by interesting websites on his watercooled pc monster that he built with his own hands.
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Mon, 1 Mar 2010 9:13 AM, by
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can't I pose comments here?
Mon, 1 Mar 2010 7:56 AM, by
Guest
base on the comments I heard from a friends and relatives, they said picasa is a great software. me, personally I haven't experience using that one yet so I couldn't say if it is good or bad.
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 6:49 AM, by
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omfg... i have Kodak EasyShare and i cant upload nuthin.. how do i download this??
Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:25 AM, by
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It is actually meant to bore you to death! But I shortened it so page loads a bit faster since there's so many of you after this page! LOL.
Wed, 9 Sep 2009 6:35 PM, by
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it doesn't help you
and it's to long to read t all!!
Wed, 27 May 2009 12:07 AM, by
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