![]() ![]() In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from Lifescape and began offering it as freeware. An iPhoto plugin and a standalone program for uploading photos were available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. ![]() Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and macOS were available, and for Linux, the Windows version was bundled with Wine compatibility layer. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa (Spanish for "house") and "pic" for pictures. Picasa was a cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. Note that Picasa is now unsupported by Google. New features include the ability to share your images through Google+ circles, Picasa name tags through Google+, more photo editing effects and a side-by-side editing feature With 1GB of online storage provided free of charge, there is plenty of scope for displaying the best of your pictures on the internet and the effective organisation tools mean that you will never lose an image again. Whether you're looking to correct the colours, remove red eye or fix lighting problems with imperfect images, or you want to get a little more creative, Picasa has all the tools you need to get to work with your photographs. ![]() Geotagging is available so you can view the location in which a photo was taken on a map, abd the ability to create web albums mans that it is easy to share your favourite images with friends and family. ![]() Upon installation, the program will automatically scan your hard drive and catalogue and images that are detected, These can then be organised into groups, tagged for easy location in the future and edited using a range of simple but effective tools. It can be difficult to manage such a large collection of files, but Google Picasa may be able to help. The prevalence of digital cameras means that many home computers are used to store hundreds if not thousands of digital photographs. ![]()
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