 | We all know that Google has its hands in allot of pies and that most of the software, apps and tools are free. Picasa is Google’s free image management, editor and sharing application available for PC, Mac and Linux. |
The latest version, 3.6 offers some great tools for everyone. As well as offering a very intuitive way to manage your pictures and videos Picasa helps you print, share content online via blogs and web albums, export and resize and add geographical location data.
| Picasa’s layout is very easy to navigate, the application automatically keeps your files up to date in folders organised by name and timeline. This really helps when trying to find pictures taken some time ago. You can also customize the management pane to organise via tags. When you select a managed folder form the list its contents are displayed within the main window pane. |  |
Once an image or video is selected with a single click the lower bar is activated. This lets you; upload your picture(s) to your Picasa web album to share with your friends, email the selected pictures, ready them for printing, export them in different sized and formats, buy prints of your pictures, Blog them, create funky looking collages, make videos and add geographical information.
 | If you double click a picture, Picasa opens up the edit mode. The edit mode is packed with easy to use tools such as Red Eye removal, Auto Corrections as well as correction sliders for highlights and shadows. It also has 12 effects to pick from including mono conversion and adding old fashioned film grain to your pictures. |
Overall Picasa is a great little application. By no means it is not a replacement for the heavyweights such as Adobe Lightroom or Aperture, however it is perfect for managing your pictures, quick and easy editing and sharing your pictures.
I would recommend Picasa to anyone just starting out in photography or someone wanting an easy to use tool for mobile computing.
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