Sep 05 2008
Google Releases Picasa 3.0 and it’s Still FREE
Google announced the release of Picasa 3.0 (http://picasa.google.com/) beta. Picasa is desktop software designed for Windows. Not word on MAC capabilities yet. Picasa is an easy to use, robust photo editing program that has many fans, including me.
Picasa also integrates seamlessly with Picasa Web Albums for sharing your photos online — with just one click in Picasa 3, you can sync albums from your PC to the web, so that any changes or additions you make on your PC are automatically reflected on your web gallery.
New tools in Picasa 3 help you make professional-looking edits without any technical knowledge, including:
- A drag-and-drop photo-collage tool gives you total freedom over layout and content
- A powerful retouching brush to wipe out scratches and blemishes, and repair old photos.
- A slide show movie maker that uploads to YouTube with a click
- Auto red-eye removal
- Smart auto-cropping that guides you on how to zoom in on your subject
- A Photo Viewer to quickly inspect and manipulate images while in the Windows file system
- Auto Watermarking option when uploading to Picasa Web Albums.
As always, Picasa automatically finds and sorts the photos on your hard drive, and lets you drag and drop photos into folders or add custom tags. It leaves your original files undisturbed on your hard drive, so you don’t have to worry about overwriting or altering your originals — you can go back a year later and undo any edits you’ve made. And you can always download all your photos out of Picasa Web Albums.
Picasa 3.0 is available for free download at http://picasa.google.com/, and Picasa Web Albums is available for free sign-up at http://picasaweb.google.com/.
