Picasa - Photo Management Software
If you are like most people, you have a digital camera and constantly download your pictures from the camera into the My Pictures folder in your computer. Depending on how organized you are, you either save your pictures according to date or title; or do not bother with organizing them at all.
No matter how you currently organize your photographs, Picasa, a free photo management software from Google is set to revolutionize the way you manage your photographs on your computer. In a nutshell, Picasa allows you to locate and organize all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photographs with a few simple clicks, and share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web. If you have a PC running Windows 2000/Windows XP, with at least Internet Explorer 5.0, you are all set to start using Picasa!
The very first time you run Picasa, its powerful indexing system scans each and every image on your computer, and automatically sorts them by date. You may even discover photographs you had long forgotten about. The next time you run Picasa, it will intelligently and quickly find and add newly added photographs to its collection.
Picasa makes it easy to rename photograps one at a time, or all at once. This is a useful feature and allows users to assign more meaningful names to their photographs. These photos can then be organized into albums, much like traditional printed photographs. One major difference though, is that Picasa allows users to place a photograph into multiple albums. It does this without actually making multiple copies of the photos, only by adding new references to the same photograph. This feature is not only powerful, its intelligent implementation reduces hard disk space utilization as well.
If that’s not enough, Picasa also includes fun photo effects which can turn ordinary photographs into works of art at the click of button. Some of these include sepia-tone, black and white, warmify, or even more advanced effects which let you vary the degree with which the effects are applied.
Download Picasa today and you will discover why its really the only photo management software you will ever need on your desktop computer. To read even more about this amazing software, head over to the Picasa Product Tour.
