What is Picasa?
Picasa is a free, powerful picture editing tool from Google. It will create a visual catalog of all the pictures on your computer. Picasa allows you to crop, resize, remove red-eye, adjust color, add special effects, etc. with an easy to use interface.
Picasa Web Albums (PWA) is a photo sharing web site from Google. It allows users with Google accounts to store and share up to 1GB of photos for free. Users may upload pictures through a variety of ways via the PWA web interface on supported browsers.
If you need more storaget, you can purchase additional storage that is shared between all Google products including Picasa Web Albums, Gmail messages, or Docs. For the pricing structure, please see: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39567&topic=10766
Pros
- Free and runs on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux
- Provides good red-eye removal, quick fixes and effects, and online sharing options
- All edits are reversible without saving multiple versions
- Designed for non-techies and casual digital photographers
- Offers excellent people recognition technology
Cons
- Tied to your computer's folder-based system of organization
- Limited organization and search capabilities
- Only 1 GB of free online storage
- Litters your computer's folders with Picasa.ini files
Introducing Picasa 3 - This video contains a quick introduction to Picasa 3. It doesn't givedetailed instructions on how to use the free software from Google, but it does a great job of highlighting all of the features.
Picasa - This video will show you how to download and get started using Picasa 3.
Picasa Help - Google provides plenty of help with its product. If you want to get started or learn more, you might want to start here. This resource is for Picasa, the picture editing tool. Here you will find help on every aspect of Picasa. Although there are many more than what is listed below, links to help sections of the key features are listed below. Choose any of the topics for more information.
Picasa Web Albums
Picasa Web Album Help - Again, the best place to turn for help is Google, since they provide a great deal of help with their products. These resources are for Picasa Web Albums. Below are links to some of the main pages that will help to get you started using PWA. There are many more for more advanced users, but these will help with the basics.
More Resources
LearningElectric.com Picasa Tutorials - These free tutorials explain how to organize, edit, and share photos and more.
Picasa Help, Tutorials, and Videos by Geeks on tour
About.com: Picasa User Resources
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