

With regard to the viewing functions, we have to point out that it's possible to customize the transition effects and change the size of the presentation.

Picasa offers us practical functions to manage images: Have photos you want to keep to yourself? You can add passwords to any of your Picasa collections (this does not affect which pictures you and others can see on your computer’s hard drive).Picasa has become one of the most popular developments by Google, because if offers us the possibility to manage all the images that we have stored on our hard drive in a very comfortable manner, allowing us to upload files to several photo storage services and optimize the files so that they can be viewed better. Picasa 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. Picasa even has a star search that reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less than a second.

Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favorites into visual standouts at a glance. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped under a label is easy – they make great slide shows and movies or you can email them to friends.Īdd a star rating.

Use labels to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Want to change a picture’s filename from 671056398a.jpg to Lisa.jpg? In Picasa, it only takes seconds to re-name one picture or a group of pictures. Picasa will make the change permanent after double-checking with you. Want 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. Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa. Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.
