Google has released an updated version of the free photo editing software Picasa. Version 3.5 adds a great new feature called Name Tags that was originally only available in Picasa Web Albums. The new version has also improved tagging , import/export, and enhanced geo-tagging with integration of Google Maps. Check out the following video to find out what’s new in Picasa 3.5. Read More…
Picasa is a free photo management and editing software from Google. It is well integrated with Google’s own Picasa Web Albums photo sharing site but it doesn’t have restrictions that prevent it from being used for uploading photos to other photo sharing sites. For example, we have talked about uploading photos to Flickr using Picasa.
The same can be done for Facebook as well. Here is a uploader plugin for Picasa that allows you to upload photos from Picasa to your Facebook account. Installation is a simple 1-2-3 and the usage is also straight forward. The Facebook uploader works under Windows and Mac but the Linux version of Picasa is not supported.
Posted in Photo sharing on September 17th, 2009. 1 Comment.
Picasa is an excellent photo organizer with decent editing and creative functionalities. The built-in photo browser is very fast. It never chock up on my huge collection of RAW photos. I can browse through thousands of photos scattered in hundreds of folders without ever waiting for anything to update on the screen. On the contrary, Nikon ViewNX often struggle badly on the same computer. Typically Picasa only uses about 25% of the memory ViewNX needs.
When it comes to photo sharing, I am a big fun of flickr. Picasa has good integration with Google’s Picasa Web Albums but I don’t think Google has any interest in supporting a competing photo sharing site like flickr, especially when flickr is dominating. We shouldn’t be desperate though: Google’s Picasa supports third party extensions using a couple of APIs. Someone has created a Picasa plugin (button) called “picasa2flickr” that installs with just a couple of clicks. It doesn’t work alone: you also need to have Flickr Uploadr installed on your computer.
To use it, select one or more photos in Picasa, then click on the “Send to Flickr” button. Picasa will launch Flickr Uploadr with the photos you have selected. You can then do your usual title, description, tags, etc in Flickr Uploadr before uploading them to your flickr account.
The Google Picasa is a great photo organizer with good editing capability. It has a good set of creative tools to make slide-shows, movies, collages, etc. It also integrates seamlessly with Google’s Picasa Web Albums so you can share your photos online. The Windows and Linux version have been out there for a while. Google finally released a Mac version. I am not a Mac user so I cannot test it out. However you will find an official Youtube video below and a CNET blogger’s hands-on experience with Picasa for Mac.
I use Picasa on Windows PC to browse through my collection of thousands of photos in NEF Raw format. Other browsers such as the Nikon ViewNX struggles to load a small folder, while Picasa will let me zip through the photos effortlessly by date or by folder. I hope the Mac version performs as fast as the Windows version.
Google just revamped its Picasa Web Albums photo sharing site with many new features including a very interesting face-recognition feature called “name tags” to help users to find and label the people in their photos and automatically find similar faces in your photo collection. All you have to do is enter a name or choose from your contacts. Read More…
News, tips and tricks from the Picasa team at Google…
The all-new official Google Photos Blog was introduced by Jason Cook, a product marketing manager of Google Inc, on October 2, 2007.
We’ll be using this space to post feature updates, photography tips, and (of course) some of our favorite photo albums, all of which will keep you current with the latest developments from the Picasa team.
He also hinted some new photo related products coming from Google but offered no details. Well, Google may be the king of search engine, Yahoo’s flickr is the best photo sharing site today. Picasa Web Albums just isn’t as addictive or attractive as flickr.
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