Many of you may be aware of Picasa already. Its a cool, and free, utility for organizing your image collection. After initial installation, it searches your computer for images and organizes them by creation date. Once done, you can easily view and manage images. You can add labels to your images easily. You can rate them using a star system. You can password protect image collections. It also has built-in photo editing for basic photo enhancements. Many find Picasa to be a worthy upgrade to their digital camera’s included software.
The program has been around for some time, but it was acquired by Google in July of 2004. The idea behind the acquisition is that Google would make the program integrate well with it’s blogger service, allowing people to share their photos online easily. The program is complete free, so give it a try.
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