When you install Picasa, it will immediately scans your computer to search photos and then collects them into a single folder. The application not only collects JPEGs and GIFs formats, but all sorts of other image formats, even video files.
File types supported include:Images: jpg, bmp, gif, png, psd, tif
Movies: avi, mpg, wmv, asf, mov (QuickTime)
RAW data files, including cameras from Canon, Nikon, Kodak, Minolta and Pentax.
The real good news, with Picasa you can
edit your photos. You can instantly adjust highlights, shadows, fill lights, and color temperature. You can add all sorts of effects, including sepia, black and white, and soft focus. You can crop, straighten, remove red-eye, and more. And if you don't like an edit, you can reverse it with no more than the click of a mouse.
The other features is
photo sharing. You can send your photos via Google Mail. Except, You can easily upload your pictures to most popular photo sharing wesites, including Shutterfly and Ofoto, or burn photos onto CD or DVD. Plus, the app still integrates with Picasa's photo-sharing client.
Picasa is free software. It is Integrated with other free Google services like Blogger, Gmail, Google Earth, etc.
Picasa 2.5 Digital Photo SoftwareYou will get more features inPicasa 2.5. In this version you can
view your folder hierarchy. In addition to the folders list, you can create custom photo groupings using "Albums." Pictures can also be annotated with keywords and captions which are written to the photo files. Picasa does not offer a system for rating photos, but you can apply a star to photos you wish to mark as favorites.
The new Web Albums feature in
Picasa 2.5 gives you 250 MB of free space to post your photos online. This feature is nicely done. Picasa also integrates with Google's Blogger and Hello, a separate peer-to-peer photo-chat program. Geotagging is a new feature which allows you to add GPS location information to your photos and display your photos on Google Earth's satellite map.
Picasa and Gmail Storage LimitsToday (August, 13 2007), Google has launched a new service. In this service users can expand their Picasa and Gmail storage limits.
Currently, Picasa and Gmail offer 1 GB and 2.8 GB of storage space respectively.
All users of Picasa and Gmail who run out of the storage space will be able to purchase an additional space from Google. The price of this extra space start at $20 for 6 GB for yearly subscription service.
Additional storage plans include 25GB for $75, 100GB for $250, and 250GB for $500 per year. Unlike storage on the free service, users who have purchased the extra capacity will be able to fill it with any combination of Picasa and Gmail content. Free users are limited to each service's default limit.
Features and Benefits
Find the pictures you have forgotPicasa 2.0 will organises your photos collection, it scans all images on your computer and then automatically sorting them by date.
Move or rename picturesWant to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer's hard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in Picasa to another.
Make photo albumUse the Albums collection to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped under an album is easy – they make great slideshows and movies or you can email them to friends.
Add a star ratingGive 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 albumsPicasa creates a new “instance” of each photo you label without taking up more space on your computer, so you can put the same picture into multiple albums.
Password collectionsDo you have secret photos? You can protect your photos with passwords on Picasa.
System RequirementsTo run Picasa in your computer, you need some system requirements: