Organize and Share Photos with your friends - Download Picasa
Picasa – Google’s new photographic portal
As if Google had any problems with acquiring new technologies along
comes Picasa and helps Google let people share graphics and video for
free! Google has always been synonymous for giving people what they
wanted and best of all for free. Since this recent acquisition, Google
continues to snap up quality companies that it feels that is inline
with its vision.
So what is Picasa really?
Picasa is a
free photo organizer that allows you to share your photos with friends
and family. Best of all, its free! Picasa is integrated with enhanced
photo editing tools that could possibly rival Photoshop with the ease
of use and portability. Picasa allows the user to upload collections of
photos, edit them and create a scrapbook or photo album for selected
viewers to see.
With the enhanced photo editing tools, you can
feather an image, remove redeye, and change a photo from color to black
and white. Other features include cropping images, sending completed
photos to a processor for printing, sharing photos via email.
How do I get started?
As
with any freeware all you need is a computer that is attached to the
Internet. Picasa’s software is designed to run on Microsoft Windows
platforms. It supports JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, PSD, AVI, MPG, ASF, and
WMV files. You can even import video with the usage of AVI, MPG and
WMV, as all formats are popular with Microsoft Media Player.
Just
click on the button above to start the installation process. The
installation file is less than 4 MB and shouldn’t take too long to
download if you are on a cable modem or dsl connection. Upon accepting
the terms of the licensing the installer will fire off the application.
You will be prompted to upload your pictures upon request. You can have
the software upload them for you or you can manually select which files
and folders to include. This is helpful should there be photos you do
not wish to share.
Upon setting up your photo preferences you
can set up which photos to add to which collection as well as work on
each photo right there. Another neat feature is that if you are away
from your computer and find an image you would like to scan you can
install the software anywhere and upload it into your profile. Picasa
truly is another outstanding free feature from the minds at Google.
What
makes this software even better is that its backed by 24x7 support and
a forum of fellow users that can share experiences and help you
troubleshoot your problem if you have one.
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