A free software download from Google. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures, you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello, and even post pictures on your own blog.
Picasa instantly locates and organises all the pictures on your computer: Find the pictures you forgot you had. Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa. Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favourites into visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search that reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less than a second. Keep one picture in multiple albums an password-protect collections.
Picasa's Basic Fixes are buttons that make it fast and easy to crop, remove red eye, fix the contrast and colour, and enhance your digital pictures. Twelve amazing effects turn so-so pictures into works of art. Write captions that stay with the picture. Zoom. Pan. Tilt. Get the angle you intended. Photography aficionados can now fine-tune their photos with Picasa's EXIF display. This window shows you all the camera data that is stored in a picture's original file - such as camera model, date the photo was taken, even if a flash was used. The EXIF display also has a RGB histogram, a real-time graph that shows the intensity of colours in your picture and how they change when you make edits in Picasa.
The hardest part of sharing your pictures is choosing your favourites. Send photos via email that are a joy to receive.Picasa automatically resizes and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open. Works with most email programs, including Google’s Gmail.Picasa's Blogger button automatically transfers your selected pictures and text up to your blog. Make beautiful slide shows with your selected photographs.
Print beautiful pictures at home with more custom sizes or order prints, gifts and books from your favourite online companies. Picasa automatically fits your pictures perfectly onto the expensive paper used by your home printer. It is finally easy to print wallets, 4×6, 5×7, full pages, more sizes and even (hallelujah!) more than one picture on a page. Export pictures to popular photo processing websites. You can pick photos straight out of Picasa and upload them directly to your favourite photo finishers to order prints and other products.
Burn to CD or DVD for archive purposes. Give gift CDs with slide shows. Effortlessly create slide show CDs for friends and family. Create a network backup of your pictures. Save to a folder on your computer, plus any device that is an external drive or disk. Moving edited pictures out of Picasa has always been as easy as clicking the Export button. Now you can also control the quality and sizes of your exported pictures. Picasa even will save photos back to any drive, including the newest flash memory cards and sticks.
Turn your photos into a movie.Select your best shots, then adjust the delay time, dimensions, and video compression settings. That is it – Picasa will render a movie, complete with title graphics, that you can play and share. Pick a favourite photo as your desktop picture or add several into your screensaver rotation. Create a poster. Picasa can tile any picture you select, allowing you to print each part and reassemble them at poster size – up to 1,000% larger than the original. Create collages. Select a group of pictures, choose one of the beautiful templates, and Picasa will create a collage that expands your creative horizons. Picture pile it. Make a multi-exposure image. Create a contact sheet. Done? Simply save your collage to a folder, as a new desktop background or as a screensaver.
