Picassa 2
I have been meaning to write something about Google’s Picassa photo organizer since before I started my bolg. I just ran across an article http://www.hartnup.net/wordpress/picasa-2-vs-iphoto/ comparing Picassa to Apple’s iPhoto 5 and wanted to link to it so …I downloaded Picassa when my sister emailed me a question about it (it’s difficult to provide tech support for a program you have never seen).
I am not easily impressed, but this program impressed me. It spent several minutes combing my hard drive for photos and presented them nicely organized. What was impressive was that it was able to determine if a photo was taken in landscape mode and needed to be rotated.
I immediately started thinking about the uses for Picassa for real estate agents. John’s article has saved me the work of writing a detailed review, but here are some highlights you might find interesting:
- Very easy to organize photos (hey, it’s a photo organizer).
- You can select any number of photos and email them from within Picasa and, no matter what size a photo is on your hard drive, it automatically resizes them for you.
- Tag and title your photos making the quick and easy to find.
- Use Picasa to move your photos from your camera to your PC. Or if you copy them using Windows Explorer, next time you run Picasa they are there.
You can download Picasa from http://www.google.com/downloads/.